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electron v15.0.0

Release Notes for v15.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 94.0.4606.51.
  • New in 94
• Node v16.5.0.
  • 16.5.0
  • 16.4.2
  • 16.4.1
  • 16.4.0
  • 16.3.0
  • 16.2.0
  • 16.1.0
  • 16.0.0
  • 15 ChangeLog
  • 14 ChangeLog
• V8
  • v9.4 blog post

Breaking Changes

• nativeWindowOpen: true is now the default. #28552

Features

Additions

• Added 'dom-ready' event to WebFrameMain which emits when the frame's document is ready.
  • Added 'frame-created' event to WebContents which emits when a frame is created in the page. #30801
• Added <webview>.sendToFrame() / frameId to 'ipc-message' event. #30704
• Added <webview> 'did-redirect-navigation' event. #30664
• Added app.configureHostResolver API for configuring DNS-over-HTTPS. #30775
• Added location and modifiers to the event properties provided in the 'before-input-event' WebContents event. #29850
• Added safeStorage string encryption API. #30430
• Added signal option to dialog.showMessageBox. #26102
• Added webContents.fromDevToolsTargetId(targetId) to lookup a WebContents instance from an associated Chrome DevTools Protocol TargetID. #30733 (Also in 14)
• Added an Electron Fuse for enforcing code signatures on the app.asar file your application loads. Requires the latest asar module. #30900
• Added experimental cookie encryption support behind an Electron Fuse. #27524 (Also in 13, 14)
• Added fuses to disable NODE_OPTIONS and --inspect debug arguments in packaged apps. #30420
• Added missing resourceType conversions for webRequest listener details: font, ping, cspReport, media, webSocket. #29902 (Also in 14)
• Added new MenuItem.userAccelerator property to read user-assigned macOS accelerator overrides. #26682
• Added new app.runningUnderARM64Translation property to detect when running under Rosetta on Apple Silicon, or WOW on Windows for ARM. #29168
• Added new imageAnimationPolicy web preference to control how images are animated. #29095
• Added resize edge info to BrowserWindow's will-resize event. #29199
• Added support for Windows Control Overlay on Windows. #30497 (Also in 14)
• Added support for Windows Control Overlay on macOS. #29253 (Also in 14)
• Added support for debug URLs such as chrome://gpucrash. #29404 (Also in 13, 14)
• Added support for directing Chromium logging to a file with --log-file=.../path/to/file.log. Also, it's now possible to enable logging from JavaScript by appending command-line switches during the first JS tick. #25089 (Also in 14)
• Added support for sending Blobs over the context bridge. #29247

Improvements

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• c3e6746 Bump v15.0.0
• 436c3ba Revert "Bump v15.0.0"
• 599baba Revert "Bump v15.0.1"
• 5f7da14 Bump v15.0.1
• dc6f951 Bump v15.0.0
• f4fa6c0 fix: propagate window.open settings to child window (#31049)
• 98de504 fix: suppress insecure resource warning for more local hostnames (#31036)
• c78ab7a Revert "Bump v15.0.0"
• 0928f32 Bump v15.0.0
• c6c59bf build: fix release CI jobs start script (#31026)
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