chore(deps): update dependency electron to v40 - abandoned

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
electron	39.3.0 → 40.1.0

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Release Notes

electron/electron (electron)

v40.1.0: electron v40.1.0

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Release Notes for v40.1.0

Features

• DevTools errors are no longer printed to console. #​49359

Fixes

• Fixed setRepresentedFilename() not setting AXDocument accessibility attribute on macOS. #​49417 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed a potential race condition crash when opening DevTools. #​49422 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed an issue in chrome://accessibility. #​49560 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where shell.writeShortcutLink was throwing TypeError: Insufficient number of arguments when called with just [(path, options)]. #​49501 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed crash in platform_util::Beep() on Linux. #​49482 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Made toplevel icon Wayland protocol work. #​49414 ^{(Also in 39)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4738514. #​49487
• Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.96. #​49474

Unknown

• Fixed an issue where some packages weren't correctly filtered on macOS in dialogs. #​49473 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 41)}

v40.0.0: electron v40.0.0

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Release Notes for v40.0.0

Stack Upgrades

• Chromium 144.0.7559.60
  • New in 144
  • New in 143
• Node v24.11.1
  • Node 24.11.1 blog post
• V8 14.4

Breaking Changes

• Deprecated clipboard API access from renderer processes #​48923
• Fixed an error on debug symbol upload by moving dsym.zip to use tar.xz compression. #​48952

Features

Additions

• Added "memory-eviction" as a possible reason for a child process to exit. #​48362
• Added RGBAF16 output format with scRGB HDR color space support to Offscreen Rendering. #​48265 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Added app.isHardwareAccelerationEnabled(). #​47614 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Added bypassCustomProtocolHandlers option to net.request. #​48883 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Added methods to enable more granular accessibility support management. #​48042 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Added support for WebSocket authentication through the login event on webContents. #​49064 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Added support to import external shared texture as VideoFrame. #​48831
• Added the ability to retrieve the system accent color on Linux using systemPreferences.getAccentColor. #​48027 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Allowed for persisting File System API grant status within a given session. #​48170 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Automatically focus DevTools when element is inspected or breakpoint is triggered. #​46386 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}

Improvements

• Enables resetting accent color to follow system accent settings if a previous color has been set via window.setAccentColor(null). #​48274 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Support dynamic ESM imports in non-context isolated preloads. #​48375 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Updated nativeImage.createFromNamedImage to support SF Symbol names. #​48772 ^{(Also in 39)}

Fixes

• Added support for --no-stdio-init to be used when nul device is disabled on windows. #​47870
• Fixed an issue on Windows and Linux where no cookie encryption key provider was passed into the network service when cookie encryption was enabled. #​49375
• Fixed an issue where no cookie encryption provider was passed into the network service when cookie encryption was enabled. #​49350
• Fixed crash when attempting to resolve modules during process exit. #​49104
• Fixed drag regions in child windows. #​49312
• Fixed draw smoothing round corner issue. #​48782
• Fixed the cookie encryption logic to use the old os_crypt sync implementation present in M142. #​49384
• Fixed visual artifacts while resizing a window on Windows. #​49191

Also in earlier versions...

• AccentColor set distinguishes the frame. #​48405 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Corrected the appearance of tiled windows on GNOME (when frame: true), and removed resize handles from tiled edges. #​48835 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fix: ESM-from-CJS import when CJK characters are in path. #​48862 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fix: runtime JS error that crashes GetPackageJSON. #​48293 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed Wayland configuration through the XDG_SESSION_TYPE environment variable. #​48301 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed Windows dialog.showMessageBox default button handling. #​48216 ^{(Also in 36, 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed a Windows notification issue where clicking a native notification would result in an application hang on certain Windows environments. #​49129 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed a potential crash in dialog.showOpenDialog on Windows with an empty extension filter array. #​48640 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an application crash when clicking or hovering over the native MacOS "Window" menu. Reverts #​48598. #​48799 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an error when checking environmental variables when using remote checksums when installing Electron via npm. #​48634 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue that menu items on macOS could not be disabled under all circumstances. #​48598 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where menu-did-close was not emitted properly for some application menus. #​49092 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where shell.openExternal caused an unexpected dialog to open when there was no app suitable to open the url. #​48502 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where systemPreferences.getAccentColor inverted the color. #​48511 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where trafficLightPosition would not be correctly applied when using titleBarStyle: 'customButtonsOnHover' on macOS 26. #​48538 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where authentication via websockets can crash. #​48510 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where button background on mouse hover with titleBarOverlay wasn't always calculated to provide appropriate minimum contrast. #​48568 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where calling webContents.openDevTools({ mode: 'detach' }) would cause a crash on Wayland. #​48600 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where changing the resizable property on a window would break the styles of a transparent window. #​48378 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where icons didn't show up as expected on Windows Toast notifications. #​48543 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where snapped windows aren't correctly snapped when minimized and then unminimized. #​48296 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where some apps would throw an exception on launch. #​48976 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed an issue where the close callback param for menu.popup would fire when any arbitrary submenu of the given menu closed, and not the menu itself. #​49046 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed crash on windows when UTF-8 is in path. #​48942 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed crash when accessing webContents.session or webContents.debugger. #​48318 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed crash when creating event object for ipc events. #​48991 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed crash when inspector agent attempts to evaluate on provisional frames. #​48503 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed crash when passing feature param from commandline --enable-features=Feature:ParamA/Value. #​48411 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed crash when reading system certificates via nodejs tls module. #​49041 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed download button does not work in PDF Viewer. #​48372 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed excessive WindowServer GPU usage on macOS Tahoe 26. #​48376 ^{(Also in 36, 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed high CPU usage with <input> tag on macOS 26. #​48379 ^{(Also in 36, 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed incorrect signal variable reference in nan-spec-runner that could cause install failures to go undetected. #​48639 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed oom crash when optimizing certain wasm functions involving large phi nodes. #​48816 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed shader-f16 to work on Windows. #​48342 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed the issue where the parent window leave disabled after the modal window call show() multiple time. #​49021 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed the issue where the parent window remained interactive after the modal window was opened. #​48864 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Fixed white flash on call to BrowserWindow.show. #​47151 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Reenable V8 trap handlers for wasm in browser and utility process, improves runtime execution of wasm. #​48839 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Requests sent via net are now capable of having their headers modified to use reserved headers via webRequest. #​49241 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Titlebar buttons now appear on the correct side of windows on Wayland in Ubuntu. #​48490 ^{(Also in 38, 39)}
• Windows: Calling window.setFocusable(true) will no longer cause a window to lose focus. #​48927 ^{(Also in 39)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4453807. #​48335 ^{(Also in 36, 37, 38, 39)}
• Backported fix for 4667866. #​49286
• Backported fix for chromium:466192044. #​49201
• Fixed a development issue where the metal toolchain could not be found when building on macOS 26. #​48467 ^{(Also in 37, 38, 39)}
• Fixed devtools element panel flickering when with node inspection. #​49043 ^{(Also in 39)}

Documentation

• Documentation change
  • #​48665
  • #​48841

Notices

End of Support for 37.x.y

Electron 37.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.

v39.4.0: electron v39.4.0

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Release Notes for v39.4.0

Fixes

• Fixed an issue in chrome://accessibility. #​49559 ^{(Also in 40, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where shell.writeShortcutLink was throwing TypeError: Insufficient number of arguments when called with just [(path, options)]. #​49502 ^{(Also in 40, 41)}
• Fixed crash in platform_util::Beep() on Linux. #​49484 ^{(Also in 40, 41)}

Other Changes

• Updated Node.js to v22.22.0. #​49389

Unknown

• Fixed an issue where some packages weren't correctly filtered on macOS in dialogs. #​49472 ^{(Also in 38, 40, 41)}

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Root Cause

The app was crashing on startup because it used the deprecated webContents.on("ipc-message"...) pattern which was removed in Electron 40.

In the failing tests, the Electron app launched but immediately closed without creating a window, causing all E2E tests to timeout waiting for selectors. This was because the deprecated IPC event listener caused the main process to fail during initialization.

Fix Applied

Updated src/index.ts to use the modern IPC pattern compatible with Electron 40:

Changes made:

• Added ipcMain import from electron
• Replaced webContents.on("ipc-message", ...) with individual ipcMain.on() handlers for each channel:
  • saveDialogTriggered
  • addDialogTriggered
  • exitAfterSavingTriggered
  • addedTempDir
• Moved IPC handlers to app level (registered once globally) instead of per-window to prevent memory leaks in E2E tests
• Added proper window reference tracking with mainWindow variable
• Added window cleanup on 'closed' event to set mainWindow = null

Validation

• ✅ Lint checks: Passed
• ✅ Unit tests: All 83 tests passed (2 suites)
• ✅ Package build: Successful

Commit

Pushed fix in commit 979835b

The CI should now pass with Electron 40. The modern IPC pattern using ipcMain.on() is the recommended approach and will be compatible with future Electron versions.

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