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.6.

Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.6

Fixes

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Fixed a crash in contextBridge that happens on garbage collection. #21735
Fixed a crash that would occur when Notifications were closed in concert with app termination. #21720
Fixed an issue in the net module where aborting a request during a redirect could cause an error to be thrown. #21644
Fixed an issue that could cause frameless windows to become undraggable in some circumstances. #21722
Fixed an issue that could prevent communication between a sandboxed child window opened with nativeWindowOpen: false and an unsandboxed parent window. Also fixed document.visibilityState not working in sandboxed <webview>. #21431
Fixed an issue where calling allowNTLMCredentialsForDomains() could cause a change in Kerberos SPN generation behavior. #21580
Fixed an issue with potential duplicate error popups when calling shell.showItemInFolder on Windows. #21748
Fixed incorrect button highlighting when defaultId is passed for dialog message boxes. #21653
Fixed white flash when foregrounding an occluded window. #21751

Handled origin/X branch formats. 606ca98
Updated Chromium to 80.0.3987.51. #21738
Updated crashReporter to throw an error for getLastCrashReport if crashReporter not started. #21685