Release Notes for v30.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 124.0.6367.49
  • New in 124
  • New in 123
• Node 20.11.1
  • Node 20.11.1 blog post
• V8 12.4

Breaking Changes

• Added WebContentsView and BaseWindow, replacing the now-deprecated BrowserView APIs. #35658 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Added Windows support for the ASAR Integrity fuse. #40504
• Updated Chromium to 122.0.6194.0. (Behavior Changed: cross-origin iframes now use Permission Policy to access features) #40750
• Updated Chromium to 122.0.6236.2. (Removed: The --disable-color-correct-rendering switch) #40871
• The inputFieldType property in the context-menu params has been removed. #41440
• Updated Chromium to 124.0.6323.0 (Removed: process.getIOCounters()) #41412

Features

Additions

• Added a transparent webpreference to webviews. #40301
• 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.#41662 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Added a new method BrowserWindow.isOccluded() to allow apps to check occlusion status. #38982
• Added net module to utility process. #40017 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Added proxy configuring support for requests made with net module from utility process. #41417 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Added support for Bluetooth ports being requested by service class ID in navigator.serial. #41734 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Added support for NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS. #41822
• Implemented support for the File System API. #41827

Removed/Deprecated

• Removed extraneous dlls from Windows zip files. #41120 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>

  Fixes

• Fixed <webview> and BrowserViews being white instead of transparent by default. #40866

• Fixed WebContents.loadURL() incorrectly failing if called immediately after a previous call to loadURL() failed. #40661

• Fixed a bug where a window with maximization disabled and WCO enabled would still show its maximization button. #41805

• Fixed a potential crash while closing or interacting with a WebContentsView after its associated WebContents has been cleaned up. #41154

• Fixed an issue where app.getLoginItemSettings didn't correctly throw errors. #41667

• Fixed an issue where child views in a BrowserWindow could sometimes be. #41802

• Fixed an issue where showing or focusing a panel window would activate the app on Mac. #41844

• Improved appearance of caption buttons on Windows 11 when using Windows Control Overlay. #41586

• Properly reject webcontents.loadURL promise on invalid URL load. #41194

Also in earlier versions...

• Added support for ThumbnailCapturerMac and ScreenCaptureKitStreamPickerSonoma chromium feature flags to bypass deprecated API warning on macOS 14.4. #41328 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Apply module search paths restriction on worker and child process. #41118 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• CSS style -webkit-app-region: drag; has no effect in full screen mode. #41307 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Ensured ScreenCaptureKit is used exclusively on macOS 14.4 and higher to avoid permission prompts. #41404 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed Electron 29.0.0-beta.3 regression that could pop up context menus in the wrong location. #41275 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed chrome://process-internals failing to load. #41540 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed session.fromPartition() key lookup bug. #41055 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed shell.showItemInFolder not opening Windows Explorer if the passed path contains forward slashes. #41671 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed a crash resultant from trying to listen to power-related events before the ready event was emitted on Linux. #40888 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 26, 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed a crash that started occurring sporadically with some types of macOS window close. #41264 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed a partition alloc ref count check for higher MacOS versions. #40757 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed a potential async_hooks crash when listening for the restore event on Windows after minimizing a maximized BrowserWindow. #40576 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed a potential crash in chrome.scripting on extension unload. #41702 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed a potential crash when calling dialog.showMessageBoxSync. #40996 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue on Windows where silent printing resulted in comically tiny renderer output. #41838 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where import.meta.url did not work in the renderer process with contextIsolation enabled. #40993 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where inAppPurchase.getProducts and inAppPurchase.purchasedProduct did not resolve as expected. #40938 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where original-fs methods were not properly corrected for patched imports. #41209 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where select-usb-device did not respect the filter option in navigator.usb.requestDevice(). #41166 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where user-did-{resign|become}-active were not emitted properly on macOS. #41528 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where webContents.print(options) failed if options was not passed or undefined is passed. #41480 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where webContents.printToPDF could fail when certain combinations of margins and pageSize values are passed. #41157 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where badge text set using the Badging API no longer appeared correctly on Windows. #41629 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where crashes in node::Environment destruction potentially wouldn't be propagated to the NodeService exit handler. #41277 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where draggable regions didn't work across platforms. #41030 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where emojis weren't properly handled on Windows. #41681 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where non-modal windows with vibrancy could have incorrectly rounded corners on Sonoma. #41003 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where some dependencies using CommonJS would cause ESM apps to fail to open. #41367 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where the -webkit-app-region: drag property was not respected on some windows. #41377 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where the printBackground option in webContents.printToPDF did not work as expected. #41161 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed an issue where the serial-port-added event improperly respected filters set by serial.requestPort(). #41635 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed crash in MessagePort::close. #41201 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed crash in Notification::Close() under libnotify 0.8.x with portal environment. #41708 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed default protocol handler behavior on Windows. #40892 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed documentation of the default --inspect port. #40665 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28)</span>
• Fixed forked child process not able to send IPC message under some cases on macOS. #41079 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 26, 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed incorrect title bar shown on frameless transparent windows. #40749 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed macOS bug that causes window maximize button to be disabled in full-screen mode. #40994 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed missing <__assertion_handler> header when compiling with libc++. #41846 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed on-screen-keyboard not hiding for webviews under some cases. #41131 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed the GrantFileProtocolExtraPrivileges not correctly preventing fetch() calls to file:// URLs. #40801 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Fixed the enabled/disabled behavior of the maximize/fullscreen button of macOS windows. #40705 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 27, 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed usage of Storage.{get|set|clear}Cookies via the Chrome DevTools Protocol. #41740 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 28, 29)</span>
• Fixed various bugs which could prevent forwarding requests intercepted with protocol.handle(). #41052 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 29)</span>
• Unset all Node envs in node process when parent is a foreign process. #40770 <span style="font-size:small;">(Also in 26, 27, 28, 29)</span>

Documentation

• Documentation change
  • #41732

Notices

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