Release Notes for v8.4.0

Features

• Added new render-process-gone event on app to replace the renderer-process-crashed event. #24314
• Added new render-process-gone event to replace the crashed event. #24308
• Added support for suspend and resume events to Windows. #24282
• Added support for suspend and resume events to macOS. #24295
• Added tracing instrumentation to WebContents IPC methods, available with the contentTracing category "electron". #24307
• Expose sessionId associated with a target from debugger module. #24399
• Implemented systemPreferences.getMediaAccessStatus() on Windows. #24313

Fixes

• Backported fixes for UAF in extensions (CVE-2020-6454 and NOCVE). #24419
• Fixed an intermittent high-CPU usage problem caused a system clock issue during sleep. #24414
• Fixed an issue where some old notifications were not properly removed from the Notification Center on macOS. #24405
• Fixed bug on macOS where the main window could be targeted for a focus event when it was disabled behind a modal. #24353