Update dependency electron to v16.2.8

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
electron	16.0.4 -> 16.2.8

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Release Notes

electron/electron (electron)

v16.2.8: electron v16.2.8

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Release Notes for v16.2.8

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Pointer Lock behavior could not be properly exited. #​32826 (Also in 18)
• Fixed an issue where bounds changes were incorrectly delayed in the case where a window was moved or resized and event.preventDefault was called in either will-resize or will-move on Windows. #​34282 (Also in 17, 18, 19)
• Fixed an issue with background colors being improperly applied to BrowserViews on Windows. #​33546
• Fixed crash when calling navigator.serial.getPorts(). #​34334 (Also in 17, 18, 19)

v16.2.7: electron v16.2.7

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Release Notes for v16.2.7

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when calling loadExtension on an extension directory that's missing a manifest file. #​34192 (Also in 17)
• Fixed an issue where tray items wouldn't highlight in some scenarios on macOS. #​34205 (Also in 17, 18, 19)
• SIGUSR1 is no longer handled when the node_cli_inspect fuse is disabled. #​34182 (Also in 17, 18)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1638. #​34223
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1639. #​34200
• Backported fix for chromium:1297283. #​34233
• Backported fix for chromium:1298867. #​34230
• Backported fix for chromium:1312563. #​34226

v16.2.6: electron v16.2.6

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Release Notes for v16.2.6

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1477. #​34013
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1479. #​34036
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1485. #​34054
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1492. #​34050
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1497. #​34074
• Fixed 32-bit native module builds with node-gyp >= 9.0.0. #​34167

v16.2.5: electron v16.2.5

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Release Notes for v16.2.5

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1478. #​34044
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1480. #​34018
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1482. #​34039
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1483. #​34008

v16.2.4: electron v16.2.4

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Release Notes for v16.2.4

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1305. #​33859
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1308. #​33885
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1310. #​33830
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1314. #​33883
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1364. #​33835
• Backported fix for chromium:1291482. #​33675
• Backported fix for chromium:1310761. #​33855
• Fixed child_process.spawn ENOENT error with cwd option. #​33869 (Also in 17, 18, 19)
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2022-0116 and CVE-2022-1306. #​33851

v16.2.3: electron v16.2.3

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Release Notes for v16.2.3

Fixes

• Apply senderFrame details to ipcMain port event. #​33780 (Also in 17, 18)
• Fixed a network service crash that could occur when using setCertificateVerifyProc. #​33255 (Also in 15, 17, 18)
• Fixed a potential crash in Browser.getFocusedWindow() when child windows are closed. #​33540 (Also in 17, 18)
• Fixed an issue where new bounds set via setBounds was not correctly applied if the user was moving or resizing the window concurrently on Windows. #​33544 (Also in 17, 18)
• Fixed emojis appearing black and white in Chromium 96. #​33683
• Fixed issues with frameless window animations and styling. #​33607 (Also in 17, 18, 19)
• shell.openExternal() now reports more detailed errors on Windows. #​33657 (Also in 15, 17, 18, 19)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1134. #​33762
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1138. #​33681
• Backported fix for chromium:1286816. #​33678
• Backported fix for chromium:1297731, b/218211225. #​33710
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2022-23308. #​33669
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1280852. #​33672

v16.2.2: electron v16.2.2

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Release Notes for v16.2.2

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the the window bounds would incorrectly change if BrowserWindow.unmaximize was called on a window whose user bounds were maximized. #​33552 (Also in 17, 18)
• Fixed behavior of BrowserWindow.maximize on macOS for not shown windows. #​33535 (Also in 15, 18)
• Fixed incorrect return value of app.requestSingleInstanceLock() when setting non-existent user data folder. #​33590 (Also in 17, 18, 19)

Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for chromium:1260129. #​33524
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1311641. #​33605

v16.2.1: electron v16.2.1

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Release Notes for v16.2.1

Fixes

• Fixed crash when WindowButtonsProxy references cleared NSWindow. #​33489 (Also in 15, 17, 18)

v16.2.0: electron v16.2.0

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Release Notes for v16.2.0

Features

• Added nativeTheme.inForcedColorsMode API to allow detecting forced color mode. #​33359 (Also in 15, 17, 18)

Fixes

• Fixed maximizing frameless windows by double-clicking on a draggable (title bar) region. #​33444 (Also in 15, 17, 18)
• Fixed slowness when using child_process.spawn and related methods on macOS Big Sur and newer. #​33405 (Also in 17, 18)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2022-0976. #​33389
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-1096. #​33472
• Backported fix for chromium:1296876. #​33392
• Fixed an issue where moving a window created in a scaled display to a regular display would increase the window size. #​33381
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2022-0806. #​33240
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2022-0975. #​33341
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2022-0978. #​33340

v16.1.1: electron v16.1.1

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Release Notes for v16.1.1

Fixes

• Fire 'show' event when a BrowserWindow is shown via maximize(). #​33212 (Also in 17, 18)
• Fixed an issue where calling screen capture on macOS does not properly release underlying OS capture mechanisms. #​33314 (Also in 17)
• Fixed an issue where clicking "Open in Containing Folder" in the Sources tab in Devtools caused a crash. #​33313 (Also in 17, 18)
• Fixed broken event loop in renderer process when process reuse is enabled on windows platform. #​33363 (Also in 17, 18)
• Fixed crash in the render process on reload with pending node fs.promises. #​33301 (Also in 15, 17, 18)
• Fixed drag regions on WCO windows on Windows. #​33200 (Also in 15, 17, 18)
• Fixed incorrect external memory allocation tracking in nativeImage module. #​33312 (Also in 15, 17, 18)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 1283402. #​33244
• Backported fix for OSV-2021-777. #​33236
• Fixed an issue where adding/removing display changes the BrowserWindow size. #​33249 (Also in 14, 15, 17, 18)
• Security: backported fix for 1291728. #​33179
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2022-0792. #​33219
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2022-0801. #​33258

v16.1.0: electron v16.1.0

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Release Notes for v16.1.0

Features

• Added height option for Windows Control Overlay. #​33061 (Also in 15, 17)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where alternateImages did not work properly on macOS. #​33106 (Also in 15, 17, 18)
• Fixed an issue where the Tray could get garbage collected incorrectly under some circumstances. #​33075 (Also in 15, 17, 18)
• Strip crashpad_handler binary on Linux, reducing bundle size. #​33174 (Also in 15, 17, 18)

Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for 1295786. #​33169
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1281908. #​33186
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1289383. #​33182

v16.0.10: electron v16.0.10

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Release Notes for v16.0.10

Fixes

• Fixed BrowserWindow.showInactive restoring a maximized window to non-maximized on Windows. #​33020 (Also in 17, 18)
• Fixed an issue where webContents.savePage failed when passing a relative path instead of an absolute one. #​33017 (Also in 15, 17, 18)
• Fixed broken transparency option in offscreen window rendering. #​33051
• Fixed command string registered via setAsDefaultProtocolClient on windows. #​33010 (Also in 14, 15, 17, 18)
• Fixed stale renderer process when application is quit while renderer is busy. #​32969 (Also in 14, 15, 17, 18)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for CVE-2022-0609. #​32900
• Backported fix for CVE-2022-0610. #​32918
• Chore: backport EPROTOTYPE fixes from libuv. #​32942 (Also in 17, 18)
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2022-0607. #​32916
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1039885. #​32803
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1258603. #​32809
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1262967. #​32807
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1267426. #​32805
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1267627. #​32806
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1274376. #​32808
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1289384. #​32911
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1289394. #​32907
• Security: backported fixes to chromium:1292537 and CVE-2022-0606. #​32903

v16.0.9: electron v16.0.9

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Release Notes for v16.0.9

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where frameless windows on Windows would incorrectly show a small frame during the loading process. #​32710 (Also in 14, 15, 17, 18)
• Fixed an issue where if backgroundColor was set to undefined, vibrancy failed to work and the backgroundColor would show up as white. #​32654 (Also in 17)
• Fixed an issue with transparent windows failing to fire the maximize and unmaximize events on Windows. #​32689 (Also in 15, 17)
• Fixed effect when hovering over window controls on Windows in a WCO-enabled window. #​32720 (Also in 14, 15, 17, 18)
• Fixed issue where not all serial devices were exposed to the handler specified by session.setDevicePermissionHandler. #​32687 (Also in 15, 17)

Other Changes

• Backported fix from https://crbug.com/1263070 for filtering in devtools console . #​32860
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1248444. #​32804
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1255368. #​32801
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1260869. #​32802
• Security: backported fix for chromium:1274445,v8:7990. #​32738
• Updated Chromium to 96.0.4664.174. #​32715

v16.0.8: electron v16.0.8

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Release Notes for v16.0.8

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when user attempted to download an edited PDF. #​32538 (Also in 15, 17)
• Fixed an issue that the alert() dialog title is corrupted. #​32470 (Also in 14, 15, 17)
• Fixed an issue where ipcRenderer.postMessage would throw errors when the transfer argument was not passed. #​32460 (Also in 14, 15, 17)
• Fixed an issue where frameless vibrant windows would not show transparency correctly on macOS. #​32648
• Fixed an issue where the 'maximize' and 'unmaximize' events didn't fire properly on linux. #​32497 (Also in 14, 15, 17)
• Fixed aspect ratio resize for frameless windows on macOS. #​32446 (Also in 15, 17)
• Fixed crash when calling webContents.setZoomFactor(1.0). #​32620 (Also in 13, 14, 15, 17)
• Fixed minimized BrowserWindow being restored by BrowserWindow.unmaximize(). #​32495 (Also in 14, 15, 17)
• Fixed windows with roundedCorners: false unable to be closed. #​32611 (Also in 15, 17)
• Strip symbols from crashpad_handler binary on Linux, reducing bundle size. #​32554 (Also in 15, 17)
• The <webview> implementation was made more robust, it no longer breaks when will-attach-webview handler modifies the internal params.instanceId. #​32429 (Also in 17)

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #​32645

v16.0.7: electron v16.0.7

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Release Notes for v16.0.7

Fixes

• Allowed specifying x64 arch on Mac Rosetta via npm_config_arch. #​32381 (Also in 15, 17)
• Bug fixed for registering protocol in windows which used to set invalid command if the execution path included space. #​32331 (Also in 14, 15, 17)
• Fixed text input performance regression. #​32352
• Fixed a crash caused by app.getLocaleCountryCode(). #​32321 (Also in 15, 17)
• Fixed incorrect skipTransformProcessType option parsing in win.setVisibleOnAllWorkspaces(). #​32397 (Also in 13, 14, 15, 17)
• Fixed regression where console windows would open for execSync and some spawnSync calls for Windows users. #​32379 (Also in 17)

v16.0.6: electron v16.0.6

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Release Notes for v16.0.6

Fixes

• Fixed crash when playing media files on Windows 7/8 or macOS 10.11/10.12. #​32215 (Also in 15, 17)
• No Notes. #​32243 (Also in 13, 14, 15, 17)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 96.0.4664.110. #​32123

v16.0.5: electron v16.0.5

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Release Notes for v16.0.5

Fixes

• Assertion failure happening in the showSaveDialogSync() code path has been fixed. (Fixes #​31997). #​32082 (Also in 14, 15, 17)
• Fixed window.open not overriding parent's webPreferences. #​32108 (Also in 17)
• No Notes. #​32199 (Also in 13, 14, 15, 17)

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