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Electron 9.3.2 2020-10-05T19:53:44Z ()

Release Notes for v9.3.2

Fixes

• Fixed CORS not being disabled by webSecurity: false. #25505 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed ready-to-show event not emitted on some machines. #25490 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed a crash in app.importCertificate() on Linux. #25538 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed a crash when closing window in an event listener after exiting fullscreen on macOS. #25605 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed an issue that could cause a normally-exiting process to fail with an "illegal access" message and exit code 7. #25502 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed an issue where an error would be displayed when using webContents.print() if no default was set and no device name provided. #25607 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed crash when application launched from UNUserNotificationCenter notification (via a native node module). #25739 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed crashes caused by attempting to modify destroyed views. #25609 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed memory leak when creating "Services" menu. #25689 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed unsubscribe from observers when window is closing. #25586 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Updated Node root certs to use NSS 3.56. #25364 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)

  Other Changes

• Added V8 crash message and location information to crashReport parameters. #24864 (Also in 9, 10)

• Added a small console hint to console to help debug renderer crashes. #25473 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed resource leak in worker threads. #25663 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Security: backported fix for 1100136. #25658

• Security: backported fix for 1106612. #25656

• Security: backported fix for 1114636. #25643

  Unknown

• Fixed extension background page devtools not being openable. #25567 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

Electron 9.3.1 2020-09-15T00:29:46Z ()

Release Notes for v9.3.1

Fixes

• Added missing module delay loads on windows to reduce per process reference set impact. #25437 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed a crash in the renderer process when invoking the Badging API. #25371 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

• Fixed a memory leak in net.request(). #25382

• Fixed multiple dock icons being left in system when calling dock.show/hide on macOS. #25301 (Also in 8, 9, 10, 11)

  Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for 1081874. #25389

• Security: backported fix for 1098860. #25289

• Security: backported fix for 1111737. #25391

• Security: backported fix for 1122684. #25390

  Unknown

• Added support for some chrome.management APIs. #25344 (Also in 9, 10, 11)

Electron 9.3.0 2020-09-03T04:53:31Z ()

Release Notes for v9.3.0

Features

• Added back a previously broken visibleOnFullScreen option for setVisibleOnAllWorkspaces. #25126
• Added the currencyCode field that Apple's StoreKit in-app-purchasing library provides but has not been added to the Product object that inAppPurchase.getProducts returns. #25085

Fixes

• Fixed powerMonitor not emitting suspend/resume events on some Windows machines. #25165
• Fixed an issue where filters set in dialogs on macOS would have nondeterministic ordering. #25194
• Fixed an issue where notifications with a reply button could potentially be destroyed too early when a user clicked on the notification body before replying. #25101
• Fixed frameless window's size being changed when restored from minimized state. #25045
• Fixed network permission error when there are multiple WebContents sharing same session are created with web security disabled. #25179
• Fixed node's TLS stack not allowing renegotiation. #25041
• Fixed the following issues for frameless when maximized on Windows * fix unreachable task bar when auto hidden with position top
• fix 1px extending to secondary monitor
• fix 1px overflowing into taskbar at certain resolutions
• fix white line on top of window under 4k resolutions. #25218
• Fixed window size being changed after unmaximizing. #25133

Unknown

• Fixed not working WebSQLDatabase in extension background pages. #25070

Electron 9.2.1 2020-08-18T21:22:02Z ()

Release Notes for v9.2.1

Fixes

• fix loading shared worker scripts over custom protocol
• fix crash when loading worker scripts with nodeIntegration enabled. #24750
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using in-memory sessions. #25002
• Fixed an issue where some Node.js methods would not work with URL instances constructed in the renderer process. #24862
• Fixed an issue where the Save button did not function in PDF previews. #24996
• Fixed inactive windows having active titlebar on Windows. #24873
• Fixed missing guid parameter in Linux crash reports. #24898
• Increased maximum length for crash keys from 127B to 20KB. #24854
• [a11y] fix an issue where voiceover doesn't read the first item selected from a ARIA combobox. #25004

Other Changes

• Backported the fix to CVE-2020-6532: Use after free in SCTP. #24887
• Backported the fix to CVE-2020-6537: Type Confusion in V8. #24885
• Resolve network issues that prevented RTC calls from being connected due to network IP address changes and ICE. (Chromium issue 1113227). #24997

Unknown

• Fixed issues with CORS when making requests from extensions. #24915

Electron 9.2.0 2020-08-07T18:17:14Z ()

Release Notes for v9.2.0

Features

• Added new worldSafeExecuteJavaScript webPreference to ensure that the return values from webFrame.executeJavaScript are world safe when context isolation is enabled. #24712 (Also in 10)

  Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could happen when using hookWindowMessage on Windows. #24769 (Also in 10)

• Fixed an issue where suspend/resume were emitted twice on macOS. #24845 (Also in 8, 10)

• Fixed crash when navigating from a page with webview that has inherited zoom level. #24764 (Also in 8, 10)

• Save crash reports locally when uploadToServer: false on linux. #24788 (Also in 10)

• Fixed an a11y regression where children reported an index in parent greater than the parent child count. #24765