The graphics work is the headline. Compose now ships a MeshGradientPainter for the SwiftUI-style corner-point gradients people have been pulling in third-party libraries for, and the paint pipeline gained end-to-end Wide Color Gamut (P3) and HDR support — colors defined outside sRGB now survive all the way to the platform renderer instead of being clamped. There's also a structural layout addition: named areas in Grid, so you can lay out a grid by referencing regions rather than counting cells. The other change worth flagging is authentication. Text fields now integrate directly with Android's Credential Manager on API 34+ through the Autofill framework, so a passkey or saved-credential prompt can fire from inside the normal input flow via the new credentialRequest semantics. Pull it in by bumping the Compose BOM to 2026.08.00; the rest of the release is the usual testing and performance cleanup.