Release of electron 16.0.3 with support for Google Widevine.
⚠️ The
v16
series of Electron for Content Security, labeledwvcus
, moves to using the Component Updater Service to handle installation of the Widevine CDM, and has incompatible API updates compared to the previouswvvmp
releases.
Known Limitations
- No automatic migration of persisted licenses between CDM system id changes (usually major updates and/or releases fixing vulnerabilities), so any persisted licenses may need to be re-fetched on upgrade
- VMP, and thus persistent licenses, are not supported by the Linux Widevine CDM (requests have the VMP status
PLATFORM_UNVERIFIED
)