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Bumps electron from 43.5.0 to 43.8.1.

Release notes

Sourced from electron's releases.

electron v43.8.1

Release Notes for v43.8.1

[!NOTE] This release contains the fix for GHSA-jr5w-w6x2-84p9, the mitigation for compromised eMudhra intermediate certificates

Fixes

• Fixed link-opened windows not using the opener's session and webPreferences. #55049 (Also in 42, 44, 45)
• Fixed setCertificateVerifyProc occasionally not being applied to a request issued concurrently with the first request to a host. #55047 (Also in 42, 44, 45)

electron v43.8.0

Release Notes for v43.8.0

Fixes

• Fixed a crash on Linux at startup or on theme change with GTK modules loaded. #55016
• Fixed a crash when creating a framed window on Wayland in environments where GTK could not initialize. #54893 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed a Linux crash creating a window with a menu bar when GTK failed to load. #54884 (Also in 44, 45)
• Fixed an issue where clicks posted to a background app were dropped on macOS. #54905 (Also in 42, 44, 45)
• Fixed net.fetch and session.fetch failing permanently with net::ERR_FAILED after the Network Service process restarts. #54908 (Also in 42, 44, 45)
• Fixed utilityProcess dropping messages posted with process.parentPort.postMessage() right before the process exits. #54962 (Also in 42, 45)

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and V8. #55032
• Updated Node.js to v24.22.0. #55003

electron v43.7.11

Release Notes for v43.7.11

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, PDFium and V8. #54899

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #54881

electron v43.7.10

Release Notes for v43.7.10

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when starting without an available display server on Linux. #54795 (Also in 45)
• Fixed a renderer crash when a ResizeObserver loop-limit error handler modified layout. #54611 (Also in 42, 44, 45)

electron v43.7.9

Release Notes for v43.7.9

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Commits

• 817c43f fix: apply the certificate SPKI blocklist to Node and add entries (43-x-y) (#...
• 9afe078 docs: fix code block line highlighting after docs reformats (#55103)
• 076d6db test: replace fix_crypto_tests_to_run_with_bssl.patch with upstream backport ...
• 3b068bf test: re-enable Node.js tests that now pass with BoringSSL (#55094)
• 60f928e build: stop overriding node GN declare_args defaults in patch (#55076)
• 14c73d1 build: update PGO profiles (#55092)
• 7ceb2c0 fix: avoid misaligned char16_t reads in crdtp string deserialization (#55063)
• 06f1c1f ci: use Cloudflare DNS directly on macOS runners (#55068)
• a68de91 fix: use the opener's session and webPreferences for windows opened from link...
• 6a2b850 ci: skip native builds when installing deps for type generation (#55065)
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Superseded by #6284.