Electron Releases - v6.0.0-beta.8

npm install electron@v6.0.0-beta.8
yarn add electron@v6.0.0-beta.8
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

Features

  • Added new app.allowRendererProcessReuse property that allows apps to disable the site instance overrides Electron has patched into Chromium. This can be used to prevent the automatic renderer process restarting that Electron currently does. #18554

Fixes

  • Fixed window.opener null after cross-origin navigation. #18624
  • Fixed bug where notifications with same tag wouldn't show more than once when first notification was auto dismissed in Windows 7. #18740
  • Fixed crash in BrowserWindow destructor after win.webContents.destroy(). #18793
  • Fixed exiting html fullscreen mode for embedded contents. #18775
  • Migrate crashReporter to use crashpad on Windows. #18766
  • .executeJavaScript will never leave a promise dangling now, scripts that fail to execute will correctly be rejected. #18714

Other Changes

  • Updated Chromium to 76.0.3809.23. #18742
  • Updated Chromium to 76.0.3809.26. #18768