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Release Notes for v34.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 132.0.6834.83
  • New in 132
  • New in 131
• Node 20.18.1
  • Node 20.18.1 blog post
• V8 13.2

Breaking Changes

• Made menu bar hidden on fullscreen in Windows. #​43402

Features

Additions

• Added APIs to manage shared dictionaries for compression efficiency using Brotli or ZStandard. The new APIs are session.getSharedDictionaryUsageInfo(), session.getSharedDictionaryInfo(options), session.clearSharedDictionaryCache(), and session.clearSharedDictionaryCacheForIsolationKey(options). #​44950 (Also in 33)
• Added WebFrameMain.collectJavaScriptCallStack() for accessing the JavaScript call stack of unresponsive renderers. #​44938 (Also in 33)
• Added WebFrameMain.detached for frames in an unloading state.
  • Added WebFrameMain.isDestroyed() to determine if a frame has been destroyed.
  • Fixed webFrameMain.fromId(processId, frameId) returning a WebFrameMain instance which doesn't match the given parameters when the frame is unloading. #​43473 (Also in 33)
• Added error event in utility process to support diagnostic reports on V8 fatal errors. #​43774 (Also in 33)
• Added support for the macOS system picker in desktopCapturer and setDisplayMediaRequestHandler. #​43581 (Also in 32, 33)
• Feat: GPU accelerated shared texture offscreen rendering. #​42953 (Also in 33)

Improvements

• Performance improvements when processing microtasks. #​44471 (Also in 32, 33)

Fixes

• Fixed file chooser dialogs for flaptak applications. #​44681
• Fixed issue where 'contextmenu' event is emitted twice on macOS. #​44997

Also in earlier versions...

• Fixed BrowserView auto resize issue. #​43463 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed MenuItem.click handler not setting focusedWindow parameter when focused window is a BaseWindow. #​43404 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed chrome.i18n extension API being unavailable in service workers. #​45036 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed trace-startup not working on macOS. #​44275 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed a build failure when the enable_plugins build flag is false. #​44003 (Also in 33)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when calling shell.readShortcutLink on Windows. #​44804 (Also in 33)
• Fixed a crash when calling focus on a WebView's webContents. #​43921 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed a potential issue accessing a child window document when overriding browserWindow creation via setWindowOpenHandler. #​43775 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed a potential issue with fillable PDF forms saving correctly in some circumstances. #​43667 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue when dragging to resize when using Window Controls Overlay on Linux. #​43724 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where BaseWindow.setTouchBar didn't work as expected. #​43353 (Also in 30, 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where EventSource was undefined in both renderer and worker processes when Node.js integration was enabled. #​44495 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where WebContentsViews did not show correctly in some circumstances on macOS after being added as child views. #​43638 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where WebContentsViews were being improperly removed. #​44670 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where defaultPath did not work for all users on Linux when creating an open file dialog. #​43570 (Also in 30, 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where resize wasn't being emitted for single-pixel resizes on Windows. #​44722 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where a utilityProcess pid would not be undefined after exit. #​44695 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where an exception could be thrown on BrowserView after its owner BrowserWindow was closed. #​43972 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where buttons shown under the Window Controls Overlay API were missing tooltips. #​44759 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where clicking the eyedropper icon did nothing instead of opening an eyedropper for color selection as expected. #​43685 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where closing a window after printing on Linux triggered a crash. #​44284 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where the exit event could be emitted twice from the utilityProcess. #​44265 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where the webContents context-menu event was not emitted when using -webkit-app-region: drag. #​44799 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where the windows control overlay was unexpectedly visible in fullscreen on Linux. #​44641 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue with resize events being emitted on Windows when the window was moved but not resized. #​43431 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed an possible crash when using draggable regions and BaseWindows to get the context-menu event. #​44952 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed bug where camera permissions affected screen sharing. #​43517 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed build failure when the PDF viewer is disabled. #​44964 (Also in 33)
• Fixed calling setAlwaysOnTop on a hidden window which is then shown with showInactive on Linux under X11. #​44322 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed closing a window with more than one attached sheet on macOS. #​43706 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed crash in net api when utility process exits. #​44731 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed crash when network process terminates while a net log is running. #​44418 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed crash when rendering super menu accelerator on linux. #​44346 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed crash when running getDisplayMedia from multiple iframes. #​43905 (Also in 33)
• Fixed custom spell checker getting stuck in infinite loop using 100% CPU. #​45020 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed devtools to allow restoring saved dock state on Linux when WCO is enabled. #​43490 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed electron app in ozone/wayland not being focused when launched from another app. #​43481 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed external window focus when using shell.openExternal. #​44469 (Also in 33)
• Fixed issue with missing index arg for webContents.canGoToOffset. #​45008 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed mouse cursor turning into loading spinner when starting utility process on Windows. #​43657 (Also in 33)
• Fixed native addon compilation errors on macOS. #​44189 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed other apps not being focused when launched from electron ozone/wayland. #​43480 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed potential use-after-free during view removal on macOS. #​43627 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed race condition in which WebContents appears as white screen on VDI machines without hardware acceleration capabilities. #​44350 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed regression with dynamic dependency on libgdk_pixbuf. #​44438 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed segfault when moving WebContentsView between BrowserWindows. #​44612 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed theme does not work in DevTools. #​44636 (Also in 32, 33)
• Fixed update file extension bug. #​44770 (Also in 33)
• Restored Chromium default Content-Disposition header parsing. #​43611 (Also in 30, 31, 32, 33)
• Return 0 exit code for normal termination of the utility process. #​44733 (Also in 32, 33)
• Third time isn't always a charm. Fixed the native macOS Screen Share picker invocation triggering a test Chromium green screen. #​43767 (Also in 32, 33)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 3823947. #​45023
• Ensured that the sender-id hint is set when creating desktop notifications on DBus. #​43928 (Also in 31, 32, 33)
• Fixed an issue where a deprecation warning was being incorrectly emitted for frameless windows on macOS. #​44768 (Also in 33)
• Fixed yellow background of composition text with wayland text-input-v3. #​45127 (Also in 33)

Documentation

• Documentation change
  • #​43430
  • #​44927
  • #​45189

Notices

End of Support for 31.x.y

Electron 31.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.