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Electron 45 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 156.0.8078.48, V8 15.6, and Node v24.22.0.
The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 45! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. Continue reading for details about this release.
If you have any feedback, please share it with us on Bluesky or Mastodon! Bugs and feature requests can be reported in Electron's issue tracker.
Electron 44 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 152.0.7977.54, V8 15.2, and Node v24.18.1.
The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 44! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. Continue reading for details about this release.
If you have any feedback, please share it with us on Bluesky or Mastodon, or join our community Discord! Bugs and feature requests can be reported in Electron's issue tracker.
Electron 43 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 150.0.7871.46, V8 15.0, and Node v24.17.0.
The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 43! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. Continue reading for details about this release.
If you have any feedback, please share it with us on Bluesky or Mastodon, or join our community Discord! Bugs and feature requests can be reported in Electron's issue tracker.
Electron 42 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 148.0.7778.96, V8 14.8, and Node v24.15.0.
The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 42! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. Continue reading for details about this release.
If you have any feedback, please share it with us on Bluesky or Mastodon, or join our community Discord! Bugs and feature requests can be reported in Electron's issue tracker.
Tech talks are a new blog post series where we share glimpses into our work on Electron. If you find this work interesting, please consider contributing!
When Electron switched to Wayland on Linux last fall, most people didn't notice.
Major Linux distributions adopted the modern display protocol years ago, and both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktop environments are in the process of dropping X11 support completely.
But a platform migration isn't complete without apps, and a large part of the Linux app ecosystem went through a second Wayland transition last August — well after most distros had changed their defaults. That's when Chromium turned on Wayland by default, bringing Electron and dozens of Linux desktop apps along with it.
Electron 41 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 146.0.7680.65, V8 14.6, and Node v24.14.0.
The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 41! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. Continue reading for details about this release.
If you have any feedback, please share it with us on Bluesky or Mastodon, or join our community Discord! Bugs and feature requests can be reported in Electron's issue tracker.
After publishing the initial 41.0.0 package, we integrated some high-priority bugs into follow-up patch releases. We recommend installing 41.0.2 when upgrading to Electron 41.
As of Electron 41, macOS Electron apps can now embed a digest of their ASAR Integrity information. This adds an additional layer of tamper detection for apps that use ASAR Integrity by validating the integrity information itself at app launch.
To enable the feature for your app, you can run the following command with @electron/asar v4.1.0 and above:
You must re-sign your app afterwards. For more information, see the @electron/asar CLI documentation.
Support for this feature in Electron Forge is planned for the near future (electron/forge#4159).
On Wayland (Linux), frameless windows now have drop shadows and extended resize boundaries. To create fully frameless windows with no decorations, set hasShadow: false in the window constructor. #49885
Mitchell Cohen has written a blog article about recent work to improve Electron's support of Wayland and client-side decorations on Linux.
The Electron team recently added MSIX auto-updater support according to RFC #21. You can now ship both MSIX and Squirrel.Mac in your update server essentially with the same JSON response format. See the autoUpdater documentation for more information.
This was added in Electron 41 by #49586 and has also been backported to Electron 39.5.0 (#49585) and 40.2.0 (#49587).
Electron 40.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 144.0.7559.60, V8 14.4, and Node 24.11.1.
The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 40.0.0! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. Continue reading for details about this release.
If you have any feedback, please share it with us on Bluesky or Mastodon, or join our community Discord! Bugs and feature requests can be reported in Electron's issue tracker.
We're launching a new blog post series where we share glimpses into our work on Electron. If you find this work interesting, please consider contributing!
Recently, I worked on improving Electron and Chromium's window resize behavior.
We were seeing an issue on Windows where old frames would become visible while resizing a window:
With a bug like this, the first challenge is figuring out where to start looking.
Electron builds upon Chromium, the open source version of Google Chrome. When compiling Electron, Electron's source code is added into the Chromium source tree as a subdirectory. Electron then relies on Chromium's code to provide most of the functionality of a modern browser.
Chromium has about 36 million lines of code. Electron is a large project, too. That is a lot of code that could be causing this issue.
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