Electron Releases

Features

• Added the ability to disable auto-focusing of WebContents on navigation using webPreferences.focusOnNavigation. #49511

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when using the File System Access API. #49636 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}

• Fixed an application crash on MacOS where the menu observer was not being properly removed before garbage collection. #49658 ^{(Also in 40)}

• Fixed an issue where alt+space triggered th system context menu even if an accelerator was registered for the hotkey combination. #49642 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}

• Fixed an issue where cookie changed events weren't properly emitted in all cases. #49631

• Fixed an issue where native modules would either crash or not compile for MacOS 12. #49703 ^{(Also in 40)}

• Fixed an issue where role-based menu items were incorrectly returning null for their accelerator property. #49668 ^{(Also in 39)}

• Fixed an issue where some shell functionality may not work on Linux if the target window is already open. #49594

• Fixed dock menu items not respecting enabled and checked properties on macOS. #49625 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}

• Fixed rendering glitches on macOS. #49621 ^{(Also in 40)}

Other Changes

• Refactored our MSIX updater code to use an upstream Chromium pattern and eliminates the need for special exception handling build flags. #49686 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}

Unknown

• Fixed squirrel.mac stacked update behavior to old staged updates. #49639 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}