Release Notes for v8.5.4

Other Changes

• Backported the fix to CVE-2020-16017: Browser UAF when detaching a provisional frame. #26484
• Security: backported fix for 1143772. #26401
• Security: backported fix for 1144489. #26398
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1133527. #26413
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1137608. #26410
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1139398. #26407

Release Notes for v11.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 87.0.4280.47
  • v87 blog post
  • v86 blog post
• Node v12.18.3
  • v12.18.3 release notes
  • v12.18.2 release notes
  • v12.18.1 release notes
  • v12.18.0 release notes
  • v12.17.0 release notes
• V8 v8.7
  • v8.7 blog post
  • v8.6 blog post

Breaking Changes

• Removed experimental APIs: BrowserView.{destroy, fromId, fromWebContents, getAllViews} and the id property of BrowserView. #23578

Features

Additions

• Added new experimental apple silicon (darwin arm64) builds. #24545
• Added new app.runningUnderRosettaTranslation property to detect when running under rosetta on Apple silicon. #26492
• Added V8 crash message and location information to crashReport parameters. #24771 (Also in 10)
• Added a small console hint to console to help debug renderer crashes. #25474 (Also in 9, 10)
• Added new system-context-menu event to allow preventing and overriding the system context menu. #25835
• Added webContents.forcefullyCrashRenderer() to forcefully terminate a renderer process to assist with recovering a hung renderer. #25756
• Added app.getApplicationInfoForProtocol() API that returns detailed information about the app that handles a certain protocol. #24112
• Added name to app.getAppMetrics() output. #24359
• Added utility-process-gone event to app. #24367
• Added visualEffectState option to BrowserWindows to allow customization of vibrancy effect state on macOS. #25083
• Added app.createThumbnailFromPath() API that returns a preview image of a file given its file path and a maximum thumbnail size. #24802
• Added back a previously broken visibleOnFullScreen option for setVisibleOnAllWorkspaces. #24956
• Added desktopCapturer.getMediaSourceIdForWebContents(), can be used with getUserMedia to get a stream for a WebContent. #22701
• Added did-become-active event on Mac for observing any application activation. #23872
• Added new worldSafeExecuteJavaScript webPreference to ensure that the return values from webFrame.executeJavaScript are world safe when context isolation is enabled. #24114 (Also in 9, 10)
• Added optional parameter to specify monospaced font types for macOS tray titles. #25059
• Added support for suspend and resume events to Windows. #24251 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Added support for suspend and resume events to macOS. #24254 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Added the currencyCode field that Apple's StoreKit in-app-purchasing library provides but has not been added to the Product object that inAppPurchase.getProducts returns. #25058
• Added 'resized' (Windows/macOS) and 'moved' (Windows) events to BrowserWindow. #26454

Improvements

• Improved the performance of sending JS primitives over the context bridge. #24531 (Also in 9, 10)
• Improved the performance of sending wide objects over the context bridge. #24671
• Improved the default REPL experience when running Electron with the --interactive flag. #24204
• Improved performance of takeHeapSnapshot(). #26230
• Changed app.getLoginItemSettings() and app.setLoginItemSettings() API to factor in startup approval keys when determining whether an application is able to launch on login. #24494
• Expose sessionId associated with a target from debugger module. #24170 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Implemented systemPreferences.getMediaAccessStatus() on Windows. #24275 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• V8CacheOptions is a new webpreference option to enforce code caching policy. #23842 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• When the disabled-by-default-v8.cpu_profiler tracing category is enabled, cpu samples will now be collected from the main process as well as the renderer. #24819

Removed/Deprecated

• Removed experimental APIs: BrowserView.{destroy, fromId, fromWebContents, getAllViews} and the id property of BrowserView. #23578

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where pageRanges was not properly honored when printing. #25600 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue whereby a corrupted async_hooks stack would crash the renderer when throwing some errors in the renderer process. #26424
• Fixed draggable regions stops working when devtools is opened on macOS. #26395
• Fixed window.open not accepting size values with "px" at the end. #26334 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue where draggable regions were not properly updated on BrowserViews when a containing BrowserWindow was resized. #26320 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where Hover Text on macOS Catalina did not work without VoiceOver also being enabled. #26246 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where draggable regions did not work exclusively on BrowserViews. #26259 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed debug.log files being created under working directory on windows. #26250
• Fixed a rare crash on Windows that could occur when emitting certain powerMonitor events. #26181 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue where packages could not be selected with <input file="type"> on macOS. #26217
• Fixed calling app.commandLine.appendSwitch('lang') not changing app's locale. #26226 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed a crash in printing on Windows. #26062 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where WASM code generation erroneously showed as being disallowed by embedder when contextIsolation was enabled. #25829 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue where frameless windows showed window controls after being in simple fullscreen mode on macOS. #26127 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed issue where setting the spellchecker languages to an empty array would permanently disable the spellchecker till the end of time. #26129
• Fixed memory leak on macOS when using dialog.showMessageBox API. #26099 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Backported fix for https://crbug.com/1115267. #26036
• Fixed issue where clicking notifications would no longer dismiss them as expected. #26131 (Also in 8, 9)
• Fixed NativeImage.getScaleFactors() always returning the same value. #25903 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where Windows notifications with timeoutType of 'never' did not work properly. #25902 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where some Node.js module API calls hung in the renderer process after reloads when render process reuse was enabled. #25922 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed bug that meant require.resolve paths option was ignored. #25945 (Also in 10)
• Fixed NativeImage.crop().toBitmap() returning incorrect data. #25774 (Also in 10)
• Fixed window.open called from child window. #25816
• Suppressed a spurious warning about executeJavaScript being called without worldSafeExecuteJavaScript being enabled in apps that do not call executeJavaScript. #25828 (Also in 10)
• Fix: gdi printing in silent printing mode. #25744 (Also in 10)
• Fixed crash when application launched from UNUserNotificationCenter notification (via a native node module). #25738 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed resource leak in worker threads. #25661 (Also in 9, 10)
• Added missing module delay loads on windows to reduce per process reference set impact. #25436 (Also in 9, 10)
• Excess menu item separators are now only removed after item re-ordering is done to avoid accidental removal of needed separators. #25599
• Fixed CORS not being disabled by webSecurity: false. #25504 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed ready-to-show event not emitted on some machines. #25471 (Also in 10)
• Fixed a crash in app.importCertificate() on Linux. #25537 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed a crash that could happen when a window was closed while a webview was in the process of being attached. #25598
• Fixed a crash when closing window in an event listener after exiting fullscreen on macOS. #25524 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue that could cause a normally-exiting process to fail with an "illegal access" message and exit code 7. #25459 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where an error would be displayed when using webContents.print() if no default was set and no device name provided. #25562 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed crashes caused by attempting to modify destroyed views. #25509
• Fixed the remote-debugging-port discovery page showing garbled text. #25602 (Also in 10)
• Fixed unsubscribe from observers when window is closing. #25585 (Also in 9, 10)
• Updated Node root certs to use NSS 3.56. #25362 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed crashes using nativeImage on Windows on ARM. #25410
• Fixed a crash in the renderer process when invoking the Badging API. #25370 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where document.hasFocus and document.activeElement would be inconsistent upon showing a window that was initially created with show: false. #25323
• Fixed client_id file being generated in the working directory for node child process. #25310 (Also in 9)
• Fixed multiple dock icons being left in system when calling dock.show/hide on macOS. #25300 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixes the following issues for frameless when maximized on Windows:
  • Fix unreachable task bar when auto hidden with position top
  • Fix 1px extending to secondary monitor
  • Fix 1px overflowing into taskbar at certain resolutions
  • Fix white line on top of window under 4k resolutions. #25217 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed Electron not working on Windows 7 after https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/25076. #25168 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where filters set in dialogs on macOS would have nondeterministic ordering. #25193 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed network permission error when there are multiple WebContents sharing same session are created with web security disabled. #25180 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed shell.moveItemToTrash on Windows so that it returns false when move was unsuccessful. #25171 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fix loading shared worker scripts over custom protocol * fix crash when loading worker scripts with nodeIntegration enabled. #20625 (Also in 9, 10)
• Added missing support for isComposing KeyboardEvent property. #23971 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Added {stream:} option to registerSchemeAsPrivileged to enable custom protocols to stream video and audio. #22955
• Enable NTLM v2 for POSIX platforms and added --disable-ntlm-v2 switch to disable it. #23846 (Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)
• Fix: Allow windows behind macOS elements if "frame" is false. #23976 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fix: remove unnecessary corner mask overriding to increase window resize performance. #24642 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed "Paste and Match Style" shortcut on macOS to match OS's "Option-Shift-Command-V". #24153 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed "null path-to-app" in test-app when Electron's path contains spaces or special characters. #24214 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed GTK dark theme setting not respected in Electron on Linux. #23678 (Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed chrome://accessibility access in Electron. #24437
• Fixed chrome://media-internals and chrome://webrtc-internals pages not loading. #24010 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed powerMonitor not emitting suspend/resume events on some Windows machines. #25076 (Also in 10)
• Fixed process.windowsStore returning undefined in AppX packages. #23785 (Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed a 10.0.0-beta.1 issue that broke dark mode window titlebars on Linux. #25055 (Also in 10)
• Fixed a bezeling issue on vibrant non-frameless BrowserWindows. #23779 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed a crash in TouchBar for certain methods. #23936 (Also in 10)
• Fixed a crash that could happen when using hookWindowMessage on Windows. #24716 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using in-memory sessions. #24964 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using the ipcRenderer module after blink had released the context. Instead, a JS exception will be thrown. #23917 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed a termination crash on Web Workers with Node.js integration enabled. #24436 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an error when calling dialog.showCertificateTrustDialog with no BrowserWindow. #24091 (Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an intermittent high-CPU usage problem caused a system clock issue during sleep. #24394 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where VoiceOver was unable to navigate from the top-level window back into the web contents. #24655 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where rmdir and rmdirSync work with original-fs in an asar context. #23890 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where shutdown would be emitted both on app and system shutdown on macOS. #24111 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where webContents.print() would sometimes hang with invalid settings. #24476 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where window.location properties would throw an error for windows opened with window.open. #23776 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where withFileTypes was not supported as an option to fs.readdir or fs.readdirSync under asar. #24062 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where cpu and heap profiling in Node.js did not work properly with --cpu-prof, --heap-prof, and related CLI flags. #24528 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where errors were seen for nonexistent asar files. #24890
• Fixed an issue where frameless modal windows with a vibrancy setting had bezeled corners. #24250 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where macOS window vibrancy active state did not always match the active state of the window. #24471 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where many uses of the Node.js assert module would throw in both the browser and renderer processes. #24579
• Fixed an issue where notifications with a reply button could potentially be destroyed too early when a user clicked on the notification body before replying. #25086 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where some Node.js methods would not work with URL instances constructed in the renderer process. #24831 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where some apps might be rejected from the Mac App Store owing to a private font-related API added in Chromium. #25117 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue where some old notifications were not properly removed from the Notification Center on macOS. #24302 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where suspend/resume were emitted twice on macOS. #24818 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where the 'about' role had on effect on Windows menus. #23687 (Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where the Save button did not function in PDF previews. #24946 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue which would cause streaming protocol responses to stall in some cases. #24022 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue with click events not being emitted on macOS for Trays with context menus set. #24200 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue with volume-related globalShortcut registration. #23782 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed an occasional menu crash on macOS Catalina when menu is closing. #23778 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed broken --trace-sync-io flag in Node.js. #24529 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed broken toolbar text in the PDF viewer. #24913 (Also in 10)
• Fixed bug on macOS where the main window could be targeted for a focus event when it was disabled behind a modal. #24286 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed clipboard.readBuffer returning incorrect value. #24454 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed crash that could occur when passing a non-absolute path to session.loadExtension. #25068 (Also in 10)
• Fixed crash when navigating between origins in a child window with nativeWindowOpen and contextIsolation enabled. #23684 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed crash when navigating from a page with webview that has inherited zoom level. #24757 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed crash when opening offscreen transparent windows with gpu acceleration off. #24390
• Fixed crash when using client certificate. #24868 (Also in 10)
• Fixed delayed execution of some Node.js callbacks in the main process. #24131 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed disabling color correct rendering with --disable-color-correct-rendering. #23787 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld not respecting hasUserGesture argument. #24396
• Fixed frameless window's size being changed when restored from minimized state. #25014 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed inactive windows having active titlebar on Windows. #24847 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed intercepted protocols not raising Redirect information back to Chromium. #23742 (Also in 7.3)
• Fixed issued where voice over would not read words as you typed them. #24801 (Also in 10)
• Fixed media keys working unilaterally when registered with globalShortcut. #24145
• Fixed missing guid parameter in Linux crash reports. #24881 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed no session in webContents of type remote. #23989 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed node's TLS stack not allowing renegotiation. #25022 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed potentially invalid duplex mode settings on Linux. #24489 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed serialization of nativeImages over remote when moving from the main process to the renderer process. #23759 (Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed the acceptLanguages argument being ignored in session.setUserAgent(). #23944 (Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed tray menu on Windows not keyboard navigable. #23843 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed tray menu showing in taskbar on Windows. #24097 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed undefined symbol error when loading native modules that uses uv_dlopen. #24659
• Fixed window size being changed after unmaximizing. #25051 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed window titlebar not responding to pen on Windows 10. #24042 (Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed: On some Windows machines, especially Windows Insider builds, Electron would crash silently during startup. #24030 (Also in 9, 10)
• Increased maximum length for crash keys from 127B to 20KB. #24782 (Also in 9, 10)
• Protocol response streams are now destroyed if the request is aborted. #24014 (Also in 9, 10)
• Resolve app-scoped bookmarks without mounting network drives. #24708
• Restored old implementation of Linux Tray icons to fix a collection of issues where the tray icon wouldn't appear, would be the wrong size or would randomly disappear. #23674 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Save crash reports locally when uploadToServer: false on linux. #24778 (Also in 9, 10)
• The element highlighter in devtools works again. #24921 (Also in 10)
• shell.showItemInFolder uses the FileManager DBUS API on Linux, only falling back to xdg-open if that fails. #25087
• Fixed issues with CORS when making requests from extensions. #24483 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed not working WebSQLDatabase in extension background pages. #24798 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue with a consistent unwanted exception appearing during a debugging session with the VSCode debugger. #24191
• Fixed mac app store rejection notice for invalid symbolic link in bundle. #23831
• Fixed mac app store rejection notice for invalid symbolic link in bundle. #24158 (Also in 9, 10)

End of Support for 8.x.y

Electron 8.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.

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.23

Features

• Added new app.runningUnderRosettaTranslation property to detect when running under rosetta on Apple silicon. #26492

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.22

Features

• Added 'resized' (Windows/macOS) and 'moved' (Windows) events to BrowserWindow. #26454

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where pageRanges was not properly honored when printing. #25600 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue whereby a corrupted async_hooks stack would crash the renderer when throwing some errors in the renderer process. #26424
• Fixed draggable regions stops working when devtools is opened on macOS. #26395

Release Notes for v9.3.4

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Hover Text on macOS Catalina did not work without VoiceOver also being enabled. #26244 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where draggable regions did not work exclusively on BrowserViews. #26261 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where draggable regions were not properly updated on BrowserViews when a containing BrowserWindow was resized. #26322 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed calling app.commandLine.appendSwitch('lang') not changing app's locale. #26242 (Also in 10, 11)

Other Changes

• Improved performance of takeHeapSnapshot(). #26228
• Security: backported fix for 1100470, 1125337. #26210
• Security: backported fix for 1128657. #26197
• Security: backported fix for 1133983. #26204
• Security: backported fix for 1135018. #26194
• Security: backported fix for 1135857. #26191
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1117258. #26200
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1132111. #26207
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1137630. #26213

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.20

Fixes

• Fixed window.open not accepting size values with "px" at the end. #26334 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue where draggable regions were not properly updated on BrowserViews when a containing BrowserWindow was resized. #26320 (Also in 9, 10)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 87.0.4280.40. #26280

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.19

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Hover Text on macOS Catalina did not work without VoiceOver also being enabled. #26246 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where draggable regions did not work exclusively on BrowserViews. #26259 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed debug.log files being created under working directory on windows. #26250

Release Notes for v8.5.3

Fixes

• Fixed ready-to-show event not emitted on some machines. #26140 (Also in 8, 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue that could cause a normally-exiting process to fail with an "illegal access" message and exit code 7. #25501 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed loading shared worker scripts over custom protocol
  • fix crash when loading worker scripts with nodeIntegration enabled. #26142 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Fixed maximized frameless window bleeding to other monitors. #25979 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed memory leak on macOS when using dialog.showMessageBox API. #26100 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Protocol response streams are now destroyed if the request is aborted. #26141 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
• Updated Node root certs to use NSS 3.56. #25363 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Updated to Chrome 80.0.3987.163. #25499

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2020-15999. #26068
• Backported the fix to CVE-2020-15969: Use after free in WebRTC. #25855
• Improved performance of takeHeapSnapshot(). #26227
• Security: backported fix for 1100136. #25659
• Security: backported fix for 1106612. #25657
• Security: backported fix for 1111149. #25637
• Security: backported fix for 1113558. #25860
• Security: backported fix for 1121836. #25642
• Security: backported fix for 1126249. #25646
• Security: backported fix for 1128657. #26198
• Security: backported fix for 1135018. #26195
• Security: backported fix for 1135857. #26192
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1117258. #26201
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1132111. #26208
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1137630. #26214
• Security: backported the fix to a heap-use-after-free in content::WebContentsImpl::SetNotWaitingForResponse. #25897

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.18

Fixes

• Fixed a rare crash on Windows that could occur when emitting certain powerMonitor events. #26181 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue where packages could not be selected with on macOS. #26217
• Fixed calling app.commandLine.appendSwitch('lang') not changing app's locale. #26226 (Also in 9, 10)

Other Changes

• Improved performance of takeHeapSnapshot(). #26230

Release Notes for v9.3.3

Fixes

• Browser views will properly resize within windows. #26034 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fix: gdi printing in silent printing mode. #25724 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed NativeImage.getScaleFactors() always returning the same value. #25904 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed a crash in printing on Windows. #26066 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where Windows notifications with timeoutType of 'never' did not work properly. #25862 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where Save as PDF from PDF Viewer Print dialog failed and sometimes crashed. #26067 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where frameless windows showed window controls after being in simple fullscreen mode on macOS. #26128 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where some Node.js module API calls hung in the renderer process after reloads when render process reuse was enabled. #25924 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where the PDF annotations button existed in a broken state. #26004
• Fixed bug that meant require.resolve paths option was ignored. #26035 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed maximized frameless window bleeding to other monitors. #25980 (Also in 8, 10, 11)
• Fixed memory leak on macOS when using dialog.showMessageBox API. #26098 (Also in 8, 10, 11)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2020-15999. #26069
• Backported the fix to CVE-2020-15969: Use after free in WebRTC. #25854
• Security: backported fix for 1111149. #25638
• Security: backported fix for 1113558. #25859
• Security: backported fix for 1121414. #25911
• Security: backported fix for 1121836. #25641
• Security: backported fix for 1125635, 1115901. #25857
• Security: backported fix for 1126249. #25645
• Security: backported the fix to a heap-use-after-free in content::WebContentsImpl::SetNotWaitingForResponse. #25896

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.17

Fixes

• Fixed a crash in printing on Windows. #26062 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where Wasm code generation erroneously showed as being disallowed by embedder when contextIsolation was enabled. #25829 (Also in 10)

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.16

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where frameless windows showed window controls after being in simple fullscreen mode on macOS. #26127 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed issue where setting the spellchecker languages to an empty array would permanently disable the spellchecker till the end of time. #26129
• Fixed memory leak on macOS when using dialog.showMessageBox API. #26099 (Also in 8, 9, 10)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for https://crbug.com/1115267. #26036
• Updated Chromium to 87.0.4280.27. #25993

Unknown

• Fixed issue where clicking notifications would no longer dismiss them as expected. #26131 (Also in 8, 9)

Release Notes for v10.1.5

Fixes

• Fixed a crash in printing on Windows. #26064 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed an issue where Wasm code generation erroneously showed as being disallowed by embedder when contextIsolation was enabled. #26063 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue where frameless windows showed window controls after being in simple fullscreen mode on macOS. #26126 (Also in 9, 10)
• Fixed memory leak on macOS when using dialog.showMessageBox API. #26097 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2020-15999. #26070

Release Notes for v10.1.4

Fixes

• Browser views will properly resize within windows. #26033 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Excess menu item separators are now only removed after item re-ordering is done to avoid accidental removal of needed separators. #25931 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fix: gdi printing in silent printing mode. #25740 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed NativeImage.crop().toBitmap() returning incorrect data. #25773 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed NativeImage.getScaleFactors() always returning the same value. #25905 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed session argument of app 'session-created' event. #25798
• Fixed an issue where Windows notifications with timeoutType of 'never' did not work properly. #25926 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where Save as PDF from PDF Viewer Print dialog failed and sometimes crashed. #26013 (Also in 10)
• Fixed an issue where some Node.js module API calls hung in the renderer process after reloads when render process reuse was enabled. #25923 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed bug that meant require.resolve paths option was ignored. #25944 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed crash when application launched from UNUserNotificationCenter notification (via a native node module). #25737 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed maximized frameless window bleeding to other monitors. #25977 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed memory leak when creating "Services" menu. #25687 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed ready-to-show event not emitted on some machines. #25932 (Also in 10, 11)
• Suppressed a spurious warning about executeJavaScript being called without worldSafeExecuteJavaScript being enabled in apps that do not call executeJavaScript. #25827 (Also in 10, 11)

Other Changes

• Backported the fix to CVE-2020-15968: Use after free in Blink. #25852
• Backported the fix to CVE-2020-15969: Use after free in WebRTC. #25853
• Backported the fix to a heap-use-after-free in content::WebContentsImpl::SetNotWaitingForResponse. #25893
• Fixed an issue where netLog.startLogging and netLog.stopLogging were undefined. #25670 (Also in 10)
• Security: backported fix for 1125635, 1115901. #25856

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.13

Features

• Added new system-context-menu event to allow preventing and overriding the system context menu. #25835 (Also in 11)

Fixes

• Fixed NativeImage.getScaleFactors() always returning the same value. #25903 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where Windows notifications with timeoutType of 'never' did not work properly. #25902 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where some Node.js module API calls hung in the renderer process after reloads when render process reuse was enabled. #25922 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed bug that meant require.resolve paths option was ignored. #25945 (Also in 10, 11)

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.12

Features

• Added webContents.forcefullyCrashRenderer() to forcefully terminate a renderer process to assist with recovering a hung renderer. #25756 (Also in 11)

Fixes

• Fixed NativeImage.crop().toBitmap() returning incorrect data. #25774 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed window.open called from child window. #25816 (Also in 11)
• Suppressed a spurious warning about executeJavaScript being called without worldSafeExecuteJavaScript being enabled in apps that do not call executeJavaScript. #25828 (Also in 10, 11)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 87.0.4280.11. #25802

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.11

Fixes

• Fix: gdi printing in silent printing mode. #25744 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed crash when application launched from UNUserNotificationCenter notification (via a native node module). #25738 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

Release Notes for v9.3.2

Fixes

• Fixed CORS not being disabled by webSecurity: false. #25505 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed ready-to-show event not emitted on some machines. #25490 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed a crash in app.importCertificate() on Linux. #25538 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed a crash when closing window in an event listener after exiting fullscreen on macOS. #25605 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue that could cause a normally-exiting process to fail with an "illegal access" message and exit code 7. #25502 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where an error would be displayed when using webContents.print() if no default was set and no device name provided. #25607 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed crash when application launched from UNUserNotificationCenter notification (via a native node module). #25739 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed crashes caused by attempting to modify destroyed views. #25609 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed memory leak when creating "Services" menu. #25689 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed unsubscribe from observers when window is closing. #25586 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Updated Node root certs to use NSS 3.56. #25364 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)

Other Changes

• Added V8 crash message and location information to crashReport parameters. #24864 (Also in 9, 10)
• Added a small console hint to console to help debug renderer crashes. #25473 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed resource leak in worker threads. #25663 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Security: backported fix for 1100136. #25658
• Security: backported fix for 1106612. #25656
• Security: backported fix for 1114636. #25643

Unknown

• Fixed extension background page devtools not being openable. #25567 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

Release Notes for v10.1.3

Fixes

• Fixed CORS not being disabled by webSecurity: false. #25503 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed ready-to-show event not emitted on some machines. #25476 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed a crash in app.importCertificate() on Linux. #25536 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed a crash when closing window in an event listener after exiting fullscreen on macOS. #25604 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue that could cause a normally-exiting process to fail with an "illegal access" message and exit code 7. #25458 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where an error would be displayed when using webContents.print() if no default was set and no device name provided. #25606 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed an issue where multiple calls to window.print() could cause a crash. #25530
• Fixed an issue where pageRanges was not properly honored when printing. #25597 (Also in 10)
• Fixed crashes caused by attempting to modify destroyed views. #25511 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed the remote-debugging-port discovery page showing garbled text. #25601 (Also in 10, 11)
• Updated Node root certs to use NSS 3.56. #25361 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)

Other Changes

• Added a small console hint to console to help debug renderer crashes. #25472 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Fixed resource leak in worker threads. #25662 (Also in 9, 10, 11)
• Updated Chromium to 85.0.4183.121. #25559

Unknown

• Fixed extension background page devtools not being openable. #25566 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

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 [email protected].

Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.9

Other Changes

• Fixed resource leak in worker threads. #25661 (Also in 9, 10, 11)