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@8.0.0-beta.2.

Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.2

Features

Added support for the built-in spellchecker. We will use the OS spellchecker on macOS and hunspell on all other platforms. #20897

Fixed a crash in Menus related to menu.popup(). #20785
Fixed a label mismatch on open and save dialogs on GTK. #20883
Fixed an issue with Node.js context initialization in renderer processes. #20836
Fixed crashes when calling webContents.printToPDF() multiple times. #20802
Fixed devtools extensions not loading due to "Connect to unknown extension [object Object]" errors. #20842
Fixed flicker when switching between BrowserViews. #20847
Fixed memory leaks caused by callbacks not being released when the remote module is used in sub-frames (<iframe> or scriptable popup). #20813
Fixed several deprecation warnings in Electron code. #20805