Electron: v8.0.0-beta.4 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 i [email protected].

# Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.4

Features

• Exposed executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld on the webContents API. #21267

Fixes

• Fixed --ignore-connections-limit, ironically, being ignored. #21298
• Fixed an issue where Tray icons couldn't be created from paths. #21241
• Fixed an issue where the checkboxChecked value wasn't being updated in showMessageBox on Windows. #21312
• Fixed broken focus with OOPIF embedded inside webview. #21343
• Fixed contextBridge crash. #21282
• Fixed the 'login' event not being emitted when HTTP Basic auth was requested during a net.request. #21133
• Fixed throttling in webContents.setBackgroundThrottling. #21358
• Net module requests no longer raise errors when non-2xx responses are received. #21285
• The disabled-by-default-cpu_profiler tracing category now correctly records stack samples from the main process and utility processes. #21276
• webContents.reloadIgnoringCache() will now forcefully ignore all caches, including service workers. #21283
• window.root and window.GLOBAL are both now undefined when nodeIntegration is disabled as expected. #21355

Other Changes

• Deprecated the default value of app.allowRendererProcessReuse (See #18397). #21287
• Fixed some crashes that could occur when using the net module. #21303
• Generate debug symbols on Linux. #21278
• Made strip_absolute_paths_from_debug_symbols to false in debug.gn. #21316