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The SABRE South experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) is currently in the construction and commissioning phase, preparing to become Australia's first deep-underground dark matter direct detection experiment. Employing an array of ultra-pure NaI(Tl) crystals, SABRE South aims to independently test the annual modulation signal reported by DAMA/LIBRA. We present an update on the status of construction and commissioning at SUPL, progress on the production of high purity astrograde crystals produced at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS), and associated assay results. We report results from underground operation at SUPL, including measurements of the cosmic-ray muon flux. Finally, we present Pyrate, the dedicated software framework developed for the experiment, which handles online and offline PMT waveform processing and analysis.