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Bumps electron from 40.6.1 to 40.8.5.

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electron v40.8.5

Release Notes for v40.8.5

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Windows notification icons could fail to save because their temporary filenames contained invalid characters. #50484 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed a crash in clipboard.readImage() when the clipboard contains malformed image data. #50491 (Also in 39, 41, 42)
  • Fixed a crash when calling an offscreen shared texture's release() after the texture object was garbage collected. #50500 (Also in 39, 41, 42)
  • Fixed an accessibility issue where the AXMenuOpened event was not fired on menu creation. #50505 (Also in 41, 42)
  • Fixed an issue where an app shortcut may lose its icon after auto-updating on Windows. #50518

Other Changes

  • Backported fix for chromium:475877320. #50438

electron v40.8.4

Release Notes for v40.8.4

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where nodeIntegrationInWorker overrides in setWindowOpenHandler were not honored for child windows sharing a renderer process with their opener. #50467 (Also in 38, 39, 41)
  • Fixed crash when handling JavaScript dialogs from windows opened with invalid or empty URLs. #50401 (Also in 39, 41, 42)
  • Fixed improper focus tracking in BaseWindow on MacOS. #50337 (Also in 39, 41, 42)
  • Fixed logic bug that rendered certain window types un-resizable on MAS builds. #50355 (Also in 41, 42)
  • Fixed utilityProcess exit event reporting incorrect exit codes on Windows when the exit code has the high bit. #50387 (Also in 41, 42)
  • Fixed window freeze when failing to enter/exit fullscreen on macOS. #50344 (Also in 39, 41, 42)

Other Changes

  • Added support for using a proxy during yarn install. #50352 (Also in 39, 41, 42)
  • Backported fix for 485935305. #50441
  • Backported fix for 489381399. #50449
  • Backported fixes for 484751092, 487117772. #50460

electron v40.8.3

Release Notes for v40.8.3

Fixes

  • Added additional ASAR support to additional fs copy methods. #50287 (Also in 39, 41, 42)
  • Fixed an issue where some DevTools functionality didn't work as expected. #50275 (Also in 41, 42)
  • Fixed user resizing of transparent windows on win32 platform. #50301 (Also in 39, 41, 42)

electron v40.8.2

Release Notes for v40.8.2

Other Changes

  • Backported fix for b/491421267. #50229
  • Fixed an issue where running app icons were not correctly retrieved on macOS Tahoe. #50188

electron v40.8.1

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Commits
  • c09e2aa fix: outdated execution path for COM activation (#50518)
  • 44f02f6 fix: hex-encode Windows notification icon temp filenames (#50484)
  • 904fbbd fix: fall back to default DPI when GTK returns 0 on Linux (#50488)
  • 36c88a4 fix: [a11y] fire AXMenuOpened event when ARIA menu is added to DOM (#50505)
  • 9bf9c36 refactor: remove dead named-window lookup from guest-window-manager (#50495)
  • d284168 fix: crash calling OSR shared texture release() after texture GC'd (#50500)
  • 4aa3610 fix: crash in clipboard.readImage() on malformed image data (#50491)
  • e1c17fd chore: cherry-pick fbfb27470bf6 from chromium (#50438)
  • 2871c1d fix: read nodeIntegrationInWorker from per-frame WebPreferences (#50122) (#50...
  • 0d3f57f chore: cherry-pick 074d472db745 from chromium (#50449)
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Tim020 commented Mar 30, 2026

@dependabot rebase

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updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: electron
  dependency-version: 40.8.5
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
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