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Bumps electron from 40.10.1 to 42.2.0.

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electron v42.2.0

Release Notes for v42.2.0

Features

  • Allowed the --experimental-inspector-network-resource Node.js flag to be passed through Electron. #51378 (Also in 41)

Fixes

  • Fixed crash for Notification close. #51657 (Also in 41, 43)

Other Changes

  • Backported fixes for a use-after-free in touch-event queue teardown, a runtime-effect validation gap in Skia image filters, and an integer overflow in the GLSL translator. #51646
  • Backported fixes for an out-of-bounds write in WebAudio worklet setup, a heap overflow in the ANGLE GL backend, a use-after-free in the GTK Wayland platform, an accessibility tree-state validation issue, and an integer overflow in text bidi handling. #51666
  • Improved performance of app.getApplicationNameForProtocol() on Linux. #51628

Documentation

  • Documentation changes: #51688

electron v42.1.0

Release Notes for v42.1.0

Fixes

  • Fixed a crash in the macOS Touch ID WebAuthn prompt caused by a missing string resource, and added touchID.promptReason to app.configureWebAuthn() to customize the prompt text. #51594 (Also in 41, 43)
  • Fixed a crash on MacOS when a user clicked into a title bar or top view. #51605 (Also in 43)

Other Changes

  • Improved performance of webRequest header conversions and several other gin converter hot paths. #51607 (Also in 43)
  • Improved performance of native event emission, IPC dispatch, and option-dictionary parsing. #51614 (Also in 41)

electron v42.0.1

Release Notes for v42.0.1

Fixes

  • Fixed DesktopCapturer crash on macOS. #51506
  • Fixed ELECTRON_INSTALL_PLATFORM being ignored when resolving the Electron executable path during postinstall, which caused path.txt to be written for the host platform instead of the requested target and made isInstalled() always re-download on subsequent installs. #51370
  • Fixed app.getLoginItemSettings() returning undefined for executableWillLaunchAtLogin on macOS; the property is now always a boolean. #51507 (Also in 40, 41)
  • Fixed a potential race condition crash when closing DevTools. #51473 (Also in 41)

Other Changes

  • Updated Chromium to 148.0.7778.97. #51517

electron v42.0.0

Release Notes for v42.0.0

Stack Upgrades

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Commits
  • 87740a8 fix: skip current instance's child processes in Windows orphan killer (#51686)
  • db2296d docs: update Notification 'failed' support info (#51688)
  • c084f3d feat: allow --experimental-inspector-network-resource node flag (#51378)
  • 365cd49 docs: update Azure Artifact Signing and EV cert docs (#51677)
  • 4f2f73d fix: Crash for Notification close (#51657)
  • 71627f0 chore: cherry-pick 5 changes from chromium, angle (42-x-y) (#51666)
  • 2c8e90d perf: use GIO instead of xdg-mime for app.getApplicationNameForProtocol()...
  • 9f5cd23 refactor: SafeStorage never emits, so do not inherit from EventEmitter (#5105...
  • 9d75899 chore: cherry-pick 3 changes from chromium, skia, angle (42-x-y) (#51646)
  • 804962d test: wait for navigation to settle in loadURL tests (#51644)
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Bumps [electron](https://github.com/electron/electron) from 40.10.1 to 42.2.0.
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- dependency-name: electron
  dependency-version: 42.2.0
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-major
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