Release Notes for v8.3.2

Features

• V8CacheOptions is a new webpreference option to enforce code caching policy. #23869

Fixes

• Added missing support for isComposing KeyboardEvent property. #24015
• Enable NTLM v2 for POSIX platforms and added --disable-ntlm-v2 switch to disable it. #23933
• Ensured proper nativeImage serialization between renderer and browser processes via remote. #23797
• Fixed GTK dark theme setting not respected in Electron on Linux. #23965
• Fixed chrome://media-internals and chrome://webrtc-internals pages not loading. #24063
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using the ipcRenderer module after blink had released the context. Instead, a JS exception will be thrown. #23979
• Fixed an error when calling dialog.showCertificateTrustDialog with no BrowserWindow. #24120
• Fixed an issue where rmdir and rmdirSync work with original-fs in an asar context. #23955
• Fixed an issue where window.location properties would throw an error for windows opened with window.open. #23947
• Fixed an issue where some logging would double-print. #23924
• Fixed an issue with volume-related globalShortcut registration. #23948
• Fixed crash when navigating between origins in a child window with nativeWindowOpen and contextIsolation enabled. #23894
• Fixed disabling color correct rendering with --disable-color-correct-rendering. #23827
• Fixed the acceptLanguages argument being ignored in session.setUserAgent(). #23963
• Restored old implementation of Linux Tray icons to fix a collection of issues where the tray icon wouldn't appear, would be the wrong size or would randomly disappear. #23927

Other Changes

• None. #24072
• [a11y] fix incorrect position and size reported for grouped items in a listbox. #24088

Release Notes for v8.3.1

Fixes

• Backported the fix for CVE-2020-6467: UAF in WebRTC. #23788
• Don't ignore the referrer header in net.request. #23688
• Fixed process.windowsStore returning undefined in AppX packages. #23799
• Fixed an issue where the 'about' role had on effect on Windows menus. #23714
• Fixed an occasional menu crash on macOS Catalina when menu is closing. #23807

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2020-6468: OOB read/write in V8. #23747
• Fixed issues where objects sent over the context bridge could be freed prematurely resulting in crashes when accessing them. #23612
• Improved error logging on moveItemToTrash failures on macOS. #23629