Release Notes for v33.0.0
Stack Upgrades
- Chromium
130.0.6723.44
- Node
20.18.0
- V8
13.0
Breaking Changes
- Deprecated usage of
textured
BrowserWindowtype
option on macOS. #43133 - Custom protocol URLs that use Windows file paths will no longer work correctly with the deprecated
protocol.registerFileProtocol
and thebaseURLForDataURL
property onBrowserWindow.loadURL
,WebContents.loadURL
, and<webview>.loadURL
. #43977
Features
Additions
- Added the event
client-certificate-request-password
to app. It is dispatched when a PIN is needed to unlock a cryptographic device. #41205 - Added error event in utility process to support diagnostic reports on V8 fatal errors. #43997
- Added
View.setBorderRadius(radius)
for customizing the border radius of views—with compatibility forWebContentsView
. #42320 - Added Linux support for the Windows Control Overlay API. #41769 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
- Added support for the macOS system picker in
desktopCapturer
andsetDisplayMediaRequestHandler
. #43680 (Also in 32) - Added
DownloadItem.getCurrentBytesPerSecond()
,DownloadItem.getPercentComplete()
,DownloadItem.getEndTime()
. #42805 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Added a new property
prefersReducedTransparency
tonativeTheme
, which indicates whether the user has chosen to reduce OS-level transparency via system accessibility settings. #42862 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Added support for responding to auth requests initiated from utility process via
app#login
event. #42631 (Also in 32)
Improvements
- Extended
navigationHistory
API with 2 new functions for better history management. #42014 - Ensured that the
sender-id
hint is set when creating desktop notifications on DBus. #43949 (Also in 31, 32) - Aligned failure pathway in File System Access API with upstream when attempting to open a file or directory in a blocked path. #42561 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
- Enabled zstd compression in net http requests. #43150 (Also in 31, 32)
- Expose
systemPreferences
toutilityProcess
. #42203 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
Fixes
- Fixed a build failure when the
enable_plugins
build flag is false. #44025 - Fixed mouse cursor turning into loading spinner when starting utility process on Windows. #43731
Also in earlier versions...
- Fixed BrowserView auto resize issue. #43636 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed
MenuItem.click
handler not settingfocusedWindow
parameter when focused window is aBaseWindow
. #43438 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed a crash that could occur in some DevTools extensions containing draggable regions. #43179 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed a crash when calling
focus
on aWebView
'swebContents
. #43932 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed a focus issue when calling
BrowserWindow.setTopBrowserView
. #42653 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed a potential crash when using off screen rendering. #42920 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
- Fixed a potential error when calling
webContents.close()
on a BrowserView. #42633 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed a potential issue accessing a child window document when overriding browserWindow creation via
setWindowOpenHandler
. #43816 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed a potential issue with fillable PDF forms saving correctly in some circumstances. #43686 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed an error where a minimized or hidden window would thrown an unresponsive error in the main process. #43034 (Also in 32)
- Fixed an issue when dragging to resize when using Window Controls Overlay on Linux. #43744 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed an issue where Chromium could crash on a dangling unretained pointer in one of several webRequest functions. #42647 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed an issue where High Contrast Mode didn't apply to webContents on Windows. #42853 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed an issue where MessagePorts could close unexpectedly with non-cloneable objects sent via
postMessage
. #42535 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where
BaseWindow.setTouchBar
didn't work as expected. #43422 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where
WebContentsView
s did not show correctly in some circumstances on macOS after being added as child views. #43696 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where
defaultPath
did not work for all users on Linux when creating an open file dialog. #43595 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where
fetch
-dependent interfaces could be missing in Web Workers withnodeIntegrationInWorker
enabled. #42579 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where
navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices
could return broken results in some cases after callingsession.setPermissionCheckHandler
. #42775 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia
andnavigator.getUserMedia
should reject with aNotAllowedError
if microphone or camera permissions have been denied at the system level on macOS. #42899 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where
navigator.serial.getPorts()
incorrectly returned an empty array in some cases. #43101 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where
system-context-menu
was not triggered as expected on Windows when using a frameless BrowserWindow. #43243 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where an exception could be thrown on BrowserView after its owner BrowserWindow was closed. #44000 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed an issue where calling
BrowserWindow.setBackgroundColor
with some level of transparency could cause a crash. #42824 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where calling
desktopCapturer.getSources
on macOS running 14.4 or later would make non-resizable windows resizable. #43013 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where calling
window.print()
,webContents.print()
orprintToPDF
from an existing PDF document resulted in a blank page. #43309 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where calling
window.showInactive
on macOS did not actually show the window. #43079 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where clicking the eyedropper icon did nothing instead of opening an eyedropper for color selection as expected. #43700 (Also in 32)
- Fixed an issue where control could fail to return properly after saving a dialog using showOpenDialogSync on Linux. #42652 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)
- Fixed an issue where sources returned by the
desktopCapturer
API andscreen.getAllDisplays()
no longer matched on Windows. #42781 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where sources returned by the
desktopCapturer
API andscreen.getAllDisplays()
no longer matched on Windows. #42883 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed an issue where the File System Access API did not remember the user's last picked directory as expected. #42850 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
- Fixed an issue where the user-specified default path did not work in some circumstances when using Linux dialogs. #42655 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
- Fixed an issue where users would be incorrectly notified of print failure upon intentional cancellation. #43337 (Also in 32)
- Fixed an issue with
resize
events being emitted on Windows when the window was moved but not resized. #43457 (Also in 32) - Fixed behavior when entering/exiting fullscreen fails on macOS. #43112 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)
- Fixed bug where camera permissions affected screen sharing. #43543 (Also in 32)
- Fixed closing a window with more than one attached sheet on macOS. #43952 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed crash when resolving proxy with
session.resolveProxy
api. #42878 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed devtools to allow restoring saved dock state on Linux when WCO is enabled. #43499 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed electron app in ozone/wayland not being focused when launched from another app. #43546 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed issues with the vibrancy view on macOS. #43078 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed other apps not being focused when launched from electron ozone/wayland. #43579 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed potential use-after-free during view removal on macOS. #43922 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed several view hierarchy issues related to web contents view on MacOS. #43033 (Also in 31, 32)
- Fixed the resource leak when using Node.js readable streams as the response body for a custom protocol handler. #43056 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
- Resolved an issue where
desktopCapturer.getSources
never fulfilled its promise in some cases. #43080 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32) - Restored Chromium default
Content-Disposition
header parsing. #43670 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Third time isn't always a charm. Fixed the native macOS Screen Share picker invocation triggering a test Chromium green screen. #43810 (Also in 32)
- Fix: fixed the
npm run lint
not working on Windows. #42281 (Also in 31, 32) - Fixed a potential crash when removing notifications on Windows. #43040 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
- Fixed an issue where opening multiple file pickers on Windows via the
input
tag could cause a crash. #42758 (Also in 30, 31, 32) - Fixed crash in gpu process when software compositing is enabled on linux with x11 platform. #42559 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)
- Fixed ffmpeg release on x64 macOS. #43093 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)
Documentation
Notices
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