chore(deps): update dependency electron to v40

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
electron	39.4.0 → 40.1.0

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Release Notes

electron/electron (electron)

v40.1.0: electron v40.1.0

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Release Notes for v40.1.0

Features

• DevTools errors are no longer printed to console. #​49359

Fixes

• Fixed setRepresentedFilename() not setting AXDocument accessibility attribute on macOS. #​49417 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed a potential race condition crash when opening DevTools. #​49422 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed an issue in chrome://accessibility. #​49560 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where shell.writeShortcutLink was throwing TypeError: Insufficient number of arguments when called with just [(path, options)]. #​49501 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed crash in platform_util::Beep() on Linux. #​49482 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Made toplevel icon Wayland protocol work. #​49414 ^{(Also in 39)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4738514. #​49487
• Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.96. #​49474

Unknown

• Fixed an issue where some packages weren't correctly filtered on macOS in dialogs. #​49473 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 41)}

v40.0.0: electron v40.0.0

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Release Notes for v40.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 144.0.7559.60
  • New in 144
  • New in 143
• Node v24.11.1
  • Node 24.11.1 blog post
• V8 14.4

Breaking Changes

• Deprecated clipboard API access from renderer processes #​48923
• Fixed an error on debug symbol upload by moving dsym.zip to use tar.xz compression. #​48952

Features

Additions

• Added "memory-eviction" as a possible reason for a child process to exit. #​48362
• Added RGBAF16 output format with scRGB HDR color space support to Offscreen Rendering. #​48265 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Added app.isHardwareAccelerationEnabled(). #​47614 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Added bypassCustomProtocolHandlers option to net.request. #​48883 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Added methods to enable more granular accessibility support management. #​48042 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Added support for WebSocket authentication through the login event on webContents. #​49064 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Added support to import external shared texture as VideoFrame. #​48831
• Added the ability to retrieve the system accent color on Linux using systemPreferences.getAccentColor. #​48027 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Allowed for persisting File System API grant status within a given session. #​48170 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Automatically focus DevTools when element is inspected or breakpoint is triggered. #​46386 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}

Improvements

• Enables resetting accent color to follow system accent settings if a previous color has been set via window.setAccentColor(null). #​48274 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Support dynamic ESM imports in non-context isolated preloads. #​48375 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Updated nativeImage.createFromNamedImage to support SF Symbol names. #​48772 ^{(Also in 39)}

Fixes

• Added support for --no-stdio-init to be used when nul device is disabled on windows. #​47870
• Fixed an issue on Windows and Linux where no cookie encryption key provider was passed into the network service when cookie encryption was enabled. #​49375
• Fixed an issue where no cookie encryption provider was passed into the network service when cookie encryption was enabled. #​49350
• Fixed crash when attempting to resolve modules during process exit. #​49104
• Fixed drag regions in child windows. #​49312
• Fixed draw smoothing round corner issue. #​48782
• Fixed the cookie encryption logic to use the old os_crypt sync implementation present in M142. #​49384
• Fixed visual artifacts while resizing a window on Windows. #​49191

Also in earlier versions...

• AccentColor set distinguishes the frame. #​48405 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Corrected the appearance of tiled windows on GNOME (when frame: true), and removed resize handles from tiled edges. #​48835 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fix: ESM-from-CJS import when CJK characters are in path. #​48862 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fix: runtime JS error that crashes GetPackageJSON. #​48293 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed Wayland configuration through the XDG_SESSION_TYPE environment variable. #​48301 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed Windows dialog.showMessageBox default button handling. #​48216 ^{(Also in 36, 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed a Windows notification issue where clicking a native notification would result in an application hang on certain Windows environments. #​49129 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed a potential crash in dialog.showOpenDialog on Windows with an empty extension filter array. #​48640 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an application crash when clicking or hovering over the native MacOS "Window" menu. Reverts #​48598. #​48799 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an error when checking environmental variables when using remote checksums when installing Electron via npm. #​48634 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue that menu items on macOS could not be disabled under all circumstances. #​48598 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where menu-did-close was not emitted properly for some application menus. #​49092 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where shell.openExternal caused an unexpected dialog to open when there was no app suitable to open the url. #​48502 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where systemPreferences.getAccentColor inverted the color. #​48511 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where trafficLightPosition would not be correctly applied when using titleBarStyle: 'customButtonsOnHover' on macOS 26. #​48538 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where authentication via websockets can crash. #​48510 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where button background on mouse hover with titleBarOverlay wasn't always calculated to provide appropriate minimum contrast. #​48568 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where calling webContents.openDevTools({ mode: 'detach' }) would cause a crash on Wayland. #​48600 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where changing the resizable property on a window would break the styles of a transparent window. #​48378 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where icons didn't show up as expected on Windows Toast notifications. #​48543 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where snapped windows aren't correctly snapped when minimized and then unminimized. #​48296 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where some apps would throw an exception on launch. #​48976 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed an issue where the close callback param for menu.popup would fire when any arbitrary submenu of the given menu closed, and not the menu itself. #​49046 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed crash on windows when UTF-8 is in path. #​48942 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed crash when accessing webContents.session or webContents.debugger. #​48318 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed crash when creating event object for ipc events. #​48991 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed crash when inspector agent attempts to evaluate on provisional frames. #​48503 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed crash when passing feature param from commandline --enable-features=Feature:ParamA/Value. #​48411 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed crash when reading system certificates via nodejs tls module. #​49041 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed download button does not work in PDF Viewer. #​48372 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed excessive WindowServer GPU usage on macOS Tahoe 26. #​48376 ^{(Also in 36, 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed high CPU usage with <input> tag on macOS 26. #​48379 ^{(Also in 36, 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed incorrect signal variable reference in nan-spec-runner that could cause install failures to go undetected. #​48639 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed oom crash when optimizing certain wasm functions involving large phi nodes. #​48816 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed shader-f16 to work on Windows. #​48342 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed the issue where the parent window leave disabled after the modal window call show() multiple time. #​49021 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed the issue where the parent window remained interactive after the modal window was opened. #​48864 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed white flash on call to BrowserWindow.show. #​47151 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Reenable V8 trap handlers for wasm in browser and utility process, improves runtime execution of wasm. #​48839 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Requests sent via net are now capable of having their headers modified to use reserved headers via webRequest. #​49241 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Titlebar buttons now appear on the correct side of windows on Wayland in Ubuntu. #​48490 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Windows: Calling window.setFocusable(true) will no longer cause a window to lose focus. #​48927 ^{(Also in 39)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4453807. #​48335 ^{(Also in 36, 37, 38, 39)}
• Backported fix for 4667866. #​49286
• Backported fix for chromium:466192044. #​49201
• Fixed a development issue where the metal toolchain could not be found when building on macOS 26. #​48467 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed devtools element panel flickering when with node inspection. #​49043 ^{(Also in 39)}

Documentation

• Documentation change
  • #​48665
  • #​48841

Notices

End of Support for 37.x.y

Electron 37.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.

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