Electron 30.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 124.0.6367.49, V8 12.4, and Node.js 20.11.1.

We are excited to announce that Electron has been accepted as a mentoring organization for

Electron 29.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 122.0.6261.39, V8 12.2, and Node.js 20.9.0.

Electron’s API Working Group is

Earlier today, the Electron team was alerted to several public CVEs recently filed against several notable Electron apps. The CVEs are related to two of Electron’s fuses - runAsNode and enableNodeCliInspectArguments - and incorrectly claim that a remote attacker is able to execute arbitrary code via these components if they have not been actively disabled.

Electron 28.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 120.0.6099.56, V8 12.0, and Node.js 18.18.2.

Reflecting on the improvements and changes in Electron's developer ecosystem in 2023.

The Electron project will pause for the month of December 2023, then return to full speed in

Electron 27.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 118.0.5993.32, V8 11.8, and Node.js 18.17.1.

It’s been more than a week since CVE-2023-4863 macOS, iOS, Chrome, Firefox, and various Linux distributions all received updates. This followed investigations by Citizen Lab, discovering that an iPhone used by a “Washington DC-based civil society organization” was under attack using a zero-click exploit within iMessage.

Electron 26.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 116.0.5845.62, V8 11.2, and Node.js 18.16.1. Read below for more details!

Electron 25.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 114, V8 11.4, and Node.js 18.15.0. Read below for more details!

Electron 24.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 112.0.5615.49, V8 11.2, and Node.js 18.14.0. Read below for more details!

The first commit to the electron/electron repository was on March 13, 2013.

Electron 23.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 110, V8 11.0, and Node.js 18.12.1. Additionally, support for Windows 7/8/8.1 has been dropped. Read below for more details!

Electron 22.0.0 has been released! It includes a new utility process API, updates for Windows 7/8/8.1 support, and upgrades to Chromium 108, V8 10.8, and Node.js 16.17.1. Read below for more details!

Electron will end support of Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 beginning in Electron 23.

The Electron project will pause for the month of December 2022, then return to full speed in January 2023.

We are excited to announce that Electron Forge v6.0.0 is now available! This release marks the first major release of Forge since 2018 and moves the project from electron-userland into the main electron organization on Github.

Last month, Electron’s maintainer group met up in Vancouver, Canada to discuss the direction of the

Electron 21.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 106, V8 10.6, and Node.js 16.16.0. Read below for more details!

Electron 20.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 104, V8 10.4, and Node.js 16.15.0. Read below for more details!

Electron 21 and later will have the V8 Memory Cage enabled, with implications for some native modules.

Electron 19.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 102, V8 10.2, and Node.js 16.14.2. Read below for more details!

Electron is changing its primary S3 bucket, you may need to update your build scripts

Electron 18.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 100, V8 10.0, and Node.js 16.13.2. Read below for more details!

The Electron team is excited to announce that we will be participating in Google Summer of Code for the first time this year!

Electron 17.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 98, V8 9.8, and Node.js 16.13.0. Read below for more details!

Spectron will be deprecated on February 1st, 2022.

Electron 16.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 96, V8 9.6, and Node.js 16.9.1. Read below for more details!

The Electron project will pause for the month of December 2021, then return to full speed in January 2022.

Electron 15.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 94, V8 9.4, and Node.js 16.5.0. We've added API updates to window.open, bug fixes, and general improvements. Read below for more details!

Electron 14.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 93 and V8 9.3. We've added several API updates, bug fixes, and general improvements. Read below for more details!

Over the past weeks, we’ve received several questions about the differences between the new WebView2 and Electron.

Beginning in September 2021, Electron will release a new major stable version every 8 weeks.

Electron 13.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 91 and V8 9.1. We've added several API updates, bug fixes, and general improvements. Read below for more details!

Electron 12.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 89, V8 8.9 and Node.js 14.16. We've added changes to the remote module, new defaults for contextIsolation, a new webFrameMain API, and general improvements. Read below for more details!

Electron 11.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 87, V8 8.7, and Node.js 12.18.3. We've added support for Apple silicon, and general improvements. Read below for more details!

With Apple Silicon hardware being released later this year, what does the path look like for you to get your Electron app running on the new hardware?

Join us for community bonding and a month-long celebration of open-source.

Electron 10.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 85, V8 8.5, and Node.js 12.16. We've added several new API integrations and improvements. Read below for more details!

At OpenJS World this morning, we announced that Electron has officially graduated from the OpenJS Foundation's incubation program, and is now an OpenJS Foundation Impact Project.

Electron is proud to be participating in the second edition of Google's Season of Docs initiative, which pairs mentors from open source organizations with technical writers to improve project documentation.

Electron 9.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 83, V8 8.3, and Node.js 12.14. We've added several new API integrations for our spellchecker feature, enabled PDF viewer, and much more!

Electron is temporarily pausing major releases

Electron 8.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 80, V8 8.0, and Node.js 12.13.0. We've added Chrome's built-in spellchecker, and much more!

At Node+JS Interactive in Montreal, the OpenJS Foundation announced that it accepted Electron into the Foundation's incubation program. The Foundation is committed to supporting the healthy growth of the JavaScript ecosystem and web technologies by providing a neutral organization to host and sustain projects, as well as collaboratively fund activities for the benefit of the community at large.

A High severity vulnerability has been discovered in Chrome which affects all software based on Chromium, including Electron.

Electron 7.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 78, V8 7.8, and Node.js 12.8.1. We've added a Window on Arm 64 release, faster IPC methods, a new nativeTheme API, and much more!

The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 6.0.0! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download it from our releases website. The release is packed with upgrades, fixes, and new features. We can't wait to see what you build with them! Continue reading for details about this release, and please share any feedback you have!

In Q3 2021, the Chrome team increased their release cadence

The Electron team is excited to announce the release of Electron 5.0.0! You can install it with npm via npm install electron@latest or download the tarballs from our releases page. The release is packed with upgrades, fixes, and new features. We can't wait to see what you build with them! Continue reading for details about this release, and please share any feedback you have!

How do Electron's features written in C++ or Objective-C get to JavaScript so they're available to an end-user?

As Electron grows in popularity for desktop applications, the team working on it has also grown: we have more fulltime maintainers who work for different companies, live in different timezones, and have different interests. We're introducing a governance structure so we can keep growing smoothly.

A High severity vulnerability has been discovered in Chrome which affects all software based on Chromium, including Electron.

The Electron team will discontinue support for 32-bit Linux (ia32 / i386) starting with Electron v4.0. The last version of Electron that supports 32-bit based installations of Linux is Electron v3.1, which will receive support releases until Electron v6 is released. Support for 64-bit based Linux and armv7l will continue unchanged.

A code vulnerability has been discovered that allows Node to be re-enabled in child windows.

If you're having trouble using a native Node.js addon with Electron 5.0, there's a chance it needs to be updated to work with the most recent version of V8.

For the first time ever, Electron is excited to publicize our release schedule starting with v5.0.0. This is our first step in having a public, long-term timeline.

The Electron team is excited to announce that the stable release of Electron 4 is now available! You can install it from electronjs.org or from npm via npm install electron@latest. The release is packed with upgrades, fixes, and new features, and we can't wait to see what you build with them. Read more for details about this release, and please share any feedback you have as you explore!

A remote code execution vulnerability, "Magellan," has been discovered affecting software based on SQLite or Chromium, including all versions of Electron.

Electron is working on making its release cycles faster and more stable. To make that possible, we've started the App Feedback Program for large-scale Electron apps to test our beta releases and report app-specific issues to us. This helps us to prioritize work that will get applications upgraded to our next stable release sooner.

The Electron team is excited to announce that the first stable release of Electron 3 is now

Electron now uses GN to build itself. Here's a discussion of why.

A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered affecting apps with the ability to open nested child windows on Electron versions (3.0.0-beta.6, 2.0.7, 1.8.7, and 1.7.15). This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier [CVE-2018-15685].

The Electron website has a new search engine that delivers instant results for

Ever since the launch of the new internationalized Electron website, we have been working hard to make the Electron development experience even more accessible to developers outside of the English speaking world.

After more than four months of development, eight beta releases, and worldwide

Today we're releasing a free, open-source, hosted

The new Electron 2.0 release line is packed with new features and fixes. One of the highlights from this new major version is a new

A vulnerability has been discovered which allows Node.js integration to be re-enabled in some Electron applications that disable it. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2018-1000136.

Last week the electronjs.org site had a few minutes

A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered affecting

A new major version of Electron is in the works, and with it some changes to our versioning strategy. As of version 2.0.0, Electron will strictly adhere to Semantic Versioning.

Electron has a new website at [electronjs.org]! We've replaced

A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chromium

The electron npm package now includes a TypeScript definition file that provides detailed annotations of the entire Electron API. These annotations can improve your Electron development

This week we interviewed the creator of [Jasper], an Electron-based tool for

This week we caught up with @feross and @dcposch to talk about WebTorrent, the web-powered torrent client that connects users together to form a distributed, decentralized browser-to-browser network.

The Electron [1.6.3] beta release contains initial support for the macOS [Touch Bar].

This week we met with Aprile Elcich and

Electron is based on Google's open-source Chromium, a project that is not

This week we caught up with folks at Automattic to

This week's featured project is Dat, a

This week we chatted with Felix Rieseberg, desktop engineer at Slack and maintainer of Ghost Desktop, an Electron client for the Ghost publishing platform.

This week we caught up with Paul Frazee, creator

The Electron community is growing quickly, and people are creating powerful

We recently hosted an Electron hackathon at GitHub HQ for members of Hackbright Academy, a coding school for women founded in San Francisco. To help attendees get a head start on their projects, our own Kevin Sawicki created a few sample Electron applications.

We've added a new userland section to

Electron [1.4.12] contains an important patch that fixes an upstream Chrome

Here are the new Electron apps and talks that were added to the site in September.

Today we're announcing some improvements to Electron's documentation. Every new

As a language with garbage collection, JavaScript frees users from managing

Here are the new Electron apps that were added to the site in August.

Making accessible applications is important and we're happy to introduce new functionality to Devtron and Spectron that gives developers the opportunity to make their apps better for everyone.

As of Electron version 1.3.1, you can npm install electron --save-dev to

This is the second post in an ongoing series explaining the internals of

We're starting a monthly roundup to highlight activity in the Electron community. Each roundup will feature things like new apps, upcoming meetups, tools, videos, etc.

This is the first post of a series that explains the internals of Electron. This

Looking for an introduction to Electron? Two new podcasts have just been released that give a great overview of what it is, why it was built, and how it is being used.

For the last two years, Electron has helped developers build cross platform

Electron 0.37 was recently released and included a major upgrade from Chrome 47 to Chrome 49 and also several new core APIs. This latest release brings in all the new features shipped in Chrome 48 and Chrome 49. This includes CSS custom properties, increased ES6 support, KeyboardEvent improvements, Promise improvements, and many other new features now available in your Electron app.

Building an Electron application means you only need to create one codebase and design for one browser, which is pretty handy. But because Electron stays up to date with Node.js and Chromium as they release, you also get to make use of the great features they ship with. In some cases this eliminates dependencies you might have previously needed to include in a web app.

Since the beginning of Electron, starting way back when it used to be called Atom-Shell, we have been experimenting with providing a nice cross-platform JavaScript API for Chromium's content module and native GUI components. The APIs started very organically, and over time we have made several changes to improve the initial designs.

Recently Electron added two exciting features: a Mac App Store compatible build and a built-in Windows auto updater.

There have been some interesting updates and talks given on Electron recently, here's a roundup.

Join us September 29th at GitHub's HQ for an Electron meetup hosted by Atom team members @jlord and @kevinsawicki. There will be talks, food to snack on, and time to hangout and meet others doing cool things with Electron. We'll also have a bit of time to do lightning talks for those interested. Hope to see you there!

This week we've given Electron's documentation a home on electronjs.org. You can visit /docs/latest for the latest set of docs. We'll keep versions of older docs, too, so you're able to visit /docs/vX.XX.X for the docs that correlate to the version you're using.

Atom Shell is now called Electron. You can learn more about Electron and what people are building with it at its new home electronjs.org.