# Electron v42.11.2 — electron v42.11.2

- Product: Electron (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/electron)
- Vendor: OpenJS Foundation
- Date: 2026-09-04
- Version: v42.11.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v42.11.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/electron/releases/v42.11.2
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

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- **fixed** — Fixed application crash after a large number of IPC messages from renderers
- **fixed** — Fixed native addons deriving from node::ObjectWrap aborting during garbage collection on Node.js 24.19.0 and later

#### Release Notes for v42.11.2

##### Fixes

* Fixed application crash after a large number of IPC messages from renderers. [#53419](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53419) <sup>(Also in [43](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53420), [44](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53417), [45](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53418))</sup>
* Fixed native addons deriving from `node::ObjectWrap` aborting during garbage collection on Node.js 24.19.0 and later. [#53394](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53394) <sup>(Also in [43](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53393), [44](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53392), [45](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53391))</sup>
##### Other Changes

* Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. [#53480](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53480) 
* Backported fixes from upstream Chromium, Dawn, Skia and V8. [#53397](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53397) 
* Backported fixes from upstream Chromium, V8, ANGLE, Dawn, Skia, WebRTC and DevTools. [#53367](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53367)