Electron 8.0.0-beta.7 2020-01-16T20:29:49Z ()

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Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.7

Features

• Added session.addWordToSpellCheckerDictionary API to support custom words in the. #21297

Fixes

• Fixed set-cookie header not passed in net module. #21769
• Fixed an issue where webContents.printToPDF failed to properly generate the PDF document. #21797
• Fixed an issue where custom stream protocols would sometimes not complete responses when the data stream ended. #21759
• Fixed memory leak when using javascript generator functions. #21760

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 80.0.3987.59. #21800

Electron 8.0.0-beta.6 2020-01-14T15:33:34Z ()

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This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm i electron@8.0.0-beta.6.

Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.6

Fixes

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• 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

Electron 8.0.0-beta.5 2019-12-18T22:14:09Z ()

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This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm i electron@8.0.0-beta.5.

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

Electron 8.0.0-beta.4 2019-12-04T02:49:57Z ()

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This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm i electron@8.0.0-beta.4.

Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.4

Features

• Exposed executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld on the webContents API. #21267

Fixes

• Fixed --ignore-connections-limit, ironically, being ignored. #21298
• Fixed an issue where Tray icons couldn't be created from paths. #21241
• Fixed an issue where the checkboxChecked value wasn't being updated in showMessageBox on Windows. #21312
• Fixed broken focus with OOPIF embedded inside webview. #21343
• Fixed contextBridge crash. #21282
• Fixed the 'login' event not being emitted when HTTP Basic auth was requested during a net.request. #21133
• Fixed throttling in webContents.setBackgroundThrottling. #21358
• Net module requests no longer raise errors when non-2xx responses are received. #21285
• The disabled-by-default-cpu_profiler tracing category now correctly records stack samples from the main process and utility processes. #21276
• webContents.reloadIgnoringCache() will now forcefully ignore all caches, including service workers. #21283
• window.root and window.GLOBAL are both now undefined when nodeIntegration is disabled as expected. #21355

Other Changes

• Deprecated the default value of app.allowRendererProcessReuse (See #18397). #21287
• Fixed some crashes that could occur when using the net module. #21303
• Generate debug symbols on Linux. #21278
• Made strip_absolute_paths_from_debug_symbols to false in debug.gn. #21316

Electron 8.0.0-beta.3 2019-11-20T22:55:22Z ()

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This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm i electron@8.0.0-beta.3.

Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.3

Features

• Added screen to systemPreferences.getMediaAccessStatus() for detecting the new macOS Catalina permissions. #21116
• Added app.getApplicationNameForProtocol() API. #21117
• Deprecated <webview>.getWebContents() as it depends on the remote module. #21039

Fixes

• Fixed <webview>.capturePage() resolving with an empty object instead of NativeImage instance. #21103
• Fixed nativeTheme not accessible via the remote module. #20953
• Fixed shell.openExternal() option workingDirectory not working with Unicode characters. #20906
• Fixed webRequest module unable to modify CORS headers. #21122
• Fixed a memory leak issue when setting Tray images. #20936
• Fixed an issue where custom protocols registered using registerStreamProtocol would sometimes fail to complete the response when the stream ended. #21180
• Fixed broken globalShortcut.registerAll() on Windows and Linux. #20984
• Fixed context menu disappearing when showing. #21224
• Fixed crash on exit in aura platforms with webview. #21035
• Fixed exiting HTML fullscreen for cross-origin iframes (e.g. YouTube) while in macOS fullscreen. #21042
• Fixed flickering when maximizing and restoring frameless windows. #21201
• Fixed improper label internationalization for the recentDocuments MenuItem. #20956
• Fixed incorrect size of windows on differently scaled monitors. #21139
• Fixed issue where app.setAppLogsPath did not work when you provided a valid path. #20985
• Fixed issue where proxied remote promises might not resolve if Bluebird was installed in the renderer. #20946
• Fixed printing. #21059
• Fixed the 'login' event not being emitted when HTTP Basic auth was requested from a WebContents. #21098
• Removed __esModule = true inadvertently exported by the electron module. #20952