Electron Releases - v5.0.0-beta.9

npm install electron@v5.0.0-beta.9
yarn add electron@v5.0.0-beta.9
Note: This is a beta release, this means it may be shipping with an unreleased version of Chromium.
Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

Release Notes

Fixes

  • Added missing module name to the exception message thrown when require fails in sandboxed renderers. #17705
  • Fixed 'loaded' event not being emitted in sandboxed renderers. #17808
  • Fixed an issue preventing the Flash plugin from loading on Linux. #17829
  • Fixed an issue with default filenames not showing in download items on macOS. #17797
  • Fixed crash when manually dismissing notifications before quit on macOS. #17822
  • Fixed crash when passing empty strings to recording in the contentTracing module. #17711
  • Fixed crash when pressing Alt key with setMenuBarVisibility to false. #17795
  • Fixed inconsistent behavior where modifying the buffer would change nativeImage pixels, while decoded PNG / JPEG data is a copy. #17863
  • Fixed issue where chromedriver would not connect correctly if you didn't provide a custom remote-debugging-port. #17817
  • Fixed issue where sandboxed renderers could sometimes leak globals outside of the preload script. #17830
  • Fixed race condition where the remote module would sometimes fail to fetch properties of a remote object. #17825
  • Upgraded to node-12 with v8 7.3. #17752

Other Changes

  • Removed unused Vulkan libraries from bundle. #17788
  • Updated Chromium to 73.0.3683.105. #17707
  • Updated Chromium to 73.0.3683.112. #17770
  • Updated Chromium to 73.0.3683.116. #17805
  • Updated Chromium to 73.0.3683.117. #17839

Documentation

  • Documentation changes: #17812, #17814, #17849