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electron v32.0.1

Release Notes for v32.0.1

Other Changes

• Security: cherry-pick 9797576 from v8 #43384

electron v32.0.0

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)

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Breaking Changes

Breaking changes will be documented here, and deprecation warnings added to JS code where possible, at least one major version before the change is made.

Types of Breaking Changes

This document uses the following convention to categorize breaking changes:

• API Changed: An API was changed in such a way that code that has not been updated is guaranteed to throw an exception.
• Behavior Changed: The behavior of Electron has changed, but not in such a way that an exception will necessarily be thrown.
• Default Changed: Code depending on the old default may break, not necessarily throwing an exception. The old behavior can be restored by explicitly specifying the value.
• Deprecated: An API was marked as deprecated. The API will continue to function, but will emit a deprecation warning, and will be removed in a future release.
• Removed: An API or feature was removed, and is no longer supported by Electron.

Planned Breaking API Changes (33.0)

Behavior Changed: webContents property on login on app

The webContents property in the login event from app will be null when the event is triggered for requests from the utility process created with respondToAuthRequestsFromMainProcess option.

Deprecated: textured option in BrowserWindowConstructorOption.type

The textured option of type in BrowserWindowConstructorOptions has been deprecated with no replacement. This option relied on the NSWindowStyleMaskTexturedBackground style mask on macOS, which has been deprecated with no alternative.

Removed: macOS 10.15 support

macOS 10.15 (Catalina) is no longer supported by Chromium.

Older versions of Electron will continue to run on Catalina, but macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later will be required to run Electron v33.0.0 and higher.

Deprecated: systemPreferences.accessibilityDisplayShouldReduceTransparency

The systemPreferences.accessibilityDisplayShouldReduceTransparency property is now deprecated in favor of the new nativeTheme.prefersReducedTransparency, which provides identical information and works cross-platform.

// Deprecated
const shouldReduceTransparency = systemPreferences.accessibilityDisplayShouldReduceTransparency
// Replace with:
const prefersReducedTransparency = nativeTheme.prefersReducedTransparency

Planned Breaking API Changes (32.0)

Removed: File.path

The nonstandard path property of the Web File object was added in an early version of Electron as a convenience method for working with native files when doing everything in the renderer was more common. However, it represents a deviation from the standard and poses a minor security risk as well, so beginning in Electron 32.0 it has been removed in favor of the webUtils.getPathForFile method.

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• a577d56 chore: cherry-pick 9797576 from v8 (#43384)
• 915c7bd refactor: remove unused SetWMSpecState (#43364)
• 3f16924 chore: remove unused method Erase() (#43363)
• 9e421e8 docs: add docs API history (#43362)
• 2471ebf build: use smaller instances for gn-check (#43358)
• 4173481 docs: expand dialog window to BaseWindow (#43338)
• 8c1be5a feat: support app#login event for utility process net requests (#43317)
• 7123b31 feat: accept-encoding zstd (#43300)
• 588856e chore: bump chromium to 128.0.6613.36 (32-x-y) (#43328)
• 0c72474 fix: blank page when printing pdf (#43326)
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