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@8.0.0-beta.4.

Release Notes for v8.0.0-beta.4

Features

Fixed --ignore-connections-limit, ironically, being ignored. #21298
Fixed an issue where Tray icons couldn't be created from paths. #21241
Fixed an issue where the checkboxChecked value wasn't being updated in showMessageBox on Windows. #21312
Fixed broken focus with OOPIF embedded inside webview. #21343
Fixed contextBridge crash. #21282
Fixed the 'login' event not being emitted when HTTP Basic auth was requested during a net.request. #21133
Fixed throttling in webContents.setBackgroundThrottling. #21358
Net module requests no longer raise errors when non-2xx responses are received. #21285
The disabled-by-default-cpu_profiler tracing category now correctly records stack samples from the main process and utility processes. #21276
webContents.reloadIgnoringCache() will now forcefully ignore all caches, including service workers. #21283
window.root and window.GLOBAL are both now undefined when nodeIntegration is disabled as expected. #21355

Deprecated the default value of app.allowRendererProcessReuse (See #18397). #21287
Fixed some crashes that could occur when using the net module. #21303
Generate debug symbols on Linux. #21278
Made strip_absolute_paths_from_debug_symbols to false in debug.gn. #21316