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electron v38.2.0

Release Notes for v38.2.0

Features

• Allowed for persisting File System API grant status within a given session. #48327 (Also in 37)

Fixes

• Fixed Wayland configuration through the XDG_SESSION_TYPE environment variable. #48309
• Fixed excessive WindowServer GPU usage on macOS Tahoe 26. #48398 (Also in 36, 37, 39)
• Fixed high CPU usage with <input> tag on macOS 26. #48394 (Also in 37, 39)

electron v38.1.2

Release Notes for v38.1.2

Other Changes

• Use Local Execution, Remote Caching (LERC) for fork PRs [(#48324)](electron/electron#48324)
• Updated v8 [(#48338)](electron/electron#48338)

electron v38.1.1

Release Notes for v38.1.1

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 140.0.7339.133. #48287

electron v38.1.0

Release Notes for v38.1.0

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 140.0.7339.80. #48249
• Updated Node.js to v22.19.0. #48221

electron v38.0.0

Release Notes for v38.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 140.0.7339.41
  • New in 140
  • New in 139
• Node 22.18.0
  • Node 22.18.0 blog post
• V8 14.0

Breaking Changes

• For breaking changes inherited via Chromium, see blog post

Features

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Breaking Changes

Breaking changes will be documented here, and deprecation warnings added to JS code where possible, at least one major version before the change is made.

Types of Breaking Changes

This document uses the following convention to categorize breaking changes:

• API Changed: An API was changed in such a way that code that has not been updated is guaranteed to throw an exception.
• Behavior Changed: The behavior of Electron has changed, but not in such a way that an exception will necessarily be thrown.
• Default Changed: Code depending on the old default may break, not necessarily throwing an exception. The old behavior can be restored by explicitly specifying the value.
• Deprecated: An API was marked as deprecated. The API will continue to function, but will emit a deprecation warning, and will be removed in a future release.
• Removed: An API or feature was removed, and is no longer supported by Electron.

Planned Breaking API Changes (39.0)

Deprecated: --host-rules command line switch

Chromium is deprecating the --host-rules switch.

You should use --host-resolver-rules instead.

Behavior Changed: window.open popups are always resizable

Per current WHATWG spec, the window.open API will now always create a resizable popup window.

To restore previous behavior:

webContents.setWindowOpenHandler((details) => {
  return {
    action: 'allow',
    overrideBrowserWindowOptions: {
      resizable: details.features.includes('resizable=yes')
    }
  }
})

Behavior Changed: shared texture OSR paint event data structure

When using shared texture offscreen rendering feature, the paint event now emits a more structured object. It moves the sharedTextureHandle, planes, modifier into a unified handle property. See here for more details.

Planned Breaking API Changes (38.0)

Removed: ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT environment variable

The default value of the --ozone-plaftform flag changed to auto.

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• 81db417 fix: MacOS 26 Tahoe - stop overriding private cornerMask API to fix WindowSer...
• 5dfeee6 fix: disable NSAutoFillHeuristicController on macOS 26 (#48394)
• 2982cd7 test: rerun failed tests individually (#48387)
• 3179f61 fix: set ozone platform for wayland (#48309)
• 526dfe2 build: update build tools to get siso for forks fix (#48345) (#48350)
• cf9d044 feat: add fileSystem to ses.setPermissionCheckHandler (#48327)
• 99feff3 docs: mention setContentProtection macOS limitations (#48367)
• d60ae17 chore: cherry-pick ec6c18478382 from v8 (#48337)
• f43348e ci: Use Local Execution, Remote Caching (LERC) for fork PRS (#48323)
• 5e51c88 chore: bump chromium to 140.0.7339.133 (38-x-y) (#48287)
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