# Electron v44.2.0 — electron v44.2.0

- Product: Electron (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/electron)
- Vendor: OpenJS Foundation
- Date: 2026-09-04
- Version: v44.2.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v44.2.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/electron/releases/v44.2.0
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

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- **fixed** — Fixed a pending read on a net.request chunked upload stream inside a protocol handler never settling when the request failed or was aborted
- **fixed** — Fixed a potential crash when using menu.popup with a frame from an offscreen rendered window
- **fixed** — Fixed an intermittent crash on Windows when an ASAR integrity violation is detected, so the process now exits with code 1 as intended
- **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
- **changed** — Improved throughput of responses that protocol.handle handlers return straight from net.fetch

#### 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](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53373) <sup>(Also in [43](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53374), [45](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53368))</sup>
* Fixed a potential crash when using `menu.popup` with a frame from an offscreen rendered window. [#53362](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53362) <sup>(Also in [43](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53432))</sup>
* 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](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53455) <sup>(Also in [43](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53456), [45](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53438))</sup>
* Fixed application crash after a large number of IPC messages from renderers. [#53417](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53417) <sup>(Also in [42](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53419), [43](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53420), [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. [#53392](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53392) <sup>(Also in [42](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53394), [43](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53393), [45](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53391))</sup>
##### Other Changes

* Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. [#53479](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53479) 
* Improved throughput of responses that `protocol.handle` handlers return straight from `net.fetch`. [#53378](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53378) 
* Updated Chromium to 152.0.7977.76. [#53382](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53382) 
* Updated Node.js to v24.20.0. [#53250](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53250)