Electron 32.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 128.0.6613.36, V8 12.8, and Node 20.16.0.

The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 32.0.0! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. Continue reading for details about this release.

If you have any feedback, please share it with us on Twitter or Mastodon, or join our community Discord! Bugs and feature requests can be reported in Electron's issue tracker.

Notable Changes​

• Added new API version history in our documentation, a feature created by @piotrpdev as part of Google Summer of Code. You can learn more about it in this blog post. #42982
• Removed nonstandard File.path extension from the Web File API. #42053
• Aligned failure pathway in Web File System API with upstream when attempting to open a file or directory in a blocked path. #42993
• Added the following existing navigation-related APIs to webcontents.navigationHistory: canGoBack, goBack, canGoForward, goForward, canGoToOffset, goToOffset, clear. The previous navigation APIs are now deprecated. #41752

Stack Changes​

• Chromium128.0.6613.36
  • New in 128
  • New in 127
• Node 20.16.0
  • Node 20.16.0 blog post
• V8 12.8

Electron 32 upgrades Chromium from 126.0.6478.36 to 128.0.6613.36, Node from 20.14.0 to 20.16.0, and V8 from 12.6 to 12.8.

New Features​

• Added support for responding to auth requests initiated from the utility process via the app module's 'login' event. #43317
• Added the cumulativeCPUUsage property to the CPUUsage structure, which returns the total seconds of CPU time used since process startup. #41819
• Added the following existing navigation related APIs to webContents.navigationHistory: canGoBack, goBack, canGoForward, goForward, canGoToOffset, goToOffset, clear. #41752
• Extended WebContentsView to accept pre-existing webContents objects. #42086
• Added a new property prefersReducedTransparency to nativeTheme, which indicates whether the user has chosen to reduce OS-level transparency via system accessibility settings. #43137
• Aligned failure pathway in File System Access API with upstream when attempting to open a file or directory in a blocked path. #42993
• Enabled the Windows Control Overlay API on Linux. #42681
• Enabled zstd compression in network requests. #43300

Breaking Changes​

Removed: File.path​

The nonstandard path property of the Web File object was added in an early version of Electron as a convenience method for working with native files when doing everything in the renderer was more common. However, it represents a deviation from the standard and poses a minor security risk as well, so beginning in Electron 32.0 it has been removed in favor of the webUtils.getPathForFile method.

// Before (renderer)
const file = document.querySelector('input[type=file]');
alert(`Uploaded file path was: ${file.path}`);

// After (renderer)
const file = document.querySelector('input[type=file]');
electron.showFilePath(file);
// After (preload)
const { contextBridge, webUtils } = require('electron');
contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld('electron', {
  showFilePath(file) {
    // It's best not to expose the full file path to the web content if
    // possible.
    const path = webUtils.getPathForFile(file);
    alert(`Uploaded file path was: ${path}`);
  },
});

Deprecated: clearHistory, canGoBack, goBack, canGoForward, goForward, goToIndex, canGoToOffset, goToOffset on WebContents​

Navigation-related APIs on WebContents instances are now deprecated. These APIs have been moved to the navigationHistory property of WebContents to provide a more structured and intuitive interface for managing navigation history.

// Deprecated
win.webContents.clearHistory();
win.webContents.canGoBack();
win.webContents.goBack();
win.webContents.canGoForward();
win.webContents.goForward();
win.webContents.goToIndex(index);
win.webContents.canGoToOffset();
win.webContents.goToOffset(index);
// Replace with
win.webContents.navigationHistory.clear();
win.webContents.navigationHistory.canGoBack();
win.webContents.navigationHistory.goBack();
win.webContents.navigationHistory.canGoForward();
win.webContents.navigationHistory.goForward();
win.webContents.navigationHistory.canGoToOffset();
win.webContents.navigationHistory.goToOffset(index);

Behavior changed: Directory databases in userData will be deleted​

If you have a directory called databases in the directory returned by app.getPath('userData'), it will be deleted when Electron 32 is first run. The databases directory was used by WebSQL, which was removed in Electron 31. Chromium now performs a cleanup that deletes this directory. See issue #45396.

End of Support for 29.x.y​

Electron 29.x.y has reached end-of-support as per the project's support policy. Developers and applications are encouraged to upgrade to a newer version of Electron.

What's Next​

In the short term, you can expect the team to continue to focus on keeping up with the development of the major components that make up Electron, including Chromium, Node, and V8.

You can find Electron's public timeline here.

More information about future changes can be found on the Planned Breaking Changes page.