- Backported memory safety and validation fixes across media, GPU, networking, accessibility, compositing, and ANGLE GL.
- Fixed use‑after‑free and object‑lifetime bugs in input, UI, Aura, HID, file‑system teardown and added Skia runtime effect validation.
- Applied 20 high‑severity security patches from Chrome 148 stable release.
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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.