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Release Notes for v42.0.0

Features

  • Added JS stack trace to crash reports on renderer OOM. #50911
  • Added Notification.handleActivation(callback) API on Windows to handle notification clicks, replies, and action buttons - including when the app is launched from a notification (cold start). #49919
  • Added ELECTRON_INSTALL_PLATFORM and ELECTRON_INSTALL_ARCH variables to install binaries from other platforms and architectures. #49981
  • Added Notification.getHistory() for macOS, allowing developers to restore all delivered notifications still present in Notification Center. #51123
  • Added allowExtensions privilege to protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged() to enable Chrome extensions on custom protocols. #50530 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Added app.configureWebAuthn() to enable the Touch ID platform authenticator for WebAuthn on macOS, and a select-webauthn-account session event for choosing between multiple discoverable credentials. #51411 (Also in 41)
  • Added app.isActive() to check if the app is the active/foreground application (macOS only). #49622
  • Added globalShortcut.setSuspended() and globalShortcut.isSuspended() methods to temporarily suspend and resume global shortcut handling. #50777
  • Added id and groupId options to the Notification constructor on macOS. id allows custom identifiers for notifications, and groupId visually groups notifications together in Notification Center. #50304
  • Added webContents.getOrCreateDevToolsTargetId(). #49733 (Also in 41)
  • Added a disclaim option to the UtilityProcess API to allow for TCC disclaiming on macOS. #49128 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Added a reason property to the Notification 'closed' event on Windows to allow developers to know the reason the Notification was dismissed. #49913 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Added an usePrinterDefaultPageSize option to webContents.print() to allow using the printer's default page size. #49523 (Also in 41)
  • Added animation functionality to view.setBounds and add view.setBackgroundBlur. #48812
  • Added id, groupId, and groupTitle support for Windows notifications. #50895
  • Added nativeTheme.shouldDifferentiateWithoutColor on macOS. #50409 (Also in 41)
  • Added support for MSIX auto-updating. #49230 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Added support for --experimental-transform-types. #49711 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Added support for long-animation-frame script attribution (via --enable-features=AlwaysLogLOAFURL). #49706 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Added support for heap profiling via contentTracing.enableHeapProfiling(). #51162 (Also in 41)
  • Added support for importing shared textures using the nv16 pixel format. #51187
  • Added support for importing shared textures using the p010le 10-bit YUV pixel format. #49272
  • Added support for several more safeStorage backends via new asynchronous functionality in safeStorage. #49054
  • Added the ability to disable auto-focusing of WebContents on navigation using webPreferences.focusOnNavigation. #49425 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Changed offscreen scale factor use 1.0f as default. #49683
  • Electron now downloads its binary into node_modules dynamically on first launch instead of running a postinstall script. Added the install-electron script to manually trigger the download as well. #49328
  • Enable wasm trap handlers behind WasmTrapHandlers fuse. #48983 (Also in 41)
  • Extended actions support for Windows notifications to include buttons, select dropdowns, and replies. #48132 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Notes: Added support for the urgency option in Notifications on Windows. #50383 (Also in 41)
  • On Wayland (Linux), frameless windows now have GTK drop shadows and extended resize boundaries. To create fully frameless windows with no decorations, set hasShadow: false in the window constructor. #49295 (Also in 41)
  • Replaced deprecated NSUserNotification with User Notifications. #47817

Fixes

  • Added additional ASAR support to additional fs copy methods. #50285 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Added crash keys to diagnose power monitor shutdown crash on arm64 windows. #51205
  • Added missing metadata fields to contentTracing traces. #51007 (Also in 41)
  • Added validation to protocol client methods to reject protocol names that do not conform to the RFC 3986 URI scheme grammar. #50141 (Also in 38, 39, 40, 41)
  • Addressed upstream Chromium shift to enable CoreAudio Tap API for audio capture used in electron's desktopCapturer (🍏 macOS). #49717 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Allow dynamically updating menu item labels, sublabels, and icons. #49678 (Also in 40, 41)
  • BrowserWindow now enforces min/max size constraints on window creation, even if they conflict with the requested width and height. #50754 (Also in 41)
  • Changed the kResizeThreshold to trigger the resize on corners. #51001 (Also in 41)
  • Ensured cross-origin fetch() and XHR are blocked for custom protocols registered with supportFetchAPI: true unless corsEnabled: true is also set; cross-origin mode: 'no-cors' requests now receive an opaque response. #51269 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed Electron child process titles on Linux so they show their types (render, gpu, etc.) and complete command-line arguments and flags in ps aux. #50533
  • Fixed fs.stat on files inside asar archives returning undefined for blksize and blocks instead of numeric values. #50877 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed globalShortcut not working on Wayland with GlobalShortcutsPortal feature enabled. #49842 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed webContents.printToPDF rejecting on all subsequent calls after a prior call was rejected with an invalid pageRanges value. #51222 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed a crash when providing invalid HTTP header names or values in the webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders() callback. #51366 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed a bug that cause offscreen rendering doesn't have valid screen info and unable to get valid result of related media queries.
    • Added webPreference.offscreen.deviceScaleFactor to allow user specify a value, instead of using user's primary display's value. #48730 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed a bug where Windows notification icons could fail to save because their temporary filenames contained invalid characters. #50482 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed a bug where errors would occur when using the Chrome DevTools Fetch API. #51372 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed a crash in clipboard.readImage() when the clipboard contains malformed image data. #50494 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when an autofill suggestion popup was shown while a window was closing. #51317 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when using the File System Access API. #49578 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed a crash when calling contentTracing.getTraceBufferUsage() while a trace session is active. #50592 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed a crash when calling an offscreen shared texture's release() after the texture object was garbage collected. #50502 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed a crash when rendering PDFs when Site Isolation is disabled. #50846 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed a macOS crash when creating a new tab from the tab overview. #49917 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed a memory leak where Menu items were not cleaned up after Menu.setApplicationMenu was called repeatedly. #50832 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed a potential crash when using webContents.print(). #50853
  • Fixed a regression on Linux where transparent frameless windows would have visible borders. Also fixed a longstanding issue where transparent windows on Linux could show smeared and glitched content as windows moved around. #51430 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed a regression on Windows where frameless windows changed their size after calling setResizable. #51296 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed a regression where frameless fullscreen windows had white borders on Windows. #51331 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed a renderer crash when a page uses the <geolocation> HTML element. #51374 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed absent 'Electron Isolated Context' in the execution context dropdown in Dev Tools. #51079 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an accessibility issue where the AXMenuOpened event was not fired on menu creation. #50504 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an application crash on MacOS where the menu observer was not being properly removed before garbage collection. #49648 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an error with Windows release builds after MSIX merger. #49613
  • Fixed an intermittent Invoke in DisallowJavascriptExecutionScope crash on application quit when a WebContents (or other JS-emitting native object) is garbage-collected during shutdown. #50695 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue in chrome://accessibility. #49547 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue on Windows where a transient UnhookWindowsHookEx failure in setIgnoreMouseEvents(true, { forward: true }) teardown could cause duplicate low-level mouse hooks to be installed on the next activation. #51418 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue on macOS where Universal Links were not delivered to app.on('continue-activity') on cold launch when NSUserActivity.userInfo was nil. #49986 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue on macOS where show/hide events and WebContents visibility state could be reported incorrectly when multiple WebContentsViews were attached to a window. #50712 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue on macOS where calling autoUpdater.quitAndInstall() could fail if checkForUpdates() was called again after an update was already downloaded. #50210 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue that caused the RGBAF16 shared texture format to have a keyed mutex on Windows. #49798 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue where Chrome Devtools menus may not appear in certain embedded windows. #49794 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where DevTools would re-attach to the window when opened after previously being detached. #50815 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where VideoFrame objects returned through contextBridge had an incorrect prototype. #49997 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where additionalData passed to app.requestSingleInstanceLock on Windows could be truncated or fail to deserialize in the primary instance's second-instance event. #50119 (Also in 38, 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where app-region: drag inside a hidden WebContentsView would still drag the parent window on Windows. #51245 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where net.fetch() requests in the main process and utility processes would permanently fail with net::ERR_FAILED after the Network Service process crashed and restarted. #49887
  • Fixed an issue where nodeIntegrationInWorker didn't always work in AudioWorklet. #51005 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where nodeIntegrationInWorker overrides in setWindowOpenHandler were not honored for child windows sharing a renderer process with their opener. #50122 (Also in 38, 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where screen.getCursorScreenPoint() crashed on Wayland when it was called before a BrowserWindow had been created. #50092 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where setSimpleFullScreen on macOS would exit when web content called requestFullscreen(). #50987 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where shell.writeShortcutLink was throwing TypeError: Insufficient number of arguments when called with just [(path, options)]. #49476 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where alt+space triggered th system context menu even if an accelerator was registered for the hotkey combination. #49619 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where an Electron auto-update job would occasionally fail if a macOS system update is pending. #51111
  • Fixed an issue where an Electron macOS update would not be applied if another app was previously blocking the macOS system update loop. #51212 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where an app shortcut may lose its icon after auto-updating on Windows. #50517 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where calling contentTracing APIs before app.whenReady() would crash the application. #51353 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue where calling setBounds on a WebContentsView could trigger redundant page-favicon-updated events even when the favicon had not changed. #49464 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where closing devtools immediately after focus caused a crash. #51036 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue where concurrent getFileHandle requests on the same path could stall indefinitely. #50671 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where cookie changed events weren't properly emitted in all cases. #49103 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue where custom options in webContents.print() did not prefill the print dialog on macOS. #50643
  • Fixed an issue where frameless windows had resize issues in Mac App Store builds. #49780 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where invalid characters in custom protocol or webRequest response header values were not rejected. #50123 (Also in 38, 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where making a window fullscreen on Windows, minimizing it and then restoring it broke previous fullscreen state. #49872 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where malformed custom toastXml could cause a Notification crash. #49947 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where margins did not look as expected when printing in silent mode. #50653 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue where menu item accelerators stopped working after the item's enabled property was toggled on macOS. #49553 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where menu item enabled state wasn't updated during key equivalent dispatch when the menu was closed on macOS. #49875 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where native modules would either crash or not compile for MacOS 12. #49697 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where permission and device-chooser handlers received the top-level page origin instead of the requesting subframe's origin. #50052 (Also in 38, 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where role-based menu items were incorrectly returning null for their accelerator property. #49558 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where saving edited PDF files would fail with a cross-origin SecurityError. #51072 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue where setting zoomFactor in setWindowOpenHandler's overrideBrowserWindowOptions had no effect on windows opened via window.open(). #49886 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where some DevTools functionality didn't work as expected. #50274 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where some shell functionality may not work on Linux if the target window is already open. #49499 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue where some toast notification properties didn't work as expected in WinRT. #51330 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue where the Squirrel.Mac installer could resolve the target bundle path to different locations at different stages of an install. #50765 (Also in 39)
  • Fixed an issue where the webContents.print() callback may not fire correctly in some cases. #50603 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue where traffic light buttons would flash at position (0,0) when restoring a window with a custom trafficLightPosition from minimization on macOS. #50183 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where webContents.print() would ignore pageSize / mediaSize when silent was true. #50855 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue whereby a duplicate "Toggle Full Screen" menu item appeared in the View menu on macOS. #49074 (Also in 38, 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed aspect ratio min/max size clamping to correctly account for extraSize on macOS. #50836 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed bug that could occasionally cause browserWindow's always-on-top-changed even to fire with incorrect values. #51133 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed bug where opening a message box immediately upon closing a child window may cause the parent window to freeze on Windows. #50078 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed buggy behavior where Backspace would accept macOS text replacements inside contenteditable elements. #51344 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed build failure when building with enable_pdf disabled. #51249 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed build failure when printing is disabled. #50056 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed certain DevTools extension panels not showing without a page reload. #50640
  • Fixed crash in platform_util::Beep() on Linux. #49442 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed crash when app.setPath('sessionData') was called with a non-existent directory. #50908 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed crash when handling JavaScript dialogs from windows opened with invalid or empty URLs. #50398 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed cross-origin isolation failing for non-file origins. #51404
  • Fixed dependency issue that caused Squirrel.Mac updates to fail. #49980
  • Fixed dock menu items not respecting enabled and checked properties on macOS. #49574 (Also in 38, 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed draggable regions not updating position when DevTools is docked to the left or right in a frameless window. #49822 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed frameless transparent windows on Windows losing their transparency after setResizable(false) followed by setResizable(true). #51218 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed improper focus tracking in BaseWindow on MacOS. #50339 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed logic bug that rendered certain window types un-resizable on MAS builds. #50356 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed memory leak when setting icons on Linux/GTK. #49863 (Also in 38, 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed menu bar hiding after a call to win.setFullScreen(false) when not in fullscreen on Linux. #45930 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed menus to correctly emit menu-will-close event when closed after any submenu has been open. #49783 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed native notification clicks not focusing the application window on Wayland. #50669
  • Fixed printing on Linux failing with "Invalid printer settings". #50487 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed rendering glitches on macOS. #49608 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed resize hit targets for frameless windows on Windows. Resize targets now start at the side and bottom edges of the window and extend outward when frame: false, matching the behavior for windows with frames. #50864 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed several issues with consistent window sizing and resizing on Linux when CSD is in use (e.g. on GNOME/Wayland) and added support for creating content-sized windows. #49209 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed shutdown crash on windows when hidden titlebar is enabled. #50042 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed shutdown crash on windows when power monitor notifications were subscribed. #50893
  • Fixed startup crash when V8 sandbox is disabled. #49210 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed test scaffolding bug when running tests locally on Linux. #51149 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed the appearance of maximized windows on GNOME in Wayland, especially when non-default GTK themes like Breeze are set. #50644 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed the crash keys being lost and the crash reporter hanging on macOS when many dynamic crash keys were registered. #50839 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed user resizing of transparent windows on win32 platform. #50299 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed utilityProcess exit event reporting incorrect exit codes on Windows when the exit code has the high bit. #50385 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed webRequest handlers not being called for intercepted protocols and special net.fetch URLs. #45915
  • Fixed window freeze when failing to enter/exit fullscreen on macOS. #50342 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed window sizing on Linux when min/max size constraints are set or resizable is false. Windows no longer shrink below the requested max size or grow taller when resizability is disabled. #49903 (Also in 41)
  • Global shortcuts can now be registered more reliably on Wayland using the globalShortcut API. #49988 (Also in 41)
  • Improved the appearance of shadows and borders on frameless windows on Wayland. #50007 (Also in 41)
  • Improved the way Electron determines the default XDG App ID and WM_CLASS on Linux for better platform compatibility if desktopName is not provided in package.json. #51479 (Also in 41)
  • Moved Electron-specific help menu links to the default app only; unpackaged apps will no longer see these items in their default menu. #50861 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Removed "representedObject is not a WeakPtrToElectronMenuModelAsNSObject" logging when interacting with macOS menus. #50614 (Also in 41)
  • Removed support for the ELECTRON_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD environment variable. #50459
  • This PR fixes a regression in silent printing where custom DPI values from webContents.print were not honored, causing incorrect output scaling in real-world print flows. #51354 (Also in 41)

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  • Fixed CSS selector syntax in default app styles to properly apply animations to hero icons. #49950 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue where some packages weren't correctly filtered on macOS in dialogs. #49444 (Also in 38, 39, 40, 41)
  • Fixed squirrel.mac stacked update behavior to old staged updates. #49365 (Also in 39, 40, 41)
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