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@42.0.0-alpha.5.

Release Notes for v42.0.0-alpha.5

Features

Added nativeTheme.shouldDifferentiateWithoutColor on macOS. #50409 ^{(Also in 41)}
Notes: Added support for the urgency option in Notifications on Windows. #50383 ^{(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 when calling an offscreen shared texture's release() after the texture object was garbage collected. #50502 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41)}
Fixed an accessibility issue where the AXMenuOpened event was not fired on menu creation. #50504 ^{(Also in 40, 41)}
Fixed printing on Linux failing with "Invalid printer settings". #50487
Removed support for the ELECTRON_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD environment variable. #50459