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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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
• V8 12.8

Breaking Changes

• Removed nonstandard File.path extension from the Web File API. #​42053
• Added the following existing navigation related APIs to webcontents.navigationHistory: canGoBack, goBack, canGoForward, goForward, canGoToOffset, goToOffset, clear. #​41752

Features

Additions

• Added DownloadItem.getCurrentBytesPerSecond(), DownloadItem.getPercentComplete(), DownloadItem.getEndTime(). #​42913 (Also in 30, 31)
• Added cumulativeCPUUsage to AppMetrics and CPUUsage. #​41819
• Added a new property prefersReducedTransparency to nativeTheme, which indicates whether the user has chosen to reduce OS-level transparency via system accessibility settings. #​43024 (Also in 30, 31)
• Enabled the Windows Control Overlay API on Linux. #​42681 (Also in 30, 31)
• Expose systemPreferences to utilityProcess. #​42599 (Also in 30, 31)

Improvements

• Aligned failure pathway in File System Access API with upstream when attempting to open a file or directory in a blocked path. #​42993 (Also in 30, 31)
• Extended WebContentsView to accept pre-existing webContents object. #​42086 (Also in 31)
• Improved error messages when ses.cookies.set fails. #​42362 (Also in 29, 30, 31)

Fixes

• Don't check for Desktop Environment in setProgressBar and setBadgeCount. #​41211
• Fixed an error where a minimized or hidden window would thrown an unresponsive error in the main process. #​43053

Also in earlier versions...

• BrowserWindow.show() now correctly restores focus to inactive apps on macOS. #​42300 (Also in 30, 31)
• Electron doesn't paint on offscreen-render mode after gpu process crashed. #​41904 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fix: fixed the npm run lint not working on Windows. #​42905 (Also in 31)
• Fixed a crash in addChildView if a view is added as its own child. #​42067 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed a crash that could occur in some DevTools extensions containing draggable regions. #​43199 (Also in 31)
• Fixed a crash when the same WebContentsView is added via addChildView multiple times. #​42085 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed a focus issue when calling BrowserWindow.setTopBrowserView. #​42733 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed a potential crash when removing notifications on Windows. #​43060 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed a potential crash when using off screen rendering. #​42940 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed a potential error when calling webContents.close() on a BrowserView. #​42811 (Also in 31)
• Fixed an error when calling setAutoResize on a BrowserView. #​42056 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an inconsistent crash on maximizing window and relayout in Ubuntu. #​42126 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where Chromium could crash on a dangling unretained pointer in one of several webRequest functions. #​42750 (Also in 31)
• Fixed an issue where High Contrast Mode didn't apply to webContents on Windows. #​42858 (Also in 31)
• Fixed an issue where MessagePorts could close unexpectedly with non-cloneable objects sent via postMessage. #​42581 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where BrowserView webContents were getting destroyed even when preventDefault was being set on the owning BrowserWindow's close event. #​42353 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where app.setLoginItemSettings incorrectly checked against loginItemService. #​42380 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where contentWindow.document.fonts.ready would never resolve in some circumstances. #​42366 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where document.requestFullscreen didn't work when calling it from a webContents inside WebContentsView. #​41966 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where fetch dependent interfaces in Node.js were not defined when nodeIntegration was enabled in some circumstances. #​42419 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where fetch-dependent interfaces could be missing in Web Workers with nodeIntegrationInWorker enabled. #​42595 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices could return broken results in some cases after calling session.setPermissionCheckHandler. #​42808 (Also in 30, 31)
• 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. #​42936 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where navigator.serial.getPorts() incorrectly returned an empty array in some cases. #​43169 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where navigator.usb.getDevices() could crash in some circumstances. #​42443 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where recentDOcuments wasn't populating properly on macOS. #​41978 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where setTitleBarOverlay didn't work as expected when called on BaseWindow. #​41960 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where system-context-menu was not triggered as expected on Windows when using a frameless BrowserWindow. #​43269 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where webContents.navigationHistory was not an enumerable property. #​42139 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where bad flags passed via --js-flags could cause a crash. #​42414 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where calling BrowserWindow.setBackgroundColor with some level of transparency could cause a crash. #​42927 (Also in 31)
• Fixed an issue where calling desktopCapturer.getSources on macOS running 14.4 or later would make non-resizable windows resizable. #​43045 (Also in 31)
• Fixed an issue where calling window.center() on Windows and Linux incorrectly centered the window. #​42048 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where calling window.print(), webContents.print() or printToPDF from an existing PDF document resulted in a blank page. #​43326 (Also in 31)
• Fixed an issue where calling window.showInactive on macOS did not actually show the window. #​43103 (Also in 31)
• Fixed an issue where control could fail to return properly after saving a dialog using showOpenDialogSync on Linux. #​42677 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where dialogs did not work if they were parented to a BaseWindow and not a BrowserWindow. #​42315 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where opening multiple file pickers on Windows via the input tag could cause a crash. #​42780 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where some calls to WebUSB methods could crash. #​42347 (Also in 29, 31)
• Fixed an issue where sources returned by the desktopCapturer API and screen.getAllDisplays() no longer matched on Windows. #​42860 (Also in 31)
• Fixed an issue where sources returned by the desktopCapturer API and screen.getAllDisplays() no longer matched on Windows. #​42891 (Also in 31)
• Fixed an issue where the File System Access API did not remember the user's last picked directory as expected. #​42892 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where the user-specified default path did not work in some circumstances when using Linux dialogs. #​42680 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed an issue where the window could be incorrectly centered in some circumstances when calling BrowserWindow.center(). #​42195 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed behavior when entering/exiting fullscreen fails on macOS. #​43152 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed crash after upgrade on Linux. #​41046 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed crash in gpu process when software compositing is enabled on linux with x11 platform. #​42568 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed crash on window maximize on X11. #​42179 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed crash when resolving proxy with session.resolveProxy api. #​42898 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed data corruption when protocol.handle() processed incoming data asynchronously. #​41894 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed ffmpeg release on x64 macOS. #​43120 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed issue where windows made visible with showInactive were blank. #​42226 (Also in 31)
• Fixed issues with the vibrancy view on macOS. #​43127 (Also in 31)
• Fixed nativeImage.createThumbnailFromPath and shell.openExternal not resolving when called in the renderer process. #​41875 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed partially broken state of chrome://accessibility. #​41911 (Also in 31)
• Fixed potentially incorrect exit code in UtilityProcess. #​42297 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed several view hierarchy issues related to web contents view on MacOS. #​43088 (Also in 31)
• Fixed support for multiple folder/file selection in //shell_dialogs portal implementation. #​42308 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Fixed the resource leak when using Node.js readable streams as the response body for a custom protocol handler. #​43070 (Also in 30, 31)
• Fixed the type of WebviewTag.webpreferences back to string. #​42275 (Also in 30, 31)
• Re-adds functionality to check whether or not an app was launched as a login service on macOS. #​42411 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• Resolved an issue where desktopCapturer.getSources never fulfilled its promise in some cases. #​43270 (Also in 29, 30, 31)
• BrowserWindow.focus() now correctly restore focus to inactive apps on macOS. #​42180 (Also in 30, 31)
• originalFs.promises.cp now works. #​42132 (Also in 31)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 3366250. #​42304 (Also in 31)
• Backported fix for 3394581. #​42120
• Backported fix for 3402211. #​42172
• Backported fix for 3416635. #​42253

Documentation

• Documentation change
  • #​41567
  • #​42027
  • #​42028
  • #​42243

Notices

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