Electron Releases

Filter by channel
 Stable

Regular, supported releases
 Prerelease

Test upcoming changes
 Nightly

Experiment with the latest features
Filter by major release

Release Notes for v32.0.0

Stack Upgrades

Breaking Changes

  • Removed nonstandard File.path extension from the Web File API. #42053
  • Added the following existing navigation related APIs to webcontents.navigationHistory: canGoBack, goBack, canGoForward, goForward, canGoToOffset, goToOffset, clear. #41752

Features

Additions

  • Added DownloadItem.getCurrentBytesPerSecond(), DownloadItem.getPercentComplete(), DownloadItem.getEndTime(). #42913 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Added cumulativeCPUUsage to AppMetrics and CPUUsage. #41819
  • Added a new property prefersReducedTransparency to nativeTheme, which indicates whether the user has chosen to reduce OS-level transparency via system accessibility settings. #43024 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Enabled the Windows Control Overlay API on Linux. #42681 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Expose systemPreferences to utilityProcess. #42599 (Also in 30, 31)

Improvements

  • Aligned failure pathway in File System Access API with upstream when attempting to open a file or directory in a blocked path. #42993 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Extended WebContentsView to accept pre-existing webContents object. #42086 (Also in 31)
  • Improved error messages when ses.cookies.set fails. #42362 (Also in 29, 30, 31)

Fixes

  • Don't check for Desktop Environment in setProgressBar and setBadgeCount. #41211
  • Fixed an error where a minimized or hidden window would thrown an unresponsive error in the main process. #43053

Also in earlier versions...

  • BrowserWindow.show() now correctly restores focus to inactive apps on macOS. #42300 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Electron doesn't paint on offscreen-render mode after gpu process crashed. #41904 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fix: fixed the npm run lint not working on Windows. #42905 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed a crash in addChildView if a view is added as its own child. #42067 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed a crash that could occur in some DevTools extensions containing draggable regions. #43199 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed a crash when the same WebContentsView is added via addChildView multiple times. #42085 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed a focus issue when calling BrowserWindow.setTopBrowserView. #42733 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed a potential crash when removing notifications on Windows. #43060 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed a potential crash when using off screen rendering. #42940 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed a potential error when calling webContents.close() on a BrowserView. #42811 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed an error when calling setAutoResize on a BrowserView. #42056 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an inconsistent crash on maximizing window and relayout in Ubuntu. #42126 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where Chromium could crash on a dangling unretained pointer in one of several webRequest functions. #42750 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed an issue where High Contrast Mode didn't apply to webContents on Windows. #42858 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed an issue where MessagePorts could close unexpectedly with non-cloneable objects sent via postMessage. #42581 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where BrowserView webContents were getting destroyed even when preventDefault was being set on the owning BrowserWindow's close event. #42353 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where app.setLoginItemSettings incorrectly checked against loginItemService. #42380 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where contentWindow.document.fonts.ready would never resolve in some circumstances. #42366 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where document.requestFullscreen didn't work when calling it from a webContents inside WebContentsView. #41966 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where fetch dependent interfaces in Node.js were not defined when nodeIntegration was enabled in some circumstances. #42419 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where fetch-dependent interfaces could be missing in Web Workers with nodeIntegrationInWorker enabled. #42595 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices could return broken results in some cases after calling session.setPermissionCheckHandler. #42808 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia and navigator.getUserMedia should reject with a NotAllowedError if microphone or camera permissions have been denied at the system level on macOS. #42936 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where navigator.serial.getPorts() incorrectly returned an empty array in some cases. #43169 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where navigator.usb.getDevices() could crash in some circumstances. #42443 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where recentDOcuments wasn't populating properly on macOS. #41978 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where setTitleBarOverlay didn't work as expected when called on BaseWindow. #41960 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where system-context-menu was not triggered as expected on Windows when using a frameless BrowserWindow. #43269 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where webContents.navigationHistory was not an enumerable property. #42139 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where bad flags passed via --js-flags could cause a crash. #42414 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where calling BrowserWindow.setBackgroundColor with some level of transparency could cause a crash. #42927 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed an issue where calling desktopCapturer.getSources on macOS running 14.4 or later would make non-resizable windows resizable. #43045 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed an issue where calling window.center() on Windows and Linux incorrectly centered the window. #42048 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where calling window.print(), webContents.print() or printToPDF from an existing PDF document resulted in a blank page. #43326 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed an issue where calling window.showInactive on macOS did not actually show the window. #43103 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed an issue where control could fail to return properly after saving a dialog using showOpenDialogSync on Linux. #42677 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where dialogs did not work if they were parented to a BaseWindow and not a BrowserWindow. #42315 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where opening multiple file pickers on Windows via the input tag could cause a crash. #42780 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where some calls to WebUSB methods could crash. #42347 (Also in 29, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where sources returned by the desktopCapturer API and screen.getAllDisplays() no longer matched on Windows. #42860 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed an issue where sources returned by the desktopCapturer API and screen.getAllDisplays() no longer matched on Windows. #42891 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed an issue where the File System Access API did not remember the user's last picked directory as expected. #42892 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where the user-specified default path did not work in some circumstances when using Linux dialogs. #42680 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed an issue where the window could be incorrectly centered in some circumstances when calling BrowserWindow.center(). #42195 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed behavior when entering/exiting fullscreen fails on macOS. #43152 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed crash after upgrade on Linux. #41046 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed crash in gpu process when software compositing is enabled on linux with x11 platform. #42568 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed crash on window maximize on X11. #42179 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed crash when resolving proxy with session.resolveProxy api. #42898 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed data corruption when protocol.handle() processed incoming data asynchronously. #41894 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed ffmpeg release on x64 macOS. #43120 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed issue where windows made visible with showInactive were blank. #42226 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed issues with the vibrancy view on macOS. #43127 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed nativeImage.createThumbnailFromPath and shell.openExternal not resolving when called in the renderer process. #41875 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed partially broken state of chrome://accessibility. #41911 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed potentially incorrect exit code in UtilityProcess. #42297 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed several view hierarchy issues related to web contents view on MacOS. #43088 (Also in 31)
  • Fixed support for multiple folder/file selection in //shell_dialogs portal implementation. #42308 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Fixed the resource leak when using Node.js readable streams as the response body for a custom protocol handler. #43070 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Fixed the type of WebviewTag.webpreferences back to string. #42275 (Also in 30, 31)
  • Re-adds functionality to check whether or not an app was launched as a login service on macOS. #42411 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • Resolved an issue where desktopCapturer.getSources never fulfilled its promise in some cases. #43270 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
  • BrowserWindow.focus() now correctly restore focus to inactive apps on macOS. #42180 (Also in 30, 31)
  • originalFs.promises.cp now works. #42132 (Also in 31)

Other Changes

  • Backported fix for 336625018. #42304 (Also in 31)
  • Backported fix for 339458194. #42120
  • Backported fix for 340221135. #42172
  • Backported fix for 341663589. #42253

Documentation

Notices

End of Support for 29.x.y

Electron 29.x.y has reached end-of-support as per the project's support policy. Developers and applications are encouraged to upgrade to a newer version of Electron.

 v32.0.0 on GitHub
 2024-08-19 (50 days ago) 128.0.6613.36 20.16.0