electron v4.0.0-beta.8

Release Notes for v4.0.0-beta.8

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@4.0.0-beta.8.

Added an option to MenuItem that makes it possible to skip accelerator registration. #15840
Allow partial setting of window bounds. #15699
Expose showAboutPanel for MacOS. #15680
Feat: expose WebContents#setBackgroundThrottling. #15623

Bypass DOM storage quota. #15688
Disabled CORB checks when web security preference is disabled. #15801
Fix: osr windows now respect display scale factor. #15865
Fix: package swiftshader binaries. #15745
Fixed a freeze when using the GPU in some configurations. #15763
Fixed an issue that prevented setting the BrowserView's background color after the first paint. #15797
Fixed an issue with --remote-debugging-port not showing the devtools discovery page. #15852
Fixed bug that caused menu accelerators to stop working on some linux. #15662
Fixed checkboxes not rendering in mojave. #15869
Fixed crash on exit when using BrowserView. #15640
Fixed incorrect display of 'zoom in' accelerator on mac. #15626
Fixed issue where getNativeWindowHandle() would return an empty buffer on macOS. #15644
Fixed issue with incorrectly packaged Login Helper app, which caused issues with signing apps. #15615
Fixed loading chrome devtools extensions with sandbox enabled. #15794
Fixed some accelerators having Shift appended to them twice. #15401
Fixed support for precision trackpad/mouse scrolling on Windows. #15831
Fixed window close crash that was happening on macos 10.9. #15670
Restore missing .lproj directories in macOS bundle. #15769

Added v8_context_snapshot_generator to mksnapshot.zip. #15608
Deprecated findInPage optionswordStart and medialCapitalAsWordStart. #15735
No longer require submenu for services menuitem. #15671