Electron: v8.0.0-beta.5 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.5

Fixes

• Fixed POST-ing HTML forms with target=_blank. #21474
• Fixed cookies.set not working correctly when name or expirationDate is omitted. #21477
• Fixed a weird behaviors and crashes when controlling window menu by keys. #21452
• Fixed accessibility window title on macOS. #21467
• Fixed an issue that caused ClientRequest.getUploadProgress() to return incorrect values. #21424
• Fixed an issue where noLink was working incorrectly on Windows. #21405
• Fixed compositor recycling when creating new BrowserView. #21399
• Fixed contextBridge crash when closing a window. #21418
• Fixed contextBridge crash when opening and closing many windows. #21513
• Fixed media-specific globalShortcuts not working on macOS. #21547
• Fixed source maps not loading in devtools with file scheme. #21493
• Fixed window menu unable to hide on startup. #21443
• Re-enable DOM storage quota enforcement but change limit from 10MiB to 100MiB. #21380
• Removed Electron.dsym from macOS application zip. #21484
• setLayoutZoomLevelLimits no longer works in Electron 8, so emit a warning message when using it. The function will be removed in Electron 9. #21360

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 80.0.3987.14. #21520