v33.2.1: electron v33.2.1

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Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when calling shell.readShortcutLink on Windows. #​44803 (Also in 34)
• Fixed an issue where WebContentsViews were being improperly removed. #​44671 (Also in 31, 32, 34)
• Fixed an issue where resize wasn't being emitted for single-pixel resizes on Windows. #​44723 (Also in 32, 34)
• Fixed an issue where a utilityProcess pid would not be undefined after exit. #​44694 (Also in 32, 34)
• Fixed an issue where buttons shown under the Window Controls Overlay API were missing tooltips. #​44757 (Also in 32, 34)
• Fixed an issue where the webContents context-menu event was not emitted when using -webkit-app-region: drag. #​44800 (Also in 32, 34)
• Fixed an issue where the windows control overlay was unexpectedly visible in fullscreen on Linux. #​44640 (Also in 31, 32, 34)
• Fixed crash in net api when utility process exits. #​44729 (Also in 32, 34)
• Fixed segfault when moving WebContentsView between BrowserWindows. #​44613 (Also in 31, 32, 34)
• Fixed theme does not work in DevTools. #​44635 (Also in 32, 34)
• Fixed update file extension bug. #​44771 (Also in 34)
• Return 0 exit code for normal termination of the utility process. #​44732 (Also in 32, 34)

Other Changes

• Fixed an issue where a deprecation warning was being incorrectly emitted for frameless windows on macOS. #​44767 (Also in 34)
• Fixed drag-and-drop session being canceled on wayland with empty dragData. #​44753 (Also in 32)
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-11110. #​44647
• Updated Chromium to 130.0.6723.137. #​44781
• Updated Node.js to v20.18.1. #​44780

v33.2.0: electron v33.2.0

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Features

• Added GPU accelerated shared texture offscreen rendering. #​44511

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 130.0.6723.118. #​44591

v33.1.0: electron v33.1.0

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Release Notes for v33.1.0

Features

• Added WebFrameMain.detached for frames in an unloading state.
  • Added WebFrameMain.isDestroyed() to determine if a frame has been destroyed.
  • Fixed webFrameMain.fromId(processId, frameId) returning a WebFrameMain instance which doesn't match the given parameters when the frame is unloading. #​44209

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where EventSource was undefined in both renderer and worker processes when Node.js integration was enabled. #​44496 (Also in 32, 34)
• Fixed crash when network process terminates while a net log is running. #​44420 (Also in 31, 32, 34)
• Fixed crash when rendering super menu accelerator on linux. #​44520 (Also in 34)
• Fixed external window focus when using shell.openExternal. #​44468 (Also in 34)
• Fixed regression with dynamic dependency on libgdk_pixbuf. #​44436 (Also in 32, 34)

Other Changes

• Performance improvements when processing microtasks. #​44473 (Also in 32, 34)
• Updated Chromium to 130.0.6723.91. #​44477

v33.0.2: electron v33.0.2

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Release Notes for v33.0.2

Fixes

• Fixed trace-startup not working on macOS. #​44276 (Also in 32, 34)
• Fixed an issue where closing a window after printing on Linux triggered a crash. #​44285 (Also in 31, 32, 34)
• Fixed an issue where the exit event could be emitted twice from the utilityProcess. #​44266 (Also in 31, 32, 34)
• Fixed calling setAlwaysOnTop on a hidden window which is then shown with showInactive on Linux under X11. #​44324 (Also in 31, 32, 34)
• Fixed race condition in which WebContents appears as white screen on VDI machines without hardware acceleration capabilities. #​44352 (Also in 32, 34)

v33.0.1: electron v33.0.1

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Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 130.0.6723.59. #​44271

v33.0.0: electron v33.0.0

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Release Notes for 33.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 130.0.6723.44
  • New in 130
  • New in 129
• Node 20.18.0
  • Node 20.18.0 blog post
  • Node 20.17.0 blog post
• V8 13.0

Breaking Changes

• Deprecated usage of textured BrowserWindow type option on macOS. #​43133
• Custom protocol URLs that use Windows file paths will no longer work correctly with the deprecated protocol.registerFileProtocol and the baseURLForDataURL property on BrowserWindow.loadURL, WebContents.loadURL, and <webview>.loadURL. #​43977

Features

Additions

• Added a handler, app.setClientCertRequestPasswordHandler(handler), to help unlock cryptographic devices when a PIN is needed. #​41205
• Added error event in utility process to support diagnostic reports on V8 fatal errors. #​43997
• Added View.setBorderRadius(radius) for customizing the border radius of views—with compatibility for WebContentsView. #​42320
• Added Linux support for the Windows Control Overlay API. #​41769 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Added support for the macOS system picker in desktopCapturer and setDisplayMediaRequestHandler. #​43680 (Also in 32)
• Added DownloadItem.getCurrentBytesPerSecond(), DownloadItem.getPercentComplete(), DownloadItem.getEndTime(). #​42805 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Added a new property prefersReducedTransparency to nativeTheme, which indicates whether the user has chosen to reduce OS-level transparency via system accessibility settings. #​42862 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Added support for responding to auth requests initiated from utility process via app#login event. #​42631 (Also in 32)

Improvements

• Extended navigationHistory API with 2 new functions for better history management. #​42014
• Ensured that the sender-id hint is set when creating desktop notifications on DBus. #​43949 (Also in 31, 32)
• Aligned failure pathway in File System Access API with upstream when attempting to open a file or directory in a blocked path. #​42561 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Enabled zstd compression in net http requests. #​43150 (Also in 31, 32)
• Expose systemPreferences to utilityProcess. #​42203 (Also in 30, 31, 32)

Fixes

• Fixed a build failure when the enable_plugins build flag is false. #​44025
• Fixed mouse cursor turning into loading spinner when starting utility process on Windows. #​43731

Also in earlier versions...

• Fixed BrowserView auto resize issue. #​43636 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed MenuItem.click handler not setting focusedWindow parameter when focused window is a BaseWindow. #​43438 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed a crash that could occur in some DevTools extensions containing draggable regions. #​43179 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed a crash when calling focus on a WebView's webContents. #​43932 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed a focus issue when calling BrowserWindow.setTopBrowserView. #​42653 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed a potential crash when using off screen rendering. #​42920 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed a potential error when calling webContents.close() on a BrowserView. #​42633 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed a potential issue accessing a child window document when overriding browserWindow creation via setWindowOpenHandler. #​43816 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed a potential issue with fillable PDF forms saving correctly in some circumstances. #​43686 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an error where a minimized or hidden window would thrown an unresponsive error in the main process. #​43034 (Also in 32)
• Fixed an issue when dragging to resize when using Window Controls Overlay on Linux. #​43744 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where Chromium could crash on a dangling unretained pointer in one of several webRequest functions. #​42647 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where High Contrast Mode didn't apply to webContents on Windows. #​42853 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where MessagePorts could close unexpectedly with non-cloneable objects sent via postMessage. #​42535 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where BaseWindow.setTouchBar didn't work as expected. #​43422 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where WebContentsViews did not show correctly in some circumstances on macOS after being added as child views. #​43696 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where defaultPath did not work for all users on Linux when creating an open file dialog. #​43595 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where fetch-dependent interfaces could be missing in Web Workers with nodeIntegrationInWorker enabled. #​42579 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices could return broken results in some cases after calling session.setPermissionCheckHandler. #​42775 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia and navigator.getUserMedia should reject with a NotAllowedError if microphone or camera permissions have been denied at the system level on macOS. #​42899 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where navigator.serial.getPorts() incorrectly returned an empty array in some cases. #​43101 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where system-context-menu was not triggered as expected on Windows when using a frameless BrowserWindow. #​43243 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where an exception could be thrown on BrowserView after its owner BrowserWindow was closed. #​44000 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where calling BrowserWindow.setBackgroundColor with some level of transparency could cause a crash. #​42824 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where calling desktopCapturer.getSources on macOS running 14.4 or later would make non-resizable windows resizable. #​43013 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where calling window.print(), webContents.print() or printToPDF from an existing PDF document resulted in a blank page. #​43309 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where calling window.showInactive on macOS did not actually show the window. #​43079 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where clicking the eyedropper icon did nothing instead of opening an eyedropper for color selection as expected. #​43700 (Also in 32)
• Fixed an issue where control could fail to return properly after saving a dialog using showOpenDialogSync on Linux. #​42652 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where sources returned by the desktopCapturer API and screen.getAllDisplays() no longer matched on Windows. #​42781 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where sources returned by the desktopCapturer API and screen.getAllDisplays() no longer matched on Windows. #​42883 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where the File System Access API did not remember the user's last picked directory as expected. #​42850 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where the user-specified default path did not work in some circumstances when using Linux dialogs. #​42655 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where users would be incorrectly notified of print failure upon intentional cancellation. #​43337 (Also in 32)
• Fixed an issue with resize events being emitted on Windows when the window was moved but not resized. #​43457 (Also in 32)
• Fixed behavior when entering/exiting fullscreen fails on macOS. #​43112 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed bug where camera permissions affected screen sharing. #​43543 (Also in 32)
• Fixed closing a window with more than one attached sheet on macOS. #​43952 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed crash when resolving proxy with session.resolveProxy api. #​42878 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed devtools to allow restoring saved dock state on Linux when WCO is enabled. #​43499 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed electron app in ozone/wayland not being focused when launched from another app. #​43546 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed issues with the vibrancy view on macOS. #​43078 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed other apps not being focused when launched from electron ozone/wayland. #​43579 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed potential use-after-free during view removal on macOS. #​43922 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed several view hierarchy issues related to web contents view on MacOS. #​43033 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed the resource leak when using Node.js readable streams as the response body for a custom protocol handler. #​43056 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Resolved an issue where desktopCapturer.getSources never fulfilled its promise in some cases. #​43080 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)
• Restored Chromium default Content-Disposition header parsing. #​43670 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Third time isn't always a charm. Fixed the native macOS Screen Share picker invocation triggering a test Chromium green screen. #​43810 (Also in 32)
• Fix: fixed the npm run lint not working on Windows. #​42281 (Also in 31, 32)
• Fixed a potential crash when removing notifications on Windows. #​43040 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed an issue where opening multiple file pickers on Windows via the input tag could cause a crash. #​42758 (Also in 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed crash in gpu process when software compositing is enabled on linux with x11 platform. #​42559 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)
• Fixed ffmpeg release on x64 macOS. #​43093 (Also in 29, 30, 31, 32)

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #​43460, #​42691

Notices

End of Support for 30.x.y

Electron 30.x.y has reached end-of-support as per the project's support policy. Developers and applications are encouraged to upgrade to a newer version of Electron.

v32.2.7: electron v32.2.7

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Fixes

• Fixed an possible crash when using draggable regions and BaseWindows to get the context-menu event. #​44954 (Also in 33, 34)

Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for chromium:378541479. #​44858

v32.2.6: electron v32.2.6

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Release Notes for v32.2.6

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where resize wasn't being emitted for single-pixel resizes on Windows. #​44724 (Also in 33, 34)
• Fixed an issue where a utilityProcess pid would not be undefined after exit. #​44693 (Also in 33, 34)
• Fixed an issue where buttons shown under the Window Controls Overlay API were missing tooltips. #​44758 (Also in 33, 34)
• Fixed an issue where the webContents context-menu event was not emitted when using -webkit-app-region: drag. #​44798 (Also in 33, 34)
• Fixed crash in net api when utility process exits. #​44730 (Also in 33, 34)
• Return 0 exit code for normal termination of the utility process. #​44749 (Also in 33, 34)

Other Changes

• Fixed drag-and-drop session being canceled on wayland with empty dragData. #​44760
• Updated Node.js to v20.18.1. #​44779

v32.2.5: electron v32.2.5

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Release Notes for v32.2.5

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where WebContentsViews were being improperly removed. #​44672 (Also in 31, 33, 34)
• Fixed an issue where the windows control overlay was unexpectedly visible in fullscreen on Linux. #​44642 (Also in 31, 33, 34)
• Fixed crash when rendering super menu accelerator on linux. #​44623 (Also in 33, 34)
• Fixed theme does not work in DevTools. #​44639 (Also in 33, 34)

Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-10827. #​44645
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-11110. #​44648

v32.2.4: electron v32.2.4

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Release Notes for v32.2.4

Fixes

• Fixed segfault when moving WebContentsView between BrowserWindows. #​44615 (Also in 31, 33, 34)

v32.2.3: electron v32.2.3

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Release Notes for v32.2.3

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where EventSource was undefined in both renderer and worker processes when Node.js integration was enabled. #​44497 (Also in 33, 34)
• Fixed crash when network process terminates while a net log is running. #​44419 (Also in 31, 33, 34)
• Fixed regression with dynamic dependency on libgdk_pixbuf. #​44437 (Also in 33, 34)

Other Changes

• Added process memory limit details to parition_alloc oom handler. #​44512
• Fixed incorrect position of ime input with editcontext. #​44572
• Performance improvements when processing microtasks. #​44472 (Also in 33, 34)
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-10230.
  • Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-10231.
  • Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-10229. #​44482
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-10487. #​44484

v32.2.2: electron v32.2.2

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Release Notes for v32.2.2

Fixes

• Fixed trace-startup not working on macOS. #​44292 (Also in 33, 34)
• Fixed an issue where closing a window after printing on Linux triggered a crash. #​44282 (Also in 31, 33, 34)
• Fixed an issue where the exit event could be emitted twice from the utilityProcess. #​44268 (Also in 31, 33, 34)
• Fixed calling setAlwaysOnTop on a hidden window which is then shown with showInactive on Linux under X11. #​44325 (Also in 31, 33, 34)
• Fixed race condition in which WebContents appears as white screen on VDI machines without hardware acceleration capabilities. #​44351 (Also in 33, 34)

Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-7966.
  • Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-9370. #​44312
• Security: backported fix for chromium:367734947.
  • Security: backported fix for chromium:366635354. #​44357

v32.2.1: electron v32.2.1

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Release Notes for v32.2.1

Fixes

• Fixed native addon compilation errors on macOS. #​44201 (Also in 31, 33)

Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-9602.
  • Security: backported fix for 3696306.
  • Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-9603. #​44231
• Updated Chromium to 128.0.6613.186. #​44162

v32.2.0: electron v32.2.0

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Release Notes for v32.2.0

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when calling focus on a WebView's webContents. #​43934 (Also in 31, 33)
• Fixed a potential issue accessing a child window document when overriding browserWindow creation via setWindowOpenHandler. #​43877 (Also in 31, 33)
• Fixed an issue where an exception could be thrown on BrowserView after its owner BrowserWindow was closed. #​44001 (Also in 31, 33)
• Fixed closing a window with more than one attached sheet on macOS. #​43954 (Also in 31, 33)
• Fixed potential use-after-free during view removal on macOS. #​43923 (Also in 31, 33)

Other Changes

• Ensured that the sender-id hint is set when creating desktop notifications on DBus. #​43950 (Also in 31, 33)
• Updated Chromium to 128.0.6613.178. #​44086
• Updated Node.js to v20.18.0. #​44116

v32.1.2: electron v32.1.2

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Release Notes for v32.1.2

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where clicking the eyedropper icon did nothing instead of opening an eyedropper for color selection as expected. #​43786 (Also in 33)
• Third time isn't always a charm. Fixed the native macOS Screen Share picker invocation triggering a test Chromium green screen. #​43809 (Also in 33)

v32.1.1: electron v32.1.1

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Release Notes for v32.1.1

Fixes

• Fixed an issue when dragging to resize when using Window Controls Overlay on Linux. #​43743 (Also in 33)
• Fixed an issue where WebContentsViews did not show correctly in some circumstances on macOS after being added as child views. #​43698 (Also in 31, 33)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 128.0.6613.137. #​43683

v32.1.0: electron v32.1.0

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Release Notes for v32.1.0

Features

• Added support for the macOS system picker in desktopCapturer and setDisplayMediaRequestHandler. #​43679 (Also in 33)

Fixes

• Fixed BrowserView auto resize issue. #​43637 (Also in 31, 33)
• Fixed a potential issue with fillable PDF forms saving correctly in some circumstances. #​43687 (Also in 33)
• Fixed an issue where defaultPath did not work for all users on Linux when creating an open file dialog. #​43629 (Also in 30, 31, 33)
• Fixed an issue where users would be incorrectly notified of print failure upon intentional cancellation. #​43643
• Fixed an issue with resize events being emitted on Windows when the window was moved but not resized. #​43644 (Also in 33)
• Fixed other apps not being focused when launched from electron ozone/wayland. #​43577 (Also in 31, 33)
• Restored Chromium default Content-Disposition header parsing. #​43668 (Also in 30, 31, 33)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 128.0.6613.120. #​43502
• Updated Node.js to v20.17.0. #​43424

v32.0.2: electron v32.0.2

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Release Notes for v32.0.2

Fixes

• Fixed MenuItem.click handler not setting focusedWindow parameter when focused window is a BaseWindow. #​43437 (Also in 31, 33)
• Fixed an issue where BaseWindow.setTouchBar didn't work as expected. #​43421 (Also in 30, 31, 33)
• Fixed bug where camera permissions affected screen sharing. #​43544
• Fixed devtools to allow restoring saved dock state on Linux when WCO is enabled. #​43501 (Also in 31, 33)
• Fixed electron app in ozone/wayland not being focused when launched from another app. #​43548 (Also in 31, 33)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 128.0.6613.84. #​43425

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #​43459

v32.0.1: electron v32.0.1

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Release Notes for v32.0.1

Other Changes

• Security: cherry-pick 9797576 from v8 #​43384

v32.0.0: electron v32.0.0

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Release Notes for v32.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium128.0.6613.36
  • New in 128
  • New in 127
• Node 20.16.0
  • [Node 20.16.0 blog post](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v20.16.0