Electron Releases

Added app shims on macOS to show windows under another app's Dock icon. #55073 ^{(Also in 45)}

Added support for Notification action buttons on Linux. #54890 ^{(Also in 45)}

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. #54204

Added the experimental protocol.registerSource() to serve a custom scheme from directories on disk without a JavaScript handler. #54522 ^{(Also in 45)}

Added launch-failure reporting with systemErrorCode to the app child-process-gone event. #54231 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed link-opened windows not using the opener's session and webPreferences. #55048 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}

Fixed setCertificateVerifyProc occasionally not being applied to a request issued concurrently with the first request to a host. #55046 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}

Fixed mouse cursor missing over native dialogs in certain scenarios on Windows. #54987

Fixed net.fetch and session.fetch failing permanently with net::ERR_FAILED after the Network Service process restarts. #54909 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}

Fixed utilityProcess dropping messages posted with process.parentPort.postMessage() right before the process exits. #54960 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}

Fixed win.isFullScreen() being stale in fullscreen events on Windows. #55009 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed an issue where clicks posted to a background app were dropped on macOS. #54819 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed interrupted macOS updates leaving a broken app behind. #54844 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed a crash when starting without an available display server on Linux. #54794 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed a Linux crash creating a window with a menu bar when GTK failed to load. #54859 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed a WebContentsView that was removed with removeChildView() and re-added with addChildView() staying hidden behind its sibling views on Linux. #54798

Fixed asar archives in non-ASCII folders failing to load on Linux. #54849 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed renderer crashes during garbage collection inside ShadowRealms. #54865 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed an uncatchable TypeError in net.fetch when receiving response headers with non-ASCII characters, and preserved multiple Set-Cookie headers. #54672

Fixed a crash on launch on macOS when the system refused to register the app for sleep/wake notifications. #54596

Fixed a crash on navigator.usb.requestDevice() in in-memory sessions. #54616 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed webview.findInPage() hanging when the host page also has an iframe. #54586 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Updated time zone data to tzdata 2026d, including British Columbia's move to permanent UTC-7. #54623

Changed the default trash implementation on KDE Plasma 6 to kioclient. #54361 ^{(Also in 45)}

DevTools zoom in/out now uses the same zoom steps as Chromium. #54387 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed --xdg-portal-required-version having no effect and a spurious portal warning being logged for file dialogs on Linux. #54303 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed a child WebContentsView losing focus when its window is reactivated. #54455 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed a crash when a WebAuthn request used a security key that required its PIN. #54403 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed a crash when creating a framed window on Wayland in environments where GTK could not initialize. #54420 ^{(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. #54445 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed a GPU process crash on startup when another instance of the app is using the same session data directory. #54469

Fixed a grey border around frameless windows on Linux WMs without compositing. #54391 ^{(Also in 43, 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. #54315 ^{(Also in 43)}

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. #54266 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed a possible crash on Windows on ARM when powerMonitor is torn down. #54408 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed a renderer crash calling image.toPNG() from a sandboxed preload script. #54502 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed a renderer crash when a ResizeObserver loop-limit error handler modified layout. #54290 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed accent-color-changed on Windows reporting a colour that differed from systemPreferences.getAccentColor(). #54409 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed an issue where crashReporter.setUploadToServer() had no effect after crashReporter.start() was called. #54518 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed app.getRecentDocuments() omitting documents with non-ASCII paths on Windows. #54407 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed clipboard.read(), readText() and has() resolving seconds late on Linux while the app was idle. #54308 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}

Fixed desktopCapturer.getSources() leaving non-resizable windows resizable on macOS. #54397 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed fs.rmSync failing to remove read-only files on Windows. #54255 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}

Fixed GDK_BACKEND leaking into processes spawned by Electron apps on Linux. #54425 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed hidden windows continuing to render at full frame rate after setBackgroundThrottling(false) followed by setBackgroundThrottling(true). #54341 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed pointerLock permission requests from some iframes reporting the parent frame. #54464 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}

Fixed setContentProtection(true) having no effect in Windows remote sessions. #54500 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed setIgnoreMouseEvents() taking effect late on X11. #54497 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed setIgnoreMouseEvents(true) being undone by the next resize on X11. #54393 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

• Added setIgnoreMouseEvents support on Wayland.

Fixed shell.showItemInFolder() on Linux for paths containing #, ? or % when the file manager is reached over D-Bus. #54406 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixed the default action label on Linux notifications not being localized. #54401 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed the GPU process crash-looping on Windows when the sandbox cannot read the install folder; the folder is now reported instead. #54484 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed the zoom level resetting on file: and other host-less pages after a location.hash change. #54442 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed typing not working after closing an alert() or confirm() on Windows. #54461 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed utilityProcess dropping stdout/stderr output that the child wrote immediately before exiting. #54278 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}

Fixed visual zoom limits resetting on navigation and not applying to webviews. #54449 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed WebAssembly modules loaded from the code cache crashing or throwing RuntimeError: unreachable after updating between certain patch releases. #54246 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}

Fixed win.setEnabled(false) and modal child windows not blocking input on Wayland. #54447 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

Fixed zoom in/out getting stuck after zooming past the 25%-500% range. #54421 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}

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

Documentation changes: #54880

Documentation changes: #54589

Documentation changes: #54342

Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, PDFium, Skia and V8. #55149

Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #55034

Updated Chromium to 152.0.7977.167. #54928

Updated Node.js to v24.22.0. #55004

Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, PDFium and V8. #54898

Refactored mouse forwarding on Windows to fix setIgnoreMouseEvents(true, { forward: true }) related issues. #54802 ^{(Also in 45)}

Updated Chromium to 152.0.7977.149. #54085

Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, fontconfig, Skia, V8 and WebRTC. #54666

Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia, V8 and WebRTC. #54657

Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn and V8. #54564

Improved the performance of APIs that return rectangles, sizes, points and display objects. #54215 ^{(Also in 45)}

Improved the performance of session.getUserAgent(). #54244 ^{(Also in 45)}