Release Notes for v8.3.0

Features

• Added a new force parameter to app.focus() on macOS to allow apps to forcefully take focus. #23574
• EnableWebSQL is a new webpreference option to enable/disable websql api. #23581

Fixes

• Ensured that exit callbacks are run for Node.js in the renderer process. #23564
• Fixed a crash which could occur during page navigations. #23396
• Fixed an issue whereby macOS would fail to allow file extensions containing periods. #23449
• Fixed behaviour of navigator.language/s and app.getLocale to use OS locale. #23407
• Fixed crash with webview during some window management events like resize, scroll etc. #23397

Other Changes

• Fixed v8_context_snapshot_generator included in arm/arm64 mksnapshot zip files. #23542
• None. #23402, #23591
• Security: Backport Chromium fix for https://crbug.com/1062861. #23528
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6458: Out of bounds read and write in PDFium. #23465
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6459: Use after free in payments. #23456
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6460: Insufficient data validation in URL formatting. #23462
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6461: use-after-free in storage. #23504
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6462: Use after free in task scheduling. #23517
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6463: use-after-free in Angle. #23561
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6464: Type confusion in blink. #23532
• Security: backported fix for CVE-2020-6831: Stack buffer overflow in SCTP. #23514

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #23355