Hi Albert,
Thanks for your swift reply! I had used Instruments to analyze the app's memory allocations and releases without identifying any significant memory leak (under macOS 26). I'm happy to dive deeper supply an Instrument trace in the corresponding ticket, these days.
On the macOS 15 virtual machine, Xcode / Instruments is not installed, but honestly I expect other developers to have similar observations, and I'm not talking about some minor increase, but (in my productive app) by five times...
Regarding the mentioned consumption by Thumbnail - which was way beyond any justified memory allocation: I could neither reproduce the customer's issue, nor debug / analyze app's Preview / Thumbnail extensions (actually I filed a corresponding DTS ticket): Without "qlmanage" to work for modern extensions, Xcode is not properly attaching the running extension to the Finder - or is just me, missing some concrete instructions (what I asked for in the DTS request).
Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to provide more information if / when my time allows, but it honestly looks like Tahoe has some serious memory management issues, and I'd appreciate your teams taking developer's feedback as a call for action...