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@45.0.0-alpha.14.

Release Notes for v45.0.0-alpha.14

Features

• Added the experimental protocol.registerSource() to serve a custom scheme from directories on disk without a JavaScript handler. #54521 ^{(Also in 44)}

Fixes

• Fixed a potential crash during application shutdown. #54526
• Fixed a potential crash when cleaning up download items. #54517
• Fixed a potential crash when closing detached DevTools. #54538
• Fixed an issue where crashReporter.setUploadToServer() had no effect after crashReporter.start() was called. #54519 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed webview.findInPage() hanging when the host page also has an iframe. #54585 ^{(Also in 43, 44)}

Performance Improvements

• Improved cold-launch time on macOS by prefetching Electron's framework files. #54528

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 156.0.8077.0. #54557

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #54588