chore(deps): update dependency electron to v38

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
electron	37.4.0 -> 38.2.0

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Release Notes

electron/electron (electron)

v38.2.0: electron v38.2.0

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Release Notes for v38.2.0

Features

• Allowed for persisting File System API grant status within a given session. #​48327 (Also in 37)

Fixes

• Fixed Wayland configuration through the XDG_SESSION_TYPE environment variable. #​48309
• Fixed excessive WindowServer GPU usage on macOS Tahoe 26. #​48398 (Also in 36, 37, 39)
• Fixed high CPU usage with <input> tag on macOS 26. #​48394 (Also in 37, 39)

v38.1.2: electron v38.1.2

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Release Notes for v38.1.2

Other Changes

• Use Local Execution, Remote Caching (LERC) for fork PRs (#​48324)
• Updated v8 (#​48338)

v38.1.1: electron v38.1.1

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Release Notes for v38.1.1

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 140.0.7339.133. #​48287

v38.1.0: electron v38.1.0

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Release Notes for v38.1.0

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 140.0.7339.80. #​48249
• Updated Node.js to v22.19.0. #​48221

v38.0.0: electron v38.0.0

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Release Notes for v38.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 140.0.7339.41
  • New in 140
  • New in 139
• Node 22.18.0
  • Node 22.18.0 blog post
• V8 14.0

Breaking Changes

• For breaking changes inherited via Chromium, see blog post

Features

Additions

• Added before-mouse-event to allow intercepting and preventing mouse events in WebContents. #​47280 (Also in 36, 37)
• Added fileBacked and purgeable fields to process.getSystemMemoryInfo() for macOS. #​48146 (Also in 37)
• Added innerWidth and innerHeight options for window.open. #​46749 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Added support for guid Tray constructor option on macOS to allow tray icons to maintain position across launches. #​48077 (Also in 36, 37)
• Added webFrameMain.fromFrameToken(processId, frameToken) to get a WebFrameMain instance from its frame token. #​47942
• Added sublabel functionality for menus on macOS >= 14.4. #​46887 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Added support for app.getRecentDocuments() on Windows and macOS. #​47924 (Also in 36, 37)
• Added support for --no-experimental-global-navigator flag. #​47370 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Added support for HIDDevice.collections. #​47391 (Also in 36, 37)
• Added support for screen.dipToScreenPoint(point) and screen.screenToDipPoint(point) on Linux X11. #​46211 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Added support for customizing system accent color and highlighting of active window border. #​47285 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Added support for menu item role palette and header on macOS. #​45538 (Also in 37)
• Added support for node option --experimental-network-inspection. #​46690 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Added the priority and priorityIncremental options to net.request(). #​42628 (Also in 36, 37)
• Adds the ability to change window accent color on Windows after initial window initialization via {get|set}AccentColor. #​47939 (Also in 36, 37)

Improvements

• Exposed win.isContentProtected() to allow developers to check window protection status. #​47242 (Also in 36, 37)
• Internally switched to using DIR_ASSETS instead of DIR_MODULE/DIR_EXE to locate assets and resources, and added "assets" as a key that can be queried via app.getPath. #​47950 (Also in 37)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where dialog.showMessageDialog showed a window incorrectly centered to monitor instead of parent window when passed. #​48215
• Fixed an issue where users on MacOS were unable to interact with a webpage loaded via loadURL. #​47575
• Fixed broken chrome://accessibility page. #​47497

Also in earlier versions...

• Fixed addChildView() crashes when adding a closed WebContentsView. #​47099 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed a bug where app extensions filters didn't allow for selecting app bundles in macOS file dialogs. #​47841 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed a bug where the Referer header was not being set correctly when using webContents.downloadURL(). #​47867 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed a child process crash on macOS when the running application is replaced with one that has a newer implementation triggering the sandbox. #​47783 (Also in 37)
• Fixed a crash possible when calling webContents.loadURL() from a failed webContents.loadURL() call's catch handler. #​48043 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when opening some dialogs as windows are closing on macOS. #​46927 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed a crash when adding the -electron-corner-smoothing CSS rule to a stylesheet with no associated document. #​47785 (Also in 37)
• Fixed a crash when calling desktopCapturer.getSources with an empty thumbnail size. #​47652 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed a crash when calling some webContents functions after window.close(). #​47952 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed a possible crash using the WebView tag and calling focus. #​46979 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed a potential crash using session.clearData in some circumstances. #​47361 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed an error when importing electron for the first time from an ESM module loaded by a CJS module in a packaged app. #​46810 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue on some older Windows versions where setContentProtection didn't work as expected. #​47886 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where app.accessibilitySupportEnabled didn't work as expected. #​48060 (Also in 37)
• Fixed an issue where net.isOnline() always returned true in utilityProcesses. #​48151 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where require('node:sqlite') didn't work. #​47757 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where shell.openPath was not non-blocking as expected. #​48089 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where webContents.print did not work as expected when mediaSize was not passed. #​46937 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where an invalid color passed as a string to accentColor would result in a white accent color. #​47684 (Also in 37)
• Fixed an issue where calling Fetch.continueResponse via debugger with WebContentsView could cause a crash. #​47434 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where certain operations performed in a window close callback could trigger a crash. #​47812 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where child windows could crash if they were opened from a fullscreen parent and have roundedCorners set to false. #​47681 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where filters wouldn't apply in the specific case only one was passed. #​46900 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where dragging sometimes didn't work after the contextmenu event was emitted. #​48224 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where importing from electron/utility in an ESM file threw an error at runtime. #​48019 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where importing from electron/utility threw a ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND error at runtime. #​47989 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where printing PDFs with webContents.print({ silent: true }) would fail. #​47378 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where protected transparent windows inappropriately showed a titlebar after visibility change. #​47241 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where snapped corner state wasn't properly restored after minimizing and then restoring. #​48157 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where the 'suspend' and 'resume' events could be emitted in duplicate. #​47162 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where the accent border was drawn on all windows regardless of the window's active focused status. #​47802 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where the accent color would be accidentally inverted when set to match the system color. #​48108 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where the window flickers with either a light or dark color before loading the desired background color. #​47022 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where the window required restart in order to recognize system accent color setting change. #​47658 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where transparent child windows on macOS were rendering a grey block as opposed to their correct contents. #​46886 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where utility processes could leak file handles. #​47525 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed an issue where video scrubbing would not correctly hold the new position on playback. #​47965 (Also in 37)
• Fixed an issue where windows opened with window.open would never be offscreen. #​48026 (Also in 37)
• Fixed an issue where windows used dark theme on Linux all the time without reacting to system theme changes. #​47919 (Also in 37)
• Fixed applying background material correctly when creating windows on Windows, restored animations, and also fixed the issue where dynamically setting the background material had no effect. #​47814 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed compilation error when disabling extensions and pdf_viewer. #​47993 (Also in 37)
• Fixed crash in autoUpdater on macOS when zip extraction failed. #​47271 (Also in 34, 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed crash in xdg portal version detection on startup. #​47008 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed log files written to the current working directory on Windows. #​44413 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed opening package paths as directory when treatPackageAsDirectory is enabled on macOS. #​47077 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed potential deadlock inside app.getLoginItemSettings on macOS. #​48094 (Also in 36, 37)
• Fixed regression with directory selection in macOS dialogs. #​47259 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Fixed utilityProcess running user script after process.exit is called. #​47469 (Also in 37)
• Fixed xdg portal version detection for file dialogs on linux. #​46905 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Partially fixes an issue with printing a PDF via webContents.print() where the callback would not be called. #​47377 (Also in 35, 36, 37)
• Restored previous window-hiding behavior of win.setContentProtected() on Windows. #​47020 (Also in 35, 36, 37)

Documentation

• Documentation change
  • #​46760
  • #​48028

Notices

End of Support for 35.x.y

Electron 35.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.

v37.6.0: electron v37.6.0

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Release Notes for v37.6.0

Features

• Allowed for persisting File System API grant status within a given session. #​48328 (Also in 38)

Fixes

• Fixed excessive WindowServer GPU usage on macOS Tahoe 26. #​48400 (Also in 36, 39)
• Fixed high CPU usage with <input> tag on macOS 26. #​48392 (Also in 39)

v37.5.1: electron v37.5.1

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Release Notes for v37.5.1

Other Changes

• Use Local Execution, Remote Caching (LERC) for fork PRs (#​48324)
• Updated v8 (#​48338)

v37.5.0: electron v37.5.0

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Release Notes for v37.5.0

Features

• Added fileBacked and purgeable fields to process.getSystemMemoryInfo() for macOS. #​48143 (Also in 38)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where dialog.showMessageDialog showed a window incorrectly centered to monitor instead of parent window when passed. #​48213 (Also in 36, 38)
• Fixed an issue where a file-only picker incorrectly allowed some directories. #​48230 (Also in 36, 38)
• Fixed an issue where dragging sometimes didn't work after the contextmenu event was emitted. #​48226 (Also in 36, 38)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 138.0.7204.251. #​48184
• Updated Node.js to v22.19.0. #​48220

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