chore(deps): update dependency electron to v41

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
electron	40.8.1 → 41.0.1

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Release Notes

electron/electron (electron)

v41.0.1: electron v41.0.1

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Release Notes for v41.0.1

Fixes

• Fixed an issue on macOS where calling autoUpdater.quitAndInstall() could fail if checkForUpdates() was called again after an update was already downloaded. #​50217 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where traffic light buttons would flash at position (0,0) when restoring a window with a custom trafficLightPosition from minimization on macOS. #​50209 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed bug where opening a message box immediately upon closing a child window may cause the parent window to freeze on Windows. #​50191 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 146.0.7680.72. #​50196

v41.0.0: electron v41.0.0

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Release Notes for v41.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 146.0.7680.65
  • New in 146
  • New in 145
• Node v24.14.0
  • Node 24.14.0 blog post
• V8 14.6

Breaking Changes

• Fixed an issue where cookie changed events weren't properly emitted in all cases. #​49631

For breaking changes inherited via Chromium, see blog post

Features

Additions

• Added --disable-geolocation command-line flag for macOS apps to disable location services. #​45934
• Added NV12 support for import shared texture. #​48922 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Added webContents.getOrCreateDevToolsTargetId(). #​50176
• Added a disclaim option to the UtilityProcess API to allow for TCC disclaiming on macOS. #​49693 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Added a reason property to the Notification 'closed' event on Windows to allow developers to know the reason the Notification was dismissed. #​50029 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Added additional defence against privileged user modifications to ASAR Integrity protected applications on macOS. #​48587
• Added an usePrinterDefaultPageSize option to webContents.print() to allow using the printer's default page size. #​49812
• Added bypassCustomProtocolHandlers option to net.request. #​47331 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Added support for MSIX auto-updating. #​49586 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Added support for WebSocket authentication through the login event on webContents. #​48512 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Added support for --experimental-transform-types. #​49882 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Added support for long-animation-frame script attribution (via --enable-features=AlwaysLogLOAFURL). #​49773 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Added support to import external shared texture as VideoFrame. #​47317 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Added the ability to disable auto-focusing of WebContents on navigation using webPreferences.focusOnNavigation. #​49511 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Enable wasm trap handlers behind WasmTrapHandlers fuse. #​49839
• On Wayland (Linux), frameless windows now have GTK drop shadows and extended resize boundaries. To create fully frameless windows with no decorations, set hasShadow: false in the window constructor. #​49885

Improvements

• Extended actions support for Windows notifications to include buttons, select dropdowns, and replies. #​49787 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Refactored our MSIX updater code to use an upstream Chromium pattern and eliminates the need for special exception handling build flags. #​49686 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Updated nativeImage.createFromNamedImage to support SF Symbol names. #​48203 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}

Removed/Deprecated

• DevTools errors are no longer printed to console. #​49292 ^{(Also in 40)}

Fixes

• Fixed CSS selector syntax in default app styles to properly apply animations to hero icons. #​50033
• Fixed ID of tray icons on Linux. #​48675
• Fixed an issue that caused the RGBAF16 shared texture format to have a keyed mutex on Windows. #​49876
• Fixed an issue where Squirrel.Mac's auto updater would fail to install new updates if the targetBundleURL was either not set or contained special characters. #​49978
• Fixed an issue where some shell functionality may not work on Linux if the target window is already open. #​49594
• Fixed build failure when printing is disabled. #​50077
• Fixed several issues with consistent window sizing and resizing on Linux when CSD is in use (e.g. on GNOME/Wayland) and added support for creating content-sized windows. #​49835
• Fixed window sizing on Linux when min/max size constraints are set or resizable is false. Windows no longer shrink below the requested max size or grow taller when resizability is disabled. #​49971
• Global shortcuts can now be registered more reliably on Wayland using the globalShortcut API. #​50051

Also in earlier versions...

• Added validation to protocol client methods to reject protocol names that do not conform to the RFC 3986 URI scheme grammar. #​50155 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Addressed upstream Chromium shift to enable CoreAudio Tap API for audio capture used in electron's desktopCapturer (🍏 macOS). #​49739 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Allow dynamically updating menu item labels, sublabels, and icons. #​49972 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Corrected the appearance of tiled windows on GNOME (when frame: true), and removed resize handles from tiled edges. #​48765 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fix: ESM-from-CJS import when CJK characters are in path. #​48855 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed globalShortcut not working on Wayland with GlobalShortcutsPortal feature enabled. #​49871 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed setRepresentedFilename() not setting AXDocument accessibility attribute on macOS. #​49346 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed a Windows notification issue where clicking a native notification would result in an application hang on certain Windows environments. #​49106 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using the File System Access API. #​49636 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed a macOS crash when creating a new tab from the tab overview. #​49933 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed a potential race condition crash when opening DevTools. #​49406 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an application crash on MacOS where the menu observer was not being properly removed before garbage collection. #​49658 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed an application crash when clicking or hovering over the native MacOS "Window" menu. Reverts #​48598. #​48794 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed an error on debug symbol upload by moving dsym.zip to use tar.xz compression. #​48941 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed an issue in chrome://accessibility. #​49561 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue on Windows and Linux where no cookie encryption key provider was passed into the network service when cookie encryption was enabled. #​49371 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed an issue on macOS where Universal Links were not delivered to app.on('continue-activity') on cold launch when NSUserActivity.userInfo was nil. #​50006 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue that menu items on macOS could not be disabled under all circumstances. #​48795 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where Chrome Devtools menus may not appear in certain embedded windows. #​50137 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed an issue where VideoFrame objects returned through contextBridge had an incorrect prototype. #​50023 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where additionalData passed to app.requestSingleInstanceLock on Windows could be truncated or fail to deserialize in the primary instance's second-instance event. #​50154 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where menu-did-close was not emitted properly for some application menus. #​49075 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where nodeIntegrationInWorker overrides in setWindowOpenHandler were not honored for child windows sharing a renderer process with their opener. #​50134 ^{(Also in 38)}
• Fixed an issue where screen.getCursorScreenPoint() crashed on Wayland when it was called before a BrowserWindow had been created. #​50105 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where shell.writeShortcutLink was throwing TypeError: Insufficient number of arguments when called with just [(path, options)]. #​49503 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where alt+space triggered th system context menu even if an accelerator was registered for the hotkey combination. #​49642 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where calling setBounds on a WebContentsView could trigger redundant page-favicon-updated events even when the favicon had not changed. #​50085 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where frameless windows had resize issues in Mac App Store builds. #​49857 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where invalid characters in custom protocol or webRequest response header values were not rejected. #​50132 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where making a window fullscreen on Windows, minimizing it and then restoring it broke previous fullscreen state. #​49891 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed an issue where malformed custom toastXml could cause a Notification crash. #​49953 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed an issue where menu item accelerators stopped working after the item's enabled property was toggled on macOS. #​49591 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where menu item enabled state wasn't updated during key equivalent dispatch when the menu was closed on macOS. #​49890 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where native modules would either crash or not compile for MacOS 12. #​49703 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed an issue where no cookie encryption provider was passed into the network service when cookie encryption was enabled. #​49348 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed an issue where permission and device-chooser handlers received the top-level page origin instead of the requesting subframe's origin. #​50148 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where pressing AltGr could activate or focus the menu bar. #​49916 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where some packages weren't correctly filtered on macOS in dialogs. #​49470 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where role-based menu items were incorrectly returning null for their accelerator property. #​49668 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where setting zoomFactor in setWindowOpenHandler's overrideBrowserWindowOptions had no effect on windows opened via window.open(). #​49911 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where some apps would throw an exception on launch. #​48973 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• 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. #​49017 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue whereby a duplicate "Toggle Full Screen" menu item appeared in the View menu on macOS. #​49598 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed crash in platform_util::Beep() on Linux. #​49483 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed crash on windows when UTF-8 is in path. #​48898 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed crash when attempting to resolve modules during process exit. #​49090 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed crash when creating event object for ipc events. #​48987 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed crash when reading system certificates via nodejs tls module. #​49028 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed dock menu items not respecting enabled and checked properties on macOS. #​49625 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed drag regions in child windows. #​49231 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed draggable regions not updating position when DevTools is docked to the left or right in a frameless window. #​49848 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed draw smoothing round corner issue. #​48769 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed memory leak when setting icons on Linux/GTK. #​49895 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed menu bar hiding after a call to win.setFullScreen(false) when not in fullscreen on Linux. #​49996 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed menus to correctly emit menu-will-close event when closed after any submenu has been open. #​49964 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed oom crash when optimizing certain wasm functions involving large phi nodes. #​48791 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed rendering glitches on macOS. #​49621 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed shutdown crash on windows when hidden titlebar is enabled. #​50055 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed squirrel.mac stacked update behavior to old staged updates. #​49639 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed startup crash when V8 sandbox is disabled. #​49504 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed the cookie encryption logic to use the old os_crypt sync implementation present in M142. #​49382 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed the issue where the parent window leave disabled after the modal window call show() multiple time. #​48977 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Fixed the issue where the parent window remained interactive after the modal window was opened. #​48770 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 40)}
• Made toplevel icon Wayland protocol work. #​49290 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Reenable V8 trap handlers for wasm in browser and utility process, improves runtime execution of wasm. #​48788 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Requests sent via net are now capable of having their headers modified to use reserved headers via webRequest. #​49226 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Restored window's canHide property. #​47970 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Reverted AltGr key fix that caused menu bar to no longer show on Windows. #​50111 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Windows: Calling window.setFocusable(true) will no longer cause a window to lose focus. #​45640 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4835695. #​49789
• Fixed crash in platform_util::Beep() on Linux. #​49865 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed devtools element panel flickering when with node inspection. #​49027 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}

Documentation

• Documentation change
  • #​48813
  • #​48877
  • #​49948

Notices

End of Support for 38.x.y

Electron 38.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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