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Release Notes for v9.0.0-beta.24

Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm i electron@9.0.0-beta.24.

Features

  • Added a new force parameter to app.focus() on macOS to allow apps to forcefully take focus. #23447

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue whereby macOS would fail to allow file extensions containing periods. #23450
  • Fixed crash that could occur when calling session.fromPartition inside the ready event. #23472
  • crashReporter is now explicitly initialized only in the main process, and implicitly initialized in other child processes. This fixes an issue preventing the crash reporter from functioning in sandboxed renderers on Linux. #23461

Other Changes

  • Updated Chromium to 83.0.4103.45. #23446
 v9.0.0-beta.24 on GitHub
 2020-05-11 (1444 days ago) 83.0.4103.45 12.14.1

Release Notes for v9.0.0-beta.23

Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm i electron@9.0.0-beta.23.

Fixes

  • Fixed a crash which could occur during page navigations. #23375
  • Fixed an issue with navigator.languages and Accept-Language did not fully respect users' language preferences on Windows and macOS. This also improved fallback font selection for CJK texts on Windows. #23405
  • Fixed crash with webview during some window management events like resize, scroll etc. #23374

Other Changes

  • Updated Chromium to 83.0.4103.44. #23424

Documentation

  • Documentation changes: #23356
 v9.0.0-beta.23 on GitHub
 2020-05-07 (1448 days ago) 83.0.4103.44 12.14.1