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Release Notes for v9.0.0-beta.7

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.7.

Features

  • Added ability to set and get title bar traffic light position on the fly (macOS). #22566
  • Added new spellcheck-dictionary-* events on the `session module to help track and debug dictionary initialization. #22556
  • Allow an optional callback parameter for WebFrame.executeJavaScript* methods, which is called synchronously unless the target context is paused. #22501

Fixes

  • DeviceId from navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices is now consistent across reloads. #22567
  • Fixed issue where repositioned traffic lights would be in the wrong position after the user switches OS theme. #22560

Unknown

  • Added chrome.i18n extension API. #22570
  • Added chrome.tabs.connect extension API for background pages. #22549
 v9.0.0-beta.7 on GitHub
 2020-03-09 (1507 days ago) 82.0.4058.2 12.14.1

Release Notes for v9.0.0-beta.6

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.6.

Features

  • Added session.removeWordFromSpellCheckerDictionary API to remove custom words in the dictionary. #22368

Fixes

  • Enable offscreen rendering. #22425
  • Fixed a potential crash on devices which had not connected any printers to their network. #22519
  • Fixed some properties not working in webview tags. #22511
  • Removed assurance of object identity equality from the contextBridge as it is incapable of handling mutations. #22525
  • Updating the document title while in fullscreen with custom traffic light positions no longer makes the traffic lights invisible. #22509

Other Changes

  • None. #22479
  • Updated Chromium to 82.0.4058.2. #22198
 v9.0.0-beta.6 on GitHub
 2020-03-06 (1510 days ago) 82.0.4058.2 12.14.1