- Added new APIs and options: app.isHardwareAccelerationEnabled(), net.request bypassCustomProtocolHandlers, auto‑focus DevTools on inspection, and reset accent color via setAccentColor(null).
- Fixed numerous crashes and stability issues, including ESM import with CJK paths, devTools detach crash on Wayland, Windows UTF‑8 path crash, wasm OOM crash, modal window interactivity, and macOS menu item disabling.
- Adjusted UI and platform behavior: corrected GNOME tiled window appearance, removed resize handles on tiled edges, restored window.canHide property, and backported fix for issue 460017370.
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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.