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 ## Unreleased Changes
 * Added `Vfs::canonicalize`. [#1201]
+* **Breaking:** `StdBackend::new` and `Vfs::new_default` now return `io::Result`, so a failure to create the filesystem watcher is reported as an error instead of panicking. The `Default` implementation for `StdBackend` has been removed as a result.
 
 ## 0.3.1 (2025-11-27)
 * Added `Vfs::exists`. [#1169]