- Hardened transfer cache and platform security by using SHA‑256 keys, skipping cache for uncacheable or credentialed requests, validating origin and stripping sensitive headers on cross‑origin redirects.
- Added stricter validation for HTTP requests and SVG attributes, preserved empty referrer handling, and rejected non‑HTTP(S) URLs in JSONP.
- Deprecated ServerXhr/XHR support in @angular/platform‑server in favour of standard fetch APIs.