Release Notes for v5.0.0-beta.9

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@5.0.0-beta.9.

Fixes

Added missing module name to the exception message thrown when require fails in sandboxed renderers. #17705
Fixed 'loaded' event not being emitted in sandboxed renderers. #17808
Fixed an issue preventing the Flash plugin from loading on Linux. #17829
Fixed an issue with default filenames not showing in download items on macOS. #17797
Fixed crash when manually dismissing notifications before quit on macOS. #17822
Fixed crash when passing empty strings to recording in the contentTracing module. #17711
Fixed crash when pressing Alt key with setMenuBarVisibility to false. #17795
Fixed inconsistent behavior where modifying the buffer would change nativeImage pixels, while decoded PNG / JPEG data is a copy. #17863
Fixed issue where chromedriver would not connect correctly if you didn't provide a custom remote-debugging-port. #17817
Fixed issue where sandboxed renderers could sometimes leak globals outside of the preload script. #17830
Fixed race condition where the remote module would sometimes fail to fetch properties of a remote object. #17825
Upgraded to node-12 with v8 7.3. #17752

2019-04-20 (1826 days ago) 73.0.3683.117 12.0.0

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@5.0.0-beta.8.

DevTools Extensions now load correctly. #17616
Fixed a bug which caused global shortcuts with the Windows key not to work properly on Windows. #17566
Fixed an issue with netLog module properties not being returned correctly. #17545
Fixed issue where preload scripts would sometimes run twice in the same process in different contexts resulting in broken native node module loading. #17597
Fixed offscreen rendering not working with viz compositor. #17572
Fixed the handling of the escape key in dialogs created by window.confirm. The "Cancel" button is now triggered by the escape key, and the "OK" button is now triggered by the return key. #17578
Injected chrome extensions that have content scripts with a . in the pattern field now treat it as a raw . instead of a wildcard. #17594

2019-04-04 (1842 days ago) 73.0.3683.104 12.0.0