Currently, we execute ExtendImageTicket command every 4 minutes, i.e. session expiration (5 mins) - refresh allowance (1 min). This calculation is fragile, as we poll the image transfer every 5 minutes - see bug 1619019 for an instance in which engine sent extend after 5 minutes. So we need to increase ImageTransferHostTicketRefreshAllowanceInSeconds config value to ensure extend is called more frequently (e.g. every minute).
Tal, there should not be non blockers targeted to 4.2.6 in this phase of only blockers.
Daniel, As agreed off line, this will be verified by you