electron v44.0.0-beta.6

Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm install electron@44.0.0-beta.6.

Release Notes for v44.0.0-beta.6

Features

• Restored app.setBadgeCount and win.setProgressBar for Linux. These APIs now support any dock or taskbar which implements the LauncherEntry D-Bus API, and they no longer require libunity. #52895

Fixes

• Fixed DevTools device metrics overrides persisting indefinitely when a remote debugging client disconnected without clearing them. #52930
• Fixed Uncaught illegal access errors and possible renderer crashes after closing a same-process child window or removing an iframe with nodeIntegrationInSubFrames enabled. #53040
• Fixed a possible main process crash at quit when a session was created from JavaScript that runs during shutdown. #52924 ^{(Also in 43)}
• Fixed a renderer crash when a page calls SpeechRecognition.available() or SpeechRecognition.install() with processLocally. #53021 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}
• Fixed crash in sharedTexture module when GPU context becomes unavailable. #52926 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}
• Fixed the primary instance being killed or receiving truncated arguments when a second instance passed a very long command line or large additionalData to app.requestSingleInstanceLock(). #52950
• Fixeed document title updates when using back/forward navigation using the same document without utilizing browserWindow.setTitle(). #52968

Other Changes

• Fixed Tray icons not appearing (and their menus not opening) on Linux desktops that address the StatusNotifierItem by its unique D-Bus name or via the org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierItem interface, such as GNOME with the AppIndicator extension, Cinnamon and XFCE. #52951
• Fixed a stall of tens of milliseconds while creating the first BrowserWindow on Linux.
  • Improved the performance of file lookups inside ASAR archives and of large files served from them to the renderer.
  • Improved the performance of calls through contextBridge-exposed APIs.
  • Improved the performance of Buffer.allocUnsafe() and of large file reads in the main and utility processes.
  • Reduced the main-thread cost of sending large values through ipcRenderer, ipcMain handlers and webContents.send. #53017 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}
• Linux arm64, Windows arm64 and macOS x64 builds now start the main process from the embedded Node.js startup snapshot like the other platforms, improving startup time. #52879 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}

electron v43.4.1

Release Notes for v43.4.1

Fixes

• Fixed DevTools popup and context menus not appearing when DevTools is hosted in a custom window via webContents.setDevToolsWebContents(). #52937 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol returning readable responses to cross-origin no-cors fetches; they now return opaque responses like protocol.handle. #52853 ^{(Also in 41, 42, 44)}
• Fixed a WebContentsView staying blank after its window is shown when setBackgroundThrottling(false) was called while the window was hidden. #52864 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed a crash in systemPreferences.promptTouchID(reason) when an invalid reason value is passed. #52782 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed a crash when resolving a path inside a malformed ASAR archive that contains cyclic link entries. #52857 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed a crash with app.setLoginItemSettings if a non-UTF8 service name is used. #52944 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed a memory leak when creating BrowserWindows. #52892 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed a possible crash (SIGABRT) during process exit when the process had loaded tls/https shortly before exiting, affecting app.exit() before ready and short-lived ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE / child_process.fork() scripts. #52870 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed a possible main process crash at quit when a session was created from JavaScript that runs during shutdown. #52925 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed a potential crash in contentTracing.stopRecording() when the trace file could not be written to the requested path. #52795 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed a rare crash in the main process when DevTools were opened and a garbage collection ran before the DevTools frontend finished loading. #52903 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed a regression preventing from transparent frameless windows from being resized on Linux. #52947 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed an npm install failure with no recovery path when the OS blocked the native zip extractor from loading (for example, Windows Smart App Control). #52845 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed an issue on Windows where the app process could fail to exit after app.quit() while a shell.openExternal() or shell.openPath() call was still waiting on a system "Open with" dialog. #52897 ^{(Also in 41, 44)}
• Fixed crash in sharedTexture module when GPU context becomes unavailable. #52938 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed custom V8 snapshots (electron-mksnapshot, and the loadBrowserProcessSpecificV8Snapshot fuse) having no effect in the main process on macOS arm64, Linux x64 and Windows x64. #52877 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed downloading files that live inside an asar archive, including saving a packed PDF from the built-in PDF viewer. #52826 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed the built-in PDF viewer not rendering documents in in-memory sessions (partitions without the persist: prefix). #52835 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed windows opened by a sandboxed top-level frame not inheriting the opener's sandbox restrictions. #52848 ^{(Also in 41, 42, 44)}
• <webview> and window.open now inherit nodeIntegrationInWorker from the embedder, consistent with the other Node and sandbox preferences. #52830 ^{(Also in 41, 42, 44)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 524628213. #52868
• Backported fixes for 542224257, 542025190. #52842
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #52778
• Fixed Tray icons not appearing (and their menus not opening) on Linux desktops that address the StatusNotifierItem by its unique D-Bus name or via the org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierItem interface, such as GNOME with the AppIndicator extension, Cinnamon and XFCE. #52952
• Fixed an issue on macOS where a page's first use of speechSynthesis could block the main process for several hundred milliseconds. #52814
• Reduced idle main-process CPU wakeups caused by Node.js timers and immediates. #52905 ^{(Also in 44)}

electron v42.9.3

Release Notes for v42.9.3

Fixes

• Fixed a graphical glitch on Linux where thin borders appeared past the drop shadows on frameless windows when multiple windows were created. #52772 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed a memory leak when creating BrowserWindows. #52893 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed an issue on Windows where the app process could fail to exit after app.quit() while a shell.openExternal() or shell.openPath() call was still waiting on a system "Open with" dialog. #52900 ^{(Also in 41, 43, 44)}
• Fixed custom V8 snapshots (electron-mksnapshot, and the loadBrowserProcessSpecificV8Snapshot fuse) having no effect in the main process on macOS arm64, Linux x64 and Windows x64. #52876 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 524628213. #52869
• Reduced idle main-process CPU wakeups caused by Node.js timers and immediates. #52907 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}

electron v41.10.6

Release Notes for v41.10.6

Fixes

• Fixed registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol returning readable responses to cross-origin no-cors fetches; they now return opaque responses like protocol.handle. #52854 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 44)}
• Fixed an issue on Windows where the app process could fail to exit after app.quit() while a shell.openExternal() or shell.openPath() call was still waiting on a system "Open with" dialog. #52899 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed windows opened by a sandboxed top-level frame not inheriting the opener's sandbox restrictions. #52849 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 44)}
• <webview> and window.open now inherit nodeIntegrationInWorker from the embedder, consistent with the other Node and sandbox preferences. #52829 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 44)}

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium and Skia. #52707
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #52775

electron v44.0.0-beta.5

Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm install electron@44.0.0-beta.5.

Release Notes for v44.0.0-beta.5

Fixes

• Fixed registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol returning readable responses to cross-origin no-cors fetches; they now return opaque responses like protocol.handle. #52852 ^{(Also in 41, 42, 43)}
• Fixed a WebContentsView staying blank after its window is shown when setBackgroundThrottling(false) was called while the window was hidden. #52863 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}
• Fixed a crash when resolving a path inside a malformed ASAR archive that contains cyclic link entries. #52858 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}
• Fixed a crash with app.setLoginItemSettings if a non-UTF8 service name is used. #52801
• Fixed a memory leak when creating BrowserWindows. #52894 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}
• Fixed a possible crash (SIGABRT) during process exit when the process had loaded tls/https shortly before exiting, affecting app.exit() before ready and short-lived ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE / child_process.fork() scripts. #52871 ^{(Also in 43)}
• Fixed a rare crash in the main process when DevTools were opened and a garbage collection ran before the DevTools frontend finished loading. #52904 ^{(Also in 43)}
• Fixed a regression preventing from transparent frameless windows from being resized on Linux. #52891
• Fixed an npm install failure with no recovery path when the OS blocked the native zip extractor from loading (for example, Windows Smart App Control). #52846 ^{(Also in 43)}
• Fixed an issue on Windows where the app process could fail to exit after app.quit() while a shell.openExternal() or shell.openPath() call was still waiting on a system "Open with" dialog. #52898 ^{(Also in 41, 43)}
• Fixed custom V8 snapshots (electron-mksnapshot, and the loadBrowserProcessSpecificV8Snapshot fuse) having no effect in the main process on macOS arm64, Linux x64 and Windows x64. #52878 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}
• Fixed downloading files that live inside an asar archive, including saving a packed PDF from the built-in PDF viewer. #52827 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}
• Fixed the built-in PDF viewer not rendering documents in in-memory sessions (partitions without the persist: prefix). #52834 ^{(Also in 43)}
• Fixed windows opened by a sandboxed top-level frame not inheriting the opener's sandbox restrictions. #52851 ^{(Also in 41, 42, 43)}
• <webview> and window.open now inherit nodeIntegrationInWorker from the embedder, consistent with the other Node and sandbox preferences. #52832 ^{(Also in 41, 42, 43)}

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium. #52701
• Reduced idle main-process CPU wakeups caused by Node.js timers and immediates. #52906 ^{(Also in 43)}

electron v42.9.2

Release Notes for v42.9.2

Fixes

• Fixed registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol returning readable responses to cross-origin no-cors fetches; they now return opaque responses like protocol.handle. #52855 ^{(Also in 41, 43, 44)}
• Fixed a WebContentsView staying blank after its window is shown when setBackgroundThrottling(false) was called while the window was hidden. #52865 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed a crash when resolving a path inside a malformed ASAR archive that contains cyclic link entries. #52859 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed downloading files that live inside an asar archive, including saving a packed PDF from the built-in PDF viewer. #52828 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed windows opened by a sandboxed top-level frame not inheriting the opener's sandbox restrictions. #52850 ^{(Also in 41, 43, 44)}
• <webview> and window.open now inherit nodeIntegrationInWorker from the embedder, consistent with the other Node and sandbox preferences. #52831 ^{(Also in 41, 43, 44)}

Other Changes

• Backported fixes for 542224257, 542025190. #52843

electron v42.9.1

Release Notes for v42.9.1

Fixes

• Fixed a crash in systemPreferences.promptTouchID(reason) when an invalid reason value is passed. #52780 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed a potential crash in contentTracing.stopRecording() when the trace file could not be written to the requested path. #52796 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. #52706
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #52785
• Fixed an issue on macOS where a page's first use of speechSynthesis could block the main process for several hundred milliseconds. #52813

electron v44.0.0-beta.4

Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm install electron@44.0.0-beta.4.

Release Notes for v44.0.0-beta.4

Fixes

• Fixed a crash in systemPreferences.promptTouchID(reason) when an invalid reason value is passed. #52781 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}
• Fixed a potential crash in contentTracing.stopRecording() when the trace file could not be written to the requested path. #52794 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #52774
• Fixed a 1-in-200 chance per renderer process on Windows of scripts on the first page load being compiled without their V8 code cache. #52792

electron v43.4.0

Release Notes for v43.4.0

Features

• Added webFrameMain.printToPDF() to allow printing individual frames to PDF from the main process. #52627 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed an issue where getDisplayMedia({ audio: { restrictOwnAudio: true } }) was ignored in setDisplayMediaRequestHandler, causing loopback audio to include local app playback. #52533 ^{(Also in 44)}

Fixes

• Fixed a browser process crash that could occur during Windows logoff, shutdown, or restart. #52620 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed a crash report when the X server or Wayland compositor exits while an app is running. #52685 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed a crash when quickly switching menus while the app is under heavy load. #52673 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed a potential crash when notifying user activation before the primary main frame was live. #52697 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed an issue where a JavaScript out-of-memory crash could be reported from inside the crash-key handler instead of at the out-of-memory site. #52725 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}
• Fixed the Linux system accent color intermittently not being applied (systemPreferences.getAccentColor() returning an empty string on some launches). #52575

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE and Chromium. #52709
• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium and V8. #52663
• No user-facing change; semver/none. #52732
• Updated Chromium to 150.0.7871.224. #52693

electron v42.9.0

Release Notes for v42.9.0

Features

• Added webFrameMain.printToPDF() to allow printing individual frames to PDF from the main process. #52626 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}

Fixes

• Fixed a browser process crash that could occur during Windows logoff, shutdown, or restart. #52621 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed a crash report when the X server or Wayland compositor exits while an app is running. #52686 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed a crash when quickly switching menus while the app is under heavy load. #52671 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed a potential crash when notifying user activation before the primary main frame was live. #52699 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
• Fixed an issue where a JavaScript out-of-memory crash could be reported from inside the crash-key handler instead of at the out-of-memory site. #52723 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium and V8. #52664
• No user-facing change; semver/none. #52733