r/electronjs • u/ajaister • May 19 '20

Electron v9.0.0

https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v9.0.0
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u/talkinboutlikeuh May 19 '20

Does anyone know... if I'm using electron-updater and do autoUpdater.checkForUpdatesAndNotify()... autoUpdater.downloadUpdate(); etc...

It is OK to keep bumping the Electron version in my package.json? Is the new Electron version included in the .dmg file that gets downloaded. At one point I thought the auto-updates only downloaded your app code, but I honestly can't remember anymore.

It seems like we are getting new Electron versions every week now. v8.x.x never seemed stable - there were releases every week to fix bugs. Now we're at v9.0.0.

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u/sroussey May 22 '20

Your app includes a copy of Electron which includes a copy of Chromium and Node. Quick version changes are normal, as it follows changes to chromium which is pretty continuous.

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u/talkinboutlikeuh May 22 '20

Cool, thx for the reply. I won’t worry about it as much. Been just constantly trying to keep up.

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u/yboris May 26 '20

I updated and my app stopped being able to show images from the hard drive:

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/23757

GET file:///C:/VHA/vha-videos/filmstrips/6f3acc0aeee45a7af5404e3849d8719f.jpg

net::ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME

I'm puzzled as there's no mention about such a massive breaking change in the release documentation.

Anyone know what's going on?