2026-10-07

• Slightly improve performance when rendering ES output (#6534)

• #6534: Avoid repeated export name scans when rendering ES chunks (@irontaek, @lukastaegert)
• #6552: chore(ci): remove redundant rust-src setup (@TrickyPi, @lukastaegert)
• #6555: Lock file maintenance (@renovate[bot], @lukastaegert)

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, fontconfig, Skia, V8 and WebRTC. #54667
• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia, V8 and WebRTC. #54658

• [turbo-tasks] Experiment: capture snapshot pending bits under exclusion: #99747
• Keep custom-route metadata outside configuration: #99508
• turbo-tasks: copy tasks on their first modification during a snapshot: #99649
• turbo-tasks: disable persisting after a failed snapshot: #99732
• turbo-tasks: bincode-encode copy-on-write snapshots instead of cloning: #99644

Huge thanks to @lukesandberg, @gnoff, and @sokra for helping!

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

This release is published to npm under the alpha tag and can be installed via npm install electron@alpha, or npm install electron@45.0.0-alpha.16.

• Fixed a bug where content-protected windows could temporarily appear in screen captures during picture-in-picture state changes. #54612

• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium and WebRTC. #54656
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium, V8 and WebRTC. #54664

• ran npm audit fix on npm 6 (#9231) (b63eb29)
• update node, replace access-sniff with pa11y and override underscore (#9232) (1aea7c9)

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Initial release

• Document next analyze export in the package bundling guide: #99735
• Revert stabilization of forbidden() and unauthorized(): #99734
• Preserve configured output directories during static export: #99507
• Rename skill to next-bundle-optimizer and document its usage: #99731
• [turbo-tasks-backend] Clean up task state before publishing execution completion: #99729

Huge thanks to @wbinnssmith, @acdlite, @gnoff, and @sokra for helping!

• Fixed a crash on launch on macOS when the system refused to register the app for sleep/wake notifications. #54598

• Fixed a crash on launch on macOS when the system refused to register the app for sleep/wake notifications. #54597
• Fixed webview.findInPage() hanging when the host page also has an iframe. #54584 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}
• Updated time zone data to tzdata 2026d, including British Columbia's move to permanent UTC-7. #54622

• Improve static route error guidance: #99724
• docs: add Turbopack experimental config references: #99723
• Show choices for agent upgrade prompt: #99727
• docs: add Keeping pages static guide and align the navigation stage docs: #99493
• Turbopack: Check the invalidator map before adding a path to a batch: #99711
• docs: add guide for optimizing the static shell: #97737
• Keep dev and build running during upgrade prompts: #99702
• docs: use auth interruption APIs in examples: #99698
• docs: recommend auth interruption APIs in error handling: #99696
• [test] Update snapshots: #99713
• Bundle Analyzer Agent Skill: Trace conditional async and worker chunk loading: #99174
• Bundle Analyzer Agent Skill: Show route chunk groups: #99170
• Bundle Analyzer Agent Skill: Show modules in generated JS/CSS files: #99173
• Bundle Analyzer Agent Skill: Expose more route details in analyze data: #99172
• turbo-tasks-backend: stop dirtying dependents of GC-collected tasks: #99647
• turbo-tasks-backend: treat reads and connects of collected tasks as errors: #99646
• turbo-tasks-backend: stop pinning tasks during restores and always discard missing tasks: #99645
• Bundle Analyzer Agent Skill: Add analyzer skill: #99169

Huge thanks to @aurorascharff, @devjiwonchoi, @bgw, @wbinnssmith, and @lukesandberg for helping!