Release Notes for v29.1.6

Fixes

• Fixed shell.showItemInFolder not opening Windows Explorer if the passed path contains forward slashes. #41672 (Also in 28, 30)
• Fixed a potential crash in chrome.scripting on extension unload. #41701 (Also in 30)
• Fixed an issue where emojis weren't properly handled on Windows. #41680 (Also in 30)
• Fixed an issue where the serial-port-added event improperly respected filters set by serial.requestPort(). #41636 (Also in 28, 30)

Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-2625. #41631
• Updated Chromium to 122.0.6261.139. #41634

Note: This is a beta release. 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, or npm install [email protected].

Release Notes for v30.0.0-beta.3

Fixes

• Fixed shell.showItemInFolder not opening Windows Explorer if the passed path contains forward slashes. #41671 (Also in 28, 29)
• Fixed an issue where app.getLoginItemSettings didn't correctly throw errors. #41667
• Fixed an issue where emojis weren't properly handled on Windows. #41681 (Also in 29)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 124.0.6367.9. #41684

Note: This is a beta release. 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, or npm install [email protected].

Release Notes for v30.0.0-beta.2

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where badge text set using the Badging API no longer appeared correctly on Windows. #41629 (Also in 29)
• Fixed an issue where the serial-port-added event improperly respected filters set by serial.requestPort(). #41635 (Also in 28, 29)

Release Notes for v29.1.5

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where badge text set using the Badging API no longer appeared correctly on Windows. #41628 (Also in 30)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 122.0.6261.130. #41598

Release Notes for v28.2.8

Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for 325296797. #41607

Release Notes for v27.3.7

Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-2173. #41521

Note: This is a beta release. 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, or npm install [email protected].

Release Notes for v30.0.0-beta.1

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 124.0.6359.0. #41606

Note: This is an alpha release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install [email protected].

Release Notes for v30.0.0-alpha.7

Fixes

• Fixed chrome://process-internals failing to load. #41540 (Also in 28, 29)
• Improved appearance of caption buttons on Windows 11 when using Windows Control Overlay. #41586

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 124.0.6355.1. #41490

Release Notes for v29.1.4

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 122.0.6261.129. #41583

Release Notes for v28.2.7

Fixes

• Fixed chrome://process-internals failing to load. #41541 (Also in 29, 30)
• Fixed an issue where user-did-{resign|become}-active were not emitted properly on macOS. #41526 (Also in 29, 30)

Other Changes

• Security: backported fix for CVE-2024-2173. #41520