electron v5.0.0-beta.9

Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm i electron@5.0.0-beta.9.

Release Notes for v5.0.0-beta.9

Added missing module name to the exception message thrown when require fails in sandboxed renderers. #17705
Fixed 'loaded' event not being emitted in sandboxed renderers. #17808
Fixed an issue preventing the Flash plugin from loading on Linux. #17829
Fixed an issue with default filenames not showing in download items on macOS. #17797
Fixed crash when manually dismissing notifications before quit on macOS. #17822
Fixed crash when passing empty strings to recording in the contentTracing module. #17711
Fixed crash when pressing Alt key with setMenuBarVisibility to false. #17795
Fixed inconsistent behavior where modifying the buffer would change nativeImage pixels, while decoded PNG / JPEG data is a copy. #17863
Fixed issue where chromedriver would not connect correctly if you didn't provide a custom remote-debugging-port. #17817
Fixed issue where sandboxed renderers could sometimes leak globals outside of the preload script. #17830
Fixed race condition where the remote module would sometimes fail to fetch properties of a remote object. #17825
Upgraded to node-12 with v8 7.3. #17752