Electron Releases

Breaking Changes

• Deprecated usage of textured BrowserWindow type option on macOS. #43133

Features

• Added DownloadItem.getCurrentBytesPerSecond(), DownloadItem.getPercentComplete(), DownloadItem.getEndTime(). #42805 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Added View.setBorderRadius(radius) for customizing the border radius of views—with compatibility for WebContentsView. #42320

• Added a new property prefersReducedTransparency to nativeTheme, which indicates whether the user has chosen to reduce OS-level transparency via system accessibility settings. #42862 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Added support for responding to auth requests initiated from utility process via app#login event. #42631 (Also in 32)

• Added the event client-certificate-request-password to app. It is dispatched when a PIN is needed to unlock a cryptographic device. #41205

• Aligned failure pathway in File System Access API with upstream when attempting to open a file or directory in a blocked path. #42561 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Enabled the Windows Control Overlay API on Linux. #41769 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Enabled zstd compression in net http requests. #43150 (Also in 31, 32)

• Expose systemPreferences to utilityProcess. #42203 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Extended navigationHistory API with 2 new functions for better history management. #42014

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur in some DevTools extensions containing draggable regions. #43179 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed a focus issue when calling BrowserWindow.setTopBrowserView. #42653 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed a potential crash when using off screen rendering. #42920 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed a potential error when calling webContents.close() on a BrowserView. #42633 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed an error where a minimized or hidden window would thrown an unresponsive error in the main process. #43034 (Also in 32)

• Fixed an issue where Chromium could crash on a dangling unretained pointer in one of several webRequest functions. #42647 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where High Contrast Mode didn't apply to webContents on Windows. #42853 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where MessagePorts could close unexpectedly with non-cloneable objects sent via postMessage. #42535 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where fetch-dependent interfaces could be missing in Web Workers with nodeIntegrationInWorker enabled. #42579 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices could return broken results in some cases after calling session.setPermissionCheckHandler. #42775 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia and navigator.getUserMedia should reject with a NotAllowedError if microphone or camera permissions have been denied at the system level on macOS. #42899 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where navigator.serial.getPorts() incorrectly returned an empty array in some cases. #43101 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where system-context-menu was not triggered as expected on Windows when using a frameless BrowserWindow. #43243 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where calling BrowserWindow.setBackgroundColor with some level of transparency could cause a crash. #42824 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where calling desktopCapturer.getSources on macOS running 14.4 or later would make non-resizable windows resizable. #43013 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where calling window.print(), webContents.print() or printToPDF from an existing PDF document resulted in a blank page. #43309 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where calling window.showInactive on macOS did not actually show the window. #43079 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where control could fail to return properly after saving a dialog using showOpenDialogSync on Linux. #42652 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where sources returned by the desktopCapturer API and screen.getAllDisplays() no longer matched on Windows. #42781 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where sources returned by the desktopCapturer API and screen.getAllDisplays() no longer matched on Windows. #42883 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where the File System Access API did not remember the user's last picked directory as expected. #42850 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where the user-specified default path did not work in some circumstances when using Linux dialogs. #42655 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where users would be incorrectly notified of print failure upon intentional cancellation. #43337

• Fixed behavior when entering/exiting fullscreen fails on macOS. #43112 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed crash when resolving proxy with session.resolveProxy api. #42878 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed issues with the vibrancy view on macOS. #43078 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed several view hierarchy issues related to web contents view on MacOS. #43033 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed the resource leak when using Node.js readable streams as the response body for a custom protocol handler. #43056 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Resolved an issue where desktopCapturer.getSources never fulfilled its promise in some cases. #43080 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)

Other Changes

• Fix: fixed the npm run lint not working on Windows. #42281 (Also in 31, 32)

• Fixed a potential crash when removing notifications on Windows. #43040 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed an issue where opening multiple file pickers on Windows via the input tag could cause a crash. #42758 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed crash in gpu process when software compositing is enabled on linux with x11 platform. #42559 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)

• Fixed ffmpeg release on x64 macOS. #43093 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)

• Updated Chromium to 129.0.6668.0. #43368

• Updated Node.js to v20.16.0. #43029

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• Just updating the documentation, thanks!. #42691