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What's new in 8.2.4

Latest Changes

• Desktop：give electron-builder a PNG icon for the Linux build (#114350)
• Desktop：restore keyboard focus to the content view on window activation (#114034)
• Desktop：register the wpdesktop protocol handler in the Store appx manifest (#113976)
• Desktop：Follow up on Azure signing review (#112298)
• Bump json in /desktop in the bundler group across 1 directory (#113420)
• desktop：drop the macOS code signing keychain workaround (#112767)
• Remove Windows PFX signing fallback (#112290)
• Desktop：fix electron-builder 26 config schema (#113217)
• Security：update Desktop build dependencies (merge 2026-07-31) (#113027)
• desktop：Keep recordHar as commented-out option in E2E login test (#112951)
• desktop：No longer generate or track HAR in E2E (#112942)
• Bump brace-expansion in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory (#112829)
• Desktop：bump excon for Dependabot alert 503 (#112541)
• Desktop：mark beta releases as prereleases (#112146)
• Remove CircleCI Desktop pipeline (#112242)
• Bump faraday in /desktop in the bundler group across 1 directory (#112071)
• Replace lodash debounce in the desktop app with a local helper (#112293)
• desktop：use -beta1, not -beta.1, for consistency

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