- Upgrade to Chromium 140, Node 22.18, and V8 14 – introduces breaking changes from the Chromium update.
- Add numerous new APIs such as before‑mouse‑event interception, fileBacked/purgeable memory info, window.open size options, guid tray icons, webFrameMain.fromFrameToken, recentDocuments, HIDDevice collections, screen DPI conversion, and s...
- Fix a large set of stability issues including dialog centering, macOS web page interaction, chrome://accessibility, child‑process crashes, webContents crashes, network header handling, and many platform‑specific bugs.
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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.