Electron v43.7.6
Release Notes
Fixes
Fixed
--xdg-portal-required-versionhaving no effect and a spurious portal warning being logged for file dialogs on Linux. #54304 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed a child
WebContentsViewlosing focus when its window is reactivated. #54456 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed a crash when a WebAuthn request used a security key that required its PIN. #54404 (Also in 45)
Fixed a crash when sending a DevTools protocol command with a non-string value for an optional string parameter via
webContents.debugger. #54443 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed a grey border around frameless windows on Linux WMs without compositing. #54390 (Also in 44, 45)
Fixed a main process crash when a native API method was called with a
thisvalue of a different native type; it now throws aTypeError. #54316 (Also in 44)Fixed a possible crash during process exit when
vm.Scriptorvmcontexts created in the main process had been garbage collected shortly before quitting. #54268 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed a possible renderer crash in 32-bit Windows and Linux ARM builds caused by under-aligned Blink heap vector allocations. #54259
Fixed a renderer crash calling
image.toPNG()from a sandboxed preload script. #54503 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed
clipboard.read(),readText()andhas()resolving seconds late on Linux while the app was idle. #54309 (Also in 42, 44, 45)Fixed
desktopCapturer.getSources()leaving non-resizable windows resizable on macOS. #54396 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed
fs.rmSyncfailing to remove read-only files on Windows. #54256 (Also in 42, 44, 45)Fixed
GDK_BACKENDleaking into processes spawned by Electron apps on Linux. #54426 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed
pointerLockpermission requests from some iframes reporting the parent frame. #54465 (Also in 42, 44, 45)Fixed
setIgnoreMouseEvents()taking effect late on X11. #54498 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed
setIgnoreMouseEvents(true)being undone by the next resize on X11. #54423 (Also in 44, 45)Added
setIgnoreMouseEventssupport on Wayland.
Fixed the default action label on Linux notifications not being localized. #54400 (Also in 44, 45)
Fixed the GPU process crash-looping on Windows when the sandbox cannot read the install folder; the folder is now reported instead. #54485 (Also in 44, 45)
Fixed the zoom level resetting on
file:and other host-less pages after alocation.hashchange. #54440 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed typing not working after closing an
alert()orconfirm()on Windows. #54462 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed
utilityProcessdroppingstdout/stderroutput that the child wrote immediately before exiting. #54279 (Also in 42, 44, 45)Fixed visual zoom limits resetting on navigation and not applying to webviews. #54450 (Also in 44, 45)
Fixed WebAssembly exception handlers failing to catch, or crashing during tier-up, in modules using wasm exceptions. #54235
Fixed WebAssembly modules loaded from the code cache crashing or throwing
RuntimeError: unreachableafter updating between certain patch releases. #54238 (Also in 42, 44, 45)Fixed
win.setEnabled(false)and modal child windows not blocking input on Wayland. #54446 (Also in 44, 45)Fixed zoom in/out getting stuck after zooming past the 25%-500% range. #54422 (Also in 44, 45)
Fixed
setVisualZoomLevelLimits()shrinking pages when the minimum is under 1.