Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
File AccessArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.281,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A NUL byte is an invisible zero character that is not valid in file names. A helper that opens files now refuses any path containing one and returns nothing instead of trying to open it.
Why
Malformed paths are stopped early rather than reaching the file system.
