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Bumps electron from 39.2.7 to 40.2.1.

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electron v40.2.1

Release Notes for v40.2.1

Other Changes

  • Refactored our MSIX updater code to use an upstream Chromium pattern and eliminates the need for special exception handling build flags. #49687 (Also in 39, 41)

electron v40.1.0

Release Notes for v40.1.0

Features

  • DevTools errors are no longer printed to console. #49359

Fixes

  • Fixed setRepresentedFilename() not setting AXDocument accessibility attribute on macOS. #49417 (Also in 39)
  • Fixed a potential race condition crash when opening DevTools. #49422 (Also in 39)
  • Fixed an issue in chrome://accessibility. #49560 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where shell.writeShortcutLink was throwing TypeError: Insufficient number of arguments when called with just [(path, options)]. #49501 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Fixed crash in platform_util::Beep() on Linux. #49482 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Made toplevel icon Wayland protocol work. #49414 (Also in 39)

Other Changes

  • Backported fix for 473851441. #49487
  • Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.96. #49474

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  • Fixed an issue where some packages weren't correctly filtered on macOS in dialogs. #49473 (Also in 38, 39, 41)

electron v40.0.0

Release Notes for v40.0.0

Stack Upgrades

Breaking Changes

  • Deprecated clipboard API access from renderer processes #48923
  • Fixed an error on debug symbol upload by moving dsym.zip to use tar.xz compression. #48952

Features

Additions

  • Added "memory-eviction" as a possible reason for a child process to exit. #48362
  • Added RGBAF16 output format with scRGB HDR color space support to Offscreen Rendering. #48265 (Also in 39)

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Commits
  • 53982a2 refactor: use ComPtr pattern for MSIX to avoid exception handling (#49687)
  • 713b24d refactor: don't log error just for unsigned code (#49677)
  • f63f875 ci: use squash merge for apply patches workflow (#49672)
  • 8cd558f feat: import shared texture supports nv12. (#49040)
  • 94b18a5 fix: remove menu observer before destroying menu_controller_ (#49657)
  • 394d4cf fix(squirrel.mac): clean up old staged updates before downloading new update ...
  • 96db5b9 ci: handle PRs with no checks in rerun apply patches (#49662)
  • 75e4f83 docs: add Wayland note to win.getPosition() and win.getBounds() (#49661)
  • 4e124f2 fix: menu state in macOS dock menus (#49624)
  • 04f4bcd fix: alt-space should route through 'system-context-menu' (#49640)
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Bumps [electron](https://github.com/electron/electron) from 39.2.7 to 40.2.1.
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- dependency-name: electron
  dependency-version: 40.2.1
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-major
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Superseded by #27.

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