Bumps electron from 44.2.0 to 44.4.3.

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electron v44.4.3

Release Notes for v44.4.3

Fixes

• Fixed net.fetch() / net.request() spending seconds of main-process time buffering large streamed request bodies. #54061 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->

Performance Improvements

• Improved the performance of fs operations and require() on files inside asar archives. #54051 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium, PDFium, Skia and V8. #54081
  

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 -->

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Commits

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  1442047 chore: cherry-pick 11 changes from chromium, pdfium, skia and v8 (#54081)


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  601973e test: turn accessibility back off after the app a11y specs (#54077)


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  5340a80 test: don't let tests' PowerShell calls block Mocha from timing out (#54071)


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  1e4b7cb test: re-enable protocol.handle throughput test (#54028)


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  37e4061 perf: speed up fs operations on paths inside asar archives (44-x-y) (#54051)


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  0ef5d01 test: re-enable webview media permission test (#54068)


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  fd82e14 fix: don't re-copy the whole request body for every chunk written to net.requ...


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  a1bbce5 ci: run reduced test subsets on macOS x64 and mas (44-x-y) (#54057)


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  fd2cdd7 test: re-enable missing-file load failure (#54054)


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  fded7c8 test: fix fullscreen spec waits (#54044)


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