Electron

Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

[Electron @electronjs]

Electron is now a verified handle on Bluesky! 🦋

If you want to find us in the Fediverse, come follow us here:
🦋 https://t.co/EeNUuOCprt
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[Electron @electronjs]

Electron 34 has shipped 🚢!

In this release:
⚡️ Added APIs to manage shared dictionaries
⚡️Added API to access unresponsive renderer call stacks
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
https://t.co/riMkGrWJTm

[Electron @electronjs]

Electron 33 has shipped 🚢!

In this release:
⚡️ navigationHistory extensions
⚡️ a new handler for when a PIN is needed to unlock a cryptographic device
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
https://t.co/QL9Gg4ZTAW

[Electron @electronjs]

Electron 32 has shipped 🚢!

In this release:
⚡️Added new API version history in our documentation
❗️Removed nonstandard File.path extension from the Web File API
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:

https://t.co/GiryYkM710

[Electron @electronjs]

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:
https://t.co/Sliucb6NLE

[Electron @electronjs]

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:
https://t.co/KILoRLbh9g

[Google Open Source @GoogleOSS]

☀️ We have some big news for Google Summer of Code 2024 👉 https://t.co/9qlYUqAaVB

We are thrilled to share that 195 open source projects that have been selected and that we will welcome 30 new organizations for their first year as part of the program.

[Electron @electronjs]

☀️ Electron is thrilled to announce that we’ve been accepted into the 20th edition of @GoogleOSS Summer of Code!

For details on how to apply: https://t.co/8PUUYOMg6b

[Electron @electronjs]

To see a list of current RFCs or to learn how to propose your own, check out the repository on GitHub!

https://t.co/zAnA0oYJhU

[Electron @electronjs]

💬 Looking to introduce a new API into Electron? For changes that could benefit from maintainer design input, we've introduced a new formal RFC process.

For more info: https://t.co/WBLfLwwgZT

[Electron @electronjs]

Earlier today, the Electron team was alerted to several recent CVEs filed against an Electron Fuse setting. These reports are incorrect, and seem to be filed in bad faith. More information here: https://t.co/AoyaLp9aAq

[Electron @electronjs]

Electron 28 will be our last planned stable release in December, as we continue our annual tradition of a December quiet period.

We hope you have wonderful remainder of 2023, and we'll see you in 2024.
https://t.co/WPUfkTVQcF

[Electron @electronjs]

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:
https://t.co/sApnceOIMr

[Electron @electronjs]

We've also added ESM support to Electron Forge! You can use ESM with Electron Forge 7.0.0 and higher.

Learn more, and see what else we've added to the newest Forge major release here: https://t.co/3rXMlvdIzf

[Electron @electronjs]

🎁 Taking December off has been a successful experiment in the last couple years, and we're making it part of our regular project maintenance cadence going forward. More details:

https://t.co/WPUfkTVQcF

[Electron @electronjs]

After a successful exercise last year, we're once again taking a pause in December. Details:

https://t.co/Xz2dkkYy7q

[Electron @electronjs]

Electron 27.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release:

⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 118
📜 Added support for chrome.scripting APIs
🛠️ Bug fixes, deprecations and improvements

More details and release notes:
https://t.co/YDwoA4UbSW

[Electron @electronjs]

In the wake of CVE-2023-4863, here's an overview from @felixrieseberg on why it's a good idea to use Electron's process sandbox, and how to enable it in your own app: https://t.co/K30g8FIety

[Electron @electronjs]

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:
https://t.co/qJATXfbNAp

[Electron @electronjs]

🎉 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:

https://t.co/E6AsOrwLbK

[Electron @electronjs]

Electron 25 has shipped! 🚢 In this release:

🌐 Implemented protocol.handle
🐶 Implemented net.fetch, using Chromium's networking stack
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements

More details and release notes:
https://t.co/FFTAMOQCRB