diff --git a/AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS b/AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS
index c8a82759e..348f60c5e 100644
--- a/AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS
+++ b/AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ https://github.com/PettitWesley/fluent-bit.git mk_event_add_corruption-one-commi
 # Useful debug messages for input events
 # input chunk append message with input name context and number of records
 https://github.com/PettitWesley/fluent-bit.git chunk-append-context b671ed38e7ae87ab955083e2324ef1972298c5d7
+
 # in_tail file name context for inotify events
 https://github.com/PettitWesley/fluent-bit.git tail-modify-debug-context-immutable-cherry-pick ab11d1d7438f5254d04eba8dfc2f10b78cc2244d
 https://github.com/PettitWesley/fluent-bit.git tail-modify-debug-context-immutable-cherry-pick 1f3bdeec49ac42b04b921303610ea0f53110ab2c
@@ -83,15 +84,6 @@ https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit.git 1.9 81cdf7eced4e420043277237fba092157b1
 # upstream engine retry clean up fix https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/pull/6862
 https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit.git 1.9 712e5fbe10bee44269d5dfed214c4e087ea1ec2a
 
-# TCP input: user friendly message for skipping logs https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/pull/6061
-https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit.git 1.9 c5d57ccf4f85af77e2a2bbb1121df95887e2962f
-
-# ElasticSearch: fix buffer bulk over run https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/pull/5770
-https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit.git 1.9 d3a0697c3c4a876250cc6c2c4ff44cd77908ea3c
-
-# windows: fix time zone offset https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/pull/6368
-https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit.git 1.9 cae9a8f9cb6eab7449f14d914f9ba1d8d4e93cf0
-
 # quick fix for S3 key $INDEX bug https://github.com/aws/aws-for-fluent-bit/issues/653
 https://github.com/PettitWesley/fluent-bit.git index_s3_key_format_quick_fix 5e48218670681aef152aeedcf90a4593ac623470
 
@@ -127,7 +119,7 @@ https://github.com/PettitWesley/fluent-bit.git filter-modify-fix-aws-distro 1a72
 # AWS core code self-review issue fixes
 # upstream version of this: https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/pull/7512/files
 # use calloc in all credential code to prevent freeing of garbage pointers 
-https://github.com/PettitWesley/fluent-bit.git aws-distro-crypto-self-review eb48b79b34f91d36d28434390b976e882d553681 
+https://github.com/PettitWesley/fluent-bit.git aws-distro-crypto-self-review eb48b79b34f91d36d28434390b976e882d553681
 # fix brittle XML parsing
 https://github.com/PettitWesley/fluent-bit.git aws-distro-crypto-self-review e6401ad3811b42dee0b7f92aba726cca4bee74ec
 # add pthread_mutex + trylock to protect cred providers
@@ -144,5 +136,3 @@ https://github.com/matthewfala/fluent-bit.git immutable-2.32.0-prometheus-sigv4
 # multiline: remove incorrect flush
 https://github.com/matthewfala/fluent-bit.git immutable-multiline-incorrect-flush 6431a4e584d52170dbe873d93ba532659921740a
 https://github.com/matthewfala/fluent-bit.git immutable-multiline-incorrect-flush 35f23875ca356ea30e9aac19854b810cf8ecad8f
-
-# End of cherrypicks (end with a blank line)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c205dee5e..95fab8ad8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ all: release
 export DOCKER_BUILD_FLAGS=--no-cache
 
 .PHONY: release
-release: build build-init
+release: build build-init linux-plugins
 	docker system prune -f
 	docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_FLAGS) -t amazon/aws-for-fluent-bit:main-release -f ./scripts/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.main-release .
 	docker tag amazon/aws-for-fluent-bit:main-release amazon/aws-for-fluent-bit:latest
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ release: build build-init
 debug: main-debug init-debug
 
 .PHONY: build
-build: linux-plugins
+build:
 	docker system prune -f
 	docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_FLAGS) -t amazon/aws-for-fluent-bit:build -f ./scripts/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.build .
 
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ init-debug-s3: main-debug-base build-init
 	docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_FLAGS) -t amazon/aws-for-fluent-bit:init-debug-s3   -f ./scripts/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.init-debug-s3 .
 
 .PHONY: main-debug-base
-main-debug-base: build
+main-debug-base: build linux-plugins
 	docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_FLAGS) -t amazon/aws-for-fluent-bit:main-debug-base  -f ./scripts/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.main-debug-base .
 
 .PHONY: validate-version-file-format
diff --git a/scripts/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.build b/scripts/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.build
index 51bebd84e..2d827bd73 100644
--- a/scripts/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.build
+++ b/scripts/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.build
@@ -88,14 +88,15 @@ COPY AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS \
 RUN git config --global user.email "aws-firelens@amazon.com" \
   && git config --global user.name "FireLens Team"
 
-RUN AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS_COUNT=`cat /AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS | sed '/^#/d' | sed '/^\s*$/d' | wc -l | awk '{ print $1 }'`; \
+RUN AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS_COUNT=`awk '{print $0 }' /AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS | sed '/^#/d' | sed '/^\s*$/d' | wc -l | awk '{ print $1 }'`; echo $AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS_COUNT; \
   if [ $AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS_COUNT -gt 0 ]; \
   then \
     cat /AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS | sed '/^#/d' \
-    | xargs -l bash -c 'git fetch $0 $1 && git cherry-pick $2'; \
+    | xargs -l bash -c 'git fetch $0 $1 && git cherry-pick $2 || exit 255' && \
     \
-    echo "Cherry Pick Patch Summary:"; \
+    (echo "Cherry Pick Patch Summary:"; \
+    echo -n "Base "; \
     git log --oneline \
     -$((AWS_FLB_CHERRY_PICKS_COUNT+1)) \
-    | tac | awk '{ print "Commit",NR-1,"--",$0 }'; sleep 2; \
+    | tac | awk '{ print "Commit",NR-1,"--",$0 }'; sleep 2;)\
   fi