10.1.0

Added

• Option to set the executable name separate from the app name (#758)

Fixed

• mz dependency (#759)

10.0.0

Changed

• Switch from minimist to yargs-parser (#732)
• Electron Packager only officially supports Node versions that are supported by the
  NodeJS team (#747)
• Refactor to use Promises internally. This has the side effect of somewhat parallelizing building two or more targets at once and/or two or more functions for a given hook, via Promise.all (#753)

9.1.0

Added

• hostArch() and allOfficialArchsForPlatformAndVersion() (#727)

Changed

• CLI arguments with nonstandard argument values emit warnings (#722)

Deprecated

• In the CLI, --tmpdir=false has been deprecated in favor of --no-tmpdir (#722)

9.0.1

Fixed

• Inferring win32metadata.CompanyName from author in package.json when it's an Object (#718)

9.0.0

Added

• API hook for afterPrune (#677)
• Package manager-agnostic pruning support (set packageManager to false) (#690)
• linux platform, arm64 arch builds (Electron 1.8.0 and above) (#711)

Changed

• Promise support for packager - function returns a Promise instead of the return value of the
  callback (#658)
• win32metadata.CompanyName defaults to author name from nearest package.json (#667)
• win32metadata.FileDescription defaults to productName or name from
  nearest package.json (#667)
• win32metadata.OriginalFilename defaults to renamed .exe (#667)
• win32metadata.ProductName defaults to productName or name from nearest package.json (#667)
• win32metadata.InternalName defaults to productName or name from
  nearest package.json (#667)
• Warn when downloading from the official Electron releases and the arch/platform combination
  specified is invalid (#562)
• Do not error out immediately if a download.mirror is specified and an unofficial arch/platform
  is specified (#670)
• Allow spaces when specifying archs/platforms as a string, rather than an array (#487)
• The extraResource option works on all target platforms (#637)
• all or platform=linux, arch=all now include arch=arm64 if the Electron version specified is
  1.8.0 or above (#711)

Fixed

• common.warning for codesigning (#694)

Removed

• version is removed in favor of electronVersion (CLI: --electron-version) (#665)
• version-string is removed in favor of win32metadata (#668)
• Options set via the JavaScript API formatted in kebab-case (i.e., with hyphens) are removed in
  favor of their camelCase variants, per JavaScript naming standards (#669)

8.7.2

Fixed

• Stop yarn creating .bin folders when pruning (#678)

8.7.1

Fixed

• Usage docs for win32metadata.application-manifest and win32metadata.requested-execution-level

8.7.0

Added

• packageManager (--package-manager via CLI) option (#618)
• win32metadata.application-manifest option (#610)
• win32metadata.requested-execution-level option (#610)

Fixed

• Support for extract-zip >= 1.6.1

8.6.0

Added

• Limited support for electron-prebuilt-compile (#608)

Changed

• Options formatted in kebab-case (i.e., with hyphens) are available in camelCase, per JavaScript naming standards (#580)
• rcedit upgraded to 0.8.0

Deprecated

• Options formatted in kebab-case (i.e., with hyphens) are deprecated in favor of their camelCase variants, per JavaScript naming standards (#580)

8.5.2

Fixed

• Prepend all warning messages with "WARNING:" (#593)
• Ignore the generated temporary directory on Linux (#596)
• Prevent app names from ending in " Helper" (#600)