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Bumps electron from 40.6.1 to 40.8.0.

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electron v40.8.0

Release Notes for v40.8.0

Features

  • Added a reason property to the Notification 'closed' event on Windows to allow developers to know the reason the Notification was dismissed. #50030 (Also in 41)

Fixes

  • Fixed shutdown crash on windows when hidden titlebar is enabled. #50053 (Also in 39, 41)

Other Changes

  • Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.236. #50060

electron v40.7.0

Release Notes for v40.7.0

Features

  • Added support for --experimental-transform-types. #49883 (Also in 39, 41)

Fixes

  • Allow dynamically updating menu item labels, sublabels, and icons. #49973 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed safeStorage failing to clean up legacy keychain entries when migrating to suffixed account names on macOS, and fixed first launch creating entries with the wrong (unsuffixed) account name. #49817
  • Fixed a bug that cause offscreen rendering doesn't have valid screen info and unable to get valid result of related media queries.
    • Added webPreference.offscreen.deviceScaleFactor to allow user specify a value, instead of using user's primary display's value. #49681
  • Fixed a macOS crash when creating a new tab from the tab overview. #49934 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed an issue on macOS where Universal Links were not delivered to app.on('continue-activity') on cold launch when NSUserActivity.userInfo was nil. #50005 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where VideoFrame objects returned through contextBridge had an incorrect prototype. #50022 (Also in 39, 41)
  • Fixed an issue where malformed custom toastXml could cause a Notification crash. #49952 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed menu bar hiding after a call to win.setFullScreen(false) when not in fullscreen on Linux. #49994 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed menus to correctly emit menu-will-close event when closed after any submenu has been open. #49963 (Also in 41)

Other Changes

  • Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.225. #49928
  • Updated Node.js to v24.14.0. #49939
Commits
  • de61f6c feat: show toast dismissal reason on Windows (#50030)
  • 90f85f2 chore: bump chromium to 144.0.7559.236 (40-x-y) (#50060)
  • 60951cd fix: use proper quoting for exe paths and args on Windows (#50075)
  • a3022df build: fix code-signing for MacOS x64 tests (#50072)
  • 996fbfd chore: remove applescript from trash (#50065)
  • 79d1e32 fix: uaf in non-client hittest during view teardown (#50053)
  • 1598b91 fix: validate USB device selection against filtered device list (#50048)
  • 68cd111 fix: use setter's creation context when proxying setter in OverrideGlobalProp...
  • 1e2d590 fix: bind offscreen paint callback to child WebContents (#50024)
  • 1bbe8c9 fix: use destination context when wrapping VideoFrame in contextBridge (#50022)
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Bumps [electron](https://github.com/electron/electron) from 40.6.1 to 40.8.0.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/electron/electron/releases)
- [Commits](electron/electron@v40.6.1...v40.8.0)

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- dependency-name: electron
  dependency-version: 40.8.0
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
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* development: (29 commits)
  enhance issue templates (FreeTubeApp#8770)
  Bump vue-i18n from 11.2.8 to 11.3.0 (FreeTubeApp#8769)
  Bump lefthook from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3 (FreeTubeApp#8768)
  Bump babel-loader from 10.0.0 to 10.1.0 in the babel group (FreeTubeApp#8767)
  Fix build script not failing on error (FreeTubeApp#8761)
  Create a dependabot group for webpack dependencies (FreeTubeApp#8760)
  Translated using Weblate (Spanish)
  Bump the eslint group across 1 directory with 11 updates (FreeTubeApp#8755)
  Translated using Weblate (Swedish)
  Translated using Weblate (Swedish)
  Bump webpack from 5.105.3 to 5.105.4 (FreeTubeApp#8753)
  Bump electron from 40.6.1 to 40.8.0 (FreeTubeApp#8747)
  Bump marked from 17.0.3 to 17.0.4 (FreeTubeApp#8750)
  Bump lefthook from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 (FreeTubeApp#8749)
  Bump shaka-player from 4.16.19 to 4.16.20 (FreeTubeApp#8748)
  Bump globals from 17.3.0 to 17.4.0 (FreeTubeApp#8752)
  Bump copy-webpack-plugin from 13.0.1 to 14.0.0 (FreeTubeApp#8751)
  Bump css-minimizer-webpack-plugin from 7.0.4 to 8.0.0 (FreeTubeApp#8746)
  Translated using Weblate (Spanish)
  Bump the stylelint group with 2 updates (FreeTubeApp#8745)
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