●Change8

v43.0.0-alpha.2

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✨ 22 features🐛 11 fixes🔧 19 symbols

Summary

This alpha release introduces several new features across platform support, notifications, and debugging tools. It also includes numerous bug fixes related to ASAR support, window sizing, and network request handling.

✨ New Features

  • Added Clone method to WebContents.
  • Added JS stack trace to crash reports on renderer OOM.
  • Added Linux support for app.getApplicationInfoForProtocol().
  • Added Notification.getHistory() for macOS, allowing developers to restore all delivered notifications still present in Notification Center.
  • Added accessibilityLabel property to MenuItem constructor options and properties for defining screen-reader-friendly labels.
  • Added allowExtensions privilege to protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged() to enable Chrome extensions on custom protocols.
  • Added app.configureWebAuthn() to enable the Touch ID platform authenticator for WebAuthn on macOS, and a select-webauthn-account session event for choosing between multiple discoverable credentials.
  • Added globalShortcut.setSuspended() and globalShortcut.isSuspended() methods to temporarily suspend and resume global shortcut handling.
  • Added id and groupId options to the Notification constructor on macOS. id allows custom identifiers for notifications, and groupId visually groups notifications together in Notification Center.
  • Added nv12 OSR pixel format support for professional use.
  • Added view.setBackgroundBlur.
  • Added webContents.copyVideoFrameAt(x, y) and webContents.saveVideoFrameAs(x, y) methods.
  • Added id, groupId, and groupTitle support for Windows notifications.
  • Added nativeTheme.shouldDifferentiateWithoutColor on macOS.
  • Added session support to net module requests from utility process.
  • Added support for heap profiling via contentTracing.enableHeapProfiling().
  • Added support for importing shared textures using the nv16 pixel format.
  • Allowed the --experimental-inspector-network-resource Node.js flag to be passed through Electron.
  • SF Symbol customisation support added.
  • File downloads will open by default in the user's Downloads folder (or Home directory if Downloads doesn't exist).
  • Fixed contentTracing module to capture Node.js trace categories.
  • Added support for the urgency option in Notifications on Windows.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Added additional ASAR support to additional fs copy methods.
  • Added crash keys to diagnose power monitor shutdown crash on arm64 windows.
  • Added missing metadata fields to contentTracing traces.
  • BrowserWindow now enforces min/max size constraints on window creation, even if they conflict with the requested width and height.
  • Changed the kResizeThreshold to trigger the resize on corners.
  • Ensured cross-origin fetch() and XHR are blocked for custom protocols registered with supportFetchAPI: true unless corsEnabled: true is also set; cross-origin mode: 'no-cors' requests now receive an opaque response.
  • If a nativeImage was passed an image with a color profile, its pixel values will now be normalized to SRGB. This ensures that two visually identical images after color space application will receive similar pixel values when converted to a nativeImage.
  • Fixed DesktopCapturer crash on macOS.
  • Fixed Electron child process titles on Linux so they show their types (render, gpu, etc.) and complete command-line arguments and flags in ps aux.
  • Fixed ELECTRON_INSTALL_PLATFORM being ignored when resolving the Electron executable path during postinstall, which caused path.txt to be written for the host platform instead of the requested target and made isInstalled() always re-download on subsequent installs.
  • Fixed app.getLoginItemSettings() returning undefined for executableWillLaunchAtLo...

Affected Symbols

WebContents.Cloneapp.getApplicationInfoForProtocolNotification.getHistoryMenuItemprotocol.registerSchemesAsPrivilegedapp.configureWebAuthnglobalShortcut.setSuspendedglobalShortcut.isSuspendedNotificationview.setBackgroundBlurwebContents.copyVideoFrameAtwebContents.saveVideoFrameAsnativeTheme.shouldDifferentiateWithoutColorcontentTracing.enableHeapProfilingfs copy methodscontentTracingBrowserWindowDesktopCapturerapp.getLoginItemSettings