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Release Notes for v13.0.0-beta.2

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 install electron@13.0.0-beta.2.

Breaking Changes

  • Fixed so window.open() parameter frameName is no longer set as window title. #27481

Features

  • Added event.senderFrame property returning the originating webFrameMain of the IPC message. #26764 (Also in 12)
  • Added exitCode to render-process-gone details. #27580 (Also in 12)
  • Added frame and webContents properties to the details object in webRequest handlers. #27078 (Also in 12)
  • Added process.uptime() to sandboxed renderers. #26684
  • Added roundedCorners option for BrowserWindow. #27572
  • Added webFrameMain.send() / webFrameMain.postMessage(). #26807 (Also in 12)
  • Added win.setTopBrowserView() so that BrowserViews can be raised. #27007 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Added missing webFrameMain.executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld(). #26913 (Also in 12)
  • Added missing fields to the parameters emitted as part of the context-menu event. #26788
  • Added support for passing DOM elements over the context bridge. #26776
  • Added support for registering Manifest V3 extension service workers.
    • Added 'registration-completed' event to ServiceWorkers. #27562
  • Additional permission checks are now routed through session.setPermissionCheckHandler. These include Notification.permission, and permission.query. Please note that the webContents parameter to the check handler can now be null. #19903
  • Allow ContextBridge exposeInMainWorld method to expose non-object APIs. #26594 (Also in 12)
  • Allowed skipping process type transformation in win.SetVisibleOnAllWorkspaces on macOS. #27200
  • Changed the default value of contextIsolation to true. #26890 (Also in 12)
  • Changed the default value of worldSafeExecuteJavaScript to be true. #26889 (Also in 12)
  • Made trafficLightPosition option work for customButtonOnHover window. #26789
  • Made win.setAspectRatio() work on Windows. #26941 (Also in 11, 12)

Fixes

  • Added Electron DLLs like libGLESv2.dll to symbol server. #26962 (Also in 9, 10, 11, 12)
  • Added default Bluetooth permission strings to info.plist. #26730 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Apps requesting the CAMERA_PAN_TILT_ZOOM permission will have the permission request handler called with a permission string of "media" instead of "font-access". #27006
  • Fixed "screen" methods to be reassignable again. #26818 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed CSP with unsafe-eval detection with Trusted Types. #27446 (Also in 9, 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed ECDH.setPrivateKey() not updating the key. #27688 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed OS-level shortcuts on macOS (e.g. Ctrl + F2, ⌘ + ~). #27701 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed PDF viewer failing to load resources. #27499 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed PDFs not loading in the PDF viewer. #27209 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed <webview> not working with Trusted Types. #27445 (Also in 9, 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed contentTracing.stopRecording() not rejecting when there is no trace in progress. #26608 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed hiddenInset titleBarStyle's abnormal fullscreen titlebar. Fix hiddenInset titleBarStyle not working with trafficLightPosition option. #27489
  • Fixed protocol methods not being accessible via remote.protocol. #27009 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed readdir/readdirSync (w/ withFileTypes) failing on a deep directory within archive. #26865 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed screen methods not being accessible via remote.screen. #26620 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed systemPreferences.effectiveAppearance returning systemPreferences.getAppLevelAppearance(). #26852 (Also in 9, 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed a crash in renderer process when loading non-context-aware modules with app.allowRendererProcessReuse enabled. #27296 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed a crash that could occur on app quit when using the remote module. #27038 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed a crash when calling crypto.createDiffieHellman() with certain parameters. #27674 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed a crash when calling webContents.fromId with an unknown ID. #26609 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed a memory leak in desktopCapturer.getSources. #27031 (Also in 9, 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed a memory leak when creating BrowserWindows. #27621 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed a potential crash when resetting BrowserViews. #27786 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed a rare crash on Windows that could occur when emitting certain Tray events. #26668 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed a use-after-free bug during shutdown when using off-the-record sessions. #26680
  • Fixed a use-after-free error that could occur when destroying a WebContents during the did-stop-loading event. #26702 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed an erroneous enableBlinkFeatures warning shown webviews which enabled no Blink features. #27753 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue that a message box in GTK contains no buttons. #26857 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where BrowserViews couldn't be effectively reparented. #27000 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where SIGINT was improperly handled in Node.js processes. #26933 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where BrowserViews could have mismatched draggable regions to their bounds. #27952 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where contextBridge might incorrectly try to serialize some WebAssembly objects. #27518
  • Fixed an issue where event.reply could sometimes not deliver a reply to an IPC message when cross-site iframes were present. #26875 (Also in 9, 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where deleted download directories would be sometimes recreated by the operating system. #27745 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where draggable regions did not work exclusively on BrowserViews on Windows. #26738 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where draggable regions in BrowserWindow causes BrowserView to become draggable in non-correspondent places. #26690 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where libuv might hang with multiple subframes when nodeIntegrationInSubframes is enabled. #27582 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where non-draggable regions on BrowserViews could have incorrectly calculated bounds. #27147 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where renderer process stack traces were broken with contextIsolation enabled. #26820 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where some async_hooks were not properly emitted after an error in the renderer process. #26752 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where some draggable regions were not clickable when loaded into BrowserViews on Windows. #27143 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where the zoom button was missing for windows with titleBarStyle: hiddenInset on macOS. #27428 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed an issue whereby remote.screen EventEmitter methods are undefined in the renderer. #26809 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed an occasional white flicker present when rendering BrowserViews in close succession. #27585 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an out-of-bounds access in WebContents.sendInputEvent. #27827 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed background color not being applied for child windows created by native window.open path. #27593 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed behavior of 302/303/307 redirect responses in the protocol module. #26297
  • Fixed bug in which WebContents.mainFrame would sometimes return undefined. #27648 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed bug where TouchBarPopover and TouchBarGroup were no longer rendering. #27901 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed callbacks passed via the remote module not being released after all references are dropped. #26808 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed crash when a keyboard event immediately precedes calling browserWindow.close() on Windows. #27315 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed crash when destroying WebContents in the crashed event. #27730 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed crash when extension fails to load. #27561 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed import of unpacked node modules. #26749 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed issue where window.open() would not return an object with a location.href setter when contextIsolation is enabled and nativeWindowOpen is disabled. #27899 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed memory leak when sending non-primitives over the context bridge. #27630 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed menubar not clickable on Windows and Linux. #27545 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed missing presentation mode option in PDF viewer. #27223 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed native window freeze on Windows when Electron app is sent to tray and external display changes. #27615 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed native window.open() to not use windowName/frameName as title by default. #27521 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed navigator.bluetooth.requestDevice. #27902 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed regression that crashed Electron when processing an invalid icon. #27441 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Fixed shutdown crash when quitting with in-progress downloads. #27342 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed uncaught promise rejection when creating webContents with javascript disabled. #26837 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed using navigator.setAppBadge and navigator.clearAppBadge in Electron. #27067 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed warning when worldSafeExecuteJavaScript is disabled. #27928 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed window with customButtonsOnHover option not having rounded corner on macOS. #26901 (Also in 12)
  • Increase stack size on windows x64 to 8MB. #27376 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Made BrowserWindow.setWindowButtonVisibility work for window with customButtonsOnHover titlebar style. #27073

Other Changes

  • Fixed crash when loading wasm modules in child node process with mac arm64 > 11.2. #27672 (Also in 11, 12)
  • Non-functional change; updates repository's issue template file. #27825
  • Removed deprecated BrowserWindow extension APIs. #26696
  • Removed deprecated crashReporter APIs. #26695 (Also in 12)
  • Removed deprecated shell.moveItemToTrash(). #26723
  • Removed deprecated systemPreferences methods. #26849
  • Reverted WebFrameMain.executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld(). #27926
  • Updated Node.js to v14.16.0. #27706 (Also in 12)

Documentation

 v13.0.0-beta.2 on GitHub
 2021-03-05 (1157 days ago) 90.0.4402.0 14.16.0