Update dependency electron to v44.5.1

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
electron	44.4.5 → 44.5.1

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Release Notes

electron/electron (electron)

v44.5.1: electron v44.5.1

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Release Notes for v44.5.1

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn and V8. #​54564

v44.5.0: electron v44.5.0

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Release Notes for v44.5.0

Features

• Added launch-failure reporting with systemErrorCode to the app child-process-gone event. #​54231 ^{(Also in 45)}

Fixes

• Changed the default trash implementation on KDE Plasma 6 to kioclient. #​54361 ^{(Also in 45)}
• DevTools zoom in/out now uses the same zoom steps as Chromium. #​54387 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed --xdg-portal-required-version having no effect and a spurious portal warning being logged for file dialogs on Linux. #​54303 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed a child WebContentsView losing focus when its window is reactivated. #​54455 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed a crash when a WebAuthn request used a security key that required its PIN. #​54403 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed a crash when creating a framed window on Wayland in environments where GTK could not initialize. #​54420 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed a crash when sending a DevTools protocol command with a non-string value for an optional string parameter via webContents.debugger. #​54445 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed a GPU process crash on startup when another instance of the app is using the same session data directory. #​54469
• Fixed a grey border around frameless windows on Linux WMs without compositing. #​54391 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed a main process crash when a native API method was called with a this value of a different native type; it now throws a TypeError. #​54315 ^{(Also in 43)}
• Fixed a possible crash during process exit when vm.Script or vm contexts created in the main process had been garbage collected shortly before quitting. #​54266 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed a possible crash on Windows on ARM when powerMonitor is torn down. #​54408 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed a renderer crash calling image.toPNG() from a sandboxed preload script. #​54502 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed a renderer crash when a ResizeObserver loop-limit error handler modified layout. #​54290 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed accent-color-changed on Windows reporting a colour that differed from systemPreferences.getAccentColor(). #​54409 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed an issue where crashReporter.setUploadToServer() had no effect after crashReporter.start() was called. #​54518 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed app.getRecentDocuments() omitting documents with non-ASCII paths on Windows. #​54407 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed clipboard.read(), readText() and has() resolving seconds late on Linux while the app was idle. #​54308 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}
• Fixed desktopCapturer.getSources() leaving non-resizable windows resizable on macOS. #​54397 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed fs.rmSync failing to remove read-only files on Windows. #​54255 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}
• Fixed GDK_BACKEND leaking into processes spawned by Electron apps on Linux. #​54425 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed hidden windows continuing to render at full frame rate after setBackgroundThrottling(false) followed by setBackgroundThrottling(true). #​54341 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed pointerLock permission requests from some iframes reporting the parent frame. #​54464 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}
• Fixed setContentProtection(true) having no effect in Windows remote sessions. #​54500 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed setIgnoreMouseEvents() taking effect late on X11. #​54497 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed setIgnoreMouseEvents(true) being undone by the next resize on X11. #​54393 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
  • Added setIgnoreMouseEvents support on Wayland.
• Fixed shell.showItemInFolder() on Linux for paths containing #, ? or % when the file manager is reached over D-Bus. #​54406 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Fixed the default action label on Linux notifications not being localized. #​54401 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed the GPU process crash-looping on Windows when the sandbox cannot read the install folder; the folder is now reported instead. #​54484 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed the zoom level resetting on file: and other host-less pages after a location.hash change. #​54442 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed typing not working after closing an alert() or confirm() on Windows. #​54461 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed utilityProcess dropping stdout/stderr output that the child wrote immediately before exiting. #​54278 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}
• Fixed visual zoom limits resetting on navigation and not applying to webviews. #​54449 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed WebAssembly modules loaded from the code cache crashing or throwing RuntimeError: unreachable after updating between certain patch releases. #​54246 ^{(Also in 42, 43, 45)}
• Fixed win.setEnabled(false) and modal child windows not blocking input on Wayland. #​54447 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
• Fixed zoom in/out getting stuck after zooming past the 25%-500% range. #​54421 ^{(Also in 43, 45)}
  • Fixed setVisualZoomLevelLimits() shrinking pages when the minimum is under 1.

Performance Improvements

• Improved the performance of APIs that return rectangles, sizes, points and display objects. #​54215 ^{(Also in 45)}
• Improved the performance of session.getUserAgent(). #​54244 ^{(Also in 45)}

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #​54342

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