- Fixed a crash that could occur when using the File System Access API.
- Resolved multiple UI issues: alt+space context menu behavior, null accelerator on role‑based menu items, dock menu item state on macOS, and broken input handling on certain Wayland compositors when DND actions are cancelled.
- Refactored the MSIX updater to follow an upstream Chromium pattern, removing the need for special exception handling build flags.
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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.