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 install electron@16.0.0-beta.8.

Release Notes for v16.0.0-beta.8

Fixes

• Fixed <webview> background transparency regression. #31728
• Fixed clipboard.writeBuffer(), clipboard.readBuffer() and clipboard.read()'s ability to manipulate platform-specific clipboard formats. #31719
• Fixed an issue where app.getPath('crashDumps') returned an incorrect path for Linux. #31711 (Also in 15)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 96.0.4664.35. #31709