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@7.0.0-beta.5.
Fixes
- Fixed a crash when exiting simple fullscreen on macOS. #20220
- Fixed crash loading file based ServiceWorkers. #20142
- Fixed issue where maximizing a window on Windows in vertically stacked multi-monitor setups could result in the window rendering a white screen. #20053
- Fixed issue where using the menu on Linux would un-focus the webContents. #20036
- Fixed several cases where
document.visibilityState would be incorrect. The win.show() and win.hide() methods now correctly update visibility state. #20134
- Reduced the size of the chrome-sandbox binary on Linux from ~5MB to ~0.2MB by stripping debug symbols that were inadvertently being included. #20083
- Updated Chromium to 78.0.3905.1. #20062
Other Changes
- Added Windows on Arm (64 bit) release. #20112
- Added Windows on Arm node header files to checksum file. #20261
- Fixed node.lib linking issue. #20193
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@7.0.0-beta.4.
Features
- Added support for HTTP preconnect resource hints. #19952
- Added support for picture-in-picture mode for video elements. #19914
Fixes
- Added default
NSMicrophoneUsageDescription and NSCameraUsageDescription strings to info.plist. #19948
- Correctly internationalize i18n in GTK-based Linux dialogs. #19783
- Fixed Linux console warning about gtk_disable_setlocale(). #20012
- Fixed a bug where an unresizable window would shrink when restored after being minimized on Windows. #19957
- Fixed a bug where sometimes a ~10px white border would be added to fullscreen windows on Windows. #19942
- Fixed a bug where windows would sometimes shrink to 0 size after being restored on Windows. #20000
- Fixed a bug where you couldn't navigate the menu bar with the keyboard if you used the mouse to focus it. #19762
- Fixed a crash on
<input type="file"> dialog cancellation. #19917
- Fixed a race condition that occurred when using protocol.registerStreamProtocol. #19869
- Fixed an issue where
app.getPath('logs') would throw an error if the logs path was not previously set. #19836
- Fixed an issue where a call to
child_process.fork() would set ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE in the main process. #19776
- Fixed an issue where cursor blink rate was not honored. #20044
- Fixed command-line scheme arguments from spilling over into each other. #19941
- Fixed i18n of GTK messageboxes' stock buttons. #19982
- Fixed issue where reloading the window after calling
setBackgroundColor would result in using an older background color setting. #19974
- Fixed web page displayed with offset when using native tab on macOS. #19898
- Fixed white flash after restoring an app from the background. #19901
- Removed the possibility of a preload script being executed twice for the same process in quickly succeeding navigations in the same frame. #19827
- Updated Chromium to 78.0.3896.6. #19609
Other Changes
- Updated Node.js to v12.8.1. #19835
Documentation
- Documentation changes: #19797, #19844