Electron Releases

Fixed link-opened windows not using the opener's session and webPreferences. #55049 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Fixed setCertificateVerifyProc occasionally not being applied to a request issued concurrently with the first request to a host. #55047 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Fixed a crash on Linux at startup or on theme change with GTK modules loaded. #55016

Fixed a crash when creating a framed window on Wayland in environments where GTK could not initialize. #54893 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed a Linux crash creating a window with a menu bar when GTK failed to load. #54884 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed an issue where clicks posted to a background app were dropped on macOS. #54905 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Fixed net.fetch and session.fetch failing permanently with net::ERR_FAILED after the Network Service process restarts. #54908 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Fixed utilityProcess dropping messages posted with process.parentPort.postMessage() right before the process exits. #54962 ^{(Also in 42, 45)}

Fixed a crash when starting without an available display server on Linux. #54795 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed a renderer crash when a ResizeObserver loop-limit error handler modified layout. #54611 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Fixed a crash on launch on macOS when the system refused to register the app for sleep/wake notifications. #54597

Fixed webview.findInPage() hanging when the host page also has an iframe. #54584 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Updated time zone data to tzdata 2026d, including British Columbia's move to permanent UTC-7. #54622

Fixed --xdg-portal-required-version having no effect and a spurious portal warning being logged for file dialogs on Linux. #54304 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed a child WebContentsView losing focus when its window is reactivated. #54456 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed a crash when a WebAuthn request used a security key that required its PIN. #54404 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed a crash when sending a DevTools protocol command with a non-string value for an optional string parameter via webContents.debugger. #54443 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed a grey border around frameless windows on Linux WMs without compositing. #54390 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed a main process crash when a native API method was called with a this value of a different native type; it now throws a TypeError. #54316 ^{(Also in 44)}

Fixed a possible crash during process exit when vm.Script or vm contexts created in the main process had been garbage collected shortly before quitting. #54268 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed a possible renderer crash in 32-bit Windows and Linux ARM builds caused by under-aligned Blink heap vector allocations. #54259

Fixed a renderer crash calling image.toPNG() from a sandboxed preload script. #54503 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed clipboard.read(), readText() and has() resolving seconds late on Linux while the app was idle. #54309 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Fixed desktopCapturer.getSources() leaving non-resizable windows resizable on macOS. #54396 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed fs.rmSync failing to remove read-only files on Windows. #54256 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Fixed GDK_BACKEND leaking into processes spawned by Electron apps on Linux. #54426 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed pointerLock permission requests from some iframes reporting the parent frame. #54465 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Fixed setIgnoreMouseEvents() taking effect late on X11. #54498 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed setIgnoreMouseEvents(true) being undone by the next resize on X11. #54423 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

• Added setIgnoreMouseEvents support on Wayland.

Fixed the default action label on Linux notifications not being localized. #54400 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed the GPU process crash-looping on Windows when the sandbox cannot read the install folder; the folder is now reported instead. #54485 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed the zoom level resetting on file: and other host-less pages after a location.hash change. #54440 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed typing not working after closing an alert() or confirm() on Windows. #54462 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed utilityProcess dropping stdout/stderr output that the child wrote immediately before exiting. #54279 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Fixed visual zoom limits resetting on navigation and not applying to webviews. #54450 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed WebAssembly exception handlers failing to catch, or crashing during tier-up, in modules using wasm exceptions. #54235

Fixed WebAssembly modules loaded from the code cache crashing or throwing RuntimeError: unreachable after updating between certain patch releases. #54238 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Fixed win.setEnabled(false) and modal child windows not blocking input on Wayland. #54446 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

Fixed zoom in/out getting stuck after zooming past the 25%-500% range. #54422 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}

• Fixed setVisualZoomLevelLimits() shrinking pages when the minimum is under 1.

Documentation changes: #54881

Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #55032

Updated Node.js to v24.22.0. #55003

Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, PDFium and V8. #54899

Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, fontconfig, Skia, V8 and WebRTC. #54667

Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia, V8 and WebRTC. #54658

Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn and V8. #54569