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Electron v7.3.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-05-15 // about 4 years ago

  • 🚀 Release Notes for v7.3.0

    🔋 Features

    • EnableWebSQL is a new webpreference option to enable/disable websql api. #23582

    🛠 Fixes

    • Ensured that exit callbacks are run for Node.js in the renderer process. #23566
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue whereby macOS would fail to allow file extensions containing periods. #23451
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue with navigator.languages and Accept-Language did not fully respect users' language preferences on Windows and macOS. This also improved fallback font selection for CJK texts on Windows. #23420
    • 🛠 Fixed crash with webview during some window management events like resize, scroll etc. #23398

    Other Changes

    • Fixed v8_context_snapshot_generator included in arm/arm64 mksnapshot zip files. #23539
    • None. #23403
    • 🔒 Security: Backport Chromium fix for https://crbug.com/1062861. #23527
    • 🔒 Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6457: Use after free in speech recognizer. #23431
    • 🔒 Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6458: Out of bounds read and write in PDFium. #23466
    • 🔒 Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6459: Use after free in payments. #23457
    • 🔒 Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6460: Insufficient data validation in URL formatting. #23463
    • 🔒 Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6461: use-after-free in storage. #23503
    • 🔒 Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6462: Use after free in task scheduling. #23518
    • 🔒 Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6463: use-after-free in Angle. #23562
    • 🔒 Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6464: Type confusion in blink. #23531
    • 🔒 Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6831: Stack buffer overflow in SCTP. #23515

    📚 Documentation

    • 📚 Documentation changes: #23357