Electron Releases

Electron v8.4.0

npm
npm install --save-dev electron@8.4.0
yarn
yarn add --dev electron@8.4.0
Google ChromeChromium
80.0.3987.165
Node.jsNode.js
12.13.0
V8V8
8.0.426.27

Release Notes

Features

  • Added new render-process-gone event on app to replace the renderer-process-crashed event. #24314

  • Added new render-process-gone event to replace the crashed event. #24308

  • Added support for suspend and resume events to Windows. #24282

  • Added support for suspend and resume events to macOS. #24295

  • Added tracing instrumentation to WebContents IPC methods, available with the contentTracing category "electron". #24307

  • Expose sessionId associated with a target from debugger module. #24399

  • Implemented systemPreferences.getMediaAccessStatus() on Windows. #24313

Fixes

  • Backported fixes for UAF in extensions (CVE-2020-6454 and NOCVE). #24419

  • Fixed an intermittent high-CPU usage problem caused a system clock issue during sleep. #24414

  • Fixed an issue where some old notifications were not properly removed from the Notification Center on macOS. #24405

  • Fixed bug on macOS where the main window could be targeted for a focus event when it was disabled behind a modal. #24353