- Breaking API changes: added colorSpace to offscreen paint events and changed OffscreenSharedTexture signature.
- New rendering and system features: RGBAF16 HDR output, fileBacked/purgeable memory info, guid tray option, webFrameMain token access, recent documents API, USBDevice configurations, Linux accent color retrieval, dynamic ESM imports, and ...
- Extensive stability fixes addressing crashes on Wayland, webContents, dialogs, accent color handling, and numerous platform‑specific issues.
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Fixed numerous crashes and stability issues (DevTools popup, promptTouchID, malformed ASAR, login item settings, sharedTexture GPU, main process exit, etc.).
Fixed Linux frameless window drop‑shadow glitch and a memory leak when creating BrowserWindows.
Fixed registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol to return opaque responses for cross-origin no‑CORS fetches.