Note: This is a beta release. This is the first release running on an
upgraded version of Chrome and may have some instability and/or regressions.
Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.
This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta.
Upgrades
- Upgraded from Chrome
54.0.2840.101 to 56.0.2924.87. #8501
- Upgraded from v8
5.4.500.43 to 5.6.326.50. #8501
- Upgraded the
NODE_MODULE_VERSION/process.versions.modules from 51 to 53. #8501
Note: This is a beta release. This release run on recently upgraded versions of Chrome and Node and may have some instability and/or regressions.
Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.
This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta.
API Changes
- You can now launch the crash reporter in forked child processes using the
new
process.crashReporter.start API. See the crashReporter module docs
for usage details. #8109
- A warning is logged instead of an error being thrown when a remote event
cannot be delivered to a destroyed renderer process. The event names are
included in the logged message and the listener is automatically unregistered.
#8357
- The
before-input-event event on webContents now includes the code
property. #8561
- A
forcereload menu item role has been added that maps to the focused
window's webContents.reloadIgnoringCache method. #8570
Windows
- The
dialog.showOpenDialog API now accepts a promptToCreate property
that allow files that do not exist to be entered into the dialog and confirms
with the user that they would like the file to be created. #8566
- The
app.setLoginItemSettings and app.getLoginItemSettings APIs now accept
optional path and args settings to better support apps using the
Squirrel installer/auto updater. #8515
macOS
BrowserWindow.setAlwaysOnTop now accepts a relativeLevel parameter to
allow ordering windows relative to other constant levels. #8487
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash when loading long URLs that exceeded the maximum character length. #8478
- Fixed a crash when calling
toBitmap, getBitmap, or getNativeHandle
on an empty NativeImage. #8510
- Fixed
uncaughtException events not being emitted in the main process
on the process global. #8507
- Fixed an issue where
require-ed scripts could not define their own
const process or global variables because ones already had been
defined. #8539
macOS
- Fixed a crash when calling
webContents.startDrag with an empty image. #8511
Windows
- Fixed an issue where the
globalShortcut APIs would not function correctly
if the systemPreferences module was required at startup. #8568