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Electron v6.0.0 has been released!
$ npm i electron
@latest
This is the first time we’ve made a stable Electron release on the same day as the corresponding Chrome stable release 🥳
See more here 👇
Electron 8.0.0 has shipped 🚢
New in this release:
🖥 Upgrade to Chrome 80
🔤 Implemented Chrome's built-in spellchecker feature
⚡️ IPC uses v8's Structured Clone Algorithm for faster performance
You can find the release notes at:
Electron 11.0.0 has shipped! 🚢
New in this release:
🍎 Support for Apple M1 hardware
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 87
🚀 Improved performance for context bridge objects
You can find the release notes at:
Electron 14.0.0 has shipped! 🚢
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 93
🚀 API additions to session & more
🛑 Removal of remote module
🛠 Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
Electron 12.0.0 has shipped! 🚢
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 89
🛠️ Deprecated remote module
🚀 Context Isolation now defaults to true
Release notes (and remote migration guide!):
Electron v5.0.0-beta.1 is available for testing! For the first time ever, this beta release of Electron contains a pre-stable version of Chromium (v72) and Node.js (v12). We're also thrilled to share our release timeline with the public!
Electron 9.0.0 has shipped! 🚢
New in this release:
⚡Upgraded to Chrome 83
📑Enabled PDF viewer
🔤Improved Chrome's built-in spellchecker feature
You can find the release notes at:
Electron 10.0.0 has shipped! 🚢
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 85
🪟 Improved window event handling
🎟️ Session persistence API enhancements
You can find the release notes at:
Electron 16.0.0 has shipped 🚢
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 96
🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.9
🛠 Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
We just launched our new internationalized website! New domain, docs translation in progress for over 20 languages, new apps pages, and
@nodejs
from top to bottom. 🐢🚀
A new major version of Electron is in the works, and with it some changes to our versioning strategy. As of version 2.0.0, Electron will more strictly adhere to Semantic Versioning.
Details at
Electron 15.0.0 has shipped 🚢
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 94
🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.5
🚀 nativeWindowOpen is now the default window open behavior
🛠 Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
🚢 We have quietly shipped several features that make Electron more accessible to developers outside of the English speaking world! Nearly 2 million strings translated, and the
@nodejs
project is following suit.
Read more at
Electron 28 has shipped! 🚢 In this release:
🍾 Added ESM support (a highly requested feature)
🌎 Updated to Chromium 120.0.6099.56
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements
More details and release notes:
Electron 18.0.0 has shipped 🚢
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 100
🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.13.2
🛠 Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
🏃♂️ Do you want your Electron app to be just a little faster? We’ve collected seven performance tips that’ll make your app boot faster and run leaner.
Electron 17.0.0 has shipped 🚢
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 98
🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.13
🛠 Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
A big step for Electron: governance ⚖️
As Electron looks to solidify its future, we’ve implemented a governance structure to formalize our processes and divide responsibilities more effectively and clearly:
Electron 20.0.0 has shipped 🚢
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 104
🚀 V8 Memory Cage Enabled
🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
Electron 13.0.0 has shipped! 🚢
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 91
🚀 API additions to session, webContents & more
🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
The Electron community believes that Black Lives Matter. To be silent is to be complicit. It is our responsibility to use our platform to amplify the voices of the oppressed and marginalized. Follow
@NAACP_LDF
@eji_org
#BlackLivesMatter
Happy Hacktoberfest! 🎃
We've put together an umbrella Hacktoberfest issue for Electron.
There's currently a bit of a gap between our website's docs, our electron-api-demos repo, and Electron Fiddle.
We'd ❤️ to have your contributions:
🎉 We're excited to announce that Electron Forge v6.0.0 is now available!
This is the first major release of Forge since 2018, and aims to make packaging and distributing your Electron app even easier.
Read more about the v6.0.0 release here:
Electron 19.0.0 has shipped 🚀
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 102
🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.14.2
🛠 Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
Electron 29 has shipped🚢! In this release:
⚡️️Added a new net module to the utility process
📁 Added a new top-level webUtils module that provides a utility layer to interact with Web API objects
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements
For more info:
We've shipped Electron Fiddle v0.19.0, which includes:
📦 Started building for Windows, macOS, and Linux on ARM
✨ Gist URL repopulates on blur (thanks
@ShridharAryan
)
🐛 A handful of fixes and improvements
More details:
Electron 21.0.0 has shipped 🚢
New in this release:
⚡ Upgraded to Chrome 106
🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.16.0
🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
Electron 26.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 116
🔐 Added new APIs for safeStorage
🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
Electron 22.0.0 has shipped 🚢
New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 108
🎁 New UtilityProcess API
🪟 Windows 7 deprecation updates
🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
Today, we’re excited to share that we’re kicking off an Electron Community Discord server and have some plans to help get folks started with
@hacktoberfest
in Electron:
Electron 24.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release:
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 112
📸 Improved APIs for thumbnails
🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements
More details and release notes:
📣 Beginning with Electron 15, we're changing our major version release cadence from 12 weeks to 8 weeks to better align with Chromium's shortened release cadence and new Microsoft Store security policies.
More details and scheduled release dates here:
🎉 A new release of Electron Forge is now available!
New in Forge v6.2.1:
- Various Vite plugin fixes
- Ability to add async Maker configurations
See the full changelog:
Electron 30 has shipped 🚢!
In this release:
❗️Added WebContentsView & BaseWindow, deprecating BrowserViews
❗️ASAR Integrity fuse now enabled by default on Windows
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes: