Note: This is an alpha release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@43.0.0-alpha.3.

Release Notes for v43.0.0-alpha.3

Fixes

• Fixed a crash on MacOS when a user clicked into a title bar or top view. #51606 ^{(Also in 42)}

Other Changes

• Improved performance of webRequest header conversions and several other gin converter hot paths. #51608 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Updated Chromium to 150.0.7834.0. #51609

Release Notes for v42.1.0

Fixes

• Fixed a crash in the macOS Touch ID WebAuthn prompt caused by a missing string resource, and added touchID.promptReason to app.configureWebAuthn() to customize the prompt text. #51594 ^{(Also in 41, 43)}
• Fixed a crash on MacOS when a user clicked into a title bar or top view. #51605 ^{(Also in 43)}

Other Changes

• Improved performance of webRequest header conversions and several other gin converter hot paths. #51607 ^{(Also in 43)}
• Improved performance of native event emission, IPC dispatch, and option-dictionary parsing. #51614 ^{(Also in 41)}

Release Notes for v41.6.1

Other Changes

• Improved performance of native event emission, IPC dispatch, and option-dictionary parsing. #51613 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Security: backported 20 High-severity fixes from Chrome 148 stable release. #51612

Note: This is an alpha release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@43.0.0-alpha.2.

Release Notes for v43.0.0-alpha.2

Features

• Added Clone method to WebContents. #49959
• Added JS stack trace to crash reports on renderer OOM. #50043 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Added Linux support for app.getApplicationInfoForProtocol(). #51297
• Added Notification.getHistory() for macOS, allowing developers to restore all delivered notifications still present in Notification Center. #50325 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Added accessibilityLabel property to MenuItem constructor options and properties for defining screen-reader-friendly labels. #50240
• Added allowExtensions privilege to protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged() to enable Chrome extensions on custom protocols. #49951 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• 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. #51255 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• Added globalShortcut.setSuspended() and globalShortcut.isSuspended() methods to temporarily suspend and resume global shortcut handling. #50425 ^{(Also in 42)}
• 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. #50097 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Added nv12 OSR pixel format support for professional use. #49799
• Added view.setBackgroundBlur. #51076
• Added webContents.copyVideoFrameAt(x, y) and webContents.saveVideoFrameAs(x, y) methods. #48149
• Added id, groupId, and groupTitle support for Windows notifications. #50328 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Added nativeTheme.shouldDifferentiateWithoutColor on macOS. #49912 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• Added session support to net module requests from utility process. #51279
• Added support for heap profiling via contentTracing.enableHeapProfiling(). #50826 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• Added support for importing shared textures using the nv16 pixel format. #50728 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Allowed the --experimental-inspector-network-resource Node.js flag to be passed through Electron. #49689
• Feat: SF Symbol customisation. #48911
• File downloads will open by default in the user's Downloads folder (or Home directory if Downloads doesn't exist). #49868
• Fixed contentTracing module to capture Node.js trace categories. #50591
• Notes: Added support for the urgency option in Notifications on Windows. #50225 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

Fixes

• Added additional ASAR support to additional fs copy methods. #50226 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41, 42)}
• Added crash keys to diagnose power monitor shutdown crash on arm64 windows. #51198 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Added missing metadata fields to contentTracing traces. #50892 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• BrowserWindow now enforces min/max size constraints on window creation, even if they conflict with the requested width and height. #49906 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• Changed the kResizeThreshold to trigger the resize on corners. #50637 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• 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. #51152 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41, 42)}
• Fix: 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. #51565
• Fixed DesktopCapturer crash on macOS. #50960 ^{(Also in 42)}
• 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. #50509 ^{(Also in 42)}
• 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. #51029 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Fixed app.getLoginItemSettings() returning undefined for executableWillLaunchAtLogin on macOS; the property is now always a boolean. #51416 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed desktopCapturer.getSources() hanging on macOS. #51128
• Fixed fs.stat on files inside asar archives returning undefined for blksize and blocks instead of numeric values. #50825 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed webContents.printToPDF rejecting on all subsequent calls after a prior call was rejected with an invalid pageRanges value. #51174 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed a crash when providing invalid HTTP header names or values in the webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders() callback. #51340 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed a bug where Windows notification icons could fail to save because their temporary filenames contained invalid characters. #50454 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed a bug where errors would occur when using the Chrome DevTools Fetch API. [#50744](https://github...

Release Notes for v41.6.0

Fixes

• Fixed a crash in the macOS Touch ID WebAuthn prompt caused by a missing string resource, and added touchID.promptReason to app.configureWebAuthn() to customize the prompt text. #51604 ^{(Also in 42, 43)}

Release Notes for v41.5.2

Fixes

• Improved external resize band positioning and scaling for frameless windows on Windows. #51560 ^{(Also in 43)}

Release Notes for v42.0.1

Fixes

• Fixed DesktopCapturer crash on macOS. #51506
• 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. #51370
• Fixed app.getLoginItemSettings() returning undefined for executableWillLaunchAtLogin on macOS; the property is now always a boolean. #51507 ^{(Also in 40, 41)}
• Fixed a potential race condition crash when closing DevTools. #51473 ^{(Also in 41)}

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 148.0.7778.97. #51517

Release Notes for v41.5.1

Fixes

• Fixed app.getLoginItemSettings() returning undefined for executableWillLaunchAtLogin on macOS; the property is now always a boolean. #51508 ^{(Also in 40, 42)}
• Fixed a potential race condition crash when closing DevTools. #51474 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Fixed cross-origin isolation failing for non-file origins. #51403 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Improved the way Electron determines the default XDG App ID and WM_CLASS on Linux for better platform compatibility if desktopName is not provided in package.json. #51480 ^{(Also in 42)}

Release Notes for v40.10.0

Fixes

• Fixed app.getLoginItemSettings() returning undefined for executableWillLaunchAtLogin on macOS; the property is now always a boolean. #51509 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

Other Changes

• Updated Node.js to v24.15.0. #51087

Note: This is an alpha release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@43.0.0-alpha.1.

Release Notes for v43.0.0-alpha.1

Features

• Added Clone method to WebContents. #49959
• Added JS stack trace to crash reports on renderer OOM. #50043 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Added Linux support for app.getApplicationInfoForProtocol(). #51297
• Added Notification.getHistory() for macOS, allowing developers to restore all delivered notifications still present in Notification Center. #50325 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Added accessibilityLabel property to MenuItem constructor options and properties for defining screen-reader-friendly labels. #50240
• Added allowExtensions privilege to protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged() to enable Chrome extensions on custom protocols. #49951 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• 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. #51255 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• Added globalShortcut.setSuspended() and globalShortcut.isSuspended() methods to temporarily suspend and resume global shortcut handling. #50425 ^{(Also in 42)}
• 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. #50097 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Added nv12 OSR pixel format support for professional use. #49799
• Added view.setBackgroundBlur. #51076
• Added webContents.copyVideoFrameAt(x, y) and webContents.saveVideoFrameAs(x, y) methods. #48149
• Added id, groupId, and groupTitle support for Windows notifications. #50328 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Added nativeTheme.shouldDifferentiateWithoutColor on macOS. #49912 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• Added session support to net module requests from utility process. #51279
• Added support for heap profiling via contentTracing.enableHeapProfiling(). #50826 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• Added support for importing shared textures using the nv16 pixel format. #50728 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Allowed the --experimental-inspector-network-resource Node.js flag to be passed through Electron. #49689
• Feat: SF Symbol customisation. #48911
• File downloads will open by default in the user's Downloads folder (or Home directory if Downloads doesn't exist). #49868
• Fixed contentTracing module to capture Node.js trace categories. #50591
• Notes: Added support for the urgency option in Notifications on Windows. #50225 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}

Fixes

• Added additional ASAR support to additional fs copy methods. #50226 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41, 42)}
• Added crash keys to diagnose power monitor shutdown crash on arm64 windows. #51198 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Added missing metadata fields to contentTracing traces. #50892 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• BrowserWindow now enforces min/max size constraints on window creation, even if they conflict with the requested width and height. #49906 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• Changed the kResizeThreshold to trigger the resize on corners. #50637 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• 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. #51152 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed DesktopCapturer crash on macOS. #50960 ^{(Also in 42)}
• 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. #50509 ^{(Also in 42)}
• 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. #51029 ^{(Also in 42)}
• Fixed app.getLoginItemSettings() returning undefined for executableWillLaunchAtLogin on macOS; the property is now always a boolean. #51416 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed desktopCapturer.getSources() hanging on macOS. #51128
• Fixed fs.stat on files inside asar archives returning undefined for blksize and blocks instead of numeric values. #50825 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed webContents.printToPDF rejecting on all subsequent calls after a prior call was rejected with an invalid pageRanges value. #51174 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed a crash when providing invalid HTTP header names or values in the webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders() callback. #51340 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed a bug where Windows notification icons could fail to save because their temporary filenames contained invalid characters. #50454 ^{(Also in 40, 41, 42)}
• Fixed a bug where errors would occur when using the Chrome DevTools Fetch API. #50744 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• Fixed a crash in clipboard.readImage() when the clipboard contains malformed image data. #50475 ^(A...