Electron v44.5.0
Latest StableRelease Notes
Features
Added launch-failure reporting with
systemErrorCodeto theappchild-process-goneevent. #54231 (Also in 45)
Fixes
Changed the default trash implementation on KDE Plasma 6 to
kioclient. #54361 (Also in 45)DevTools zoom in/out now uses the same zoom steps as Chromium. #54387 (Also in 45)
Fixed
--xdg-portal-required-versionhaving no effect and a spurious portal warning being logged for file dialogs on Linux. #54303 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed a child
WebContentsViewlosing focus when its window is reactivated. #54455 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed a crash when a WebAuthn request used a security key that required its PIN. #54403 (Also in 45)
Fixed a crash when creating a framed window on Wayland in environments where GTK could not initialize. #54420 (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. #54445 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed a GPU process crash on startup when another instance of the app is using the same session data directory. #54469
Fixed a grey border around frameless windows on Linux WMs without compositing. #54391 (Also in 43, 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. #54315 (Also in 43)Fixed a possible crash during process exit when
vm.Scriptorvmcontexts created in the main process had been garbage collected shortly before quitting. #54266 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed a possible crash on Windows on ARM when
powerMonitoris torn down. #54408 (Also in 45)Fixed a renderer crash calling
image.toPNG()from a sandboxed preload script. #54502 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed a renderer crash when a
ResizeObserverloop-limit error handler modified layout. #54290 (Also in 45)Fixed
accent-color-changedon Windows reporting a colour that differed fromsystemPreferences.getAccentColor(). #54409 (Also in 45)Fixed an issue where
crashReporter.setUploadToServer()had no effect aftercrashReporter.start()was called. #54518 (Also in 45)Fixed
app.getRecentDocuments()omitting documents with non-ASCII paths on Windows. #54407 (Also in 45)Fixed
clipboard.read(),readText()andhas()resolving seconds late on Linux while the app was idle. #54308 (Also in 42, 43, 45)Fixed
desktopCapturer.getSources()leaving non-resizable windows resizable on macOS. #54397 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed
fs.rmSyncfailing to remove read-only files on Windows. #54255 (Also in 42, 43, 45)Fixed
GDK_BACKENDleaking into processes spawned by Electron apps on Linux. #54425 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed hidden windows continuing to render at full frame rate after
setBackgroundThrottling(false)followed bysetBackgroundThrottling(true). #54341 (Also in 45)Fixed
pointerLockpermission requests from some iframes reporting the parent frame. #54464 (Also in 42, 43, 45)Fixed
setContentProtection(true)having no effect in Windows remote sessions. #54500 (Also in 45)Fixed
setIgnoreMouseEvents()taking effect late on X11. #54497 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed
setIgnoreMouseEvents(true)being undone by the next resize on X11. #54393 (Also in 43, 45)Added
setIgnoreMouseEventssupport on Wayland.
Fixed
shell.showItemInFolder()on Linux for paths containing#,?or%when the file manager is reached over D-Bus. #54406 (Also in 45)Fixed the default action label on Linux notifications not being localized. #54401 (Also in 43, 45)
Fixed the GPU process crash-looping on Windows when the sandbox cannot read the install folder; the folder is now reported instead. #54484 (Also in 43, 45)
Fixed the zoom level resetting on
file:and other host-less pages after alocation.hashchange. #54442 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed typing not working after closing an
alert()orconfirm()on Windows. #54461 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed
utilityProcessdroppingstdout/stderroutput that the child wrote immediately before exiting. #54278 (Also in 42, 43, 45)Fixed visual zoom limits resetting on navigation and not applying to webviews. #54449 (Also in 43, 45)
Fixed WebAssembly modules loaded from the code cache crashing or throwing
RuntimeError: unreachableafter updating between certain patch releases. #54246 (Also in 42, 43, 45)Fixed
win.setEnabled(false)and modal child windows not blocking input on Wayland. #54447 (Also in 43, 45)Fixed zoom in/out getting stuck after zooming past the 25%-500% range. #54421 (Also in 43, 45)
Fixed
setVisualZoomLevelLimits()shrinking pages when the minimum is under 1.
Performance Improvements
Improved the performance of APIs that return rectangles, sizes, points and display objects. #54215 (Also in 45)
Improved the performance of
session.getUserAgent(). #54244 (Also in 45)
Documentation
Documentation changes: #54342