Electron Releases - v18.0.0-beta.6

npm install electron@v18.0.0-beta.6
yarn add electron@v18.0.0-beta.6
Note: This is a beta release, this means it may be shipping with an unreleased version of Chromium.
Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

Release Notes

Features

  • Added nativeTheme.inForcedColorsMode API to allow detecting forced color mode. #33357 (Also in 15, 17)
  • Added support for more color formats in setBackgroundColor. #33364

Fixes

  • Fire 'show' event when a BrowserWindow is shown via maximize(). #33214 (Also in 16, 17)
  • Fix: initialize asar support in worker threads. #33396
  • Fixed an issue where BrowserView layout bounds where limited to it's visible bounds. #33399 (Also in 17)
  • Fixed an issue where new bounds set via setBounds was not correctly applied if the user was moving or resizing the window concurrently on Windows. #33375
  • Fixed broken event loop in renderer process when process reuse is enabled on windows platform. #33361 (Also in 16, 17)
  • Fixed slowness when using child_process.spawn and related methods on macOS Big Sur and newer. #33407 (Also in 17)
  • Fixed the IncrementCapturerCount regression introduced by 13.0.0-beta.21. #33371