diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4d7f17b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+version: 2
+
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+      day: "sunday"
+    groups:
+      all-github-actions:
+        patterns:
+          - "*"
+
+  - package-ecosystem: "docker"
+    directory: "/src"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+      day: "sunday"
+    groups:
+      all-docker:
+        patterns:
+          - "*"
+
+  - package-ecosystem: "go-mod"
+    directory: "/src"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+      day: "sunday"
+    groups:
+      all-go-mod:
+        patterns:
+          - "*"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index a0b0e27f..c9b5a5a2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
   build_docker_image:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - name: Build Docker
         run: |
           source ./tool.sh
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ jobs:
           sed -i -E -e "s/v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/${VERSION}/" -e "s/GIT_COMMIT_ID/${COMMIT_SHA}/" src/supervisord/version.go
 
           build_image_no_tag supervisord "alpine-${VER}" src/supervisord.Dockerfile --build-arg "BASE_NAMESPACE=library" --build-arg "BUILD_IMG=golang:alpine" --build-arg "BASE_IMG=alpine"
-          build_image_no_tag supervisord "ubuntu-${VER}" src/supervisord.Dockerfile --build-arg "BASE_NAMESPACE=labnow"    --build-arg "BUILD_IMG=go:latest"     --build-arg "BASE_IMG=ubuntu"
+          build_image_no_tag supervisord "ubuntu-${VER}" src/supervisord.Dockerfile --build-arg "BASE_NAMESPACE=labnow"  --build-arg "BUILD_IMG=go:latest"     --build-arg "BASE_IMG=ubuntu"
           docker tag "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/supervisord:ubuntu-${VER}" "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/supervisord:ubuntu"
           docker tag "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/supervisord:alpine-${VER}" "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/supervisord:alpine"
           push_image supervisord
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ jobs:
   build_binary:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - name: Set up Go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v6
         with:
-          go-version: 1.26
+          go-version: "stable" # 1.26
       - name: Build Binary
         run: |
           set -eux
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ jobs:
   build_goreleaser:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - name: Set up Go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v6
         with:
-          go-version: 1.26
+          go-version: "stable" # 1.26
 
       - name: Install cross-compiler for linux/arm64, UPX
         env:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e8819365..172e03f4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 # Go Implementation of Supervisord
 
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-green.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT-Clause)
 [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/LabNow-ai/supervisord)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/LabNow-ai/supervisord)
+[![GitHub Workflow Status](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/LabNow-ai/supervisord/ci.yml?branch=main)](https://github.com/LabNow-ai/supervisord/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+[![Recent Code Update](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/LabNow-ai/supervisord.svg)](https://github.com/LabNow-ai/supervisord/stargazers)
+[![Visit Images on DockerHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/DockerHub-Images-green)](https://hub.docker.com/u/labnow)
+
+Please generously STAR★ our project or donate to us!  [![GitHub Starts](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/LabNow-ai/supervisord.svg?label=Stars)](https://github.com/LabNow-ai/supervisord/stargazers)
+
+Discussion and contributions are welcome:
+[![Join the Discord Chat](https://img.shields.io/badge/Discuss_on-Discord-green)](https://discord.gg/kHUzgQxgbJ)
+[![Open an Issue on GitHub](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/LabNow-ai/supervisord)](https://github.com/LabNow-ai/supervisord/issues)
 
 ## Why this project?
 
diff --git a/src/supervisord/assets.go b/src/supervisord/assets.go
index 8b9c53fb..1e958ffe 100644
--- a/src/supervisord/assets.go
+++ b/src/supervisord/assets.go
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ func newZipFS(r *zip.Reader) *zipFS {
             continue
         }
         z.files[name] = f
-        // populate parent directories
+        // populate parent directories with direct child entries only
         dir := path.Dir(name)
         if dir == "." {
             dir = ""
diff --git a/src/supervisord/go.mod b/src/supervisord/go.mod
index b36f2771..a7a95183 100644
--- a/src/supervisord/go.mod
+++ b/src/supervisord/go.mod
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/ochinchina/gorilla-xmlrpc v0.0.0-20171012055324-ecf2fe693a2c
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.12.2
 	github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.0
-	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.0
+	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.1
 )
 
 require (
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/rogpeppe/go-charset v0.0.0-20190617161244-0dc95cdf6f31 // indirect
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.7.1 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220715151400-c0bba94af5f8 // indirect
-	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.28.0 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.33.0 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/src/supervisord/webgui/index.html b/src/supervisord/webgui/index.html
index 27b6b188..23f88a38 100644
--- a/src/supervisord/webgui/index.html
+++ b/src/supervisord/webgui/index.html
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
     <title>Go-Supervisor</title>
   </head>
   <body>
-    Specify environment variable STATIC_DIR or STATIC_ZIP when staring supervisord to serve static assets, or use APIs /program/{list|start|stop} to operate supervisord.
+    Specify environment variable STATIC_DIR or STATIC_ZIP when starting supervisord to serve static assets, or use APIs /program/{list|start|stop} to operate supervisord.
   </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/tool.sh b/tool.sh
index 67aeff0e..7957084c 100644
--- a/tool.sh
+++ b/tool.sh
@@ -1,48 +1,53 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-set -xu
+set -eux
 
 CI_PROJECT_NAME=${CI_PROJECT_NAME:-$GITHUB_REPOSITORY}
 CI_PROJECT_BRANCH=${GITHUB_HEAD_REF:-"main"}
 CI_PROJECT_SPACE=$(echo "${CI_PROJECT_BRANCH}" | cut -f1 -d'/')
 
-if [ "${CI_PROJECT_BRANCH}" = "main" ] ; then
-    # If on the main branch, docker images namespace will be same as CI_PROJECT_NAME's name space
-    export CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE="$(dirname ${CI_PROJECT_NAME})" ;
-else
-    # not main branch, docker namespace = {CI_PROJECT_NAME's name space} + "-" + {1st substr before / in CI_PROJECT_SPACE}
-    export CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE="$(dirname ${CI_PROJECT_NAME})0${CI_PROJECT_SPACE}" ;
-fi
+# If on the main branch, image namespace will be same as CI_PROJECT_NAME's name space;
+# else (not main branch), image namespace = {CI_PROJECT_NAME's name space} + "0" + {1st substr before / in CI_PROJECT_SPACE}.
+[ "${CI_PROJECT_BRANCH}" = "main" ] && NAMESPACE_SUFFIX="" || NAMESPACE_SUFFIX="0${CI_PROJECT_SPACE}" ;
+export CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE="$(dirname ${CI_PROJECT_NAME})${NAMESPACE_SUFFIX}" ;
 
-export SRC_NAMESPACE="${REGISTRY_SRC:-docker.io}"
-export IMG_PREFIX_DST=$(echo "${REGISTRY_DST:-"docker.io"}/${CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE}" | awk '{print tolower($0)}')
+export IMG_NAMESPACE=$(echo "${CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE}" | awk '{print tolower($0)}')
+export IMG_PREFIX_SRC=$(echo "${REGISTRY_SRC:-"docker.io"}/${IMG_NAMESPACE}" | awk '{print tolower($0)}')
+export IMG_PREFIX_DST=$(echo "${REGISTRY_DST:-"docker.io"}/${IMG_NAMESPACE}" | awk '{print tolower($0)}')
 export TAG_SUFFIX="-$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
 
-echo "--------> CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE=${CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE}"  # use different namespace for dev/prd
-echo "--------> DOCKER_SRC_NAMESPACE=${SRC_NAMESPACE}"
+echo "--------> CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE=${CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE}"
+echo "--------> DOCKER_IMG_NAMESPACE=${IMG_NAMESPACE}"
+echo "--------> DOCKER_IMG_PREFIX_SRC=${IMG_PREFIX_SRC}"
 echo "--------> DOCKER_IMG_PREFIX_DST=${IMG_PREFIX_DST}"
 echo "--------> DOCKER_TAG_SUFFIX=${TAG_SUFFIX}"
 
-[ ! -f /etc/docker/daemon.json ] && sudo tee /etc/docker/daemon.json > /dev/null <<< '{}'
-jq '.experimental=true | ."data-root"="/mnt/docker"' /etc/docker/daemon.json > /tmp/daemon.json && sudo mv /tmp/daemon.json /etc/docker/
-( sudo service docker restart || true ) && cat /etc/docker/daemon.json && docker info
 
 build_image() {
     echo "$@" ;
     IMG=$1; TAG=$2; FILE=$3; shift 3; VER=$(date +%Y.%m%d.%H%M)${TAG_SUFFIX}; WORKDIR="$(pwd)";
-    docker build --compress --force-rm=true -t "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG}:${TAG}" -f "$FILE" --build-arg "BASE_NAMESPACE=${SRC_NAMESPACE}" "$@" "${WORKDIR}" ;
-    docker tag "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG}:${TAG}" "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG}:${VER}" ;
+    docker build --compress --force-rm=true -t "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG}:${TAG}" -f "$FILE" --build-arg "BASE_NAMESPACE=${IMG_PREFIX_SRC}" "$@" "${WORKDIR}"
+    docker tag "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG}:${TAG}" "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG}:${VER}"
+    echo "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG}:${TAG}"
 }
 
 build_image_no_tag() {
     echo "$@" ;
     IMG=$1; TAG=$2; FILE=$3; shift 3; WORKDIR="$(pwd)";
-    docker build --compress --force-rm=true -t "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG}:${TAG}" -f "$FILE" --build-arg "BASE_NAMESPACE=${SRC_NAMESPACE}" "$@" "${WORKDIR}" ;
+    docker build --compress --force-rm=true -t "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG}:${TAG}" -f "$FILE" --build-arg "BASE_NAMESPACE=${IMG_PREFIX_SRC}" "$@" "${WORKDIR}"
+    echo "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG}:${TAG}"
+}
+
+alias_image() {
+    IMG_1=$1; TAG_1=$2; IMG_2=$3; TAG_2=$4; shift 4; VER=$(date +%Y.%m%d.%H%M)${TAG_SUFFIX};
+    docker tag "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG_1}:${TAG_1}" "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG_2}:${TAG_2}"
+    docker tag "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG_2}:${TAG_2}" "${IMG_PREFIX_DST}/${IMG_2}:${VER}"
 }
 
 push_image() {
     KEYWORD="${1:-second}";
     docker image prune --force && docker images | sort;
-    IMAGES=$(docker images --format "table {{.Repository}}\t{{.Tag}}\t{{.CreatedSince}}" | grep "${KEYWORD}" | awk '{print $1 ":" $2}') ;
+    IMAGES=$(docker images --format "{{.Repository}}\t{{.Tag}}\t{{.CreatedSince}}" | grep "${KEYWORD}" | awk '{print $1 ":" $2}') ;
+    [ -n "${IMAGES}" ] || { echo "!! No images matched keyword: ${KEYWORD}"; return 1; }
     echo "$DOCKER_REGISTRY_PASSWORD" | docker login "${REGISTRY_DST}" -u "$DOCKER_REGISTRY_USERNAME" --password-stdin ;
     for IMG in $(echo "${IMAGES}" | tr " " "\n") ;
     do
@@ -53,24 +58,37 @@ push_image() {
 }
 
 clear_images() {
-    KEYWORD=${1:-'days ago\|weeks ago\|months ago\|years ago'}; # if no keyword is provided, clear all images build days ago
+    KEYWORD=${1:-'days ago\|weeks ago\|months ago\|years ago'}; # if no keyword is provided, clear all images built days ago
     IMGS_1=$(docker images | grep "${KEYWORD}" | awk '{print $1 ":" $2}') ;
     IMGS_2=$(docker images | grep "${KEYWORD}" | awk '{print $3}') ;
 
     for IMG in $(echo "$IMGS_1 $IMGS_2" | tr " " "\n") ; do
-      docker rmi "${IMG}" || true; status=$?; echo "[${status}] image removed > ${IMG}";
+      docker rmi "${IMG}" ; status=$?; echo "[${status}] image removed > ${IMG}";
     done
     docker image prune --force && docker images ;
 }
 
 
 remove_folder() {
-    sudo du -h -d1 "$1" || true ;
-    sudo rm -rf "$1" || true ;
+    for dir in "$@"; do
+        if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
+            echo "Removing folder: $dir" ;
+            sudo du -h -d1 "$dir" || true ;
+            sudo rm -rf "$dir" || true ;
+        else
+            echo "Warn: directory not found: $dir" ;
+        fi
+    done
 }
 
 free_diskspace() {
-    remove_folder /usr/share/dotnet
-    remove_folder /usr/local/lib/android
-    df -h
+    remove_folder /usr/share/dotnet ; # /usr/local/lib/android /var/lib/docker
+    df -h ;
+}
+
+setup_github_actions() {
+    [ ! -f /etc/docker/daemon.json ] && sudo tee /etc/docker/daemon.json > /dev/null <<< '{}' ;
+    jq '.experimental=true | ."data-root"="/mnt/docker"' /etc/docker/daemon.json > /tmp/daemon.json && sudo mv /tmp/daemon.json /etc/docker/ ;
+    ( sudo service docker restart || true ) && cat /etc/docker/daemon.json && docker info ;
 }
+[ "$GITHUB_ACTIONS" = "true" ] && echo "Running in GitHub Actions and Setup Env: $(setup_github_actions)"