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# Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.1
Features
- Added
app.getApplicationInfoForProtocol()
API that returns detailed information about the app that handles a certain protocol. #24112 - Added
name
toapp.getAppMetrics()
output. #24359 - Added
utility-process-gone
event toapp
. #24367 - Added
visualEffectState
option to BrowserWindows to allow customization of vibrancy effect state on macOS. #25083 - Added app.createThumbnailFromPath() API that returns a preview image of a file given its file path and a maximum thumbnail size. #24802
- Added back a previously broken
visibleOnFullScreen
option forsetVisibleOnAllWorkspaces
. #24956 - Added desktopCapturer.getMediaSourceIdForWebContents(), can be used with getUserMedia to get a stream for a WebContent. #22701
- Added did-become-active event on Mac for observing any application activation. #23872
- Added new
worldSafeExecuteJavaScript
webPreference to ensure that the return values fromwebFrame.executeJavaScript
are world safe when context isolation is enabled. #24114 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span> - Added optional parameter to specify monospaced font types for macOS tray titles. #25059
- Added support for suspend and resume events to Windows. #24251 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
- Added support for suspend and resume events to macOS. #24254 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
- Added the
currencyCode
field that Apple's StoreKit in-app-purchasing library provides but has not been added to theProduct
object thatinAppPurchase.getProducts
returns. #25058 - Changed app.getLoginItemSettings() and app.setLoginItemSettings() API to factor in startup approval keys when determining whether an application is able to launch on login. #24494
- Expose sessionId associated with a target from debugger module. #24170 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
- Implemented
systemPreferences.getMediaAccessStatus()
on Windows. #24275 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span> - V8CacheOptions is a new webpreference option to enforce code caching policy. #23842 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
When the
disabled-by-default-v8.cpu_profiler
tracing category is enabled, cpu samples will now be collected from the main process as well as the renderer. #24819Fixes
Added missing support for
isComposing
KeyboardEvent property. #23971 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Added {stream:} option to registerSchemeAsPrivileged to enable custom protocols to stream video and audio. #22955
Enable NTLM v2 for POSIX platforms and added --disable-ntlm-v2 switch to disable it. #23846 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fix: Allow windows behind macOS elements if "frame" is false. #23976 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Fix: remove unnecessary corner mask overriding to increase window resize performance. #24642 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Fixed "Paste and Match Style" shortcut on macOS to match OS's "Option-Shift-Command-V". #24153 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed "null path-to-app" in test-app when Electron's path contains spaces or special characters. #24214 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed GTK dark theme setting not respected in Electron on Linux. #23678 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed
chrome://accessibility
access in Electron. #24437Fixed
chrome://media-internals
andchrome://webrtc-internals
pages not loading. #24010 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed
powerMonitor
not emittingsuspend
/resume
events on some Windows machines. #25076 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10)</span>Fixed
process.windowsStore
returning undefined in AppX packages. #23785 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed a 10.0.0-beta.1 issue that broke dark mode window titlebars on Linux. #25055 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10)</span>
Fixed a bezeling issue on vibrant non-frameless BrowserWindows. #23779 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Fixed a crash in TouchBar for certain methods. #23936 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10)</span>
Fixed a crash that could happen when using
hookWindowMessage
on Windows. #24716 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>Fixed a crash that could occur when using in-memory sessions. #24964 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Fixed a crash that could occur when using the
ipcRenderer
module after blink had released the context. Instead, a JS exception will be thrown. #23917 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed a termination crash on Web Workers with Node.js integration enabled. #24436 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an error when calling
dialog.showCertificateTrustDialog
with noBrowserWindow
. #24091 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed an intermittent high-CPU usage problem caused a system clock issue during sleep. #24394 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue where VoiceOver was unable to navigate from the top-level window back into the web contents. #24655 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue where
rmdir
andrmdirSync
work withoriginal-fs
in an asar context. #23890 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed an issue where
shutdown
would be emitted both on app and system shutdown on macOS. #24111 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed an issue where
webContents.print()
would sometimes hang with invalid settings. #24476 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>Fixed an issue where
window.location
properties would throw an error for windows opened withwindow.open
. #23776 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed an issue where
withFileTypes
was not supported as an option tofs.readdir
orfs.readdirSync
under asar. #24062 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed an issue where cpu and heap profiling in Node.js did not work properly with
--cpu-prof
,--heap-prof
, and related CLI flags. #24528 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed an issue where errors were seen for nonexistent asar files. #24890
Fixed an issue where frameless modal windows with a vibrancy setting had bezeled corners. #24250 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue where macOS window vibrancy active state did not always match the active state of the window. #24471 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue where many uses of the Node.js
assert
module would throw in both the browser and renderer processes. #24579Fixed an issue where notifications with a reply button could potentially be destroyed too early when a user clicked on the notification body before replying. #25086 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue where some Node.js methods would not work with URL instances constructed in the renderer process. #24831 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue where some apps might be rejected from the Mac App Store owing to a private font-related API added in Chromium. #25117 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10)</span>
Fixed an issue where some old notifications were not properly removed from the Notification Center on macOS. #24302 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue where suspend/resume were emitted twice on macOS. #24818 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue where the 'about' role had on effect on Windows menus. #23687 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue where the Save button did not function in PDF previews. #24946 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue which would cause streaming protocol responses to stall in some cases. #24022 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue with click events not being emitted on macOS for Trays with context menus set. #24200 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed an issue with volume-related
globalShortcut
registration. #23782 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed an occasional menu crash on macOS Catalina when menu is closing. #23778 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed broken
--trace-sync-io
flag in Node.js. #24529 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed broken toolbar text in the PDF viewer. #24913 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10)</span>
Fixed bug on macOS where the main window could be targeted for a focus event when it was disabled behind a modal. #24286 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed clipboard.readBuffer returning incorrect value. #24454 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed crash that could occur when passing a non-absolute path to
session.loadExtension
. #25068 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10)</span>Fixed crash when navigating between origins in a child window with nativeWindowOpen and contextIsolation enabled. #23684 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed crash when navigating from a page with webview that has inherited zoom level. #24757 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed crash when opening offscreen transparent windows with gpu acceleration off. #24390
Fixed crash when using client certificate. #24868 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10)</span>
Fixed delayed execution of some Node.js callbacks in the main process. #24131 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed disabling color correct rendering with
--disable-color-correct-rendering
. #23787 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld not respecting
hasUserGesture
argument. #24396Fixed frameless window's size being changed when restored from minimized state. #25014 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed inactive windows having active titlebar on Windows. #24847 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed intercepted protocols not raising Redirect information back to Chromium. #23742 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 7.3)</span>
Fixed issued where voice over would not read words as you typed them. #24801 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10)</span>
Fixed media keys working unilaterally when registered with
globalShortcut
. #24145Fixed missing
guid
parameter in Linux crash reports. #24881 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>Fixed no
session
in webContents of type remote. #23989 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>Fixed node's TLS stack not allowing renegotiation. #25022 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed potentially invalid duplex mode settings on Linux. #24489 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Fixed serialization of
nativeImages
over remote when moving from the main process to the renderer process. #23759 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed the
acceptLanguages
argument being ignored insession.setUserAgent()
. #23944 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)</span>Fixed tray menu on Windows not keyboard navigable. #23843 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed tray menu showing in taskbar on Windows. #24097 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed undefined symbol error when loading native modules that uses
uv_dlopen
. #24659Fixed window size being changed after unmaximizing. #25051 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Fixed window titlebar not responding to pen on Windows 10. #24042 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 7.3, 8, 9, 10)</span>
Fixed: On some Windows machines, especially Windows Insider builds, Electron would crash silently during startup. #24030 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Increased maximum length for crash keys from 127B to 20KB. #24782 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
None. #24240 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9)</span>
None. #25112
Protocol response streams are now destroyed if the request is aborted. #24014 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Resolve app-scoped bookmarks without mounting network drives. #24708
Restored old implementation of Linux Tray icons to fix a collection of issues where the tray icon wouldn't appear, would be the wrong size or would randomly disappear. #23674 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10)</span>
Save crash reports locally when uploadToServer: false on linux. #24778 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
The element highlighter in devtools works again. #24921 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10)</span>
shell.showItemInFolder
uses theFileManager
DBUS API on Linux, only falling back toxdg-open
if that fails. #25087Other Changes
Added V8 crash message and location information to crashReport parameters. #24771 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10)</span>
Added new experimental apple silicon (darwin arm64) builds. #24545
Deprecated the default of
contextIsolation
, it will change fromfalse
totrue
in a future Electron release. #23507Fixed an issue with a consistent unwanted exception appearing during a debugging session with the VSCode debugger. #24191
Fixed mac app store rejection notice for invalid symbolic link in bundle. #23831
Fixed mac app store rejection notice for invalid symbolic link in bundle. #24158 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Improved the default REPL experience when running Electron with the
--interactive
flag. #24204Improved the performance of sending JS primitives over the context bridge. #24531 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10)</span>
Improved the performance of sending wide objects over the context bridge. #24671
None. #24987
Removed experimental APIs:
BrowserView.{fromId, fromWebContents, getAllViews}
and theid
property ofBrowserView
. #23578Updated Node.js to v12.18.3. #24707
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