Electron: v8.0.0-beta.6 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.6

Fixes

• Bump very far --> this is electron bot fixing the release. 28e44b31
• Fixed a crash in contextBridge that happens on garbage collection. #21735
• Fixed a crash that would occur when Notifications were closed in concert with app termination. #21720
• Fixed an issue in the net module where aborting a request during a redirect could cause an error to be thrown. #21644
• Fixed an issue that could cause frameless windows to become undraggable in some circumstances. #21722
• Fixed an issue that could prevent communication between a sandboxed child window opened with nativeWindowOpen: false and an unsandboxed parent window. Also fixed document.visibilityState not working in sandboxed <webview>. #21431
• Fixed an issue where calling allowNTLMCredentialsForDomains() could cause a change in Kerberos SPN generation behavior. #21580
• Fixed an issue with potential duplicate error popups when calling shell.showItemInFolder on Windows. #21748
• Fixed incorrect button highlighting when defaultId is passed for dialog message boxes. #21653
• Fixed white flash when foregrounding an occluded window. #21751

Other Changes

• Handled origin/X branch formats. 606ca98d
• Updated Chromium to 80.0.3987.51. #21738
• Updated crashReporter to throw an error for getLastCrashReport if crashReporter not started. #21685

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #21743