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+- Daily rooms created by the development runner (`pipecat.runner.run`) now expire after 4 hours with `eject_at_room_exp=True`, mirroring Pipecat Cloud's max session limit. Previously, runner-created rooms inherited a 2-hour expiration on the default code paths and had no expiration at all when callers posted partial `dailyRoomProperties` (e.g. `{"start_video_off": true}`) to `/start`, causing rooms to accumulate indefinitely. Explicit `exp` and `eject_at_room_exp` values in `dailyRoomProperties` are still respected.