Release Notes for v8.3.0
Features
- Added a new
force
parameter toapp.focus()
on macOS to allow apps to forcefully take focus. #23574 - EnableWebSQL is a new webpreference option to enable/disable websql api. #23581
Fixes
- Ensured that exit callbacks are run for Node.js in the renderer process. #23564
- Fixed a crash which could occur during page navigations. #23396
- Fixed an issue whereby
macOS
would fail to allow file extensions containing periods. #23449 - Fixed behaviour of navigator.language/s and app.getLocale to use OS locale. #23407
- Fixed crash with webview during some window management events like resize, scroll etc. #23397
Other Changes
- Fixed v8_context_snapshot_generator included in arm/arm64 mksnapshot zip files. #23542
- None. #23402, #23591
- Security: Backport Chromium fix for https://crbug.com/1062861. #23528
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6458: Out of bounds read and write in PDFium. #23465
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6459: Use after free in payments. #23456
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6460: Insufficient data validation in URL formatting. #23462
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6461: use-after-free in storage. #23504
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6462: Use after free in task scheduling. #23517
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6463: use-after-free in Angle. #23561
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6464: Type confusion in blink. #23532
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6831: Stack buffer overflow in SCTP. #23514
Documentation
- Documentation changes: #23355