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Electron 36.0.0

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Electron 36.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 136, V8 13.6, and Node 22.14.0.

The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 36.0.0! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. Continue reading for details about this release.

If you have any feedback, please share it with us on Bluesky or Mastodon, or join our community Discord! Bugs and feature requests can be reported in Electron's issue tracker.

Notable Changes​

Writing Tools Support​

In Electron 36, you can enable macOS system-level features like Writing Tools (spelling and grammar), Autofill, and Services menu items in your context menus. To do so, pass a WebFrameMain instance into the frame parameter for menu.popup().

import { BrowserWindow, Menu, WebFrameMain } from 'electron';

const currentWindow = BrowserWindow.getFocusedWindow();
const focusedFrame = currentWindow.webContents.focusedFrame;
const menu = Menu.buildFromTemplate([{ label: 'Copy', role: 'copy' }]);

menu.popup({
  window: currentWindow,
  frame: focusedFrame,
});

Stack Changes​

Electron 36 upgrades Chromium from 134.0.6998.23 to 136.0.7103.48, and V8 from 13.5 to 13.6.

New Features and Improvements​

  • Added BrowserWindow.isSnapped() to indicate whether a given window has been arranged via Snap on Windows. #46226
  • Added WebContents.focusedFrame to get the focused frame.
  • Fixed WebContents.opener to specify potential null type. #45667
  • Added ffmpeg.dll to delay load configuration. #46173 (Also in 34, 35)
  • Added nativeTheme.shouldUseDarkColorsForSystemIntegratedUI to distinguish system and app theme. #46598 (Also in 35)
  • Added excludeUrls to webRequest filter and deprecated the use of empty arrays in urls property. #44692 (Also in 35)
  • Added support for Autofill, Writing Tools and Services macOS level menu items in context menus via the new frame option in menu.popup. #46350
  • Added support for system-context-menu on Linux. #46399
  • Improved ASAR integrity checks on Windows. #46537
  • Improved performance of desktopCapturer.getSources when not requesting thumbnails on macOS. #46251 (Also in 34, 35)
  • Removed 240 FPS limit when use shared texture OSR. #45669 (Also in 35)

Breaking Changes​

Deprecated: NativeImage.getBitmap()​

The NativeImage.getBitmap() function is now deprecated and documented as an alias for NativeImage.toBitmap(). The two functions both return a newly-allocated copy of the bitmap and are functionally equivalent.

Deprecated: Extension methods and events on session​

session.loadExtension, session.removeExtension, session.getExtension, session.getAllExtensions, and the events extension-loaded, extension-unloaded, and extension-ready have all moved to the new Extensions object accessible via the session.extensions instance property.

Removed: quota type syncable in session.clearStorageData(options)​

When calling session.clearStorageData(options), the options.quota type syncable is no longer supported because it has been removed from upstream Chromium.

Deprecated: quota property in session.clearStorageData(options)​

When calling Session.clearStorageData(options), the options.quota property is deprecated. Since the syncable type was removed, there is only type left -- 'temporary' -- so specifying it is unnecessary.

Behavior Changed: GTK 4 is the default when running on GNOME​

After an upstream change, GTK 4 is now the default when running on GNOME.

In rare cases, this may cause some applications or configurations to error with the following message:

Gtk-ERROR **: 11:30:38.382: GTK 2/3 symbols detected. Using GTK 2/3 and GTK 4 in the same process is not supported

Affected users can work around this by specifying the gtk-version command-line flag:

$ electron --gtk-version=3   # or --gtk-version=2

The same can be done with the app.commandLine.appendSwitch function.

Behavior Changed: app.commandLine​

app.commandLine will convert uppercases switches and arguments to lowercase.

app.commandLine was only meant to handle Chromium switches (which aren't case-sensitive) and switches passed via app.commandLine will not be passed down to any of the child processes.

If you were using app.commandLine to parse app-specific command line arguments, you should do this via process.argv.

End of Support for 33.x.y​

Electron 33.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.

E36 (Apr'25)E37 (Jun'25)E38 (Aug'25)
36.x.y37.x.y38.x.y
35.x.y36.x.y37.x.y
34.x.y35.x.y36.x.y

What's Next​

In the short term, you can expect the team to continue to focus on keeping up with the development of the major components that make up Electron, including Chromium, Node, and V8.

You can find Electron's public timeline here.

More information about future changes can be found on the Planned Breaking Changes page.