electron v10.0.0-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 install electron@10.0.0-beta.1.

Release Notes for v10.0.0-beta.1

Changed the default value of 'enableRemoteModule' to false. #22091
Fixed the positioning of window buttons on MacOS when the OS locale is set to an RTL language (like Arabic or Hebrew). Frameless window apps may have to account for this change while styling their windows. #22016

Added contents.getBackgroundThrottling() method and contents.backgroundThrottling property. #21036
Added rateLimit and compress options to crashReporter. #23062
Added a sameSite property to the Cookie structure allowing you to get and set the same site policy for cookies. #22789
Added new render-process-gone event on app to replace the renderer-process-crashed event. #23560
Added new render-process-gone event to replace the crashed event. #23096
Added new useSessionCookies flag to net requests to allow them to use the session cookie store. #22704
Added support for MessagePort in the main process. #22404
Added support for the 'compress' option of crashReporter on Linux. #23597
Added the 'onclose' event to MessagePort and MessagePortMain. #22532
Added the ability to get the "Recent" folder on Windows with app.getPath('recent'). #23381
BrowserWindow darkTheme option now defaults to nativeTheme.shouldUseDarkColors. #20138
Can now check if a given session is persistent by calling the ses.isPersistent() API. #22622
Deprecated uncompressed crash uploads in crashReporter. #23598
Enable native Electron handling and passing of Node.js cli options. #21110
Enhanced window.open functionality with the ability to handle POST data in the new-window event. #19703
Exposed the desktopCapturer module in the main process. #23548
The position of nested touch bars inherited from Chromium can now be customized (macOS). #22270

Fixed BrowserWindow.moveAbove on Windows. #23161
Fixed WebContents.focus not focusing window on macOS and Linux. #22323
Fixed a crash that could happen when a warning was emitted when loading an extension. #23667
Fixed a crash when closing GTK file open/save dialogs. #23109
Fixed a crash when using <input type="file" />. #22843
Fixed a potential crash when menu is created from an empty template. #23308
Fixed an issue that could cause exceptions in the 'remote' module when accessing objects without constructors. #22820
Fixed an issue where startDrag could crash if some specific strings were passed into nativeImage.createFromImage to create the icon. #23467
Fixed an issue where diagnostic error reporting wasn't available in Node.js processes. #23126
Fixed an issue where undo and redo shortcuts did not work in webviews. #22911
Fixed crash-on-exit that could happen during node platform deinitialization. #23116
Fixed issue where SameSite cookies would not be attached to outgoing requests from the net module. #22788
Fixed several memory leaks related to V8 handles not being properly scoped. #22531
Fixed some Wasm and diagnostics issues in main and renderer process execution of Node.js. #23261
Fixed some event listener crashes in Tray. #23140
Fixed the JavaScript object of BrowserWindow not garbage collected when window is closed. #22006

Fixed feature string parsing type coercion for window.open. #23130
Removed the deprecated currentlyLoggingPath property of netLog. Additionally, netLog.stopLogging no longer returns the path to the recorded log. #22732
Updated Node.js to v12.16.3. #23327