electron

Release Notes for v42.11.15

Fixes

• Fixed a crash on Linux at startup or on theme change with GTK modules loaded. #55015

• Fixed an issue where clicks posted to a background app were dropped on macOS. #54906 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed net.fetch and session.fetch failing permanently with net::ERR_FAILED after the Network Service process restarts. #54925 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed utilityProcess dropping messages posted with process.parentPort.postMessage() right before the process exits. #55000 (Also in 43, 45)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #55035

Release Notes for v42.11.9

Fixes

• Fixed clipboard.read(), readText() and has() resolving seconds late on Linux while the app was idle. #54310 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed fs.rmSync failing to remove read-only files on Windows. #54257 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed pointerLock permission requests from some iframes reporting the parent frame. #54466 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed utilityProcess dropping stdout/stderr output that the child wrote immediately before exiting. #54332 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed WebAssembly exception handlers failing to catch, or crashing during tier-up, in modules using wasm exceptions. #54236

• Fixed WebAssembly modules loaded from the code cache crashing or throwing RuntimeError: unreachable after updating between certain patch releases. #54239 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

Release Notes for v42.11.3

Fixes

• File System Access permission requests and the file-system-access-restricted event are scoped to the requesting document, grants are reset when the origin's last page closes, and write access works in in-memory sessions. #53695 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed session.setPermissionCheckHandler receiving the top-level origin and a null webContents for hid and usb checks made from a subframe. #53736 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed webContents.on(), removeListener() and removeAllListeners() throwing "Object has been destroyed" for console-message listeners after the WebContents was destroyed. #53497 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed a crash on Linux when process.env was written while another thread was reading the environment, and a memory leak when a worker thread exits. #53511 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed a possible crash on Windows when a file dialog was shown for a window that was being closed at the same time. #53585 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed a renderer crash when the main process sent IPC to, or a page navigated, a same-process window.open() child whose contextIsolation differed from its opener's. #53541 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed crashes in setDisplayMediaRequestHandler when the granted frame had been destroyed or another tab was granted by id. #53674 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Internal <webview>, window.close() and executeJavaScript reply IPCs are validated against the sending frame. #53727 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• <webview> without allowpopups also blocks links opened into a new window by modifier-click, and such windows navigate as the clicking document rather than as a browser-initiated load. #53719 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• getUserMedia with chromeMediaSource: 'desktop' no longer accepts WebContents source ids; use chromeMediaSource: 'tab' with webContents.getMediaSourceId() or setDisplayMediaRequestHandler to capture a WebContents. #53710 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• nodeIntegrationInWorker now applies only to workers created by frames that themselves have Node integration; enable nodeIntegrationInSubFrames to keep Node in workers created by subframes. #53713 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• openExternal permission requests started by a frame that has since gone away are attributed to that frame's origin rather than to the navigating page. #53697 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• pointerLock and keyboardLock permission requests now report the requesting frame, and execCommand('paste') requires user activation in the frame that calls it. #53702 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

Release Notes for v42.11.2

Fixes

• Fixed application crash after a large number of IPC messages from renderers. #53419 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed native addons deriving from node::ObjectWrap aborting during garbage collection on Node.js 24.19.0 and later. #53394 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. #53480

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium, Dawn, Skia and V8. #53397

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium, V8, ANGLE, Dawn, Skia, WebRTC and DevTools. #53367

Release Notes for v42.11.0

Fixes

• Fixed fs.constants.O_DIRECTORY, O_NOFOLLOW and O_DIRECT holding x86 values on Linux arm64 and armv7l, which made opening a directory fail with EINVAL, and made require('trace_events') behave the same on cross-compiled builds as on native ones. #53318 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed a crash when calling node:wasi functions in optimized code. #53267 (Also in 43, 44, 45)

• Fixed a regression where a window created with a custom title can show an empty title after using back/forward navigation. #53217 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed desktopCapturer thumbnail generation and premature portal timeout on Linux with Wayland. #51784 (Also in 43)

• Fixed region-qualified --lang values such as de-DE loading no locale resources on macOS, which left localized strings empty and could crash WebAuthn Touch ID prompts. #53187 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed the GPU process being terminated in AppX/MSIX packaged apps on Windows when WebGPU fell back to SwiftShader. #53199 (Also in 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, V8 and WebRTC. #53191

• Updated Node.js to v24.19.0. #52634

Release Notes for v42.10.1

Fixes

• Fixed webContents.print() honoring printBackground, duplexMode, and printer default duplex settings. #53158 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a crash on macOS when a notification's icon could not be attached; the notification is now shown without the icon. #53148 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed an issue where pages loaded in a detached WebContentsView wouldn't see the correct window size. #53151 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed the primary instance being killed or receiving truncated arguments when a second instance passed a very long command line or large additionalData to app.requestSingleInstanceLock(). #53157 (Also in 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, Skia and V8. #52970

• Page resources, fetch() calls and file:// loads in renderers no longer wait for the main process to be idle when no webRequest listeners or protocol interceptors are registered. #53143 (Also in 43, 44)

Release Notes for v42.10.0

Features

• Fixed contentTracing module to capture Node.js trace categories. #52973

Fixes

• Fixed DevTools device metrics overrides persisting indefinitely when a remote debugging client disconnected without clearing them. #53133 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed DevTools popup and context menus not appearing when DevTools is hosted in a custom window via webContents.setDevToolsWebContents(). #52981 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed BrowserWindow.unmaximize() and restore() having no effect on Wayland when the window was maximized immediately after creation. #53126 (Also in 44)

• Fixed Uncaught illegal access errors and possible renderer crashes after closing a same-process child window or removing an iframe with nodeIntegrationInSubFrames enabled. #53042 (Also in 44)

• Fixed dialog.showOpenDialog/dialog.showSaveDialog opening at an unusable location on Linux when defaultPath is a bare filename without a directory. #52980 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a crash on Linux when the D-Bus session bus disconnected while the app was running, such as at logout or when dbus is restarted. #53094 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a crash on Windows when V8 posted a delayed worker task during shutdown. #53014 (Also in 43)

• Fixed a crash with app.setLoginItemSettings if a non-UTF8 service name is used. #52989 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a possible crash (SIGABRT) during process exit when the process had loaded tls/https shortly before exiting, affecting app.exit() before ready and short-lived ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE / child_process.fork() scripts. #52992 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a possible main process crash at quit when a session was created from JavaScript that runs during shutdown. #53132 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a rare crash in the main process when DevTools were opened and a garbage collection ran before the DevTools frontend finished loading. #52994 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a renderer crash when a page calls SpeechRecognition.available() or SpeechRecognition.install() with processLocally. #53016 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed an issue on Linux where the system theme color appeared at the top edge of frameless windows. #52978 (Also in 41, 43)

• Fixed an issue where some values passed into requestSingleInstanceLock could result in a crash. #52982 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed crash in sharedTexture module when GPU context becomes unavailable. #52983 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed document title updates when using back/forward navigation using the same document without utilizing browserWindow.setTitle(). #53099 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed the built-in PDF viewer not rendering documents in in-memory sessions (partitions without the persist: prefix). #52990 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed titleBarOverlay.color set to rgba(0,0,0,0) failing back to default frame color. #52976 (Also in 41, 43)

• Fixed utility process crashes at exit on Windows 11 24H2 and later. #53091 (Also in 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #53060

• Fixed a 1-in-200 chance per renderer process on Windows of scripts on the first page load being compiled without their V8 code cache. #52988 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a Windows x64 renderer performance regression introduced in 42.8.1 that made style/layout work (and app startup) noticeably slower. #53064

• Fixed a stall of tens of milliseconds while creating the first BrowserWindow on Linux.

  • Improved the performance of file lookups inside ASAR archives and of large files served from them to the renderer.

  • Improved the performance of calls through contextBridge-exposed APIs.

  • Reduced the main-thread cost of sending large values through ipcRenderer, ipcMain handlers and webContents.send. #53019 (Also in 43, 44)

• Improved startup time of utilityProcess.fork(), child_process.fork() / ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE child processes and Node.js-enabled renderers. #53136 (Also in 43, 44)

• Linux arm64, Windows arm64 and macOS x64 builds now start the main process from the embedded Node.js startup snapshot like the other platforms, improving startup time. #52880 (Also in 43, 44)

Release Notes for v42.9.3

Fixes

• Fixed a graphical glitch on Linux where thin borders appeared past the drop shadows on frameless windows when multiple windows were created. #52772 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a memory leak when creating BrowserWindows. #52893 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed an issue on Windows where the app process could fail to exit after app.quit() while a shell.openExternal() or shell.openPath() call was still waiting on a system "Open with" dialog. #52900 (Also in 41, 43, 44)

• Fixed custom V8 snapshots (electron-mksnapshot, and the loadBrowserProcessSpecificV8Snapshot fuse) having no effect in the main process on macOS arm64, Linux x64 and Windows x64. #52876 (Also in 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 524628213. #52869

• Reduced idle main-process CPU wakeups caused by Node.js timers and immediates. #52907 (Also in 43, 44)

Release Notes for v42.9.2

Fixes

• Fixed registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol returning readable responses to cross-origin no-cors fetches; they now return opaque responses like protocol.handle. #52855 (Also in 41, 43, 44)

• Fixed a WebContentsView staying blank after its window is shown when setBackgroundThrottling(false) was called while the window was hidden. #52865 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a crash when resolving a path inside a malformed ASAR archive that contains cyclic link entries. #52859 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed downloading files that live inside an asar archive, including saving a packed PDF from the built-in PDF viewer. #52828 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed windows opened by a sandboxed top-level frame not inheriting the opener's sandbox restrictions. #52850 (Also in 41, 43, 44)

• <webview> and window.open now inherit nodeIntegrationInWorker from the embedder, consistent with the other Node and sandbox preferences. #52831 (Also in 41, 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes for 542224257, 5420251. #52843

Release Notes for v42.9.1

Fixes

• Fixed a crash in systemPreferences.promptTouchID(reason) when an invalid reason value is passed. #52780 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a potential crash in contentTracing.stopRecording() when the trace file could not be written to the requested path. #52796 (Also in 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. #52706

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #52785

• Fixed an issue on macOS where a page's first use of speechSynthesis could block the main process for several hundred milliseconds. #52813

Release Notes for v42.9.0

Features

• Added webFrameMain.printToPDF() to allow printing individual frames to PDF from the main process. #52626 (Also in 43, 44)

Fixes

• Fixed a browser process crash that could occur during Windows logoff, shutdown, or restart. #52621 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a crash report when the X server or Wayland compositor exits while an app is running. #52686 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a crash when quickly switching menus while the app is under heavy load. #52671 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a potential crash when notifying user activation before the primary main frame was live. #52699 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed an issue where a JavaScript out-of-memory crash could be reported from inside the crash-key handler instead of at the out-of-memory site. #52723 (Also in 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium and V8. #52664

• No user-facing change; semver/none. #52733

Release Notes for v42.8.1

Fixes

• Fixed BrowserWindow size corruption on Windows when created with explicit x/y on a secondary monitor whose DPI differs from the primary. #52500 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed Dirent.parentPath being undefined for fs.readdir, fs.readdirSync, fs.glob, and fs.globSync with withFileTypes: true inside asar archives. #52506 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed a UAF with protocol.registerStreamProtocol when an error is emitted during a read. #52516 (Also in 41, 43, 44)

• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing DevTools while the host WebContents was being destroyed. #52511 (Also in 41, 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Fixed a renderer crash when disabling device emulation while the main frame was not local. #52601

• Improved the error message when an asar integrity check fails to name the entry that failed. #52623 (Also in 43, 44)

• Updated Node.js to v24.18.1. #52551

Release Notes for v41.10.7

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Fixes

• Fixed an issue on Linux where the system theme color appeared at the top edge of frameless windows. #53006 (Also in 42, 43)

• Fixed running under tsx import transpilation. #53003 (Also in 42, 43)

• Fixed shutdown crash on windows when power monitor notifications were subscribed. #52999 (Also in 42)

• Fixed the context menu in a detached DevTools window focusing the inspected page's window instead of the DevTools window. #53002 (Also in 42, 43)

• Fixed titleBarOverlay.color set to rgba(0,0,0,0) failing back to default frame color. #53004 (Also in 42, 43)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, Skia and V8. #52997

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #53059

Release Notes for v41.10.6

Fixes

• Fixed registerFileProtocol and registerHttpProtocol returning readable responses to cross-origin no-cors fetches; they now return opaque responses like protocol.handle. #52854 (Also in 42, 43, 44)

• Fixed an issue on Windows where the app process could fail to exit after app.quit() while a shell.openExternal() or shell.openPath() call was still waiting on a system "Open with" dialog. #52899 (Also in 43, 44)

• Fixed windows opened by a sandboxed top-level frame not inheriting the opener's sandbox restrictions. #52849 (Also in 42, 43, 44)

• <webview> and window.open now inherit nodeIntegrationInWorker from the embedder, consistent with the other Node and sandbox preferences. #52829 (Also in 42, 43, 44)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium and Skia. #52707

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #52775