Release Notes for v8.5.3
Fixes
- Fixed
ready-to-showevent not emitted on some machines. #26140 (Also in 8, 10, 11) - Fixed an issue that could cause a normally-exiting process to fail with an "illegal access" message and exit code 7. #25501 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)
- Fixed loading shared worker scripts over custom protocol
- Fixed maximized frameless window bleeding to other monitors. #25979 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)
- Fixed memory leak on macOS when using
dialog.showMessageBoxAPI. #26100 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11) - Protocol response streams are now destroyed if the request is aborted. #26141 (Also in 8, 9, 10)
- Updated Node root certs to use NSS 3.56. #25363 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)
- Updated to Chrome 80.0.3987.163. #25499
Other Changes
- Backported fix for CVE-2020-15999. #26068
- Backported the fix to CVE-2020-15969: Use after free in WebRTC. #25855
- Improved performance of
takeHeapSnapshot(). #26227 - Security: backported fix for 1100136. #25659
- Security: backported fix for 1106612. #25657
- Security: backported fix for 1111149. #25637
- Security: backported fix for 1113558. #25860
- Security: backported fix for 1121836. #25642
- Security: backported fix for 1126249. #25646
- Security: backported fix for 1128657. #26198
- Security: backported fix for 1135018. #26195
- Security: backported fix for 1135857. #26192
- Security: backported fix for chromium:1117258. #26201
- Security: backported fix for chromium:1132111. #26208
- Security: backported fix for chromium:1137630. #26214
- Security: backported the fix to a heap-use-after-free in content::WebContentsImpl::SetNotWaitingForResponse. #25897