Electron Releases

Features

• Added support for heap profiling via contentTracing.enableHeapProfiling(). #51178 ^{(Also in 42)}

Fixes

• Ensured cross-origin fetch() and XHR are blocked for custom protocols registered with supportFetchAPI: true unless corsEnabled: true is also set; cross-origin mode: 'no-cors' requests now receive an opaque response. #51270 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 42)}

• Fixed a crash when providing invalid HTTP header names or values in the webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders() callback. #51365 ^{(Also in 40, 42)}

• Fixed a bug that cause offscreen rendering doesn't have valid screen info and unable to get valid result of related media queries.

  • Added webPreference.offscreen.deviceScaleFactor to allow user specify a value, instead of using user's primary display's value. #50375 ^{(Also in 40)}

• Fixed a bug where errors would occur when using the Chrome DevTools Fetch API. #51371 ^{(Also in 42)}

• Fixed a crash that could occur when an autofill suggestion popup was shown while a window was closing. #51321 ^{(Also in 42)}

• Fixed a regression where frameless fullscreen windows had white borders on Windows. #51332 ^{(Also in 42)}

• Fixed a renderer crash when a page uses the <geolocation> HTML element. #51373 ^{(Also in 42)}

• Fixed an issue where calling contentTracing APIs before app.whenReady() would crash the application. #51352 ^{(Also in 42)}

• Fixed an issue where some toast notification properties didn't work as expected in WinRT. #51397 ^{(Also in 42)}

• Fixed buggy behavior where Backspace would accept macOS text replacements inside contenteditable elements. #51343 ^{(Also in 40, 42)}

• This PR fixes a regression in silent printing where custom DPI values from webContents.print were not honored, causing incorrect output scaling in real-world print flows. #51355 ^{(Also in 42)}

Other Changes

• Backported a fix for route_id validation in the GPU command buffer. #51319

• Backported fix in Skia for 495534710. #51264

• Backported security fixes for 492736100, 492668885, 493413432, 493319454, 494158331, 496281816. #51259

• Updated Chromium to 146.0.7680.216. #51382