chore(deps): update electron to v37

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
electron	36.6.0 -> 37.1.0

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Release Notes

electron/electron (electron)

v37.1.0: electron v37.1.0

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Release Notes for v37.1.0

Features

• Added support for customizing system accent color and highlighting of active window border. #​47537 (Also in 35, 36)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where utility processes could leak file handles. #​47543 (Also in 35, 36)

v37.0.0: electron v37.0.0

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Release Notes for v37.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 138.0.7204.35
  • New in 138
  • New in 137
• Node22.16.0
  • Node 22.16.0 blog post
• V8 13.8

Breaking Changes

• Added support for Web Serial & WebUSB blocklists. #​46600
• Fixed an issue where utility processes crashed on unhandled rejections. #​45921
• Fixed utilityProcess running user script after process.exit is called. #​47492
• Removed deprecated feature of creating a new random session by setting ProtocolResponse.session's property to null. #​46264

Features

Additions

• Added BrowserWindow.isSnapped() to indicate whether a given window has been arranged via Snap. #​46079 (Also in 36)
• Added before-mouse-event to allow intercepting and preventing mouse events in WebContents. #​47364 (Also in 36)
• Added ffmpeg.dll to delay load configuration. #​46151 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Added innerWidth and innerHeight options for window.open. #​47039 (Also in 35, 36)
• Added nativeTheme.shouldUseDarkColorsForSystemIntegratedUI to distinguish system and app theme. #​46438 (Also in 35, 36)
• Added scriptURL property to ServiceWorkerMain. #​45863
• Added a CSS rule for smooth corners. #​45185
• Added sublabel functionality for menus on macOS >= 14.4. #​47042 (Also in 35, 36)
• Added support for Autofill, Writing Tools and Services macOS level menu items in context menus via the new frame option in menu.popup. #​45138 (Also in 36)
• Added support for HIDDevice.collections. #​47483 (Also in 36)
• Added support for --no-experimental-global-navigator flag. #​47418 (Also in 35, 36)
• Added support for screen.dipToScreenPoint(point) and screen.screenToDipPoint(point) on Linux X11. #​46895 (Also in 35, 36)
• Added support for system-context-menu on Linux. #​45848 (Also in 35, 36)
• Added support for menu item role palette and header on macOS. #​47245
• Added support for node option --experimental-network-inspection. #​47031 (Also in 35, 36)
• Added the priority and priorityIncremental options to net.request(). #​47321 (Also in 36)
• Exposed win.isContentProtected() to allow developers to check window protection status. #​47310 (Also in 36)

Improvements

• Improved ASAR integrity checks on Windows. #​46509 (Also in 36)
• Improved performance of desktopCapturer.getSources when not requesting thumbnails on macOS. #​46138 (Also in 34, 35, 36)

Removed/Deprecated

• Deprecated NativeImage.getBitmap() and fixed incorrect documentation. #​46696 (Also in 36)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue on application close on Windows, where not all processes are quit on close. #​47485
• Fixed an issue where printing PDFs with webContents.print({ silent: true }) would fail. #​47397

Also in earlier versions...

• Fix: don't copy 'package.json's out of ASAR file. #​46390 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fix: osr stutter fix backport for electron. #​46650 (Also in 36)
• Fixed ElectronAccessibilityUI bug. #​46562 (Also in 33, 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed Minimize menu button to follow set window minimizability on Windows. #​46279 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed NODE_OPTIONS parsing for child processes on macOS. #​46209 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed addChildView() crashes when adding a closed WebContentsView. #​47338 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed electron.shell.openExternal and electron.shell.openPath to honor user-defined system defaults on Linux. #​45310 (Also in 33, 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed getNativeWindowHandle() crash that affected 36 betas on macOS. #​46733 (Also in 36)
• Fixed a bug that could cause some maximized windows on Linux to report an incorrect window state. #​46450 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed a crash seen on Linux when calling webContents.print(). #​46087 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging and dropping files into the browser. #​46253 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when opening some dialogs as windows are closing on macOS. #​46952 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed a possible BrowserWindow crash caused by closing a parent window with focus or blur events. #​46559 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed a possible crash in shell.readShortcutLink. #​46294 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed a possible crash using Node.js on some arm32 devices. #​46435 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed a possible crash using the WebView tag and calling focus. #​47036 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed a possible crash when using navigator.bluetooth.requestDevice and the select-bluetooth-device event. #​46745 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed a potential crash in parentPort. #​46437 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed a potential crash in utilityProcess.postMessage when calling with an invalid transferable. #​46639 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed a potential crash using session.clearData in some circumstances. #​47412 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed a potential crash when closing a window with child windows. #​46758 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an error when calling window.emit('close') after toggling fullscreen mode. #​46605 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an error when importing electron for the first time from an ESM module loaded by a CJS module in a packaged app. #​47342 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an inverted conditional in the above PR that caused broken window borders in some circumstances on Wayland. #​46624 (Also in 33, 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where Node.js OOM errors terminate the process directly without raising an OOM exception. #​45895 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where Web Workers crashed on unhandled rejections. #​45992 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where context-menu event weren't emitted as expected on Windows in draggable regions. #​45851 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where navigationHistory.restore() failed to restore the userAgent if it was overridden. #​46260 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where system-context-menu incorrectly fired for all regions in frameless windows. #​45893 (Also in 33, 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where webContents.printToPDF() didn't work as expected with cross-process subframes. #​46218 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where webContents.print did not work as expected when mediaSize was not passed. #​46971 (Also in 36)
• Fixed an issue where badly formatted switches could cause crashes in app.commandLine functions. #​46004 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where calling Fetch.continueResponse via debugger with WebContentsView could cause a crash. #​47444 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where calling UtilityProcess.fork prior to the app ready event would cause a crash. #​46380 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where context menu actions such as copy/paste did not correctly fire when a frame was not passed in. #​46595 (Also in 36)
• Fixed an issue where filters wouldn't apply in the specific case only one was passed. #​46946 (Also in 36)
• Fixed an issue where packages could be mistakenly not found in asar. #​45997 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where printing from the renderer process crashes the main process when no printers are installed in the system or there's not a default printer. #​46587 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where protected transparent windows inappropriately showed a titlebar after visibility change. #​47266 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where snapped windows in Windows may sometimes be improperly restored. #​46006 (Also in 33, 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where the 'suspend' and 'resume' events could be emitted in duplicate. #​47188 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where the backgroundMaterial feature did not work in a frameless window on initial window creation. #​46657 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where the resizing border didn't work as expected on Wayland windows. #​46155 (Also in 33, 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where the window flickers with either a light or dark color before loading the desired background color. #​47051 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue where transparent child windows on macOS were rendering a grey block as opposed to their correct contents. #​46891 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue with --inspect-brk failing in packaged apps. #​46560 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue with the assert Node.js module in the renderer process. #​46528 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed an issue with token formatting for tokens received after calling pushNotifications.registerForAPNSNotifications(). #​46101 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed build error with enable_electron_extensions=false. #​46812 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed build failure when building with printing disabled. #​46283 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed case where file dialog filters would get mixed up, if a * filter was included. #​46660 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed crash in autoUpdater on macOS when zip extraction failed. #​47302 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed crash in xdg portal version detection on startup. #​47023 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed crash on Linux when PipeWire screenshare source selection is cancelled. #​46112 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed crash on application exit with pending app.getGPUInfo promise. #​46434 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed crash on reconversion with google IME and editcontext on macOS. #​46688 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed crash when renderer process crashes while webview is reloading. #​46735 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed crash with out-of-bounds string read when parsing NODE_OPTIONS. #​46210 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed flickering and ghosting artifacts in transparent windows on macOS. #​46353 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed incorrect titlebar in file save dialogs. #​46067 (Also in 33, 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed log files written to the current working directory on Windows. #​46910 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed memory leak in AutofillPopupView. #​46384 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed opening package paths as directory when treatPackageAsDirectory is enabled on macOS. #​47108 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed regression with directory selection in macOS dialogs. #​47277 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed several paint and white flash issues on macOS. #​46615 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed the border style of windows with vibrancy on macOS. #​46648 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed the issue where maximizing and restoring the window does not respect the corner radius settings, and the corner radius is incorrect in fullscreen mode. #​46641 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed the issue where rounded corners disappear momentarily when closing on Windows 11. #​46382 (Also in 35, 36)
• Fixed title changes to not occur while navigating within a page. #​45981 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Fixed xdg portal version detection for file dialogs on linux. #​46922 (Also in 35, 36)
• Improved webContents loading time when resolving fonts for uncommon scripts. #​45905 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Microtasks are no longer (incorrectly) run by serializing values, including when sending IPC. #​46668 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Partially fixes an issue with printing a PDF via webContents.print() where the callback would not be called. #​47398 (Also in 35, 36)
• Restored previous window-hiding behavior of win.setContentProtected() on Windows. #​47033 (Also in 35, 36)
• When a menu item on macOS is disabled (enabled = false), it is now greyed out. #​46307 (Also in 34, 35, 36)

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4010597. #​45936
• Backported fix for 4010597. #​45941
• Backported fix for 4090597. #​47358
• Backported fix for 4206375. #​47356
• Fixed an issue where Electron could fail to load on some older Linux distributions. #​45974 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Reverts a change that greyed out disabled menu items on macOS (https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/46307). #​46502 (Also in 34, 35, 36)
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2025-5419. #​47352

Documentation

• Documentation change
  • #​46073
  • #​46130
  • #​47297

Notices

End of Support for 34.x.y

Electron 34.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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