Electron Releases

Features

• Added allowExtensions privilege to protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged() to enable Chrome extensions on custom protocols. #50588 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

Fixes

• Fixed fs.stat on files inside asar archives returning undefined for blksize and blocks instead of numeric values. #50875 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

• Fixed a memory leak where Menu items were not cleaned up after Menu.setApplicationMenu was called repeatedly. #50831 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

• Fixed an intermittent Invoke in DisallowJavascriptExecutionScope crash on application quit when a WebContents (or other JS-emitting native object) is garbage-collected during shutdown. #50693 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

• Fixed an issue on macOS where show/hide events and WebContents visibility state could be reported incorrectly when multiple WebContentsViews were attached to a window. #50713 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

• Fixed an issue where DevTools would re-attach to the window when opened after previously being detached. #50817 ^{(Also in 39, 41, 42)}

• Fixed an issue where setSimpleFullScreen on macOS would exit when web content called requestFullscreen(). #50986 ^{(Also in 42)}

• Fixed an issue where concurrent getFileHandle requests on the same path could stall indefinitely. #50672 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

• Fixed aspect ratio min/max size clamping to correctly account for extraSize on macOS. #50834 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

• Fixed the crash keys being lost and the crash reporter hanging on macOS when many dynamic crash keys were registered. #50838 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

• Moved Electron-specific help menu links to the default app only; unpackaged apps will no longer see these items in their default menu. #50860 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 489711638. #50623

• Backported fix for 493952652. #50619

• Backported fix for none. #50881

• Backported upstream v8 fixes for several maglev, inspector, and arm64 code-generation edge cases. #50992