Bumps electron from 44.2.0 to 44.4.2.

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electron v44.4.2

Release Notes for v44.4.2

Fixes

• Fixed a potential UAF when a select-usb-device handler destroys the requesting webContents. #54009 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. #53985
  


• Updated Chromium to 152.0.7977.130. #53778
  

electron v44.4.1

Release Notes for v44.4.1

Fixes

• Fixed default protocol client APIs falsely returning true on Windows. #53959 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed several object lifetime issues in Debugger, Menu, Tray, Notification, globalShortcut, utilityProcess, ServiceWorkerMain, WebFrameMain, webFrame, sharedTexture, systemPreferences, netLog, MessagePortMain, net.request and shell.openPath(). #53968 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->

electron v44.4.0

Release Notes for v44.4.0

Features

• Added initiatorOrigin to webRequest and protocol handler requests, DownloadItem.getInitiatorOrigin(), and a trailing frame argument to the will-download and preconnect session events. #53703 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->

Fixes

• Added validation to protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged() to reject protocol names that do not conform to RFC 3986 URI scheme grammar. #53743 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a crash when a webContents navigated to the Chrome Web Store and the page invoked the unsupported chrome.webstorePrivate API. #53776 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a main-process crash when an app called loadURL() again right after a load failed because the renderer process exited before the page committed. #53943 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a memory leak on Windows when app.getPreferredSystemLanguages() was called. #53868 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a potential UAF in app.getPreferredSystemLanguages() on Windows. #53865 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a renderer crash that could occur when printing from an iframe. #53762 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a renderer crash when an iframe was removed right after loading with nodeIntegrationInSubFrames enabled and sandbox disabled, e.g. on pages that embed Meta Pixel. #53885 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 42, 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a Windows renderer crash when no default locale could be determined. #53947
  


• Fixed an issue where the browser-side check that blocks drag and drop between cross-site frames of the same page was disabled. #53749 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed helper executables on macOS starting a second app instance when launched without a process type, for example through child_process.fork() with the runAsNode fuse disabled; fork() now throws in that configuration. #53840 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed V8 code caching for https scripts loaded by file:// and custom-scheme pages. #53745 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed webContents emitting unresponsive right after the system wakes from sleep on Windows, and emitting responsive when a hung window was hidden rather than when it recovered. #53764 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed webContents.capturePage() on offscreen windows returning an image resampled to the display's scale factor instead of rendered at the window's offscreen.deviceScaleFactor. #53816 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed Window Controls Overlay CSS environment variables and navigator.windowControlsOverlay not being populated for WebContentsViews in a BaseWindow. #53812 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, libyuv, PDFium and V8. #53769
  


• Updated Node.js to v24.21.0. #53779
  

electron v44.3.0

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Commits

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  34a45a2 build: update PGO profiles (#54031)


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  5d2b2fe chore: bump chromium to 152.0.7977.130 (44-x-y) (#53778)


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  5e32952 build: fix native addon cross-compilation (#54018)


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  566efa2 fix: don't crash if guest destroyed in select-usb-device handler (#54009)


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  b45d4f1 build: allow empty .patches files (#54004)


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  adf6470 ci: ignore transient curl error in audit (#54002)


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  8ec91c6 docs: search gitiles history before treating a Chrome fix CL as restricted (#...


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  91d5485 chore: cherry-pick 18 changes from angle, chromium, skia and v8 (#53985)


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  09d1a65 fix: cppgc object lifetime follow-ups (44-x-y) (#53968)


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  8f9454a test: gate specs on testing bindings (#53964)


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