Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.
- Added 'resized' (Windows/macOS) and 'moved' (Windows) events to BrowserWindow. #26216 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
- Added APIs to enable/disable spell checker. #26276
- Added Serial API support. #25237
- Added
BrowserWindow.isTabletMode
API. #25209
- Added
displayFrequency
to the Display
object to allow getting information about the refresh rate on Windows. #26472
- Added
net.online
for detecting whether there is currently internet connection. #21004
- Added
osProcessId
/ name
properties to webFrameMain
. #26093
- Added
powerMonitor.onBatteryPower
. #26494
- Added
session.setSSLConfig()
to allow configuring SSL. #25461
- Added
webContents.forcefullyCrashRenderer()
to forcefully terminate a renderer process to assist with recovering a hung renderer. #25580 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
- Added
webFrameMain
API for accessing sub-frames of a WebContents
instance from the main process. #25464
- Added
webPreferences.preferredSizeMode
to allow sizing views according to their document's minimum size. #25874
- Added a
disabledCipherSuites
option to Session.setSSLConfig
. #25818
- Added a new "credentials" option for
net.request()
. #25284
- Added a new asynchronous
shell.trashItem()
API, replacing the synchronous shell.moveItemToTrash()
. #25114
- Added new
app.runningUnderRosettaTranslation
property to detect when running under rosetta on Apple silicon. #26444 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
- Added new
system-context-menu
event to allow preventing and overriding the system context menu. #25795 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
- Added non-localized
serviceName
to 'child-process-gone'
/ app.getAppMetrics()
. #25975
- Added read/write support for Toast Activator CLSID in shortcuts. #25493
- Added setWindowOpenHandler API for renderer-created child windows, and deprecate new-window event. #24517
- Added spellcheck API to renderer. #25060
- Added support for explicitly specifying
direct
, auto_detect
or system
modes in session.setProxy()
. #24937
- Added support for showing macOS share menu. #25629
- Adds fast user switching event to powerMonitor on macOS. #25321
- Allowed setting the 'Origin' header and Sec-Fetch-* headers in net.request(). #26135
- Changed the default of
crashReporter.start({ compress })
from false
to true
. #25288
- Implemented Electron Fuses for customizing certain Electron features at package time. #24241
- Implemented custom Toast XML notifications on Windows
- Added failure reporting of notifications on Window. #25401
- Improved dark mode support on Windows. #25373 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
- Removed links to the Electron website from the default 'Help' menu in packaged apps. #25831
- Removed the
desktopCapturer.getMediaSourceIdForWebContents()
API. #25414 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
- The
launchInfo
of app
event ready
is now populated with information from UNNotificationResponse
when the app is launched via a notification presented by UNUserNotificationCenter
(in a native node module). #25950
- Updated setPermissionRequestHandler to correctly recognize permissions being requested. #26172 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Windows 10 versions 2004 and later support WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE
and will now exclude a window entirely from screen capture when setContentProtection
is enabled. Older Windows versions will continue to show a black window as before. #24274
Fixes
Added missing module delay loads on windows to reduce per process reference set impact. #25428 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Browser views will properly resize within windows. #25951 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Deprecated the use of the vm
module in the renderer process. #26087
Enabled support for new Chromium experimental PDF viewer UI. #26010
Excess menu item separators are now only removed after item re-ordering is done to avoid accidental removal of needed separators. #25563 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
Fixed BrowserWindow.fromBrowserView throwing an error when there were multiple BrowserViews in a window. #26493
Fixed CORS not being disabled by webSecurity: false
. #25463 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed Electron not working on Windows 7 after https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/25076. #25162 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed GdiTextPrinting when used with silent printing. #25679 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed NativeImage.crop().toBitmap() returning incorrect data. #25757 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
Fixed NativeImage.getScaleFactors() always returning the same value. #25832 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed LC_ALL
environment variable getting changed in Electron. #26507 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed ready-to-show
event not emitted on some machines. #25448 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed ses.setCertificateVerifyProc
canceling requests in unrelated sessions. #26517
Fixed window.open
not accepting size values with "px" at the end. #26104 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
Fixed a crash in app.importCertificate()
on Linux. #25523 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed a crash in printing on Windows. #25622 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed a crash in the renderer process when invoking the Badging API. #25294 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed a crash seen when printing. #25989 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Fixed a crash that could happen when a window was closed while a webview was in the process of being attached. #25431 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Fixed a crash when closing window in an event listener after exiting fullscreen on macOS. #25468 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed a rare crash on Windows that could occur when emitting certain powerMonitor events. #25836 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an Uncaught TypeError when opening DevTools. #26474 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Fixed an issue that could cause a normally-exiting process to fail with an "illegal access" message and exit code 7. #25430 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue that file length is not available in 'will-download' event when file is downloaded thourgh intercepted request. #25324
Fixed an issue where Hover Text on macOS Catalina did not work without VoiceOver also being enabled. #26183 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where Wasm code generation erroneously showed as being disallowed by embedder when contextIsolation
was enabled. #25777 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where Windows notifications with timeoutType
of 'never' did not work properly. #25820 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where Save as PDF
from PDF Viewer Print dialog failed and sometimes crashed. #25959 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where document.hasFocus
and document.activeElement
would be inconsistent upon showing a window that was initially created with show: false
. #25292 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 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. #25515 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where draggable regions did not work exclusively on BrowserViews
. #26145 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where draggable regions were not properly updated on BrowserViews when a containing BrowserWindow
was resized. #26233 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where events on webview elements were missing properties if contextIsolation was enabled. #26289
Fixed an issue where filters set in dialogs on macOS would have nondeterministic ordering. #25164 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where frameless windows showed window controls after being in simple fullscreen mode on macOS. #26096 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where net.request would continue downloading data even when the consuming stream was throttled. #25531
Fixed an issue where packages could not be selected with <input file="type"> on macOS. #25030 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where pageRanges was not properly honored when printing. #25064 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where some Node.js module API calls hung in the renderer process after reloads when render process reuse was enabled. #25869 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where some buttons were un-clickable in some BrowserViews with draggable regions enabled. #26496 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Fixed an issue where the buffer returned by NativeImage.getBitmap() could point to freed memory. #25782
Fixed an issue whereby a corrupted async_hooks
stack would crash the renderer when throwing some errors in the renderer process. #26365 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Fixed bug that meant require.resolve paths option was ignored. #25891 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed calling app.commandLine.appendSwitch('lang')
not changing app's locale. #26185 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed crash when application launched from UNUserNotificationCenter
notification (via a native node module). #25702 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed crash while exiting Electron after using the Web Serial API. #25969
Fixed crashes caused by attempting to modify destroyed views. #25411 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed crashes using nativeImage on Windows on ARM. #25396 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Fixed detection of launch on login items
- Fixed detection of enabled state set by TaskManager. #26515 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Fixed draggable regions stops working when devtools is opened on macOS. #26361 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed error handling on write failure in the protocol module. #26296
Fixed intermittent access violation during redirects (intercepted requests). #25393
Fixed issue where quitAndInstall()
would not restart the app upon update completion on macOS Big Sur. #25864 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Fixed issue where setting the spellchecker languages to an empty array would permanently disable the spellchecker till the end of time. #26119 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Fixed main process's console output not printing to devtools on Windows. #25765
Fixed maximized frameless window bleeding to other monitors. #25940 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed memory leak on macOS when using dialog.showMessageBox
API. #26078 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed memory leak when creating "Services" menu. #25617 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed multiple dock icons being left in system when calling dock.show
/hide
on macOS. #25269 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed network permission error when there are multiple WebContents sharing same session are created with web security disabled. #25139 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed ready-to-show event not emitted on some machines. #25632 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
Fixed shell.moveItemToTrash on Windows so that it returns false when move was unsuccessful. #25124 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed the following issues for frameless when maximized on Windows. #25052 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)</span>
Fixed the pretty-print JavaScript feature in DevTools not functioning correctly. #25780
Fixed the remote-debugging-port discovery page showing garbled text. #25576 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
Fixed webRequest module not recognizing the encoding of the filename in Content-Disposition
header. #25961
Fixed window.open called from child window. #25080 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Removed private API usage that was blocking Mac App Store releases. #26491 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Stopped using private API CTFontDescriptorIsSystemUIFont
in MAS build. #26548 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 11)</span>
Suppressed a spurious warning about executeJavaScript being called without worldSafeExecuteJavaScript being enabled in apps that do not call executeJavaScript. #25692 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 10, 11)</span>
Updated Node root certs to use NSS 3.56. #25313 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)</span>
Updated internal memory allocation logic such that you no longer need to use the com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory
codesign entitlement on macOS. #26331
Other Changes
Added a small console hint to console to help debug renderer crashes. #25317 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
BrowserWindow.fromWebContents() now returns an accurate result for WebContents in a BrowserView or webview. #25408
Deprecated the remote
module. It is replaced by @electron/remote
. #25293
Fixed resource leak in worker threads. #25332 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 9, 10, 11)</span>
None. #25526
Updated Node.js to v14.15.1. #26533
Upgraded Node.js to v14.9.0. #25249
Documentation
- Documentation changes: #25760, #25901, #25939, #25941, #25985, #25999, #26003, #26008, #26017, #26018, #26118, #26120, #26187, #26335