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.5.

Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.5

Fixes

Fixed POST-ing HTML forms with target=_blank. #21474
Fixed cookies.set not working correctly when name or expirationDate is omitted. #21477
Fixed a weird behaviors and crashes when controlling window menu by keys. #21452
Fixed accessibility window title on macOS. #21467
Fixed an issue that caused ClientRequest.getUploadProgress() to return incorrect values. #21424
Fixed an issue where noLink was working incorrectly on Windows. #21405
Fixed compositor recycling when creating new BrowserView. #21399
Fixed contextBridge crash when closing a window. #21418
Fixed contextBridge crash when opening and closing many windows. #21513
Fixed media-specific globalShortcuts not working on macOS. #21547
Fixed source maps not loading in devtools with file scheme. #21493
Fixed window menu unable to hide on startup. #21443
Re-enable DOM storage quota enforcement but change limit from 10MiB to 100MiB. #21380
Removed Electron.dsym from macOS application zip. #21484
setLayoutZoomLevelLimits no longer works in Electron 8, so emit a warning message when using it. The function will be removed in Electron 9. #21360