- Fixed nodeIntegrationInWorker overrides not being honored for child windows sharing a renderer process with their opener.
- Resolved multiple crashes and bugs: JavaScript dialogs with invalid URLs, MacOS focus tracking, MAS build window resize, utility process exit code reporting on Windows, and macOS fullscreen freeze.
- Added support for using a proxy during yarn install.
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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.