Note: This is a beta release. This release run on recently upgraded versions of Chrome and Node and may have some instability and/or regressions.
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.

API Changes

• You can now launch the crash reporter in forked child processes using the
  new process.crashReporter.start API. See the crashReporter module docs
  for usage details. #8109
• A warning is logged instead of an error being thrown when a remote event
  cannot be delivered to a destroyed renderer process. The event names are
  included in the logged message and the listener is automatically unregistered.
  #8357
• The before-input-event event on webContents now includes the code
  property. #8561
• A forcereload menu item role has been added that maps to the focused
  window's webContents.reloadIgnoringCache method. #8570

Windows

• The dialog.showOpenDialog API now accepts a promptToCreate property
  that allow files that do not exist to be entered into the dialog and confirms
  with the user that they would like the file to be created. #8566
• The app.setLoginItemSettings and app.getLoginItemSettings APIs now accept
  optional path and args settings to better support apps using the
  Squirrel installer/auto updater. #8515

macOS

• BrowserWindow.setAlwaysOnTop now accepts a relativeLevel parameter to
  allow ordering windows relative to other constant levels. #8487

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash when loading long URLs that exceeded the maximum character length. #8478
• Fixed a crash when calling toBitmap, getBitmap, or getNativeHandle
  on an empty NativeImage. #8510
• Fixed uncaughtException events not being emitted in the main process
  on the process global. #8507
• Fixed an issue where require-ed scripts could not define their own
  const process or global variables because ones already had been
  defined. #8539

macOS

• Fixed a crash when calling webContents.startDrag with an empty image. #8511

Windows

• Fixed an issue where the globalShortcut APIs would not function correctly
  if the systemPreferences module was required at startup. #8568