Electron 8.0.0 has shipped 🚢
New in this release:
🖥 Upgrade to Chrome 80
🔤 Implemented Chrome's built-in spellchecker feature
⚡️ IPC uses v8's Structured Clone Algorithm for faster performance
You can find the release notes at:
electronjs.org/blog/electron…
✨ ICYMI: We're about a month away from the 2nd edition of #CovalenceConf -- a single-day, single-track conference on @electronjs. Join us on January 24 for a glimpse at the future of web technology on the desktop! 🚀
ℹ️ For tickets ($150) and more info: covalenceconf.com
✨Great news! Electron is joining the @openjsf as an incubation program, a move we're excited about. Read more about it here: electronjs.org/blog/electron…
Our @electronjs contributor training is now 𝕤𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕠𝕦𝕥, but if you missed your chance, fear not!
🎟 We're still selling Early Bird tickets for conference, so come and meet the Electron Core Maintainers and developers behind major apps!
🏃♂️ Do you want your Electron app to be just a little faster? We’ve collected seven performance tips that’ll make your app boot faster and run leaner.
electronjs.org/docs/tutorial…
Happy Hacktoberfest! 🎃
We've put together an umbrella Hacktoberfest issue for Electron.
There's currently a bit of a gap between our website's docs, our electron-api-demos repo, and Electron Fiddle.
We'd ❤️ to have your contributions:
github.com/electron/electron…
✨ Covalence is back! Join us on January 24 for a full day of @electronjs talks and to meet the community behind the project!
🎟 Early bird tickets are on sale for half the regular price - only $75. (Scholarships also available!)
ℹ️ For more info: covalenceconf.com
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Electron v6.0.0 has been released!
$ npm i electron@latest
This is the first time we’ve made a stable Electron release on the same day as the corresponding Chrome stable release 🥳
See more here 👇
electronjs.org/blog/electron…
#1 In software, change is the only constant. The language is evolving, we want to try out every new thing as soon as possible. @codebytere will help us balance between innovation and maintenance, through lessons she'd learned working on GitHub’s Electron.
jsconfbp.com/speakers/shelle…
#8 Shelley Vohr (@codebytere) is engineer on the @electronjs team at @GitHub and @nodejs core member. She'll discuss how they've worked to deliver modern JavaScript APIs to devs in the Electron project and what obstacles they've encountered along the way.
nordicjs.com/2019/speakers#s…
A big step for Electron: governance ⚖️
As Electron looks to solidify its future, we’ve implemented a governance structure to formalize our processes and divide responsibilities more effectively and clearly:
electronjs.org/blog/governan…
We’ve recently released patched versions of Electron that fix a zero-day vulnerability found in Google Chrome.
See our blog post for more details👇
electronjs.org/blog/fileread…
We have released a fix for a security vulnerability discovered in Electron on all supported release lines. We advise all apps to update to the latest applicable version. electronjs.org/blog/window-o…
Electron v5.0.0-beta.1 is available for testing! For the first time ever, this beta release of Electron contains a pre-stable version of Chromium (v72) and Node.js (v12). We're also thrilled to share our release timeline with the public!
electronjs.org/blog/electron…
🎅 Just in time for Christmas: Version 0.4 of Electron Fiddle is out!
It features a polished new design, tons of little improvements, and less bugs - thanks to our amazing contributors 💖
Grab it at github.com/electron/fiddle!