electron v5.0.0-beta.6

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@5.0.0-beta.6.

Release Notes for v5.0.0-beta.6

Enabled NodeIntegrationInSubFrames option usage for webview tags. #17398
Enabled the setuid sandbox on Linux, allowing Electron to launch sandboxed processes in environments that disable CLONE_NEWUSER for unprivileged users. #17343

Added a check for invalid menu index to prevent out-of-range crashes on insertion. #17435
Backported a fix for crashing color picker dialogs on MacOS. #17254
Fixed a crash when calling ECDH.setPrivateKey(). #17296
Fixed an assertion when calling ECDH.getPrivateKey(), diffieHellman.generateKeys() or diffieHellman.get*(). #17255
Fixed app freeze when using custom stream protocol. #17264
Fixed crash when nativeImage.createFromBuffer() is called with invalid buffer. #17374
Fixed some MAS rejection errors by removing usages of private APIs. #17293
Improved the contrast/visibility of the "focused" menu item in menus on Windows. #17360
Launching the node inspector through --inspect now listens on the correct port when one is provided. #17439
TouchBarSegmentedControl instances now correctly update when you update the segments array and remove label or image dynamically. #17334
Fixed issue where preload scripts running in subframes where not context isolated when contextIsolation was enabled #17275