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Electron v8.0.0-beta.8 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-01-29 // over 4 years ago

  • 🚀 Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

    🚀 This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm i [email protected].

    🚀 Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.8

    🛠 Fixes

    • 🛠 Fixed Linux desktop tray icon size regression introduced in the 8.0 betas. #21936
    • 🛠 Fixed BrowserWindow.setFocusable(true) not working on Windows. #21854
    • 🛠 Fixed Tray.setContextMenu not updating the menu on Linux. #21902
    • 🛠 Fixed a crash in webContents.print() caused by infinite recursion. #21905
    • 🛠 Fixed an edge case in checkbox logic on Windows. #21861
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where window.print() only worked once on a single BrowserWindow. #21908
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where sites using ShadowDOMV0, CustomElementsV0, or HTMLImports would not load properly. #21866
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where the credits set in About Panel credits were not dark mode aware on macOS. #21926
    • 🛠 Fixed crash when doing redirect navigation with webRequest listener. #21841
    • 🛠 Fixed crash when restoring minimized hidden window on Windows. #21821
    • 🛠 Fixed error thrown when importing powerMonitor on Linux before app's 'ready' event. #21942
    • 🛠 Fixed native module size increase on windows, follow up fix to #20614. #21947

    Other Changes

    • 🛠 Fixed potential hang when sending synchronous IPC messages on process shutdown. #21948
    • ⚡️ Updated Chromium to 80.0.3987.75. #21932

    📚 Documentation

    • 📚 Documentation changes: #21874