electron v2.0.0-beta.1

Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm i electron@2.0.0-beta.1.

Upgrades

Changed menu.popup signature. #11968
Removed deprecated crashReporter.setExtraParameter #11972
Removed deprecated webContents.setZoomLevelLimits and webFrame.setZoomLevelLimits. #11974
Removed deprecated clipboard methods. #11973
Removed support for boolean parameters for tray.setHighlightMode. #11981

Updated license year. #11545
Fixed hexColorDWORDToRGBA for transparent colors. #11557
Added window.loadFile and webContents.loadFile helper methods. #11565
Documentation fixes and improvements. #11747 #11758 #11770 #11794 #11806 #11841 #11855 #11863 #11881 #11897 #11918 #11950 #11963
Added menu-will-show and menu-will-close menu events. #11754.
Migrated deprecated web-view method. #11798
Fixed closing a window opened from a browserview. #11799
Added --chromium_dir argument to script/create-dist.py. #11354
Added shutdown event to powerMonitor. #11417
Fixed Bluetooth chooser bug. #11492
Fixed unicode test. #11774
Replaced custom function with Object.values(). #11836
Added API to enable/disable a window. #11832
Added ability to log atom ipc messages. #11880
Added Offscreen rendering improvements. #11728
Updated spellchecker. #11819
Updated to use task scheduler for app.getFileIcon API. #11595
Added affinity option for gathering several BrowserWindows into a single process. #11501
Changed to fire console-message event even when rendering offscreen. #11921
Fixed downloading from custom protocols using WebContents.downloadURL. #11804
Fixed CI test failures. #11944
Fixed transparent windows losing transparency when devtools detaches. #11956