Bumps electron from 44.4.5 to 44.5.1.

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electron v44.5.1

Release Notes for v44.5.1

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn and V8. #54564
  

electron v44.5.0

Release Notes for v44.5.0

Features

• Added launch-failure reporting with systemErrorCode to the app child-process-gone event. #54231 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->

Fixes

• Changed the default trash implementation on KDE Plasma 6 to kioclient. #54361 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• DevTools zoom in/out now uses the same zoom steps as Chromium. #54387 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed --xdg-portal-required-version having no effect and a spurious portal warning being logged for file dialogs on Linux. #54303 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a child WebContentsView losing focus when its window is reactivated. #54455 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a crash when a WebAuthn request used a security key that required its PIN. #54403 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a crash when creating a framed window on Wayland in environments where GTK could not initialize. #54420 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a crash when sending a DevTools protocol command with a non-string value for an optional string parameter via webContents.debugger. #54445 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a GPU process crash on startup when another instance of the app is using the same session data directory. #54469
  


• Fixed a grey border around frameless windows on Linux WMs without compositing. #54391 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a main process crash when a native API method was called with a this value of a different native type; it now throws a TypeError. #54315 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a possible crash during process exit when vm.Script or vm contexts created in the main process had been garbage collected shortly before quitting. #54266 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a possible crash on Windows on ARM when powerMonitor is torn down. #54408 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a renderer crash calling image.toPNG() from a sandboxed preload script. #54502 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed a renderer crash when a ResizeObserver loop-limit error handler modified layout. #54290 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed accent-color-changed on Windows reporting a colour that differed from systemPreferences.getAccentColor(). #54409 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed an issue where crashReporter.setUploadToServer() had no effect after crashReporter.start() was called. #54518 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed app.getRecentDocuments() omitting documents with non-ASCII paths on Windows. #54407 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed clipboard.read(), readText() and has() resolving seconds late on Linux while the app was idle. #54308 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 42, 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed desktopCapturer.getSources() leaving non-resizable windows resizable on macOS. #54397 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed fs.rmSync failing to remove read-only files on Windows. #54255 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 42, 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed GDK_BACKEND leaking into processes spawned by Electron apps on Linux. #54425 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed hidden windows continuing to render at full frame rate after setBackgroundThrottling(false) followed by setBackgroundThrottling(true). #54341 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed pointerLock permission requests from some iframes reporting the parent frame. #54464 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 42, 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed setContentProtection(true) having no effect in Windows remote sessions. #54500 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed setIgnoreMouseEvents() taking effect late on X11. #54497 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed setIgnoreMouseEvents(true) being undone by the next resize on X11. #54393 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->
  
  
  
  • Added setIgnoreMouseEvents support on Wayland.
  
  
  
  


• Fixed shell.showItemInFolder() on Linux for paths containing #, ? or % when the file manager is reached over D-Bus. #54406 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed the default action label on Linux notifications not being localized. #54401 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed the GPU process crash-looping on Windows when the sandbox cannot read the install folder; the folder is now reported instead. #54484 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed the zoom level resetting on file: and other host-less pages after a location.hash change. #54442 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed typing not working after closing an alert() or confirm() on Windows. #54461 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed utilityProcess dropping stdout/stderr output that the child wrote immediately before exiting. #54278 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 42, 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->


• Fixed visual zoom limits resetting on navigation and not applying to webviews. #54449 <!-- raw HTML omitted -->(Also in 43, 45)<!-- raw HTML omitted -->

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Commits

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  19c6011 chore: cherry-pick 27 changes from angle, chromium, dawn and v8 (#54564)


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  435b189 test: parse all custom page size PDFs in one pdf.js process (#54544)


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  a2db7a8 test: wait for child output before asserting on it (#54541)


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  fa180db fix: crashReporter.setUploadToServer() having no effect after start (#54518)


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  60f40fe test: wait for focus before requesting pointer lock in spec (#54533)


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  f0a852d test: wait for earlier Electron workers to exit before serial specs (#54512)


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  42ed175 fix: apply the X11 input shape before setIgnoreMouseEvents() returns (#54497)


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  71490d8 fix: apply setContentProtection() in Windows remote sessions again (#54500)


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  d4bd178 fix: throw instead of crashing when nativeImage cannot create a Buffer (#54502)


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  614efcd fix: report install folders that the sandbox cannot read on Windows instead o...


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