Electron Releases

Electron v41.0.0

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npm install --save-dev electron@41.0.0
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Google ChromeChromium
146.0.7680.65
Node.jsNode.js
24.14.0
V8V8
14.6.202.11

Release Notes

Stack Upgrades

Breaking Changes

  • Fixed an issue where cookie changed events weren't properly emitted in all cases. #49631

For breaking changes inherited via Chromium, see blog post

Features

Additions

  • Added --disable-geolocation command-line flag for macOS apps to disable location services. #45934

  • Added NV12 support for import shared texture. #48922 (Also in 40)

  • Added webContents.getOrCreateDevToolsTargetId(). #50176

  • Added a disclaim option to the UtilityProcess API to allow for TCC disclaiming on macOS. #49693 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Added a reason property to the Notification 'closed' event on Windows to allow developers to know the reason the Notification was dismissed. #50029 (Also in 40)

  • Added additional defence against privileged user modifications to ASAR Integrity protected applications on macOS. #48587

  • Added an usePrinterDefaultPageSize option to webContents.print() to allow using the printer's default page size. #49812

  • Added bypassCustomProtocolHandlers option to net.request. #47331 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Added support for MSIX auto-updating. #49586 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Added support for WebSocket authentication through the login event on webContents. #48512 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Added support for --experimental-transform-types. #49882 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Added support for long-animation-frame script attribution (via --enable-features=AlwaysLogLOAFURL). #49773 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Added support to import external shared texture as VideoFrame. #47317 (Also in 40)

  • Added the ability to disable auto-focusing of WebContents on navigation using webPreferences.focusOnNavigation. #49511 (Also in 40)

  • Enable wasm trap handlers behind WasmTrapHandlers fuse. #49839

  • On Wayland (Linux), frameless windows now have GTK drop shadows and extended resize boundaries. To create fully frameless windows with no decorations, set hasShadow: false in the window constructor. #49885

Improvements

  • Extended actions support for Windows notifications to include buttons, select dropdowns, and replies. #49787 (Also in 40)

  • Refactored our MSIX updater code to use an upstream Chromium pattern and eliminates the need for special exception handling build flags. #49686 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Updated nativeImage.createFromNamedImage to support SF Symbol names. #48203 (Also in 39, 40)

Removed/Deprecated

  • DevTools errors are no longer printed to console. #49292 (Also in 40)

Fixes

  • Fixed CSS selector syntax in default app styles to properly apply animations to hero icons. #50033

  • Fixed ID of tray icons on Linux. #48675

  • Fixed an issue that caused the RGBAF16 shared texture format to have a keyed mutex on Windows. #49876

  • Fixed an issue where Squirrel.Mac's auto updater would fail to install new updates if the targetBundleURL was either not set or contained special characters. #49978

  • Fixed an issue where some shell functionality may not work on Linux if the target window is already open. #49594

  • Fixed build failure when printing is disabled. #50077

  • Fixed several issues with consistent window sizing and resizing on Linux when CSD is in use (e.g. on GNOME/Wayland) and added support for creating content-sized windows. #49835

  • Fixed window sizing on Linux when min/max size constraints are set or resizable is false. Windows no longer shrink below the requested max size or grow taller when resizability is disabled. #49971

  • Global shortcuts can now be registered more reliably on Wayland using the globalShortcut API. #50051

Also in earlier versions...

  • Added validation to protocol client methods to reject protocol names that do not conform to the RFC 3986 URI scheme grammar. #50155 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Addressed upstream Chromium shift to enable CoreAudio Tap API for audio capture used in electron's desktopCapturer (🍏 macOS). #49739 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Allow dynamically updating menu item labels, sublabels, and icons. #49972 (Also in 40)

  • Corrected the appearance of tiled windows on GNOME (when frame: true), and removed resize handles from tiled edges. #48765 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fix: ESM-from-CJS import when CJK characters are in path. #48855 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed globalShortcut not working on Wayland with GlobalShortcutsPortal feature enabled. #49871 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed setRepresentedFilename() not setting AXDocument accessibility attribute on macOS. #49346 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed a Windows notification issue where clicking a native notification would result in an application hang on certain Windows environments. #49106 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when using the File System Access API. #49636 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed a macOS crash when creating a new tab from the tab overview. #49933 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed a potential race condition crash when opening DevTools. #49406 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an application crash on MacOS where the menu observer was not being properly removed before garbage collection. #49658 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed an application crash when clicking or hovering over the native MacOS "Window" menu. Reverts #48598. #48794 (Also in 37, 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed an error on debug symbol upload by moving dsym.zip to use tar.xz compression. #48941 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed an issue in chrome://accessibility. #49561 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue on Windows and Linux where no cookie encryption key provider was passed into the network service when cookie encryption was enabled. #49371 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed an issue on macOS where Universal Links were not delivered to app.on('continue-activity') on cold launch when NSUserActivity.userInfo was nil. #50006 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue that menu items on macOS could not be disabled under all circumstances. #48795 (Also in 37, 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where Chrome Devtools menus may not appear in certain embedded windows. #50137 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed an issue where VideoFrame objects returned through contextBridge had an incorrect prototype. #50023 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where additionalData passed to app.requestSingleInstanceLock on Windows could be truncated or fail to deserialize in the primary instance's second-instance event. #50154 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where menu-did-close was not emitted properly for some application menus. #49075 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where nodeIntegrationInWorker overrides in setWindowOpenHandler were not honored for child windows sharing a renderer process with their opener. #50134 (Also in 38)

  • Fixed an issue where screen.getCursorScreenPoint() crashed on Wayland when it was called before a BrowserWindow had been created. #50105 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where shell.writeShortcutLink was throwing TypeError: Insufficient number of arguments when called with just [(path, options)]. #49503 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where alt+space triggered th system context menu even if an accelerator was registered for the hotkey combination. #49642 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where calling setBounds on a WebContentsView could trigger redundant page-favicon-updated events even when the favicon had not changed. #50085 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where frameless windows had resize issues in Mac App Store builds. #49857 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where invalid characters in custom protocol or webRequest response header values were not rejected. #50132 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where making a window fullscreen on Windows, minimizing it and then restoring it broke previous fullscreen state. #49891 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed an issue where malformed custom toastXml could cause a Notification crash. #49953 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed an issue where menu item accelerators stopped working after the item's enabled property was toggled on macOS. #49591 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where menu item enabled state wasn't updated during key equivalent dispatch when the menu was closed on macOS. #49890 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where native modules would either crash or not compile for MacOS 12. #49703 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed an issue where no cookie encryption provider was passed into the network service when cookie encryption was enabled. #49348 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed an issue where permission and device-chooser handlers received the top-level page origin instead of the requesting subframe's origin. #50148 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where pressing AltGr could activate or focus the menu bar. #49916 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where some packages weren't correctly filtered on macOS in dialogs. #49470 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where role-based menu items were incorrectly returning null for their accelerator property. #49668 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where setting zoomFactor in setWindowOpenHandler's overrideBrowserWindowOptions had no effect on windows opened via window.open(). #49911 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where some apps would throw an exception on launch. #48973 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue where the close callback param for menu.popup would fire when any arbitrary submenu of the given menu closed, and not the menu itself. #49017 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed an issue whereby a duplicate "Toggle Full Screen" menu item appeared in the View menu on macOS. #49598 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed crash in platform_util::Beep() on Linux. #49483 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed crash on windows when UTF-8 is in path. #48898 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed crash when attempting to resolve modules during process exit. #49090 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed crash when creating event object for ipc events. #48987 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed crash when reading system certificates via nodejs tls module. #49028 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed dock menu items not respecting enabled and checked properties on macOS. #49625 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed drag regions in child windows. #49231 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed draggable regions not updating position when DevTools is docked to the left or right in a frameless window. #49848 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed draw smoothing round corner issue. #48769 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed memory leak when setting icons on Linux/GTK. #49895 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed menu bar hiding after a call to win.setFullScreen(false) when not in fullscreen on Linux. #49996 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed menus to correctly emit menu-will-close event when closed after any submenu has been open. #49964 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed oom crash when optimizing certain wasm functions involving large phi nodes. #48791 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed rendering glitches on macOS. #49621 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed shutdown crash on windows when hidden titlebar is enabled. #50055 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed squirrel.mac stacked update behavior to old staged updates. #49639 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Fixed startup crash when V8 sandbox is disabled. #49504 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed the cookie encryption logic to use the old os_crypt sync implementation present in M142. #49382 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed the issue where the parent window leave disabled after the modal window call show() multiple time. #48977 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Fixed the issue where the parent window remained interactive after the modal window was opened. #48770 (Also in 38, 39, 40)

  • Made toplevel icon Wayland protocol work. #49290 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Reenable V8 trap handlers for wasm in browser and utility process, improves runtime execution of wasm. #48788 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Requests sent via net are now capable of having their headers modified to use reserved headers via webRequest. #49226 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Restored window's canHide property. #47970 (Also in 37, 38, 39)

  • Reverted AltGr key fix that caused menu bar to no longer show on Windows. #50111 (Also in 39, 40)

  • Windows: Calling window.setFocusable(true) will no longer cause a window to lose focus. #45640 (Also in 39, 40)

Other Changes

  • Backported fix for 483569511. #49789

  • Fixed crash in platform_util::Beep() on Linux. #49865 (Also in 40)

  • Fixed devtools element panel flickering when with node inspection. #49027 (Also in 39, 40)

Documentation

Notices

End of Support for 38.x.y

Electron 38.x.y has reached end-of-support as per the project's support policy. Developers and applications are encouraged to upgrade to a newer version of Electron.