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Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

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Belar @thisisbelar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What great news, window state persistence landed in Electron. I was following its development after seeing the RFC for the window state API, and now Penpot Desktop will migrate to the built-in solution 🎉.

Electron @electronjs.org · 02/09/2026

Electron 44 is now available! 🚢 In this release: 📎 The clipboard module now aligns with the W3C Clipboard API 🪟 A new API for cross-platform window state persistence 🐧 Improved Linux desktop integration Read more: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 44 | Electron

Electron 44 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 152.0.7977.54, V8 15.2, and Node v24.18.1.

Electron @electronjs.org · 01/07/2026

Electron 43 is now available! 🚢 In this release: ⚙️ Improvements to app startup performance 🔔 New macOS Notification management APIs 📂 File downloads now open in the Downloads folder by default ⚡ Frameless windows on Linux have rounded corners by default Read more: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 43 | Electron

Electron 43 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 150.0.7871.46, V8 15.0, and Node v24.17.0.

Electron @electronjs.org · 07/05/2026

Electron 42 is now available! 🚢 In this release: 🔔 Richer macOS notifications with the UNNotification API 🧹 No more postinstall script 🫆 New configureWebAuthn API to enable macOS Touch ID authentication 🕶️ Views support animations and background blur Read more: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 42 | Electron

Electron 42 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 148.0.7778.96, V8 14.8, and Node v24.15.0.

Electron @electronjs.org · 18/03/2026

💖 Client-side decorations have landed in Wayland in Electron 41. Read @mitchchn.bsky.social's deep dive into CSD support, what this means for your app, and what the future holds for Electron on Linux. 🔮 www.electronjs.org/blog/tech-ta...

Tech Talk: How Electron went Wayland-native, and what it means for your apps | Electron

Electron recently switched to Wayland by default on Linux, bringing dozens of popular desktop apps along with it. Here's what changed and how it affects developers and users.

Electron @electronjs.org · 18/03/2026

Electron 41 is now available! 🚢 In this release: 🔒 New ASAR integrity digest check on macOS (thanks @wts.dev) 📦 Built-in support for MSIX in the `autoUpdater` module 🐧 Improved Wayland support for Linux Read more: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 41 | Electron

Electron 41 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 146.0.7680.65, V8 14.6, and Node v24.14.0.

Electron @electronjs.org · 27/01/2026

Electron 40 is now available! 🚢 ⚡ New features include improvements to enhanced Offscreen Rendering, support for retrieving system accent colors on Linux, as well as new a11y APIs to enable more granular accessibility support management! Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 40.0.0 | Electron

Electron 40.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 144.0.7559.60, V8 14.4, and Node 24.11.1.

Electron @electronjs.org · 08/01/2026

Happy 2026 everyone! ⚡️ In case you missed it, our last blog post of 2025 was a deep dive from github.com/nikwen into improving upstream window resizing behavior in Chromium. Thank you to @getplasticity.bsky.social for sponsoring this work! Read more: www.electronjs.org/blog/tech-ta...

Tech Talk: Improving Window Resize Behavior | Electron

We're launching a new blog post series where we share glimpses into our work on Electron. If you find this work interesting, please consider contributing!

Electron @electronjs.org · 29/11/2025

☃️ As the end of the year draws near, the Electron project will be taking its usual quiet period for December. Read more on our blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/dec-qui...

December Quiet Month (Dec'25) | Electron

Starting December 1, the Electron project will enter a quiet period before picking back up at full capacity in January 2026. For full details, see the Policies section below.

Electron @electronjs.org · 13/11/2025

Electron RFC #22 proposes dropping the postinstall script from its npm package. Instead, the Electron binary will be lazily downloaded when the bin script is called. This RFC is in its two-week final comment period. To read more and leave feedback: github.com/electron/rfc...

rfc: lazy electron download, remove postinstall by MarshallOfSound · Pull Request #22 · electron/rfcs

Raising this as an RFC mostly because I want to be sure I haven't missed something obvious but also I don't super have the time to do it so hopefully this sketches out a nice win that someo...

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GitHub @github.com · 23/09/2025

Ever wondered what it’s like to maintain Electron? @vertedin.de breaks down community, misconceptions, and why bad JavaScript is just… bad JavaScript. the-github-podcast.simplecast.com/e…

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Making Desktop Frameworks More Accessible with Electron | The GitHub Podcast

In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Abby and Kedasha are joined by Keeley Hammond, a longtime maintainer of the Electron project.

Electron @electronjs.org · 14/08/2025

🤔 Wondering what IPCs are flying around in your Electron app? Devtron is back and rebuilt for modern Electron thanks to @hitarth-gg.bsky.social's #GSoC efforts! 🚀 Give it a try and leave some feedback on GitHub! > npm install @hitarth-gg/devtron github.com/electron-userland/devtron/tree/next

GitHub - electron-userland/devtron at next

An Electron DevTools Extension. Contribute to electron-userland/devtron development by creating an account on GitHub.

Electron @electronjs.org · 30/06/2025

Electron 37 is now available! 🚢 ⚡ Squircles are here! Corner smoothing is available in both this release as well as Electron 36, and allows developers to create smoother rounded corners to match Apple's macOS design language. Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

squircles with varying levels of corner smoothing

Electron @electronjs.org · 05/05/2025

Electron 36 is now available! 🚢 😄 Most notably, you now can enable macOS system-level features like Writing Tools (spelling and grammar), Autofill, and Services menu items in your context menus. Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 36.0.0 | Electron

Electron 36.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 136, V8 13.6, and Node 22.14.0.

Electron @electronjs.org · 06/03/2025

Electron 35 is now available! 🚢 🧩 Improved support for Manifest V3 Chrome extensions 💅 Additional BrowserWindow customization options ⏳ New NavigationHistory restoration API Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 35.0.0 | Electron

Electron 35.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 134.0.6998.44, V8 13.5, and Node 22.14.0.

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Sam @samuelmaddock.com · 30/01/2025

@electronjs.org running as an overlay on Steam Deck 😍

Half-Life 2 running on the Steam Deck with an Electron window overlayed in the top-left corner. The window has electronjs.org loaded.

Electron @electronjs.org · 23/01/2025

@wrongbits.bsky.social's RFC for the `-electron-corner-smoothing` API has reached the two-week Final Comment Period in our RFC process! This nonstandard CSS property allows apps to further integrate with macOS' design language. 👉 Read and leave feedback here: github.com/electron/rfc...

Demo of the `-electron-corner-smoothing` CSS property at 0%, 30%, 60%, and 100% values on a 192px-wide square with 48px `border-radius`. 60% matches the macOS default.

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Felix Rieseberg @felixrieseberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

You might be wrong about @electronjs.org Wherever I see a discussion about Electron, I also see people getting tons of things wrong. People on the Internet being wrong isn't new, but I've written a bunch of text and code to clear up misconceptions.

Electron @electronjs.org · 15/01/2025

Electron 34 has shipped 🚢! In this release: ⚡️ Added APIs to manage shared dictionaries ⚡️Added API to access unresponsive renderer call stacks 🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements More details and release notes: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 34.0.0 | Electron

Electron 34.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 132.0.6834.83, V8 13.2, and Node 20.18.1.

Electron @electronjs.org · 07/01/2025

Electron’s ecosystem repos will soon move to Node 22 as the minimum supported version. Read more about our ecosystem migration here: www.electronjs.org/blog/ecosyst...

Moving our Ecosystem to Node 22 | Electron

In early 2025, Electron’s npm ecosystem repos (under the @electron/ and @electron-forge/ namespaces) will move to Node.js 22 as the minimum supported version.

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Sam @samuelmaddock.com · 16/12/2024

@1password.bsky.social chrome extension in @electronjs.org using electron-chrome-extensions. To make this work, a new v8 scripting context is added to service workers in Electron to allow preload scripts to provide extension APIs.

Electron @electronjs.org · 26/11/2024

🤫 ❄️ Continuing our annual tradition, we're going quiet for the month of December to give our maintainers a break. We'll be back better than ever in January. Read more: www.electronjs.org/blog/dec-qui...

December Quiet Month (Dec'24) | Electron

The Electron project will pause for the month of December 2024, then return to full speed in January 2025.

Electron @electronjs.org · 22/11/2024

In Electron 30, we deprecated BrowserView and replaced it with a non-experimental WebContentView. Electron maintainer @annyyang.bsky.social wrote a helpful guide on how to migrate your app to WebContentView! www.electronjs.org/blog/migrate...

Migrating from BrowserView to WebContentsView | Electron

BrowserView has been deprecated since Electron 30 and is replaced by WebContentView. Thankfully, migrating is fairly painless.

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Keeley 🌸 @vertedin.de · 20/11/2024

Look who’s got a verified handle now, @electronjs.org 😄🦋

Electron @electronjs.org · 17/10/2024

Electron 33 has shipped 🚢! In this release: ⚡️ navigationHistory extensions ⚡️ a new handler for when a PIN is needed to unlock a cryptographic device 🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements More details and release notes: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 33.0.0 | Electron

Electron 33.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 130.0.6723.44, V8 13.0, and Node 20.18.0.

Electron @electronjs.org · 22/08/2024

Electron 32 has shipped 🚢! In this release: ⚡️Added new API version history in our documentation ❗️Removed nonstandard File.path extension from the Web File API 🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements More details and release notes: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 32.0.0 | Electron

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

Electron @electronjs.org · 23/04/2024

Electron 30 has shipped ! In this release: ❗️Added WebContentsView & BaseWindow, deprecating BrowserViews ❗️ASAR Integrity fuse now enabled by default on Windows 🛠️ Bug fixes, more features & improvements More details and release notes: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron 30.0.0 | Electron

Electron 30.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 124.0.6367.49, V8 12.4, and Node.js 20.11.1.

Electron @electronjs.org · 28/02/2024

Electron 29 has shipped🚢! In this release: ⚡️️Added a new net module to the utility process 📁 Added a new top-level webUtils module, a renderer process module that provides a utility layer to interact with Web API objects 🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements More details and release notes:

Electron 29.0.0 | Electron

Electron 29.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 122.0.6261.39, V8 12.2, and Node.js 20.9.0.

Electron @electronjs.org · 11/10/2023

Electron 27.0.0 has shipped! 🚢 New in this release:️ ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 118 📜 Added support for chrome.scripting APIs 🛠️ Bug fixes, deprecations and improvements More details and release notes: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...

Electron @electronjs.org · 31/05/2023

Electron 25 has shipped! 🚢 In this release: 🌐 Implemented protocol.handle 🛜 Implemented net.fetch, using Chromium's networking stack instead of Node.js' 🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements More details and release notes: www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-25…

Electron 25.0.0 | Electron

Electron 25.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 114, V8 11.4, and Node.js 18.15.0. Read below for more details!