Electron Releases

Fixes

• Fixed DevTools popup and context menus not appearing when DevTools is hosted in a custom window via webContents.setDevToolsWebContents(). #52937 ^{(Also in 44)}

• Fixed registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol returning readable responses to cross-origin no-cors fetches; they now return opaque responses like protocol.handle. #52853 ^{(Also in 41, 42, 44)}

• Fixed a WebContentsView staying blank after its window is shown when setBackgroundThrottling(false) was called while the window was hidden. #52864 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}

• Fixed a crash in systemPreferences.promptTouchID(reason) when an invalid reason value is passed. #52782 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}

• Fixed a crash when resolving a path inside a malformed ASAR archive that contains cyclic link entries. #52857 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}

• Fixed a crash with app.setLoginItemSettings if a non-UTF8 service name is used. #52944 ^{(Also in 44)}

• Fixed a memory leak when creating BrowserWindows. #52892 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}

• Fixed a possible crash (SIGABRT) during process exit when the process had loaded tls/https shortly before exiting, affecting app.exit() before ready and short-lived ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE / child_process.fork() scripts. #52870 ^{(Also in 44)}

• Fixed a possible main process crash at quit when a session was created from JavaScript that runs during shutdown. #52925 ^{(Also in 44)}

• Fixed a potential crash in contentTracing.stopRecording() when the trace file could not be written to the requested path. #52795 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}

• Fixed a rare crash in the main process when DevTools were opened and a garbage collection ran before the DevTools frontend finished loading. #52903 ^{(Also in 44)}

• Fixed a regression preventing from transparent frameless windows from being resized on Linux. #52947 ^{(Also in 44)}

• Fixed an npm install failure with no recovery path when the OS blocked the native zip extractor from loading (for example, Windows Smart App Control). #52845 ^{(Also in 44)}

• Fixed an issue on Windows where the app process could fail to exit after app.quit() while a shell.openExternal() or shell.openPath() call was still waiting on a system "Open with" dialog. #52897 ^{(Also in 41, 44)}

• Fixed crash in sharedTexture module when GPU context becomes unavailable. #52938 ^{(Also in 44)}

• Fixed custom V8 snapshots (electron-mksnapshot, and the loadBrowserProcessSpecificV8Snapshot fuse) having no effect in the main process on macOS arm64, Linux x64 and Windows x64. #52877 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}

• Fixed downloading files that live inside an asar archive, including saving a packed PDF from the built-in PDF viewer. #52826 ^{(Also in 42, 44)}

• Fixed the built-in PDF viewer not rendering documents in in-memory sessions (partitions without the persist: prefix). #52835 ^{(Also in 44)}

• Fixed windows opened by a sandboxed top-level frame not inheriting the opener's sandbox restrictions. #52848 ^{(Also in 41, 42, 44)}

• <webview> and window.open now inherit nodeIntegrationInWorker from the embedder, consistent with the other Node and sandbox preferences. #52830 ^{(Also in 41, 42, 44)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 524628213. #52868

• Backported fixes for 542224257, 542025190. #52842

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #52778

• Fixed Tray icons not appearing (and their menus not opening) on Linux desktops that address the StatusNotifierItem by its unique D-Bus name or via the org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierItem interface, such as GNOME with the AppIndicator extension, Cinnamon and XFCE. #52952

• Fixed an issue on macOS where a page's first use of speechSynthesis could block the main process for several hundred milliseconds. #52814

• Reduced idle main-process CPU wakeups caused by Node.js timers and immediates. #52905 ^{(Also in 44)}