Electron

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

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@45.0.0-alpha.5.

Release Notes for v45.0.0-alpha.5

Fixes

• File System Access permission requests and the file-system-access-restricted event are scoped to the requesting document, grants are reset when the origin's last page closes, and write access works in in-memory sessions. #53690 (Also in 43)
• Fixed Tray icons not appearing when running inside Flatpak or Snap sandboxes on Linux. #53654 (Also in 44)
• Fixed app.getGPUInfo('complete') stalling the GPU process for several seconds on some Windows systems. #53645 (Also in 44)
• Fixed session.setPermissionCheckHandler receiving the top-level origin and a null webContents for hid and usb checks made from a subframe. #53679 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed webContents.on(), removeListener() and removeAllListeners() throwing "Object has been destroyed" for console-message listeners after the WebContents was destroyed. #53495 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on Linux when process.env was written while another thread was reading the environment, and a memory leak when a worker thread exits. #53508 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a possible crash on Windows when a file dialog was shown for a window that was being closed at the same time. #53586 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a renderer crash when the main process sent IPC to, or a page navigated, a same-process window.open() child whose contextIsolation differed from its opener's. #53538 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a spurious node_init error being logged when creating a ShadowRealm with Node.js integration enabled. #53578 (Also in 44)
• Fixed crashes in setDisplayMediaRequestHandler when the granted frame had been destroyed or another tab was granted by id. #53673 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed several non-functional DevTools integrations: the Security panel's "View certificate" button, Ctrl+wheel zooming inside DevTools, and DevTools keyboard shortcuts (e.g. F8) while the inspected page has focus. #53471 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed window state not being persisted when a window entered or left fullscreen, or was maximized or unmaximized, without also being moved or resized. #53577 (Also in 44)
• openExternal permission requests started by a frame that has since gone away are attributed to that frame's origin rather than to the navigating page. #53696 (Also in 42, 43)
• pointerLock and keyboardLock permission requests now report the requesting frame, and execCommand('paste') requires user activation in the frame that calls it. #53692 (Also in 44)

Other Changes

• Electron's internal JavaScript bundles are no longer listed in require('module').builtinModules or loadable through process.getBuiltinModule(). #53624
• Fixed the app becoming unresponsive when a page has a very large number of app-region draggable elements. #53596 (Also in 43, 44)
• Improved throughput of responses that protocol.handle handlers return straight from net.fetch. #53379 (Also in 44)

Release Notes for v44.2.0

Fixes

• Fixed a pending read on a net.request chunked upload stream inside a protocol handler never settling when the request failed or was aborted. #53373 (Also in 43, 45)
• Fixed a potential crash when using menu.popup with a frame from an offscreen rendered window. #53362 (Also in 43)
• Fixed an intermittent crash (access violation) on Windows when an ASAR integrity violation is detected, so the process now exits with code 1 as intended. #53455 (Also in 43, 45)
• Fixed application crash after a large number of IPC messages from renderers. #53417 (Also in 42, 43, 45)
• Fixed native addons deriving from node::ObjectWrap aborting during garbage collection on Node.js 24.19.0 and later. #53392 (Also in 42, 43, 45)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. #53479
• Improved throughput of responses that protocol.handle handlers return straight from net.fetch. #53378
• Updated Chromium to 152.0.7977.76. #53382
• Updated Node.js to v24.20.0. #53250

Release Notes for v42.11.2

Fixes

• Fixed application crash after a large number of IPC messages from renderers. #53419 (Also in 43, 44, 45)
• Fixed native addons deriving from node::ObjectWrap aborting during garbage collection on Node.js 24.19.0 and later. #53394 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. #53480
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium, Dawn, Skia and V8. #53397
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium, V8, ANGLE, Dawn, Skia, WebRTC and DevTools. #53367

Release Notes for v43.6.0

Features

• Added a badge property to MenuItem on macOS 14+ for showing a count or custom text badge next to a menu item's label. #53045 (Also in 44)
• Added webContents.caretBrowsingEnabled for toggling caret browsing in a WebContents. #53034 (Also in 44)

Fixes

• Fixed VoiceOver Braille displays showing the wrong line in multi-line text fields on macOS: AXLineForIndex and AXRangeForLine now return the line containing the caret. #53428
• Fixed a pending read on a net.request chunked upload stream inside a protocol handler never settling when the request failed or was aborted. #53374 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed a potential crash when using menu.popup with a frame from an offscreen rendered window. #53432 (Also in 44)
• Fixed an intermittent crash (access violation) on Windows when an ASAR integrity violation is detected, so the process now exits with code 1 as intended. #53456 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed application crash after a large number of IPC messages from renderers. #53420 (Also in 42, 44, 45)
• Fixed native addons deriving from node::ObjectWrap aborting during garbage collection on Node.js 24.19.0 and later. #53393 (Also in 42, 44, 45)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. #53485
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium, Dawn and V8. #53396
• Updated Node.js to v24.20.0. #53249

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

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@45.0.0-alpha.4.

Release Notes for v45.0.0-alpha.4

Fixes

• Fixed chrome.tabs.query() returning tab url and title to extensions without the tabs permission or host access, aligning with tabs.get. #53353 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a pending read on a net.request chunked upload stream inside a protocol handler never settling when the request failed or was aborted. #53368 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed an intermittent crash (access violation) on Windows when an ASAR integrity violation is detected, so the process now exits with code 1 as intended. #53438 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed application crash after a large number of IPC messages from renderers. #53418 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed native addons deriving from node::ObjectWrap aborting during garbage collection on Node.js 24.19.0 and later. #53391 (Also in 42, 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 155.0.8038.2. #53416
• Updated Node.js to v24.20.0. #53251

Release Notes for v44.1.1

Fixes

• Fixed chrome.tabs.query() returning tab url and title to extensions without the tabs permission or host access, aligning with tabs.get. #53354 (Also in 42, 43, 45)
• Fixed a renderer crash when an array with a throwing property getter is passed across contextBridge, and several main/utility-process crashes when option objects passed to Electron APIs contain throwing accessors or Proxy traps. #53331 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed an intermittent crash at startup on Linux caused by a race between Pango and the main thread initializing fontconfig. #53340 (Also in 43, 45)
• Fixed an issue where an exception thrown by a property getter on an object passed through contextBridge was swallowed instead of being thrown back to the caller. #53335 (Also in 43, 45)
• Fixed main process crashes when navigating to http://accessibility/ or http://devtools/, when an extension background page used navigator.mediaDevices, and when calling SerialPort.forget() for a disconnected device. #53333 (Also in 43, 45)
• Fixed the PDF viewer failing to save an edited PDF with NotAllowedError: Third party iframes are not allowed to show a file picker. #53328 (Also in 43, 45)

Release Notes for v43.5.1

Fixes

• Fixed chrome.tabs.query() returning tab url and title to extensions without the tabs permission or host access, aligning with tabs.get. #53356 (Also in 42, 44, 45)
• Fixed a renderer crash when an array with a throwing property getter is passed across contextBridge, and several main/utility-process crashes when option objects passed to Electron APIs contain throwing accessors or Proxy traps. #53330 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed an intermittent crash at startup on Linux caused by a race between Pango and the main thread initializing fontconfig. #53339 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed an issue where an exception thrown by a property getter on an object passed through contextBridge was swallowed instead of being thrown back to the caller. #53334 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed main process crashes when navigating to http://accessibility/ or http://devtools/, when an extension background page used navigator.mediaDevices, and when calling SerialPort.forget() for a disconnected device. #53332 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed the PDF viewer failing to save an edited PDF with NotAllowedError: Third party iframes are not allowed to show a file picker. #53327 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed xdg-desktop-portal misidentifying Electron apps whose desktopName contains dashes, which broke globalShortcut and other portal-based APIs on Linux. #52722

Release Notes for v42.11.1

Fixes

• Fixed chrome.tabs.query() returning tab url and title to extensions without the tabs permission or host access, aligning with tabs.get. #53355 (Also in 43, 44, 45)
• Fixed a renderer crash when an array with a throwing property getter is passed across contextBridge, and several main/utility-process crashes when option objects passed to Electron APIs contain throwing accessors or Proxy traps. #53329 (Also in 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Security: backported fixes for CVE-2026-15764, CVE-2026-15765, CVE-2026-15766, CVE-2026-15767, CVE-2026-15768, CVE-2026-15769, CVE-2026-15770, CVE-2026-15771, CVE-2026-15772, CVE-2026-15773, CVE-2026-15774, CVE-2026-15775, CVE-2026-15776, CVE-2026-15777, CVE-2026-15778. #53344

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

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@45.0.0-alpha.3.

Release Notes for v45.0.0-alpha.3

Fixes

• Fixed an intermittent crash at startup on Linux caused by a race between Pango and the main thread initializing fontconfig. #53338 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed main process crashes when navigating to http://accessibility/ or http://devtools/, when using the LanguageModel API from a Worker with a local AI handler registered, when an extension background page used navigator.mediaDevices, and when calling SerialPort.forget() for a disconnected device. #53325 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed the PDF viewer failing to save an edited PDF with NotAllowedError: Third party iframes are not allowed to show a file picker. #53326 (Also in 43, 44)

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

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@45.0.0-alpha.2.

Release Notes for v45.0.0-alpha.2

Features

• Added app.configureWebAuthn() API to enable iCloud Keychain passkey support on macOS. When enabled, navigator.credentials.create() and .get() present Apple's native passkey UI via ASAuthorizationController. #51563
• Added available to process.getSystemMemoryInfo() on Linux, exposing proc/meminfo MemAvailable. #52299 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Added disableWakeLocks option to WebPreferences. #52342
• Added getIsolatedWorlds method and isolated-world-created event for webFrame to enable discovery of isolated worlds. #50633
• Added select-client-certificate event support for net.request and net.fetch; requests to servers requesting a client certificate no longer fail with ERR_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT_NEEDED, and applications can now select a certificate to present. #52162 (Also in 44)
• Added webFrameMain.printToPDF() to allow printing individual frames to PDF from the main process. #52439 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Added a Save/Restore Window State API for cross-platform use. #51510 (Also in 44)
• Added a badge property to MenuItem on macOS 14+ for showing a count or custom text badge next to a menu item's label. #50805 (Also in 44)
• Added support for the Prompt API via the new localAIHandler module in UtilityProcess. #50659
• Added webContents.caretBrowsingEnabled for toggling caret browsing in a WebContents. #52696 (Also in 44)
• Clipboard module is now aligned with the W3C Clipboard API. #51707 (Also in 44)
• Fixed an issue where getDisplayMedia({ audio: { restrictOwnAudio: true } }) was ignored in setDisplayMediaRequestHandler, causing loopback audio to include local app playback. #52455 (Also in 43, 44)
• Frameless windows on Linux now use system-themed titlebar icons for Window Controls Overlay (WCO). #52461 (Also in 44)
• 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. #52739 (Also in 44)
• The macOS autoUpdater now streams update downloads to disk, resumes an interrupted download on the next check instead of starting over, and applies a binary delta when the update feed offers one for the running version. #52820
• fs.open, fs.createReadStream, fs.copyFile, fs.cp and friends now read files inside ASAR archives directly from the archive instead of extracting a temporary copy; fs.opendir and fs.readlink work on archives; opening a packed file for writing fails with EACCES. #52833

Fixes

• A window.open() child whose sandbox state differs from its opener's renderer process is now created in its own process with no opener relationship instead of silently sharing the opener's process; set sandbox: false in setWindowOpenHandler to keep sharing an unsandboxed opener's process. #52472
• Fixed DevTools device metrics overrides persisting indefinitely when a remote debugging client disconnected without clearing them. #52254 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed DevTools popup and context menus not appearing when DevTools is hosted in a custom window via webContents.setDevToolsWebContents(). #52205 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed WebAuthn platform passkey requests on macOS hanging until the request timeout when an operation failed, and a potential crash when selecting between Touch ID and platform passkeys. #52682
• Fixed Window Controls Overlay caption buttons not rendering on Linux. #52577 (Also in 44)
• Fixed BrowserWindow.unmaximize() and restore() having no effect on Wayland when the window was maximized immediately after creation. #53063 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed BrowserWindow size corruption on Windows when created with explicit x/y on a secondary monitor whose DPI differs from the primary. #51603 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed Dirent.parentPath being undefined for fs.readdir, fs.readdirSync, fs.glob, and fs.globSync with withFileTypes: true inside asar archives. #51845 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed Uncaught illegal access errors and renderer crashes when closing a same-process child window or removing an iframe with nodeIntegrationInSubFrames enabled, and when native modules use napi async work or thread-safe functions from such windows and frames. #52964 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed app.disableHardwareAcceleration() not fully disabling GPU hardware usage on Windows starting from Electron 38. #51817 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed dialog.showOpenDialog/dialog.showSaveDialog opening at an unusable location on Linux when defaultPath is a bare filename without a directory. #52243 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed fs.constants.O_DIRECTORY, O_NOFOLLOW and O_DIRECT holding x86 values on Linux arm64 and armv7l, which made opening a directory fail with EINVAL, and made require('trace_events') behave the same on cross-compiled builds as on native ones. #53321 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed globalShortcut not working on GNOME Wayland by enabling Chromium's GlobalShortcutsPortalPreferredTrigger feature by default on Linux. #52221 (Also in 43)
• Fixed matchMedia('(display-mode: ...)') returning browser for window-controls-overlay, frameless, and fullscreen BrowserWindows. #51396
• Fixed registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol returning readable responses to cross-origin no-cors fetches; they now return opaque responses like protocol.handle. #52822 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed select-hid-device presenting HID devices that could not be granted, which caused navigator.hid.requestDevice() to resolve with no device. #52467 (Also in 44)
• Fixed webContents.executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld resolving with undefined when worldId was not an integer. #53205 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed webContents.print() honoring printBackground, duplexMode, and printer default duplex settings. #52279 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a UAF with protocol.registerStreamProtocol when an error is emitted during a read. #52474 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a WebContentsView staying blank after its window is shown when setBackgroundThrottling(false) was called while the window was hidden. #52844 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a browser process crash that could occur during Windows logoff, shutdown, or restart. #52604 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a browser-process crash (ValidateIntegrityOrDie) and spurious preload ENOENT errors when an app's app.asar is replaced on disk (e.g. by an updater or MDM software) while the app is running. #52283 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash in systemPreferences.promptTouchID(reason) when an invalid reason value is passed. #52764 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on Linux when the D-Bus session bus disconnected while the app was running, such as at logout or when dbus is restarted. #53022 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on Windows when V8 posted a delayed worker task during shutdown. #52956 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on macOS when a WebAuthn Touch ID prompt was requested while no locale resources were loaded. #53185 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on macOS when a notification's icon could not be attached; the notification is now shown without the icon. #53131 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash report when the X server or Wayland compositor exits while an app is running. #52603 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing DevTools while the host WebContents was being destroyed. #52166 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash when accessing frame details during cross-origin navigation. #53102 (Also in 44)
• Fixed a crash when calling node:wasi functions in optimized code. #53266 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash when calling utilityProcess.postMessage() after the utility process had exited. #53299 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash when quickly switching menus while the app is under heavy load. #52598 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash when resolving a path inside a malformed ASAR archive that contains cyclic link entries. #52825 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash when showing Linux message boxes while another Linux UI implementation was active. #52238 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash with app.setLoginItemSettings if a non-UTF8 service name is used. #52773 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a graphical glitch on Linux where thin borders appeared past the drop shadows on frameless windows when multiple windows were created. #52584 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a memory leak when creating BrowserWindows. #52092 (Also in 42, 43, 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. #52856 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a possible main process crash at quit when a session was created from JavaScript that runs during shutdown. #52836 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a potential crash in contentTracing.stopRecording() when the trace file could not be written to the requested path. #52793 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a potential crash when notifying user activation before the primary main frame was live. #52215 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a potential crash when using menu.popup with a frame from an offscreen rendered window. #53242
• Fixed a rare crash in the main process when DevTools were opened and a garbage collection ran before the DevTools frontend finished loading. #52847 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a regression preventing from transparent frameless windows from being resized on Linux. #52740 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a regression where a window created with a custom title can show an empty title after using back/forward navigation. #53180 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a renderer crash when a page calls SpeechRecognition.available() or SpeechRecognition.install() with processLocally. #52955 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a renderer crash when an array with a throwing property getter is passed across contextBridge, and several main/utility-process crashes when option objects passed to Electron APIs contain throwing accessors or Proxy traps. #53069
• Fixed a window being marked hidden and background-throttled on macOS when covered by a transparent or click-through window. #52365 (Also in 42, 43, 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). #52748 (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. #52888 (Also in 41, 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. #52591 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed an issue where an exception thrown by a property getter on an object passed through contextBridge was swallowed instead of being thrown back to the caller. #53297
• Fixed an issue where loading ICO files from ASAR archives on Windows left temporary icon files behind. #52424 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed an issue where pages loaded in a detached WebContentsView wouldn't see the correct window size. #53031 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed an issue where some values passed into requestSingleInstanceLock could result in a crash. #52025 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed crash in sharedTexture module when GPU context becomes unavailable. #49518 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed crash triggered by replacing an open application menu. #52248 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed crashes in sharedTexture, service-worker ipcRenderer and utilityProcess.fork() caused by object lifetime bugs. #53280 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed crashes in the main process when a webRequest.onBeforeRequest listener redirected a CORS preflight request, and when calling net.fetch() with a webRequest-permission extension loaded. #53302 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed crashes when a webContents or parent window is destroyed while other APIs still reference it. #53281 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed crashes when certain app event handlers call back into Electron synchronously. #53269 (Also in 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. #52872 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed downloading files that live inside an asar archive, including saving a packed PDF from the built-in PDF viewer. #52808 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed region-qualified --lang values such as de-DE loading no locale resources on macOS, which left localized strings empty and could crash WebAuthn Touch ID prompts. #53184 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed spellcheck not initializing on Linux when the dictionary was already cached from a previous run. #52712 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed the GPU process being terminated in AppX/MSIX packaged apps on Windows when WebGPU fell back to SwiftShader. #53174 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed the built-in PDF viewer not rendering documents in in-memory sessions (partitions without the persist: prefix). #52810 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• 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(). #52628 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed unnecessary autofill popup creation for fields without datalist suggestions, which could cause input latency on macOS. #52262 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed utility process crashes at exit on Windows 11 24H2 and later. #53038 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed windows native message boxes being dismissed by other applications using invalid button ID. #52812 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed windows opened by a sandboxed top-level frame not inheriting the opener's sandbox restrictions. #52841 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed webContents.print() returning "Invalid printer settings" when print options are provided. #52367 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixeed document title updates when using back/forward navigation using the same document without utilizing browserWindow.setTitle(). #52089 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Screen, window and tab capture requests are now reported to setPermissionRequestHandler as display-capture instead of media; a handler that allows only media must also allow display-capture to keep screen sharing working. #52824
• <webview> and window.open now inherit nodeIntegrationInWorker from the embedder, consistent with the other Node and sandbox preferences. #52823 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)

Other Changes

• 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. #52791 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• 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. #52923 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Improved application startup time on Linux by skipping GDK's OpenGL probe and loading FontConfig off the main thread during toolkit initialization. #53070 (Also in 43, 44)
• Improved startup time of utilityProcess.fork(), child_process.fork() / ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE child processes and Node.js-enabled renderers. #52873 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Improved the error message when an asar integrity check fails to name the entry that failed. #52600 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• 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. #52874 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Page resources, fetch() calls and file:// loads in renderers no longer wait for the main process to be idle when no webRequest listeners or protocol interceptors are registered. #53115 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Reduced idle main-process CPU wakeups caused by Node.js timers and immediates. #52862 (Also in 43, 44)
• Reduced the macOS distribution size by shipping only the locale strings that Electron can actually use. #52290
• Renderer network requests no longer waited on the main process when the session's webRequest listeners only observe requests (onCompleted, onErrorOccurred, onSendHeaders, onBeforeRedirect, onResponseStarted) or are filtered to other resource types. #53204 (Also in 44)
• The first sandboxed BrowserWindow now starts in a renderer process launched ahead of time when the default session already exists, shortening the time from window creation to the page's first script; apps that open many windows can keep a spare renderer warm at all times with --enable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess. #53116 (Also in 44)
• The non-functional dummy libEGL.so and libGLESv2.so files are no longer included in the Linux distribution, now that ANGLE is statically linked. #52226 (Also in 44)
• Updated Chromium to 154.0.8029.0. #53291
• Updated Node.js to v24.19.0. #52638

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #52337, #52429, #53170, #53202

Unknown

• None (reverts an unreleased change). #52323
• Removed 32-bit builds (Windows ia32 and Linux armv7l). Electron is now published only for 64-bit (x64 and arm64) platforms. #51816 (Also in 44)
• Removed openAsHidden option from app.setLoginItemSettings().
  • Removed openAsHidden, wasOpenedAsHidden and restoreState fields from return value of app.getLoginItemSettings().
  • Fixed potential deadlock inside app.getLoginItemSettings() on macOS. #52351 (Also in 44)

Release Notes for v44.1.0

Fixes

• Fixed fs.constants.O_DIRECTORY, O_NOFOLLOW and O_DIRECT holding x86 values on Linux arm64 and armv7l, which made opening a directory fail with EINVAL, and made require('trace_events') behave the same on cross-compiled builds as on native ones. #53320 (Also in 42, 43, 45)
• Fixed webContents.executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld resolving with undefined when worldId was not an integer. #53238 (Also in 43)
• Fixed webContents.print() honoring printBackground, duplexMode, and printer default duplex settings. #53159 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash on Windows when V8 posted a delayed worker task during shutdown. #53201 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash on macOS when a WebAuthn Touch ID prompt was requested while no locale resources were loaded. #53194 (Also in 43)
• Fixed a crash on macOS when a notification's icon could not be attached; the notification is now shown without the icon. #53146 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash when calling node:wasi functions in optimized code. #53268 (Also in 42, 43, 45)
• Fixed a crash when calling utilityProcess.postMessage() after the utility process had exited. #53300 (Also in 43, 45)
• Fixed a regression where a window created with a custom title can show an empty title after using back/forward navigation. #53218 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue where pages loaded in a detached WebContentsView wouldn't see the correct window size. #53153 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed crashes in sharedTexture, service-worker ipcRenderer and utilityProcess.fork() caused by object lifetime bugs. #53279 (Also in 43, 45)
• Fixed crashes in the main process when a webRequest.onBeforeRequest listener redirected a CORS preflight request, and when calling net.fetch() with a webRequest-permission extension loaded. #53303 (Also in 43, 45)
• Fixed crashes when a webContents or parent window is destroyed while other APIs still reference it. #53287 (Also in 43, 45)
• Fixed crashes when certain app event handlers call back into Electron synchronously. #53275 (Also in 43, 45)
• Fixed region-qualified --lang values such as de-DE loading no locale resources on macOS, which left localized strings empty and could crash WebAuthn Touch ID prompts. #53188 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed the GPU process being terminated in AppX/MSIX packaged apps on Windows when WebGPU fell back to SwiftShader. #53198 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed the tray icon not appearing on GNOME (and disappearing entirely on Wayland) since 44.0.0-beta.6. #53214
• Fixed windows native message boxes being dismissed by other applications using invalid button ID. #53154 (Also in 43)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #53189
• Page resources, fetch() calls and file:// loads in renderers no longer wait for the main process to be idle when no webRequest listeners or protocol interceptors are registered. #53141 (Also in 42, 43)
• Renderer network requests no longer waited on the main process when the session's webRequest listeners only observe requests (onCompleted, onErrorOccurred, onSendHeaders, onBeforeRedirect, onResponseStarted) or are filtered to other resource types. #53240
• Updated Chromium to 152.0.7977.65. #53203
• Updated Node.js to v24.19.0. #52636

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #53212, #53248

Release Notes for v43.5.0

Fixes

• Fixed DevTools device metrics overrides persisting indefinitely when a remote debugging client disconnected without clearing them. #52946 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed BrowserWindow.unmaximize() and restore() having no effect on Wayland when the window was maximized immediately after creation. #53125 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed Uncaught illegal access errors and possible renderer crashes after closing a same-process child window or removing an iframe with nodeIntegrationInSubFrames enabled. #53041 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed fs.constants.O_DIRECTORY, O_NOFOLLOW and O_DIRECT holding x86 values on Linux arm64 and armv7l, which made opening a directory fail with EINVAL, and made require('trace_events') behave the same on cross-compiled builds as on native ones. #53319 (Also in 42, 44, 45)
• Fixed webContents.executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld resolving with undefined when worldId was not an integer. #53237 (Also in 44)
• Fixed webContents.print() honoring printBackground, duplexMode, and printer default duplex settings. #53160 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed a crash on Linux when the D-Bus session bus disconnected while the app was running, such as at logout or when dbus is restarted. #53095 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed a crash on Windows when V8 posted a delayed worker task during shutdown. #53013 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed a crash on macOS when a WebAuthn Touch ID prompt was requested while no locale resources were loaded. #53195 (Also in 44)
• Fixed a crash on macOS when a notification's icon could not be attached; the notification is now shown without the icon. #53147 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed a crash when calling node:wasi functions in optimized code. #53265 (Also in 42, 44, 45)
• Fixed a crash when calling utilityProcess.postMessage() after the utility process had exited. #53301 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed a regression where a window created with a custom title can show an empty title after using back/forward navigation. #53219 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed a renderer crash when a page calls SpeechRecognition.available() or SpeechRecognition.install() with processLocally. #53015 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed an issue where pages loaded in a detached WebContentsView wouldn't see the correct window size. #53152 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed crashes in sharedTexture, service-worker ipcRenderer and utilityProcess.fork() caused by object lifetime bugs. #53278 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed crashes in the main process when a webRequest.onBeforeRequest listener redirected a CORS preflight request, and when calling net.fetch() with a webRequest-permission extension loaded. #53304 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed crashes when a webContents or parent window is destroyed while other APIs still reference it. #53288 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed crashes when certain app event handlers call back into Electron synchronously. #53276 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed document title updates when using back/forward navigation using the same document without utilizing browserWindow.setTitle(). #53023 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed region-qualified --lang values such as de-DE loading no locale resources on macOS, which left localized strings empty and could crash WebAuthn Touch ID prompts. #53186 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed spellcheck not initializing on Linux when the dictionary was already cached from a previous run. #52717 (Also in 44)
• Fixed the GPU process being terminated in AppX/MSIX packaged apps on Windows when WebGPU fell back to SwiftShader. #53197 (Also in 42, 44)
• 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(). #53156 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed the tray icon not appearing on GNOME (and disappearing entirely on Wayland) since 43.4.1. #53215
• Fixed utility process crashes at exit on Windows 11 24H2 and later. #53092 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed windows native message boxes being dismissed by other applications using invalid button ID. #53155 (Also in 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, Skia and V8. #52969
• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, V8 and WebRTC. #53190
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #53055
• 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. #52943 (Also in 42, 44)
• 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.
  • Reduced the main-thread cost of sending large values through ipcRenderer, ipcMain handlers and webContents.send. #53018 (Also in 42, 44)
• Improved application startup time on Linux by skipping GDK's OpenGL probe and loading FontConfig off the main thread during toolkit initialization. #53108 (Also in 44)
• Improved startup time of utilityProcess.fork(), child_process.fork() / ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE child processes and Node.js-enabled renderers. #53135 (Also in 42, 44)
• 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. #52881 (Also in 42, 44)
• Page resources, fetch() calls and file:// loads in renderers no longer wait for the main process to be idle when no webRequest listeners or protocol interceptors are registered. #53142 (Also in 42, 44)
• Updated Chromium to 150.0.7871.250. #52787
• Updated Node.js to v24.19.0. #52635

Release Notes for v42.11.0

Fixes

• Fixed fs.constants.O_DIRECTORY, O_NOFOLLOW and O_DIRECT holding x86 values on Linux arm64 and armv7l, which made opening a directory fail with EINVAL, and made require('trace_events') behave the same on cross-compiled builds as on native ones. #53318 (Also in 43, 44, 45)
• Fixed a crash when calling node:wasi functions in optimized code. #53267 (Also in 43, 44, 45)
• Fixed a regression where a window created with a custom title can show an empty title after using back/forward navigation. #53217 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed desktopCapturer thumbnail generation and premature portal timeout on Linux with Wayland. #51784 (Also in 43)
• Fixed region-qualified --lang values such as de-DE loading no locale resources on macOS, which left localized strings empty and could crash WebAuthn Touch ID prompts. #53187 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed the GPU process being terminated in AppX/MSIX packaged apps on Windows when WebGPU fell back to SwiftShader. #53199 (Also in 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, V8 and WebRTC. #53191
• Updated Node.js to v24.19.0. #52634

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

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@45.0.0-alpha.1.

Release Notes for v45.0.0-alpha.1

Features

• Added app.configureWebAuthn() API to enable iCloud Keychain passkey support on macOS. When enabled, navigator.credentials.create() and .get() present Apple's native passkey UI via ASAuthorizationController. #51563
• Added available to process.getSystemMemoryInfo() on Linux, exposing proc/meminfo MemAvailable. #52299 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Added disableWakeLocks option to WebPreferences. #52342
• Added getIsolatedWorlds method and isolated-world-created event for webFrame to enable discovery of isolated worlds. #50633
• Added select-client-certificate event support for net.request and net.fetch; requests to servers requesting a client certificate no longer fail with ERR_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT_NEEDED, and applications can now select a certificate to present. #52162 (Also in 44)
• Added webFrameMain.printToPDF() to allow printing individual frames to PDF from the main process. #52439 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Added a Save/Restore Window State API for cross-platform use. #51510 (Also in 44)
• Added a badge property to MenuItem on macOS 14+ for showing a count or custom text badge next to a menu item's label. #50805 (Also in 44)
• Added support for the Prompt API via the new localAIHandler module in UtilityProcess. #50659
• Added webContents.caretBrowsingEnabled for toggling caret browsing in a WebContents. #52696 (Also in 44)
• Clipboard module is now aligned with the W3C Clipboard API. #51707 (Also in 44)
• Fixed an issue where getDisplayMedia({ audio: { restrictOwnAudio: true } }) was ignored in setDisplayMediaRequestHandler, causing loopback audio to include local app playback. #52455 (Also in 43, 44)
• Frameless windows on Linux now use system-themed titlebar icons for Window Controls Overlay (WCO). #52461 (Also in 44)
• 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. #52739 (Also in 44)
• The macOS autoUpdater now streams update downloads to disk, resumes an interrupted download on the next check instead of starting over, and applies a binary delta when the update feed offers one for the running version. #52820
• fs.open, fs.createReadStream, fs.copyFile, fs.cp and friends now read files inside ASAR archives directly from the archive instead of extracting a temporary copy; fs.opendir and fs.readlink work on archives; opening a packed file for writing fails with EACCES. #52833

Fixes

• A window.open() child whose sandbox state differs from its opener's renderer process is now created in its own process with no opener relationship instead of silently sharing the opener's process; set sandbox: false in setWindowOpenHandler to keep sharing an unsandboxed opener's process. #52472
• Fixed DevTools device metrics overrides persisting indefinitely when a remote debugging client disconnected without clearing them. #52254 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed DevTools popup and context menus not appearing when DevTools is hosted in a custom window via webContents.setDevToolsWebContents(). #52205 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed WebAuthn platform passkey requests on macOS hanging until the request timeout when an operation failed, and a potential crash when selecting between Touch ID and platform passkeys. #52682
• Fixed Window Controls Overlay caption buttons not rendering on Linux. #52577 (Also in 44)
• Fixed BrowserWindow.unmaximize() and restore() having no effect on Wayland when the window was maximized immediately after creation. #53063 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed BrowserWindow size corruption on Windows when created with explicit x/y on a secondary monitor whose DPI differs from the primary. #51603 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed Dirent.parentPath being undefined for fs.readdir, fs.readdirSync, fs.glob, and fs.globSync with withFileTypes: true inside asar archives. #51845 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed Uncaught illegal access errors and renderer crashes when closing a same-process child window or removing an iframe with nodeIntegrationInSubFrames enabled, and when native modules use napi async work or thread-safe functions from such windows and frames. #52964 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed app.disableHardwareAcceleration() not fully disabling GPU hardware usage on Windows starting from Electron 38. #51817 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed dialog.showOpenDialog/dialog.showSaveDialog opening at an unusable location on Linux when defaultPath is a bare filename without a directory. #52243 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed globalShortcut not working on GNOME Wayland by enabling Chromium's GlobalShortcutsPortalPreferredTrigger feature by default on Linux. #52221 (Also in 43)
• Fixed matchMedia('(display-mode: ...)') returning browser for window-controls-overlay, frameless, and fullscreen BrowserWindows. #51396
• Fixed registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol returning readable responses to cross-origin no-cors fetches; they now return opaque responses like protocol.handle. #52822 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed select-hid-device presenting HID devices that could not be granted, which caused navigator.hid.requestDevice() to resolve with no device. #52467 (Also in 44)
• Fixed webContents.executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld resolving with undefined when worldId was not an integer. #53205 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed webContents.print() honoring printBackground, duplexMode, and printer default duplex settings. #52279 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a UAF with protocol.registerStreamProtocol when an error is emitted during a read. #52474 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a WebContentsView staying blank after its window is shown when setBackgroundThrottling(false) was called while the window was hidden. #52844 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a browser process crash that could occur during Windows logoff, shutdown, or restart. #52604 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a browser-process crash (ValidateIntegrityOrDie) and spurious preload ENOENT errors when an app's app.asar is replaced on disk (e.g. by an updater or MDM software) while the app is running. #52283 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash in systemPreferences.promptTouchID(reason) when an invalid reason value is passed. #52764 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on Linux when the D-Bus session bus disconnected while the app was running, such as at logout or when dbus is restarted. #53022 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on Windows when V8 posted a delayed worker task during shutdown. #52956 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on macOS when a WebAuthn Touch ID prompt was requested while no locale resources were loaded. #53185 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on macOS when a notification's icon could not be attached; the notification is now shown without the icon. #53131 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash report when the X server or Wayland compositor exits while an app is running. #52603 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing DevTools while the host WebContents was being destroyed. #52166 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash when accessing frame details during cross-origin navigation. #53102 (Also in 44)
• Fixed a crash when quickly switching menus while the app is under heavy load. #52598 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash when resolving a path inside a malformed ASAR archive that contains cyclic link entries. #52825 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash when showing Linux message boxes while another Linux UI implementation was active. #52238 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash with app.setLoginItemSettings if a non-UTF8 service name is used. #52773 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a graphical glitch on Linux where thin borders appeared past the drop shadows on frameless windows when multiple windows were created. #52584 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a memory leak when creating BrowserWindows. #52092 (Also in 42, 43, 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. #52856 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a possible main process crash at quit when a session was created from JavaScript that runs during shutdown. #52836 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a potential crash in contentTracing.stopRecording() when the trace file could not be written to the requested path. #52793 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a potential crash when notifying user activation before the primary main frame was live. #52215 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a potential crash when using menu.popup with a frame from an offscreen rendered window. #53242
• Fixed a rare crash in the main process when DevTools were opened and a garbage collection ran before the DevTools frontend finished loading. #52847 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a regression preventing from transparent frameless windows from being resized on Linux. #52740 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a regression where a window created with a custom title can show an empty title after using back/forward navigation. #53180 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a renderer crash when a page calls SpeechRecognition.available() or SpeechRecognition.install() with processLocally. #52955 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a renderer crash when an array with a throwing property getter is passed across contextBridge, and several main/utility-process crashes when option objects passed to Electron APIs contain throwing accessors or Proxy traps. #53069
• Fixed a window being marked hidden and background-throttled on macOS when covered by a transparent or click-through window. #52365 (Also in 42, 43, 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). #52748 (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. #52888 (Also in 41, 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. #52591 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed an issue where loading ICO files from ASAR archives on Windows left temporary icon files behind. #52424 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed an issue where pages loaded in a detached WebContentsView wouldn't see the correct window size. #53031 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed an issue where some values passed into requestSingleInstanceLock could result in a crash. #52025 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed crash in sharedTexture module when GPU context becomes unavailable. #49518 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed crash triggered by replacing an open application menu. #52248 (Also in 41, 42, 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. #52872 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed downloading files that live inside an asar archive, including saving a packed PDF from the built-in PDF viewer. #52808 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed region-qualified --lang values such as de-DE loading no locale resources on macOS, which left localized strings empty and could crash WebAuthn Touch ID prompts. #53184 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed spellcheck not initializing on Linux when the dictionary was already cached from a previous run. #52712 (Also in 44)
• Fixed the GPU process being terminated in AppX/MSIX packaged apps on Windows when WebGPU fell back to SwiftShader. #53174 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed the built-in PDF viewer not rendering documents in in-memory sessions (partitions without the persist: prefix). #52810 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• 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(). #52628 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed unnecessary autofill popup creation for fields without datalist suggestions, which could cause input latency on macOS. #52262 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed utility process crashes at exit on Windows 11 24H2 and later. #53038 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed windows native message boxes being dismissed by other applications using invalid button ID. #52812 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed windows opened by a sandboxed top-level frame not inheriting the opener's sandbox restrictions. #52841 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed webContents.print() returning "Invalid printer settings" when print options are provided. #52367 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixeed document title updates when using back/forward navigation using the same document without utilizing browserWindow.setTitle(). #52089 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Screen, window and tab capture requests are now reported to setPermissionRequestHandler as display-capture instead of media; a handler that allows only media must also allow display-capture to keep screen sharing working. #52824
• <webview> and window.open now inherit nodeIntegrationInWorker from the embedder, consistent with the other Node and sandbox preferences. #52823 (Also in 41, 42, 43, 44)

Other Changes

• 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. #52791 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• 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. #52923 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Improved application startup time on Linux by skipping GDK's OpenGL probe and loading FontConfig off the main thread during toolkit initialization. #53070 (Also in 43, 44)
• Improved startup time of utilityProcess.fork(), child_process.fork() / ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE child processes and Node.js-enabled renderers. #52873 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Improved the error message when an asar integrity check fails to name the entry that failed. #52600 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• 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. #52874 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Page resources, fetch() calls and file:// loads in renderers no longer wait for the main process to be idle when no webRequest listeners or protocol interceptors are registered. #53115 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Reduced idle main-process CPU wakeups caused by Node.js timers and immediates. #52862 (Also in 43, 44)
• Reduced the macOS distribution size by shipping only the locale strings that Electron can actually use. #52290
• Renderer network requests no longer waited on the main process when the session's webRequest listeners only observe requests (onCompleted, onErrorOccurred, onSendHeaders, onBeforeRedirect, onResponseStarted) or are filtered to other resource types. #53204 (Also in 44)
• The first sandboxed BrowserWindow now starts in a renderer process launched ahead of time when the default session already exists, shortening the time from window creation to the page's first script; apps that open many windows can keep a spare renderer warm at all times with --enable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess. #53116 (Also in 44)
• The non-functional dummy libEGL.so and libGLESv2.so files are no longer included in the Linux distribution, now that ANGLE is statically linked. #52226 (Also in 44)
• Updated Chromium to 154.0.8025.0. #53206
• Updated Node.js to v24.19.0. #52638

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #52337, #52429, #53170, #53202

Unknown

• None (reverts an unreleased change). #52323
• Removed 32-bit builds (Windows ia32 and Linux armv7l). Electron is now published only for 64-bit (x64 and arm64) platforms. #51816 (Also in 44)
• Removed openAsHidden option from app.setLoginItemSettings().
  • Removed openAsHidden, wasOpenedAsHidden and restoreState fields from return value of app.getLoginItemSettings().
  • Fixed potential deadlock inside app.getLoginItemSettings() on macOS. #52351 (Also in 44)

Release Notes for v42.10.1

Fixes

• Fixed webContents.print() honoring printBackground, duplexMode, and printer default duplex settings. #53158 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on macOS when a notification's icon could not be attached; the notification is now shown without the icon. #53148 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed an issue where pages loaded in a detached WebContentsView wouldn't see the correct window size. #53151 (Also in 43, 44)
• 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(). #53157 (Also in 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, Skia and V8. #52970
• Page resources, fetch() calls and file:// loads in renderers no longer wait for the main process to be idle when no webRequest listeners or protocol interceptors are registered. #53143 (Also in 43, 44)

Release Notes for v44.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 152.0.7977.54
  • New in 152
  • New in 151
• Node v24.18.1
  • Node 24.18.1 blog post
  • Node 24.18.0 blog post
• V8 15.2

Breaking Changes

• Removed support for the Unity desktop environment on Linux. #51649
• Added select-client-certificate event support for net.request and net.fetch; requests to servers requesting a client certificate no longer fail with ERR_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT_NEEDED, and applications can now select a certificate to present. #52397
• macOS 12 (Monterey) is no longer supported by Chromium. Older versions of Electron will continue to run on Monterey, but macOS 13 (Ventura) or later will be required to run Electron v44.0.0 and higher. #51967
• ANGLE is now statically linked into the Electron binary on all platforms, matching upstream Chromium. The libEGL.(so|dylib|dll) and libGLESv2.(so|dylib|dll) libraries are no longer shipped in the distribution. #52288
• net.request now rejects requests where Sec-Fetch-Dest is document, frame, iframe, or fencedframe unless Sec-Fetch-Mode is also set to navigate. #52216
• Removed 32-bit builds (Windows ia32 and Linux armv7l). Electron is now published only for 64-bit (x64 and arm64) platforms. #52326
• The clipboard module is now aligned with the W3C Clipboard API and is no longer exposed to renderer processes. #52508
• Removed the openAsHidden option from app.setLoginItemSettings() and the openAsHidden, wasOpenedAsHidden and restoreState fields from the return value of app.getLoginItemSettings(). These only worked on macOS 12 and below, which are no longer supported. #52667

See the Breaking Changes doc for more details about these changes.

Features

• Added Notification.remove(), removeAll(), and removeGroup() static methods for macOS. #51182 (Also in 42, 43)
• Added available to process.getSystemMemoryInfo() on Linux, exposing proc/meminfo MemAvailable. #52380 (Also in 42, 43)
• Added net.WebSocket, a WHATWG-compatible WebSocket client for the main process that routes through Chromium's network stack. #51593 (Also in 42, 43)
• Added webContents.setZoomMode(mode), webContents.getZoomMode(), and webContents.zoomMode for per-WebContents zoom control. #49962
• Added webFrameMain.printToPDF() to allow printing individual frames to PDF from the main process. #52625 (Also in 42, 43)
• Added a Save/Restore Window State API for cross-platform use. #52270
• Added a badge property to MenuItem on macOS 14+ for showing a count or custom text badge next to a menu item's label. #53046
• Added support for win.setOpacity(opacity) on Linux. #51455
• Added webContents.caretBrowsingEnabled for toggling caret browsing in a WebContents. #53035
• Frameless windows on Linux now use system-themed titlebar icons for Window Controls Overlay (WCO). #52531
• Frameless windows on Linux now have rounded corners by default, just like on macOS and Windows. Rounded corners can be disabled on all platforms by setting roundedCorners: false on the window. #51459 (Also in 43)
• 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

• If a nativeImage was passed an image with a color profile, its pixel values will now be normalized to SRGB. This ensures that two visually identical images after color space application will receive similar pixel values when converted to a nativeImage. #48178 (Also in 43)
• Fixed DevTools Network panel missing most requests after navigating when webContents.debugger is attached. #51959 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed DevTools device metrics overrides persisting indefinitely when a remote debugging client disconnected without clearing them. #52930 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed DevTools popup and context menus not appearing when DevTools is hosted in a custom window via webContents.setDevToolsWebContents(). #52434 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed Window Controls Overlay caption buttons not rendering on Linux. #52580
• Fixed Windows edge case in NativeWindowViews::MoveBehindTaskBarIfNeeded(). #52000 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed BrowserWindow.unmaximize() and restore() having no effect on Wayland when the window was maximized immediately after creation. #53124 (Also in 42)
• Fixed BrowserWindow size corruption on Windows when created with explicit x/y on a secondary monitor whose DPI differs from the primary. #52499 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed Dirent.parentPath being undefined for fs.readdir, fs.readdirSync, fs.glob, and fs.globSync with withFileTypes: true inside asar archives. #52507 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed ProtocolResponse.url requests being made through the default session instead of the session the protocol handler was registered on when ProtocolResponse.session was not set. #52113 (Also in 40, 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed Uncaught illegal access errors and possible renderer crashes after closing a same-process child window or removing an iframe with nodeIntegrationInSubFrames enabled. #53040 (Also in 42)
• Fixed app.disableHardwareAcceleration() not fully disabling GPU hardware usage on Windows starting from Electron 38. #52370 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed dialog.showOpenDialog and dialog.showSaveDialog opening at an unusable location on Linux when defaultPath is a bare filename without a directory. #52402 (Also in 42, 43)
• 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 select-hid-device presenting HID devices that could not be granted, which caused navigator.hid.requestDevice() to resolve with no device. #52497
• Fixed a use-after-free crash with protocol.registerStreamProtocol when an error is emitted during a read. #52515 (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 browser process crash that could occur during Windows logoff, shutdown, or restart. #52619 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a browser process crash when calling webContents.reload() or navigating synchronously from the render-process-gone event; the event is now emitted after the renderer's teardown notification has completed. #51900 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed a browser-process crash (ValidateIntegrityOrDie) and spurious preload ENOENT errors when an app's app.asar is replaced on disk (e.g., by an updater or MDM software) while the app is running. #52292 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a bug on Linux where a 1px line appeared at the top of a frameless window if the window and web contents had different background colors. #51458 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash in systemPreferences.promptTouchID(reason) when an invalid reason value is passed. #52781 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash in the macOS Touch ID WebAuthn prompt caused by a missing string resource, and added touchID.promptReason to app.configureWebAuthn() to customize the prompt text. #51592 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash on Linux when the D-Bus session bus disconnected while the app was running, such as at logout or when dbus is restarted. #53096 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash on MacOS when a user clicked into a title bar or top view. #51586 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash report when the X server or Wayland compositor exits while an app is running. #52684 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing DevTools while the host WebContents was being destroyed. #52509 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash when accessing frame details during cross-origin navigation. #53109
• Fixed a crash when quickly switching menus while the app is under heavy load. #52672 (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 when showing Linux message boxes while another Linux UI implementation was active. #52409 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash with app.setLoginItemSettings if a non-UTF8 service name is used. #52801 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a graphical glitch on Linux where thin borders appeared past the drop shadows on frameless windows when multiple windows were created. #52606 (Also in 42, 43)
• 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 42, 43)
• Fixed a possible main process crash at quit when a session was created from JavaScript running during shutdown. #52924 (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)
• Fixed a potential crash when notifying user activation before the primary main frame was live. #52698 (Also in 42, 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 42, 43)
• Fixed a regression preventing transparent frameless windows from being resized on Linux. #52891 (Also in 43)
• Fixed a renderer crash when a page calls SpeechRecognition.available() or SpeechRecognition.install() with processLocally. #53021 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a renderer crash when calling WebAssembly.compileStreaming() or WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming() with nodeIntegration enabled. #51953 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed a window being marked hidden and background-throttled on macOS when covered by a transparent or click-through window. #52391 (Also in 42, 43)
• 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 Linux and Windows where frameless windows would shrink when calling win.center(). Additionally, fixed an issue where frameless windows would appear slightly off-center on Windows. #51732 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue on Linux where the system theme color appeared at the top edge of frameless windows. #52062 (Also in 41, 42, 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 an issue where process and other Node globals were undefined in ESM preload scripts when contextIsolation was disabled. #51693 (Also in 42, 43)
• 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. #52724 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue where clicking the maximize button could progressively shrink the window in some Wayland environments. #52012 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue where frameless windows windows could shrink after applying constraints or toggling resizability on Windows. #51562 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue where loading ICO files from ASAR archives on Windows left temporary icon files behind. #52477 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue where some values passed into requestSingleInstanceLock could result in a crash. #52470 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue where the "Toggle Developer Tools" menu item failed to function correctly with BaseWindow. #49356 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash when calling close() on a notification within a close event on macOS. #51597 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash in the sharedTexture module when GPU context becomes unavailable. #52926 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash triggered by replacing an open application menu. #52277 (Also in 41, 42, 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 desktopCapturer thumbnail generation and premature portal timeout on Linux with Wayland. #51674 (Also in 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 native addon compilation failure with undefined MSVC intrinsic from v8 headers. #51695 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed running under tsx import transpilation. #51947 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed sandboxed preload scripts running a stale cached version after the script was modified without its file size changing. #51930 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed spellcheck not initializing on Linux when the dictionary was already cached from a previous run. #52716
• Fixed the Linux system accent color intermittently not being applied (systemPreferences.getAccentColor() returning an empty string on some launches). #52574
• Fixed the built-in PDF viewer not rendering documents in in-memory sessions (partitions without the persist: prefix). #52834 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed the context menu in a detached DevTools window focusing the inspected page's window instead of the DevTools window. #51805 (Also in 41, 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
• Fixed titleBarOverlay.color set to rgba(0,0,0,0) failing back to default frame color. #51017 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed unnecessary autofill popup creation for fields without datalist suggestions, which could cause input latency on macOS. #52318 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed utility process crashes at exit on Windows 11 24H2 and later. #53093 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed windows opened by a sandboxed top-level frame not inheriting the opener's sandbox restrictions. #52851 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed webContents.print() returning "Invalid printer settings" when print options are provided. #52382 (Also in 43)
• Fixeed document title updates when using back/forward navigation using the same document without utilizing browserWindow.setTitle(). #52968 (Also in 42, 43)
• Improved external resize band positioning and scaling for frameless windows on Windows. #51503 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Made "reload" menu items work with BaseWindow. #51985 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Windows opened from links inside a sandboxed iframe now inherit the iframe's sandbox restrictions unless allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox is set. #52133 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue where getDisplayMedia({ audio: { restrictOwnAudio: true } }) was ignored in setDisplayMediaRequestHandler, causing loopback audio to include local app playback. #52534 (Also in 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)
• Fixed potential deadlock inside app.getLoginItemSettings() on macOS. #52667
• 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 1-in-200 chance per renderer process on Windows of scripts on the first page load being compiled without their V8 code cache. #52792 (Also in 42, 43)
• On Linux, fixed runtime toggling of shadows for frameless windows and added support for system-configured button layouts in Window Controls Overlay on Linux. #51161 (Also in 43)
• Fixed silent data truncation in Buffer/TextEncoder APIs and a crash in fs.writeFileSync with non-ASCII strings on Apple Silicon. #51848 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Improved the error message when an asar integrity check fails to name the entry that failed. #52624 (Also in 42, 43)

Performance Improvements

• Enabled ThinLTO on macOS builds. #51669 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Made various performance improvements related to initialization and IPC. #53017 (Also in 42, 43)
• Improved app startup time by booting the main process from an embedded Node.js startup snapshot. #51703 (Also in 42, 43)
• Improved application startup time on Linux by skipping GDK's OpenGL probe and loading FontConfig off the main thread during toolkit initialization. #53107 (Also in 43)
• Improved performance of Linux and Windows release builds by enabling ThinLTO link-time optimization for the main Electron binary. #51809 (Also in 42, 43)
• Improved performance of webRequest header conversions and several other gin converter hot paths. #51599 (Also in 42, 43)
• Improved performance of native event emission, IPC dispatch, and option-dictionary parsing. #51596 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Improved runtime performance by consuming Electron-generated PGO profiles instead of Chrome's published ones. #51815 (Also in 42, 43)
• Improved sandboxed renderer startup performance — preload scripts and process info are now pushed ahead of navigation instead of fetched via blocking IPC, and preload compilation results are cached on disk. Preload stack traces now show the correct file path and line number. #51602 (Also in 42, 43)
• Improved startup time of utilityProcess.fork(), child_process.fork() / ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE child processes and Node.js-enabled renderers. #53134 (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)
• Reduced idle main-process CPU wakeups caused by Node.js timers and immediates. #52906 (Also in 43)
• Reduced sandboxed renderer cold-start time (DidClearWindowObject) by ~35% by deserializing a build-time V8 code cache for Electron's framework bundles instead of parsing and compiling them from source on every launch. #51697 (Also in 42, 43)
• Reduced the Linux distribution size by ~37 MB by only shipping locale strings and resources that Electron can actually use. #51804
• Removed showHiddenFiles support from the dialog API on Linux. #51704 (Also in 43)
• The first sandboxed BrowserWindow now starts in a renderer process launched ahead of time when the default session already exists, shortening the time from window creation to the page's first script; apps that open many windows can keep a spare renderer warm at all times with --enable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess. #53144
• The non-functional dummy libEGL.so and libGLESv2.so files are no longer included in the Linux distribution, now that ANGLE is statically linked. #52227

Other Changes

• Updated the Squirrel.Mac autoUpdater backend on macOS to pick up upstream fixes, including correct version-string validation when downgrade prevention is enabled, fixes for stale launcher errors persisting across update checks, and forwarding of custom download request headers. #51584
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #52774
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium. #52701

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #50560, #51426, #51559, #52538, #52539

Release Notes for v41.10.7

[!WARNING] Electron 41.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.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue on Linux where the system theme color appeared at the top edge of frameless windows. #53006 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed running under tsx import transpilation. #53003 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed shutdown crash on windows when power monitor notifications were subscribed. #52999 (Also in 42)
• Fixed the context menu in a detached DevTools window focusing the inspected page's window instead of the DevTools window. #53002 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed titleBarOverlay.color set to rgba(0,0,0,0) failing back to default frame color. #53004 (Also in 42, 43)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, Skia and V8. #52997
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #53059

Release Notes for v42.10.0

Features

• Fixed contentTracing module to capture Node.js trace categories. #52973

Fixes

• Fixed DevTools device metrics overrides persisting indefinitely when a remote debugging client disconnected without clearing them. #53133 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed DevTools popup and context menus not appearing when DevTools is hosted in a custom window via webContents.setDevToolsWebContents(). #52981 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed BrowserWindow.unmaximize() and restore() having no effect on Wayland when the window was maximized immediately after creation. #53126 (Also in 44)
• Fixed Uncaught illegal access errors and possible renderer crashes after closing a same-process child window or removing an iframe with nodeIntegrationInSubFrames enabled. #53042 (Also in 44)
• Fixed dialog.showOpenDialog/dialog.showSaveDialog opening at an unusable location on Linux when defaultPath is a bare filename without a directory. #52980 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on Linux when the D-Bus session bus disconnected while the app was running, such as at logout or when dbus is restarted. #53094 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash on Windows when V8 posted a delayed worker task during shutdown. #53014 (Also in 43)
• Fixed a crash with app.setLoginItemSettings if a non-UTF8 service name is used. #52989 (Also in 43, 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. #52992 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a possible main process crash at quit when a session was created from JavaScript that runs during shutdown. #53132 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a rare crash in the main process when DevTools were opened and a garbage collection ran before the DevTools frontend finished loading. #52994 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a renderer crash when a page calls SpeechRecognition.available() or SpeechRecognition.install() with processLocally. #53016 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed an issue on Linux where the system theme color appeared at the top edge of frameless windows. #52978 (Also in 41, 43)
• Fixed an issue where some values passed into requestSingleInstanceLock could result in a crash. #52982 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed crash in sharedTexture module when GPU context becomes unavailable. #52983 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed document title updates when using back/forward navigation using the same document without utilizing browserWindow.setTitle(). #53099 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed the built-in PDF viewer not rendering documents in in-memory sessions (partitions without the persist: prefix). #52990 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed titleBarOverlay.color set to rgba(0,0,0,0) failing back to default frame color. #52976 (Also in 41, 43)
• Fixed utility process crashes at exit on Windows 11 24H2 and later. #53091 (Also in 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #53060
• 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. #52988 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a Windows x64 renderer performance regression introduced in 42.8.1 that made style/layout work (and app startup) noticeably slower. #53064
• 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.
  • Reduced the main-thread cost of sending large values through ipcRenderer, ipcMain handlers and webContents.send. #53019 (Also in 43, 44)
• Improved startup time of utilityProcess.fork(), child_process.fork() / ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE child processes and Node.js-enabled renderers. #53136 (Also in 43, 44)
• 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. #52880 (Also in 43, 44)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Release Notes for v41.10.5

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Squirrel.Mac installer could resolve the target bundle path to different locations at different stages of an install. #50764 (Also in 39, 42)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. #52702
• No user-facing change; semver/none. #52734

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.3.

Release Notes for v44.0.0-beta.3

Fixes

• 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. #52724 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed spellcheck not initializing on Linux when the dictionary was already cached from a previous run. #52716

Other Changes

• No user-facing change; semver/none. #52731

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.2.

Release Notes for v44.0.0-beta.2

Fixes

• Fixed a crash report when the X server or Wayland compositor exits while an app is running. #52684 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash when quickly switching menus while the app is under heavy load. #52672 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed a potential crash when notifying user activation before the primary main frame was live. #52698 (Also in 42, 43)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 152.0.7977.30. #52637

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.1.

Release Notes for v44.0.0-beta.1

Features

• Added webFrameMain.printToPDF() to allow printing individual frames to PDF from the main process. #52625 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue where getDisplayMedia({ audio: { restrictOwnAudio: true } }) was ignored in setDisplayMediaRequestHandler, causing loopback audio to include local app playback. #52534 (Also in 43)

Fixes

• Fixed a browser process crash that could occur during Windows logoff, shutdown, or restart. #52619 (Also in 42)
• Fixed the Linux system accent color intermittently not being applied (systemPreferences.getAccentColor() returning an empty string on some launches). #52574

Other Changes

• Improved the error message when an asar integrity check fails to name the entry that failed. #52624 (Also in 42, 43)

Unknown

• Removed openAsHidden option from app.setLoginItemSettings().
  • Removed openAsHidden, wasOpenedAsHidden and restoreState fields from return value of app.getLoginItemSettings().
  • Fixed potential deadlock inside app.getLoginItemSettings() on macOS. #52667

Release Notes for v43.3.0

Features

• Added available to process.getSystemMemoryInfo() on Linux, exposing proc/meminfo MemAvailable. #52379 (Also in 42, 44)

Fixes

• Fixed BrowserWindow size corruption on Windows when created with explicit x/y on a secondary monitor whose DPI differs from the primary. #52501 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed Dirent.parentPath being undefined for fs.readdir, fs.readdirSync, fs.glob, and fs.globSync with withFileTypes: true inside asar archives. #52505 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed dialog.showOpenDialog/dialog.showSaveDialog opening at an unusable location on Linux when defaultPath is a bare filename without a directory. #52401 (Also in 44)
• Fixed a UAF with protocol.registerStreamProtocol when an error is emitted during a read. #52514 (Also in 41, 42, 44)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing DevTools while the host WebContents was being destroyed. #52510 (Also in 41, 42, 44)
• Fixed a graphical glitch on Linux where thin borders appeared past the drop shadows on frameless windows when multiple windows were created. #52607 (Also in 44)
• Fixed an issue where loading ICO files from ASAR archives on Windows left temporary icon files behind. #52478 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed an issue where some values passed into requestSingleInstanceLock could result in a crash. #52471 (Also in 44)

Other Changes

• Fixed bindings for MV3 service workers. #52503
• Improved the error message when an asar integrity check fails to name the entry that failed. #52622 (Also in 42, 44)
• Updated Chromium to 150.0.7871.212. #52524
• Updated Node.js to v24.18.1. #52552

Release Notes for v42.8.1

Fixes

• Fixed BrowserWindow size corruption on Windows when created with explicit x/y on a secondary monitor whose DPI differs from the primary. #52500 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed Dirent.parentPath being undefined for fs.readdir, fs.readdirSync, fs.glob, and fs.globSync with withFileTypes: true inside asar archives. #52506 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed a UAF with protocol.registerStreamProtocol when an error is emitted during a read. #52516 (Also in 41, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing DevTools while the host WebContents was being destroyed. #52511 (Also in 41, 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Fixed a renderer crash when disabling device emulation while the main frame was not local. #52601
• Improved the error message when an asar integrity check fails to name the entry that failed. #52623 (Also in 43, 44)
• Updated Node.js to v24.18.1. #52551

Release Notes for v41.10.4

Fixes

• Fixed a UAF with protocol.registerStreamProtocol when an error is emitted during a read. #52513 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing DevTools while the host WebContents was being destroyed. #52512 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Windows opened from links inside a sandboxed iframe now inherit the iframe's sandbox restrictions unless allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox is set. #52486 (Also in 42, 43)

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

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@44.0.0-alpha.9.

Release Notes for v44.0.0-alpha.9

Fixes

• Fixed Window Controls Overlay caption buttons not rendering on Linux. #52580
• Fixed a graphical glitch on Linux where thin borders appeared past the drop shadows on frameless windows when multiple windows were created. #52606 (Also in 43)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 152.0.7977.8. #52573
• Updated Node.js to v24.18.1. #52553

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

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@44.0.0-alpha.8.

Release Notes for v44.0.0-alpha.8

Features

• Clipboard module is now aligned with the W3C Clipboard API. #52508
• Frameless windows on Linux now use system-themed titlebar icons for Window Controls Overlay (WCO). #52531

Fixes

• Fixed BrowserWindow size corruption on Windows when created with explicit x/y on a secondary monitor whose DPI differs from the primary. #52499 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed Dirent.parentPath being undefined for fs.readdir, fs.readdirSync, fs.glob, and fs.globSync with withFileTypes: true inside asar archives. #52507 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed select-hid-device presenting HID devices that could not be granted, which caused navigator.hid.requestDevice() to resolve with no device. #52497
• Fixed a UAF with protocol.registerStreamProtocol when an error is emitted during a read. #52515 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing DevTools while the host WebContents was being destroyed. #52509 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue where loading ICO files from ASAR archives on Windows left temporary icon files behind. #52477 (Also in 42, 43)
• Fixed an issue where some values passed into requestSingleInstanceLock could result in a crash. #52470 (Also in 43)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 152.0.7977.0. #52541

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #52538, #52539

Release Notes for v42.8.0

Features

• Added available to process.getSystemMemoryInfo() on Linux, exposing proc/meminfo MemAvailable. #52378 (Also in 43, 44)

Fixes

• Fixed a window being marked hidden and background-throttled on macOS when covered by a transparent or click-through window. #52390 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed an issue where loading ICO files from ASAR archives on Windows left temporary icon files behind. #52479 (Also in 43, 44)

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

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@44.0.0-alpha.7.

Release Notes for v44.0.0-alpha.7

Features

• Added available to process.getSystemMemoryInfo() on Linux, exposing proc/meminfo MemAvailable. #52380 (Also in 42, 43)

Fixes

• Fixed DevTools popup and context menus not appearing when DevTools is hosted in a custom window via webContents.setDevToolsWebContents(). #52434

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 152.0.7969.0. #52464

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

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

Release Notes for v44.0.0-alpha.6

Features

• Added select-client-certificate event support for net.request and net.fetch; requests to servers requesting a client certificate no longer fail with ERR_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT_NEEDED, and applications can now select a certificate to present. #52397

Fixes

• Fixed dialog.showOpenDialog/dialog.showSaveDialog opening at an unusable location on Linux when defaultPath is a bare filename without a directory. #52402 (Also in 43)
• Fixed a crash when showing Linux message boxes while another Linux UI implementation was active. #52409 (Also in 42, 43)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 152.0.7954.0. #52322

Release Notes for v43.2.0

Features

• Added net.WebSocket, a WHATWG-compatible WebSocket client for the main process that routes through Chromium's network stack. #52344 (Also in 42)

Fixes

• Fixed app.disableHardwareAcceleration() not fully disabling GPU hardware usage on Windows starting from Electron 38. #52369 (Also in 41, 42, 44)
• Fixed globalShortcut not working on GNOME Wayland by enabling Chromium's GlobalShortcutsPortalPreferredTrigger feature by default on Linux. #52228
• Fixed a crash when showing Linux message boxes while another Linux UI implementation was active. #52410 (Also in 42, 44)
• Fixed a window being marked hidden and background-throttled on macOS when covered by a transparent or click-through window. #52389 (Also in 44)
• Fixed unnecessary autofill popup creation for fields without datalist suggestions, which could cause input latency on macOS. #52321 (Also in 41, 42, 44)
• Fixed webContents.print() returning "Invalid printer settings" when print options are provided. #52381 (Also in 44)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 150.0.7871.129. #52355

Release Notes for v42.7.1

Fixes

• Fixed app.disableHardwareAcceleration() not fully disabling GPU hardware usage on Windows starting from Electron 38. #52371 (Also in 41, 43, 44)
• Fixed a crash when showing Linux message boxes while another Linux UI implementation was active. #52408 (Also in 43, 44)
• Fixed an issue where frameless windows could shrink after applying constraints or toggling resizability on Windows. #52366 (Also in 43)
• Fixed crash during maglev compilation. #52311
• Fixed remote debugging via --remote-debugging-port not working when inspecting from Chrome's chrome://inspect page. The DevTools page would appear empty due to the frontend URL pointing to a CDN that returned 404 for Electron's Chromium builds. #51415 (Also in 41)
• Fixed unnecessary autofill popup creation for fields without datalist suggestions, which could cause input latency on macOS. #52319 (Also in 41, 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #52395

Release Notes for v41.10.3

Fixes

• Fixed app.disableHardwareAcceleration() not fully disabling GPU hardware usage on Windows starting from Electron 38. #52368 (Also in 42, 43, 44)
• Fixed unnecessary autofill popup creation for fields without datalist suggestions, which could cause input latency on macOS. #52320 (Also in 42, 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #52396

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

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

Release Notes for v44.0.0-alpha.5

Fixes

• Fixed app.disableHardwareAcceleration() not fully disabling GPU hardware usage on Windows starting from Electron 38. #52370 (Also in 41, 42, 43)
• Fixed a window being marked hidden and background-throttled on macOS when covered by a transparent or click-through window. #52391 (Also in 43)
• Fixed webContents.print() returning "Invalid printer settings" when print options are provided. #52382 (Also in 43)

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

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

Release Notes for v44.0.0-alpha.4

Features

• Added a Save/Restore Window State API for cross-platform use. #52270

Fixes

• Fixed unnecessary autofill popup creation for fields without datalist suggestions, which could cause input latency on macOS. #52318 (Also in 41, 42, 43)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 152.0.7938.0. #52312

Unknown

• Removed 32-bit builds (Windows ia32 and Linux armv7l). Electron is now published only for 64-bit (x64 and arm64) platforms. #52326

Release Notes for v43.1.1

Fixes

• Fixed a browser-process crash (ValidateIntegrityOrDie) and spurious preload ENOENT errors when an app's app.asar is replaced on disk (e.g. by an updater or MDM software) while the app is running. #52293 (Also in 42, 44)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 150.0.7871.114. #52297