- Fixed Windows edge case in NativeWindowViews::MoveBehindTaskBarIfNeeded()
- Fixed an issue where clicking the maximize button could shrink the window on Wayland environments
- Updated Chromium to 148.0.7778.271 and Node.js to v24.17.0, including backported upstream Chromium fixes
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Added process.getSystemMemoryInfo() on Linux, exposing MemAvailable via /proc/meminfo
Added net.WebSocket, a WHATWG‑compatible WebSocket client for the main process using Chromium's network stack.
Fixed app.disableHardwareAcceleration() not fully disabling GPU on Windows.