@rugvedS07 One of your remaining failures is an existing test ordering issue: the intended usage of smollm2-135m-instruct is solely as the model used to test the model catalog search-and-download functionality, so it isn't on the list of models to download and load prior to running the tests.

test_jit_unloading_[a]sync isn't using it that way: it is incorrectly assuming that the model is already downloaded and available for loading.

Probably the simplest interim fix is to pre-download (but not load) smollm2-135m-instruct in the Docker testing setup - the catalog tests still run with that model pre-downloaded, and it avoids having to unload and reload one of the bigger models twice in that test case (that one is not only quicker to load, but none of the other functional tests use it, so it can be left unloaded at the end of the test case).

The other failure I saw is due to one of the plugin test cases not seeing the expected graceful shutdown message. It's plausible that one is just outright flaky and/or distro sensitive (it's previously only been tested by me locally in Fedora WSL and Windows Powershell)

I just added Python 3.14 to the CI test matrix in main, so that's the origin of the reported merge conflict.