When your window control closes, focus returns to the element that invoked the window unless it is very unlikely users need to immediately reinvoke the window.
We use your window control as a popup search dialog. Our customers search for their data there, close the popup and then return to a dialog with lots of input fields.
The user had previously focused on one of these input fields and would like to have the focus back in this input field after closing the popup.
Which has worked wonderfully up to and including your version 8.0.0.
Unfortunately, this no longer works since version 8.1.0 and instead of the input field, only the button that previously opened the popup is focused. This change from the changelog seems to be responsible for this: "window: update focus management and kb navigation to match the ARIA spec".
It seems that your change uses a setTimeout internally, which keeps taking the focus away from our input field.
You can reproduce this behavior in a demo application. The first application is based on version 8.3.0 and you can reproduce the problem there by pressing the button and closing the opened popup. The focus that was previously in the input field is then on the button. Here: https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-xdpeqc-nycw86?file=app%2Fapp.tsx,package.json
In the second application based on version 8.0.0, you can see that the same process sets the focus directly back to the input field. Here: https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-xdpeqc-yab7m8?file=package.json,app%2Fapp.tsx
Nowhere in the ARIA specification here does it say that you should use a setTimeout to steal the user's focus again at a later time in order to set it on the button that opened the popup. On the contrary, point 2.1 describes exactly what we need:
You already had this feature in version 8.0.0 and could offer it again as a property with very little implementation effort. Please consider to add this old behaviour as a Window Prop again.