Electron: v11.0.0-beta.8 Release

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 install [email protected].

# Release Notes for v11.0.0-beta.8

Features

• Removed the desktopCapturer.getMediaSourceIdForWebContents() API. #25455 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>

  Fixes

• Added missing module delay loads on windows to reduce per process reference set impact. #25436 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>

• Excess menu item separators are now only removed after item re-ordering is done to avoid accidental removal of needed separators. #25599 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>

• Fixed CORS not being disabled by webSecurity: false. #25504 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>

• Fixed ready-to-show event not emitted on some machines. #25471 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>

• Fixed a crash in app.importCertificate() on Linux. #25537 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>

• Fixed a crash that could happen when a window was closed while a webview was in the process of being attached. #25598 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>

• Fixed a crash when closing window in an event listener after exiting fullscreen on macOS. #25524 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>

• Fixed an issue that could cause a normally-exiting process to fail with an "illegal access" message and exit code 7. #25459 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)</span>

• Fixed an issue where an error would be displayed when using webContents.print() if no default was set and no device name provided. #25562 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>

• Fixed crashes caused by attempting to modify destroyed views. #25509 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>

• Fixed the remote-debugging-port discovery page showing garbled text. #25602 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>

• Fixed unsubscribe from observers when window is closing. #25585 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>

• Updated Node root certs to use NSS 3.56. #25362 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)</span>

  Other Changes

• Added a small console hint to console to help debug renderer crashes. #25474 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>