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  • v8.0.0-beta.9 Changes

    January 30, 2020

    🚀 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.9

    🛠 Fixes

    • ➕ Added name of module to context-aware deprecation warning (#18397). #21958
    • 🛠 Fixed build issue where ChromeDriver would fail to start. #21966
    • 🛠 Fixed compilation error for native modules building with VS 2015. #21960

  • v8.0.0-beta.8 Changes

    January 29, 2020

    🚀 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

  • v8.0.0-beta.7 Changes

    January 16, 2020

    🚀 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.7

    🔋 Features

    • ➕ Added session.addWordToSpellCheckerDictionary API to support custom words in the. #21297

    🛠 Fixes

    • 🛠 Fixed set-cookie header not passed in net module. #21769
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where webContents.printToPDF failed to properly generate the PDF document. #21797
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where custom stream protocols would sometimes not complete responses when the data stream ended. #21759
    • 🛠 Fixed memory leak when using javascript generator functions. #21760

    Other Changes

    • ⚡️ Updated Chromium to 80.0.3987.59. #21800

  • v8.0.0-beta.6

    January 13, 2020

  • v8.0.0-beta.5

    December 14, 2019

  • v8.0.0-beta.4 Changes

    December 04, 2019

    🚀 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.4

    🔋 Features

    • 🔦 Exposed executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld on the webContents API. #21267

    🛠 Fixes

    • 🛠 Fixed --ignore-connections-limit, ironically, being ignored. #21298
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where Tray icons couldn't be created from paths. #21241
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where the checkboxChecked value wasn't being updated in showMessageBox on Windows. #21312
    • 🛠 Fixed broken focus with OOPIF embedded inside webview. #21343
    • 🛠 Fixed contextBridge crash. #21282
    • 🛠 Fixed the 'login' event not being emitted when HTTP Basic auth was requested during a net.request. #21133
    • 🛠 Fixed throttling in webContents.setBackgroundThrottling. #21358
    • 🚩 Net module requests no longer raise errors when non-2xx responses are received. #21285
    • 0️⃣ The disabled-by-default-cpu_profiler tracing category now correctly records stack samples from the main process and utility processes. #21276
    • 👷 webContents.reloadIgnoringCache() will now forcefully ignore all caches, including service workers. #21283
    • window.root and window.GLOBAL are both now undefined when nodeIntegration is disabled as expected. #21355

    Other Changes

    • 👀 Deprecated the default value of app.allowRendererProcessReuse (See #18397). #21287
    • 🛠 Fixed some crashes that could occur when using the net module. #21303
    • 🐧 Generate debug symbols on Linux. #21278
    • Made strip_absolute_paths_from_debug_symbols to false in debug.gn. #21316

  • v8.0.0-beta.10

    January 31, 2020

  • v7.3.3

    August 06, 2020

  • v7.3.1 Changes

    June 01, 2020

    🚀 Release Notes for v7.3.1

    🛠 Fixes

    • 🛠 Fixed process.windowsStore returning undefined in AppX packages. #23800
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where the 'about' role had on effect on Windows menus. #23713

    Other Changes

    • Backported fix for CVE-2020-6468: OOB read/write in V8. #23748
    • 🆓 Backported fix for use-after-free in AudioWorklet. #23844

  • v7.3.0 Changes

    May 15, 2020

    🚀 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