Electron 33.3.0 (32-bit)

What's new in this version:

Electron 33.3.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Added APIs to manage shared dictionaries for compression efficiency using Brotli or ZStandard. The new APIs are session.getSharedDictionaryUsageInfo(), session.getSharedDictionaryInfo(options), session.clearSharedDictionaryCache(), and session.clearSharedDictionaryCacheForIsolationKey(options).
- Added WebFrameMain.collectJavaScriptCallStack() for accessing the JavaScript call stack of unresponsive renderers

Fixed:
- Fixed an possible crash when using draggable regions and BaseWindows to get the context-menu event

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 130.0.6723.152


Electron 33.2.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Added GPU accelerated shared texture offscreen rendering

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 130.0.6723.118


Electron 33.0.1 (32-bit)
- Updated Chromium to 130.0.6723.59


Electron 33.0.0 (32-bit)
- Fixed crash when running getDisplayMedia from multiple iframes


Electron 32.2.0 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- a crash when calling focus on a WebView's webContents
- a potential issue accessing a child window document when overriding browserWindow creation via setWindowOpenHandler
- an issue where an exception could be thrown on BrowserView after its owner BrowserWindow was closed
- closing a window with more than one attached sheet on macOS
- potential use-after-free during view removal on macOS

Other Changes:
- Ensured that the sender-id hint is set when creating desktop notifications on DBus
- Updated Chromium to 128.0.6613.178
- Updated Node.js to v20.18.0


Electron 32.1.2 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where clicking the eyedropper icon did nothing instead of opening an eyedropper for color selection as expected
- Third time isn't always a charm. Fixed the native macOS Screen Share picker invocation triggering a test Chromium green screen


Electron 32.1.1 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed an issue when dragging to resize when using Window Controls Overlay on Linux
- Fixed an issue where WebContentsViews did not show correctly in some circumstances on macOS after being added as child views

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 128.0.6613.137


Electron 32.1.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Added support for the macOS system picker in desktopCapturer and setDisplayMediaRequestHandler

Fixed:
- Fixed BrowserView auto resize issue
- Fixed a potential issue with fillable PDF forms saving correctly in some circumstances
- Fixed an issue where defaultPath did not work for all users on Linux when creating an open file dialog
- Fixed an issue where users would be incorrectly notified of print failure upon intentional cancellation
- Fixed an issue with resize events being emitted on Windows when the window was moved but not resized
- Fixed other apps not being focused when launched from electron ozone/wayland
- Restored Chromium default Content-Disposition header parsing

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 128.0.6613.120
- Updated Node.js to v20.17.0


Electron 32.0.2 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- MenuItem.click handler not setting focusedWindow parameter when focused window is a BaseWindow
- an issue where BaseWindow.setTouchBar didn't work as expected
- bug where camera permissions affected screen sharing
- devtools to allow restoring saved dock state on Linux when WCO is enabled
- electron app in ozone/wayland not being focused when launched from another app

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 128.0.6613.84


Electron 32.0.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Added support for responding to auth requests initiated from utility process via app#login event
- Enabled zstd compression in net http requests

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 128.0.6613.36


Electron 31.4.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Added a new property prefersReducedTransparency to nativeTheme, which indicates whether the user has chosen to reduce OS-level transparency via system accessibility settings

Fixed:
- Fixed a crash that could occur in some DevTools extensions containing draggable regions
- Fixed an issue where navigator.serial.getPorts() incorrectly returned an empty array in some cases
- Fixed an issue where system-context-menu was not triggered as expected on Windows when using a frameless BrowserWindow
- Fixed an issue where calling window.showInactive on macOS did not actually show the window
- Fixed behavior when entering/exiting fullscreen fails on macOS
- Fixed issues with the vibrancy view on macOS
- Fixed several view hierarchy issues related to web contents view on MacOS
- Resolved an issue where desktopCapturer.getSources never fulfilled its promise in some cases

Other Changes:
- Fixed ffmpeg release on x64 macOS
- Security: backported fix for 338248595
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-6989
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-6991
- Updated Chromium to 126.0.6478.234
- Updated Node.js to v20.16.0


Electron 31.3.1 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where calling desktopCapturer.getSources on macOS running 14.4 or later would make non-resizable windows resizable
- Fixed the resource leak when using Node.js readable streams as the response body for a custom protocol handler

Other Changes:
- Fixed a potential crash when removing notifications on Windows
- Updated Chromium to 126.0.6478.185


Electron 31.3.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Added DownloadItem.getCurrentBytesPerSecond(), DownloadItem.getPercentComplete(), DownloadItem.getEndTime()
- Aligned failure pathway in File System Access API with upstream when attempting to open a file or directory in a blocked path

Fixed:
- Fixed a potential crash when using off screen rendering
- Fixed an issue where navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia and navigator.getUserMedia should reject with a NotAllowedError if microphone or camera permissions have been denied at the system level on macOS
- Fixed an issue where calling BrowserWindow.setBackgroundColor with some level of transparency could cause a crash

Other Changes:
- Fix: fixed the npm run lint not working on Windows
- Updated Chromium to 126.0.6478.183
- Updated Node.js to v20.15.1


Electron 31.2.1 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- a potential error when calling webContents.close() on a BrowserView
- an issue where High Contrast Mode didn't apply to webContents on Windows
- an issue where sources returned by the desktopCapturer API and screen.getAllDisplays() no longer matched on Windows
- an issue where sources returned by the desktopCapturer API and screen.getAllDisplays() no longer matched on Windows
- an issue where the File System Access API did not remember the user's last picked directory as expected
- crash when resolving proxy with session.resolveProxy api


Electron 31.2.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Enabled the Windows Control Overlay API on Linux

Fixed:
- Fixed a focus issue when calling BrowserWindow.setTopBrowserView
- Fixed an issue where Chromium could crash on a dangling unretained pointer in one of several webRequest functions
- Fixed an issue where navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices could return broken results in some cases after calling session.setPermissionCheckHandler
- Fixed an issue where control could fail to return properly after saving a dialog using showOpenDialogSync on Linux
- Fixed an issue where the user-specified default path did not work in some circumstances when using Linux dialogs

Other Changes:
- Fixed an issue where opening multiple file pickers on Windows via the input tag could cause a crash
- Updated Chromium to 126.0.6478.127
- Updated Node.js to v20.15.0


Electron 31.1.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Expose systemPreferences to utilityProcess

Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where MessagePorts could close unexpectedly with non-cloneable objects sent via postMessage
- Fixed an issue where fetch-dependent interfaces could be missing in Web Workers with nodeIntegrationInWorker enabled

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 126.0.6478.114


Electron 31.0.2 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where navigator.usb.getDevices() could crash in some circumstances

Other Changes:
- Fixed crash in gpu process when software compositing is enabled on linux with x11 platform
- Updated Chromium to 126.0.6478.61


Electron 31.0.1 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where fetch dependent interfaces in Node.js were not defined when nodeIntegration was enabled in some circumstances
- Fixed an issue where bad flags passed via --js-flags could cause a crash


Electron 31.0.0 (32-bit)
Breaking Changes:
- Made window.flashFrame(bool) flash continuously on macOS
- Updated Chromium to 126.0.6445.0. (Removed: WebSQL support)
- Updated Chromium to 125.0.6412.0. (Behavior Changed: nativeImage.toDataURL will preserve PNG colorspace)

Features:
Additions:
- Added a new instance property navigationHistory on webContents API with navigationHistory.getEntryAtIndex method, enabling applications to retrieve the URL and title of any navigation entry within the browsing history
- Added options parameter to Session.clearData API
- Added proxy configuring support for requests made with net module from utility process
- Added support for Bluetooth ports being requested by service class ID in navigator.serial
- Added support for NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS
- Extended webContents.setWindowOpenHandler to support manual creation of BrowserWindow
- Implemented support for the File System API
- clearData method added to Session
- Extended WebContentsView to accept pre-existing webContents object

Improved:
- Extended WebContentsView to accept pre-existing webContents object
- Improved error messages when ses.cookies.set fails
- Re-adds functionality to check whether or not an app was launched as a login service on macOS

Removed/Deprecated:
- The inputFieldType property in the context-menu params has been removed

Fixed:
- Added missing support for the recursive option in fs.{readdir|readdirSync} as well as fs.promises.{readdir|readdirSync}
- Added support for withFileTypes when calling fs.{readdir|readdirSync} with the recursive in Asar archives
- Fixed ASAN build on macOS
- Fixed a bug where a window with maximization disabled and WCO enabled would still show its maximization button
- Fixed an issue where child views in a BrowserWindow could sometimes be
- Fixed issue where windows made visible with showInactive were blank
- Fixed potentially incorrect exit code in UtilityProcess
- originalFs.promises.cp now works


Electron 30.1.0 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- BrowserWindow.show() now correctly restores focus to inactive apps on macOS
- Fixed BrowserWindow vibrancy on macOS
- Fixed an issue where BrowserView webContents were getting destroyed even when preventDefault was being set on the owning BrowserWindow's close event
- Fixed an issue where dialogs did not work if they were parented to a BaseWindow and not a BrowserWindow
- Fixed an issue where some calls to WebUSB methods could crash

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 124.0.6367.243
- Updated Node.js to v20.14.0


Electron 30.0.9 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed the type of WebviewTag.webpreferences back to string

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 124.0.6367.233


Electron 30.0.8 (32-bit)
- Updated Chromium to 124.0.6367.230


Electron 30.0.7 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where non-English IME users would see app hangs on a second monitor
- Fixed an issue where the window could be incorrectly centered in some circumstances when calling BrowserWindow.center()

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 124.0.6367.221


Electron 30.0.6 (32-bit)
- Fixed a potential issue with Linux layout invalidation


Electron 30.0.5 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where setTitleBarOverlay didn't work as expected when called on BaseWindow
- Fixed an issue where webContents.navigationHistory was not an enumerable property
- Fixed crash on window maximize on X11
- BrowserWindow.focus() now correctly restore focus to inactive apps on macOS

Other Changes:
- Backported fix for 340221135
- Updated Chromium to 124.0.6367.207


Electron 30.0.4 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- a crash in addChildView if a view is added as its own child
- a crash when the same WebContentsView is added via addChildView multiple times
- an error when calling setAutoResize on a BrowserView
- an inconsistent crash on maximizing window and relayout in Ubuntu
- an issue where calling window.center() on Windows and Linux incorrectly centered the window


Electron 30.0.3 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where document.requestFullscreen didn't work when calling it from a webContents inside WebContentsView
- Fixed an issue where fs.createWriteStream could write out of order
- Fixed an issue where recentDOcuments wasn't populating properly on macOS
- Fixed crash after upgrade on Linux

Other Changes:
- Backported fix for 330756841
- Backported fix for 339266700
- Updated Chromium to 124.0.6367.119


Electron 30.0.2 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Electron doesn't paint on offscreen-render mode after gpu process crashed
- Fixed data corruption when protocol.handle() processed incoming data asynchronously
- Fixed nativeImage.createThumbnailFromPath and shell.openExternal not resolving when called in the renderer process


Electron 30.0.1 (32-bit)
- Updated Chromium to 124.0.6367.60


Electron 30.0.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Added support for NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS
- Implemented support for the File System API

Fixed:
- Fixed an issue on Windows where silent printing resulted in comically tiny renderer output
- Fixed an issue where showing or focusing a panel window would activate the app on Mac
- Fixed missing <__assertion_handler> header when compiling with libc++

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 124.0.6367.49


Electron 29.3.0 (32-bit)
- Fixed a bug where a window with maximization disabled and WCO enabled would still show its maximization button


Electron 29.2.0 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- crash in Notification::Close() under libnotify 0.8.x with portal environment
- usage of Storage.{get|set|clear}Cookies via the Chrome DevTools Protocol


Electron 29.1.6 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- shell.showItemInFolder not opening Windows Explorer if the passed path contains forward slashes
- a potential crash in chrome.scripting on extension unload
- an issue where emojis weren't properly handled on Windows
- an issue where the serial-port-added event improperly respected filters set by serial.requestPort()


Electron 29.1.5 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where badge text set using the Badging API no longer appeared correctly on Windows

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 122.0.6261.130


Electron 29.1.4 (32-bit)
- Updated Chromium to 122.0.6261.129


Electron 29.1.3 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed chrome://process-internals failing to load
- Fixed a memory corruption crash on Windows by removing DXDiag telemetry code

Other Changes:
- Backported fix for 40265302
- Updated Chromium to 122.0.6261.112


Electron 29.1.1 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where user-did-{resign|become}-active were not emitted properly on macOS
- Fixed an issue where webContents.print(options) failed if options was not passed or undefined is passed

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 122.0.6261.95


Electron 29.1.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Added proxy configuring support for requests made with net module from utility process

Fixed:
- Ensured ScreenCaptureKit is used exclusively on macOS 14.4 and higher to avoid permission prompts

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 122.0.6261.70


Electron 29.0.1 (32-bit)
- Fixed an issue where the -webkit-app-region: drag property was not respected on some windows
- Updated Chromium to 122.0.6261.57


Electron 29.0.0 (32-bit)
Breaking Changes:
- Functions called over the contextBridge are now called with the expected receiver (this)
- The gpu-process-crashed event on app has been deprecated
- The deprecated gpu-process-crashed event on app has been removed
- The deprecated renderer-process-crashed event on app and crashed event on WebContents and have been removed

Features:
Additions:
- Added WebContentsView and BaseWindow, replacing the now-deprecated BrowserView APIs
- Added keyboardLock to ses.setPermissionRequestHandler(handler)
- Added an option in protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged to allow V8 code cache in custom schemes
- Added net module to utility process
- Added new Electron Fuse that opts the file:// protocol into more secure and restrictive behaviour that matches Chromium
- Added new webUtils.getPathForFile method to replace File.path augmentation
- Added support for configuring use_remote_checksums via .npmrc
- Migrated app.{set|get}LoginItemSettings(settings) to use Apple's new recommended underlying framework on macOS
- This PR adds several properties to the display object including detected, maximumCursorSize, and nativeOrigin

Removed/Deprecated:
- Removed extraneous dlls from Windows zip files

Fixed:
- Added support for ThumbnailCapturerMac and ScreenCaptureKitStreamPickerSonoma chromium feature flags to bypass deprecated API warning on macOS 14.4
- Fixed Electron 29.0.0-beta.3 regression that could pop up context menus in the wrong location
- Fixed an issue where import.meta.url did not work in the renderer process with contextIsolation enabled
- Fixed an issue where original-fs methods were not properly corrected for patched imports
- Fixed an issue where draggable regions didn't work across platforms
- Fixed crash in MessagePort::close
- Fixed the GrantFileProtocolExtraPrivileges not correctly preventing fetch() calls to file:// URLs


Electron 28.2.3 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- a crash that started occurring sporadically with some types of macOS window close
- an issue where webContents.printToPDF could fail when certain combinations of margins and pageSize values are passed
- an issue where crashes in node::Environment destruction potentially wouldn't be propagated to the NodeService exit handler
- an issue where zoom level settings did not persist per-session for webviews

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 120.0.6099.283


Electron 28.2.2 (32-bit)
- Fixed an issue where select-usb-device did not respect the filter option in navigator.usb.requestDevice()


Electron 28.2.1 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- Apply module search paths restriction on worker and child process
- Fixed a potential async_hooks crash when listening for the restore event on Windows after minimizing a maximized BrowserWindow
- Fixed an issue where Request objects did not correctly copy headers into fetches
- Fixed an issue where non-modal windows with vibrancy could have incorrectly rounded corners on Sonoma
- Fixed an issue where the printBackground option in webContents.printToPDF did not work as expected
- Fixed forked child process not able to send IPC message under some cases on macOS
- Fixed on-screen-keyboard not hiding for webviews under some cases

Other Changes:
- Removed extraneous dlls from Windows zip files
- Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-0807
- Security: backported fix for 1407197
- Updated Chromium to 120.0.6099.268


Electron 28.2.0 (32-bit)
Features:
- Added net module to utility process

Fixed:
- session.fromPartition() key lookup bug
- a potential crash when calling dialog.showMessageBoxSync
- a potential renderer crash when inspecting elements
- macOS bug that causes window maximize button to be disabled in full-screen mode

Other Changes:
- Updated Chromium to 120.0.6099.227


Electron 28.1.4 (32-bit)
- Fixed an issue where inAppPurchase.getProducts and inAppPurchase.purchasedProduct did not resolve as expected


Electron 28.1.3 (32-bit)
- Fixed a crash resultant from trying to listen to power-related events before the ready event was emitted on Linux