You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
InternalsArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.242,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What
A stream that produces nothing within the first-byte window now raises a specific error rather than a generic timeout, and it carries the window length, how long was actually waited, and a stable error code you can match on.
Evidence
"No response from API within the first-byte window"
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.