Comparing v42.8.1 -> v42.9.3 | Electron Releases

42.9.3
- 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)}
42.9.2
- 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)}
42.9.1
- 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)}
42.9.0
- 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

42.9.3
- Backported fix for 524628213. #52869
- Reduced idle main-process CPU wakeups caused by Node.js timers and immediates. #52907 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}
42.9.2
- Backported fixes for 542224257, 542025190. #52843
42.9.1
- 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
42.9.0
- Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium and V8. #52664
- No user-facing change; semver/none. #52733