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Release Notes for v9.4.0

Fixes

  • Added Electron DLLs like libGLESv2.dll to symbol server. #26967 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed systemPreferences.effectiveAppearance returning systemPreferences.getAppLevelAppearance(). #26881 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where event.reply could sometimes not deliver a reply to an IPC message when cross-site iframes were present. #26928 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where some buttons were un-clickable in some BrowserViews with draggable regions enabled. #26745 (Also in 10, 11)
  • Fixed an issue whereby a corrupted async_hooks stack would crash the renderer when throwing some errors in the renderer process. #26748 (Also in 10, 11)
  • Fixed an occasional crash on Windows related to NativeViewHost::SetParentAccessible. #26950 (Also in 10, 11, 12)
  • Fixed usage of --disable-dev-shm-usage for apps using --no-sandbox on linux. #26806

Other Changes

  • Backported the fix to CVE-2020-16024: Heap buffer overflow in UI. #26831
  • Security: backport fix for 1150649. #26897
  • Security: backported fix for 1137603. #26893
  • Security: backported fix for 1141350. #26895
  • Security: backported the fix to CVE-2020-16014: Use after free in PPAPI. #26856
  • Security: backported the fix to CVE-2020-16015: Insufficient data validation in WASM. #26859
  • Security: backported the fix to CVE-2020-16022: Insufficient policy enforcement in networking. #26861

Release Notes for v9.3.5

Fixes

  • Fixed <webview> render-process-gone event dispatch. #26576
  • Fixed LC_ALL environment variable getting changed in Electron. #26508 (Also in 10, 11)
  • Fixed debug.log files being created under working directory on windows. #26267 (Also in 10)
  • Fixed draggable regions stops working when devtools is opened on macOS. #26506 (Also in 10, 11)

Other Changes

  • Backported the fix to CVE-2020-16017: Browser UAF when detaching a provisional frame. #26477
  • Fixed value of getSystemVersion() on Big Sur. #26430
  • Security: backported fix for 1143772. #26400
  • Security: backported fix for 1144489. #26397
  • Security: backported fix for chromium:1133527. #26412
  • Security: backported fix for chromium:1137608. #26409
  • Security: backported fix for chromium:1139398. #26406

Unknown

  • Re-enable Rosetta on Apple Silicon devices. #26572 (Also in 7.3, 8, 10, 11)