Note: This is an alpha release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@34.0.0-alpha.1.

Release Notes for v34.0.0-alpha.1

Features

• Added WebFrameMain.detached for frames in an unloading state.
  • Added WebFrameMain.isDestroyed() to determine if a frame has been destroyed.
  • Fixed webFrameMain.fromId(processId, frameId) returning a WebFrameMain instance which doesn't match the given parameters when the frame is unloading. #43473
• Added error event in utility process to support diagnostic reports on V8 fatal errors. #43774 (Also in 33)
• Added support for the macOS system picker in desktopCapturer and setDisplayMediaRequestHandler. #43581 (Also in 32, 33)
• Feat: GPU accelerated shared texture offscreen rendering. #42953
• Made menu bar hidden on fullscreen in Windows. #43402

Fixes

• Fixed BrowserView auto resize issue. #43463 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed MenuItem.click handler not setting focusedWindow parameter when focused window is a BaseWindow. #43404 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed a build failure when the enable_plugins build flag is false. #44003 (Also in 33)
• Fixed a crash when calling focus on a WebView's webContents. #43921 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed a potential issue accessing a child window document when overriding browserWindow creation via setWindowOpenHandler. #43775 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed a potential issue with fillable PDF forms saving correctly in some circumstances. #43667 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue when dragging to resize when using Window Controls Overlay on Linux. #43724 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where BaseWindow.setTouchBar didn't work as expected. #43353 (Also in 30, 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where WebContentsViews did not show correctly in some circumstances on macOS after being added as child views. #43638 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where defaultPath did not work for all users on Linux when creating an open file dialog. #43570 (Also in 30, 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where an exception could be thrown on BrowserView after its owner BrowserWindow was closed. #43972 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where clicking the eyedropper icon did nothing instead of opening an eyedropper for color selection as expected. #43685 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue with resize events being emitted on Windows when the window was moved but not resized. #43431 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed bug where camera permissions affected screen sharing. #43517 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed closing a window with more than one attached sheet on macOS. #43706 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed crash when running getDisplayMedia from multiple iframes. #43905 (Also in 33)
• Fixed devtools to allow restoring saved dock state on Linux when WCO is enabled. #43490 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed electron app in ozone/wayland not being focused when launched from another app. #43481 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed mouse cursor turning into loading spinner when starting utility process on Windows. #43657 (Also in 33)
• Fixed native addon compilation errors on macOS. #44189 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed other apps not being focused when launched from electron ozone/wayland. #43480 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed potential use-after-free during view removal on macOS. #43627 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Restored Chromium default Content-Disposition header parsing. #43611 (Also in 30, 31, 32, 33)
• Third time isn't always a charm. Fixed the native macOS Screen Share picker invocation triggering a test Chromium green screen. #43767 (Also in 32, 33)

Other Changes

• Ensured that the sender-id hint is set when creating desktop notifications on DBus. #43928 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Updated Chromium to 131.0.6776.0. #44137
• Updated Node.js to v20.18.0. #44119

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #43430