Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.5

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@8.0.0-beta.5.

Fixes

Fixed POST-ing HTML forms with target=_blank. #21474
Fixed cookies.set not working correctly when name or expirationDate is omitted. #21477
Fixed a weird behaviors and crashes when controlling window menu by keys. #21452
Fixed accessibility window title on macOS. #21467
Fixed an issue that caused ClientRequest.getUploadProgress() to return incorrect values. #21424
Fixed an issue where noLink was working incorrectly on Windows. #21405
Fixed compositor recycling when creating new BrowserView. #21399
Fixed contextBridge crash when closing a window. #21418
Fixed contextBridge crash when opening and closing many windows. #21513
Fixed media-specific globalShortcuts not working on macOS. #21547
Fixed source maps not loading in devtools with file scheme. #21493
Fixed window menu unable to hide on startup. #21443
Re-enable DOM storage quota enforcement but change limit from 10MiB to 100MiB. #21380
Removed Electron.dsym from macOS application zip. #21484
setLayoutZoomLevelLimits no longer works in Electron 8, so emit a warning message when using it. The function will be removed in Electron 9. #21360

2019-12-18 (1598 days ago) 80.0.3987.14 12.13.0

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@8.0.0-beta.4.

Fixed --ignore-connections-limit, ironically, being ignored. #21298
Fixed an issue where Tray icons couldn't be created from paths. #21241
Fixed an issue where the checkboxChecked value wasn't being updated in showMessageBox on Windows. #21312
Fixed broken focus with OOPIF embedded inside webview. #21343
Fixed contextBridge crash. #21282
Fixed the 'login' event not being emitted when HTTP Basic auth was requested during a net.request. #21133
Fixed throttling in webContents.setBackgroundThrottling. #21358
Net module requests no longer raise errors when non-2xx responses are received. #21285
The disabled-by-default-cpu_profiler tracing category now correctly records stack samples from the main process and utility processes. #21276
webContents.reloadIgnoringCache() will now forcefully ignore all caches, including service workers. #21283
window.root and window.GLOBAL are both now undefined when nodeIntegration is disabled as expected. #21355

Deprecated the default value of app.allowRendererProcessReuse (See #18397). #21287
Fixed some crashes that could occur when using the net module. #21303
Generate debug symbols on Linux. #21278
Made strip_absolute_paths_from_debug_symbols to false in debug.gn. #21316

2019-12-04 (1612 days ago) 80.0.3955.0 12.13.0