electron v8.0.0-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 i electron@8.0.0-beta.6.

Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.6

Fixes

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• Fixed a crash in contextBridge that happens on garbage collection. #21735
• Fixed a crash that would occur when Notifications were closed in concert with app termination. #21720
• Fixed an issue in the net module where aborting a request during a redirect could cause an error to be thrown. #21644
• Fixed an issue that could cause frameless windows to become undraggable in some circumstances. #21722
• Fixed an issue that could prevent communication between a sandboxed child window opened with nativeWindowOpen: false and an unsandboxed parent window. Also fixed document.visibilityState not working in sandboxed <webview>. #21431
• Fixed an issue where calling allowNTLMCredentialsForDomains() could cause a change in Kerberos SPN generation behavior. #21580
• Fixed an issue with potential duplicate error popups when calling shell.showItemInFolder on Windows. #21748
• Fixed incorrect button highlighting when defaultId is passed for dialog message boxes. #21653
• Fixed white flash when foregrounding an occluded window. #21751

Other Changes

• Handled origin/X branch formats. 606ca98
• Updated Chromium to 80.0.3987.51. #21738
• Updated crashReporter to throw an error for getLastCrashReport if crashReporter not started. #21685

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #21743

electron v7.1.9

Release Notes for v7.1.9

Fixes

• Fixed a crash in contextBridge that happens on garbage collection. #21736
• Fixed a crash that would occur when Notifications were closed in concert with app termination. #21719
• Fixed an issue that could cause frameless windows to become undraggable in some circumstances. #21723
• Fixed an issue that could prevent communication between a sandboxed child window opened with nativeWindowOpen: false and an unsandboxed parent window. Also fixed document.visibilityState not working in sandboxed <webview>. #21696
• Fixed an issue with potential duplicate error popups when calling shell.showItemInFolder on Windows. #21749
• Fixed white flash when foregrounding an occluded window. #21750

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #21742

electron v7.1.8

Release Notes for v7.1.8

Fixes

• Fixed an issue in the net module where aborting a request during a redirect could cause an error to be thrown. #21645
• Fixed incorrect button highlighting when defaultId is passed for dialog message boxes. #21652

Other Changes

• Updated crashReporter to throw an error for getLastCrashReport if crashReporter not started. #21683

electron v7.1.7

Release Notes for v7.1.7

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where calling allowNTLMCredentialsForDomains() could cause a change in Kerberos SPN generation behavior. #21572

electron v8.0.0-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 i electron@8.0.0-beta.5.

Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.5

Fixes

• Fixed POST-ing HTML forms with target=_blank. #21474
• Fixed cookies.set not working correctly when name or expirationDate is omitted. #21477
• Fixed a weird behaviors and crashes when controlling window menu by keys. #21452
• Fixed accessibility window title on macOS. #21467
• Fixed an issue that caused ClientRequest.getUploadProgress() to return incorrect values. #21424
• Fixed an issue where noLink was working incorrectly on Windows. #21405
• Fixed compositor recycling when creating new BrowserView. #21399
• Fixed contextBridge crash when closing a window. #21418
• Fixed contextBridge crash when opening and closing many windows. #21513
• Fixed media-specific globalShortcuts not working on macOS. #21547
• Fixed source maps not loading in devtools with file scheme. #21493
• Fixed window menu unable to hide on startup. #21443
• Re-enable DOM storage quota enforcement but change limit from 10MiB to 100MiB. #21380
• Removed Electron.dsym from macOS application zip. #21484
• setLayoutZoomLevelLimits no longer works in Electron 8, so emit a warning message when using it. The function will be removed in Electron 9. #21360

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 80.0.3987.14. #21520

electron v7.1.6

Release Notes for v7.1.6

Fixes

• Fixed black boxes with <select> tag inside <webview> and OOPIF on windows. #21526
• Fixed media-specific globalShortcuts not working on macOS. #21548

electron v6.1.7

Release Notes for v6.1.7

Fixes

• Fixed Electron apps getting rejected to Mac App Store. #20970

electron v5.0.13

Release Notes for v5.0.13

Fixes

• Fixed Electron apps getting rejected to Mac App Store. #20988
• Fixed context menu disappearing when showing. #21227
• Fixed issue where reloading the window after calling setBackgroundColor would result in using an older background color setting. #19972

electron v7.1.5

Release Notes for v7.1.5

Fixes

• Added workaround for nativeWindowOpen hang. #21497
• Fixed cookies.set not working correctly when name or expirationDate is omitted. #21481
• Fixed a weird behaviors and crashes when controlling window menu by keys. #21453
• Fixed accessibility window title on macOS. #21466
• Fixed contextBridge crash when opening and closing many windows. #21514
• Fixed source maps not loading in devtools with file scheme. #21494
• Fixed window menu unable to hide on startup. #21449
• Removed Electron.dsym from macOS application zip. #21487

electron v6.1.6

Release Notes for v6.1.6

Fixes

• Fixed accessibility window title on macOS. #21465
• Fixed flicker when switching between BrowserViews after creating new BrowserView. #21396
• Fixed throttling in webContents.setBackgroundThrottling. #21359

Other Changes

• Generate debug symbols on Linux. #21280