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 i electron@6.0.0-beta.8.

Release Notes for v6.0.0-beta.8

Features

Added new app.allowRendererProcessReuse property that allows apps to disable the site instance overrides Electron has patched into Chromium. This can be used to prevent the automatic renderer process restarting that Electron currently does. #18554

Fixed window.opener null after cross-origin navigation. #18624
Fixed bug where notifications with same tag wouldn't show more than once when first notification was auto dismissed in Windows 7. #18740
Fixed crash in BrowserWindow destructor after win.webContents.destroy(). #18793
Fixed exiting html fullscreen mode for embedded contents. #18775
Migrate crashReporter to use crashpad on Windows. #18766
.executeJavaScript will never leave a promise dangling now, scripts that fail to execute will correctly be rejected. #18714