chore: bump up electron version to v29

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
electron	^28.2.1 -> ^29.0.0

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Release Notes

electron/electron (electron)

v29.0.0: electron v29.0.0

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Release Notes for v29.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 122.0.6261.39
  • New in 122
  • New in 121
• Node 20.9.0
  • Node 20.9.0 blog post
• V8 12.2

Breaking Changes

• Functions called over the contextBridge are now called with the expected receiver (this). #​39978 (Also in 27, 28)
• The gpu-process-crashed event on app has been deprecated. #​40169 (Also in 28)
• The deprecated gpu-process-crashed event on app has been removed. #​40255
• The deprecated renderer-process-crashed event on app and crashed event on WebContents and <webview> have been removed. #​40115

Features

Additions

• Added WebContentsView and BaseWindow, replacing the now-deprecated BrowserView APIs. #​40759
• Added keyboardLock to ses.setPermissionRequestHandler(handler). #​40369 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Added an option in protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged to allow V8 code cache in custom schemes. #​40544 (Also in 27, 28)
• Added net module to utility process. #​40890 (Also in 27, 28)
• Added new Electron Fuse that opts the file:// protocol into more secure and restrictive behaviour that matches Chromium. #​40372
• Added new webUtils.getPathForFile method to replace File.path augmentation. #​38776
• Added support for configuring use_remote_checksums via .npmrc. #​40253
• Migrated app.{set|get}LoginItemSettings(settings) to use Apple's new recommended underlying framework on macOS. #​37244
• This PR adds several properties to the display object including detected, maximumCursorSize, and nativeOrigin. #​40497 (Also in 28)

Removed/Deprecated

• Removed extraneous dlls from Windows zip files. #​41129 (Also in 28)

Fixes

• Added support for ThumbnailCapturerMac and ScreenCaptureKitStreamPickerSonoma chromium feature flags to bypass deprecated API warning on macOS 14.4. #​41329
• Fixed Electron 29.0.0-beta.3 regression that could pop up context menus in the wrong location. #​41296
• Fixed an issue where import.meta.url did not work in the renderer process with contextIsolation enabled. #​41265
• Fixed an issue where original-fs methods were not properly corrected for patched imports. #​41238
• Fixed an issue where draggable regions didn't work across platforms. #​41112
• Fixed crash in MessagePort::close. #​41237
• Fixed the GrantFileProtocolExtraPrivileges not correctly preventing fetch() calls to file:// URLs. #​40864

Also in earlier versions...

• Apply module search paths restriction on worker and child process. #​41138 (Also in 27, 28)
• Backported fix for AVX related crashes on certain linux machines. #​40536 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• CSS style -webkit-app-region: drag; has no effect in full screen mode. #​41332 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed "will-navigate" not being emitted when pressing links in chrome: pages. #​40390 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed session.fromPartition() key lookup bug. #​41084 (Also in 28)
• Fixed a crash resultant from trying to listen to power-related events before the ready event was emitted on Linux. #​40925 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed a crash that started occurring sporadically with some types of macOS window close. #​41299 (Also in 28)
• Fixed a partition alloc ref count check for higher MacOS versions. #​40766 (Also in 28)
• Fixed a potential async_hooks crash when listening for the restore event on Windows after minimizing a maximized BrowserWindow. #​41146 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed a potential crash when calling dialog.showMessageBoxSync. #​41043 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed a potential issue with async_hook corruption in some error contexts. #​40574 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed a unexpectedly thrown error in some unsupported chrome extensions. #​40500 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed an error changing file format in dialog.showOpenDialog on macOS. #​40308 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue where Request objects did not correctly copy headers into fetches. #​41019 (Also in 28)
• Fixed an issue where WebViews could sometimes crash on unload. #​40400 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue where Windows Toast notifications weren't properly dismissed from the Action Center on notification.close() if they'd previously been dismissed. #​40197 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue where MessagePorts were not being correctly garbage collected when not referenced. #​40189 (Also in 28)
• Fixed an issue where inAppPurchase.getProducts and inAppPurchase.purchasedProduct did not resolve as expected. #​40957 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue where navigator.keyboard.lock() did not work per latest expected behavior. #​40365 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue where select-usb-device did not respect the filter option in navigator.usb.requestDevice(). #​41197 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue where webContents.printToPDF could fail when certain combinations of margins and pageSize values are passed. #​41266 (Also in 28)
• Fixed an issue where crashes in node::Environment destruction potentially wouldn't be propagated to the Service exit handler. #​41301 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue where devtools could not be re-opened. #​40666 (Also in 28)
• Fixed an issue where font requests were incorrectly being sent to dev tools multiple times per resource. #​40681 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue where fully occluded windows would return an empty image from webContents.capturePage() on Windows and Linux. #​39730 (Also in 25, 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue where non-modal windows with vibrancy could have incorrectly rounded corners on Sonoma. #​41037 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue where the printBackground option in webContents.printToPDF did not work as expected. #​41180 (Also in 28)
• Fixed an issue where zoom level settings did not persist per-session for webviews. #​40650 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed an issue with webContents interaction with fullscreen and WCO on macOS. #​40179 (Also in 25, 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed app incorrectly activating panel windows on macOS Sonoma. #​40307 (Also in 28)
• Fixed child window opening in non-active macOS apps. #​40546 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed default protocol handler behavior on Windows. #​40908 (Also in 28)
• Fixed file paths passed to shell.showItemInFolder not being escaped in Linux. #​40527 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed forked child process not able to send IPC message under some cases on macOS. #​41102 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed incorrect title bar shown on frameless transparent windows. #​40862 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed loading nested ESM dependencies in node_modules
  • Correctly support the throwIfNoEntry option in fs.statSync/fs.lstatSync in asar files. #​40221 (Also in 28)
• Fixed macOS bug that causes window maximize button to be disabled in full-screen mode. #​41029 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed on-screen-keyboard not hiding for webviews under some cases. #​41149 (Also in 27, 28)
• Fixed problem with bounds of maximized window when toggle BrowserWindow.setResizable function. #​40503 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed resizing performance issue on macOS. #​40577 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed some redundant permission dialogs while screen sharing on Wayland. #​40098 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Fixed the enabled/disabled behavior of the maximize/fullscreen button of macOS windows. #​40897 (Also in 27, 28)
• Prevent node mode to be used as script runner by other apps on macOS. #​40579 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Unset all Node envs in node process when parent is a foreign process. #​40881 (Also in 26, 27, 28)
• Use activateIgnoringOtherApps for focusing non-panels on macOS. #​40570 (Also in 28)

Other Changes

• Re-enabled partition alloc on Mac. #​33981 (Also in 28)
• Reverted new WebContentsView and BaseWindow APIs. #​41060
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1517354. #​40969

Notices

End of Support for 26.x.y

Electron 26.x.y has reached end-of-support as per the project's support policy. Developers and applications are encouraged to upgrade to a newer version of Electron.

v28.2.3: electron v28.2.3

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Release Notes for v28.2.3

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that started occurring sporadically with some types of macOS window close. #​41298 (Also in 29)
• Fixed an issue where webContents.printToPDF could fail when certain combinations of margins and pageSize values are passed. #​41267 (Also in 29)
• Fixed an issue where crashes in node::Environment destruction potentially wouldn't be propagated to the NodeService exit handler. #​41302 (Also in 27, 29)
• Fixed an issue where zoom level settings did not persist per-session for webviews. #​41268 (Also in 27)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 120.0.6099.283. #​41262

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