Upgrade Electron to 44.3.0 with compatible bundled SQLite

[SawyerHood]

Human comments

What was wrong

The desktop shell was pinned to Electron 41.7.0 because the bundled SQLite dependency required Electron-specific native binaries. That SQLite version has no prebuild for Electron 44's ABI, preventing a straightforward upgrade to the latest stable Electron release.

What changed

• Upgrade Electron to 44.3.0 and the bundled bb-app runtime's better-sqlite3 to 13.0.3, which ships N-API binaries.

• Validate packaged SQLite by opening and querying an in-memory database with Electron. Keep the prebuild fallback for older ABI-specific modules and preserve explicit cross-target preparation.

• Await asynchronous clipboard writes in the About dialog and return their completion through the log-viewer IPC handler.

• Set the macOS minimum to 13.0.0 (Ventura), update desktop documentation, and add a real native SQLite packaging regression test.

• Pin the integration test SQLite peer to the server/database version so pnpm resolves one Drizzle instance, and give the native packaging regression a 60-second timeout.

• Install Electron runtime libraries on the packages CI runner and verify Electron starts before running tests. Preserve N-API loading errors instead of falling through to an incompatible legacy installer, with a regression check for a corrupt binary.

How you verified

• Full pnpm exec turbo run build typecheck lint --concurrency=4 under Node 22 passed: 149 tasks. Desktop tests under Node 22 also passed: 326 tests and one platform-specific skip.
• pnpm exec turbo run typecheck test --filter=@bb/desktop --filter=bb-app: passed; final desktop suite has 326 passing tests and one platform-specific skip, and bb-app has 81 passing tests.
• Reran the 23 packaging regression tests after the final native-target verification guard; all passed.
• pnpm exec turbo run package:linux --filter=@bb/desktop: passed, including native SQLite validation and offline plugin dependency installation/update using Electron 44.3.0's bundled Node with an empty PATH.
• pnpm exec turbo run smoke:packaged --filter=@bb/desktop under Xvfb: packaged Linux startup/preload bridge passed.
• pnpm exec turbo run smoke:browser-cdp --filter=@bb/desktop with Xvfb: all 10 live embedded-browser checks passed, covering navigation, input, screenshots, iframe interaction, thread isolation, reconnection, and automation-tab leases. The fixture completed its checks and cleanup but required forced process termination afterward.
• Frozen lockfile validation and git diff --check passed.

macOS runtime and packaging were not tested on this Linux host.

AGENT GENERATED