- Fixed Windows notification icon saving failure caused by invalid temporary filename characters.
- Resolved crashes in clipboard.readImage() with malformed image data and in offscreen shared texture release after garbage collection.
- Fixed AXMenuOpened accessibility event omission, prevented shortcut icon loss after Windows auto‑updates, and backported a Chromium security fix.
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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.