chore(deps): update dependency electron to v40.8.3

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
electron	40.1.0 → 40.8.3

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Release Notes

electron/electron (electron)

v40.8.3: electron v40.8.3

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Release Notes for v40.8.3

Fixes

• Added additional ASAR support to additional fs copy methods. #​50287 ^{(Also in 39, 41, 42)}
• Fixed an issue where some DevTools functionality didn't work as expected. #​50275 ^{(Also in 41, 42)}
• Fixed user resizing of transparent windows on win32 platform. #​50301 ^{(Also in 39, 41, 42)}

v40.8.2: electron v40.8.2

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Other Changes

• Backported fix for b/491421267. #​50229
• Fixed an issue where running app icons were not correctly retrieved on macOS Tahoe. #​50188

v40.8.1: electron v40.8.1

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Release Notes for v40.8.1

Fixes

• Added validation to protocol client methods to reject protocol names that do not conform to the RFC 3986 URI scheme grammar. #​50158 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue on macOS where calling autoUpdater.quitAndInstall() could fail if checkForUpdates() was called again after an update was already downloaded. #​50216 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where Chrome Devtools menus may not appear in certain embedded windows. #​50138 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where additionalData passed to app.requestSingleInstanceLock on Windows could be truncated or fail to deserialize in the primary instance's second-instance event. #​50162 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where screen.getCursorScreenPoint() crashed on Wayland when it was called before a BrowserWindow had been created. #​50104 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where calling setBounds on a WebContentsView could trigger redundant page-favicon-updated events even when the favicon had not changed. #​50084 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where invalid characters in custom protocol or webRequest response header values were not rejected. #​50131 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where permission and device-chooser handlers received the top-level page origin instead of the requesting subframe's origin. #​50149 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where traffic light buttons would flash at position (0,0) when restoring a window with a custom trafficLightPosition from minimization on macOS. #​50207 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed bug where opening a message box immediately upon closing a child window may cause the parent window to freeze on Windows. #​50189 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Reverted AltGr key fix that caused menu bar to no longer show on Windows. #​50110 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for chromium:485622239. #​50168

v40.8.0: electron v40.8.0

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Release Notes for v40.8.0

Features

• Added a reason property to the Notification 'closed' event on Windows to allow developers to know the reason the Notification was dismissed. #​50030 ^{(Also in 41)}

Fixes

• Fixed shutdown crash on windows when hidden titlebar is enabled. #​50053 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.236. #​50060

v40.7.0: electron v40.7.0

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Release Notes for v40.7.0

Features

• Added support for --experimental-transform-types. #​49883 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}

Fixes

• Allow dynamically updating menu item labels, sublabels, and icons. #​49973 ^{(Also in 41)}
• Fixed safeStorage failing to clean up legacy keychain entries when migrating to suffixed account names on macOS, and fixed first launch creating entries with the wrong (unsuffixed) account name. #​49817
• Fixed a bug that cause offscreen rendering doesn't have valid screen info and unable to get valid result of related media queries.
  • Added webPreference.offscreen.deviceScaleFactor to allow user specify a value, instead of using user's primary display's value. #​49681
• Fixed a macOS crash when creating a new tab from the tab overview. #​49934 ^{(Also in 41)}
• Fixed an issue on macOS where Universal Links were not delivered to app.on('continue-activity') on cold launch when NSUserActivity.userInfo was nil. #​50005 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where VideoFrame objects returned through contextBridge had an incorrect prototype. #​50022 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where malformed custom toastXml could cause a Notification crash. #​49952 ^{(Also in 41)}
• Fixed menu bar hiding after a call to win.setFullScreen(false) when not in fullscreen on Linux. #​49994 ^{(Also in 41)}
• Fixed menus to correctly emit menu-will-close event when closed after any submenu has been open. #​49963 ^{(Also in 41)}

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.225. #​49928
• Updated Node.js to v24.14.0. #​49939

v40.6.1: electron v40.6.1

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Release Notes for v40.6.1

Fixes

• Fixed globalShortcut not working on Wayland with GlobalShortcutsPortal feature enabled. #​49870 ^{(Also in 41)}
• Fixed an issue where making a window fullscreen on Windows, minimizing it and then restoring it broke previous fullscreen state. #​49892 ^{(Also in 41)}
• Fixed an issue where menu item enabled state wasn't updated during key equivalent dispatch when the menu was closed on macOS. #​49889 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where pressing AltGr could activate or focus the menu bar. #​49915 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where setting zoomFactor in setWindowOpenHandler's overrideBrowserWindowOptions had no effect on windows opened via window.open(). #​49909 ^{(Also in 41)}
• Fixed draggable regions not updating position when DevTools is docked to the left or right in a frameless window. #​49847 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Fixed memory leak when setting icons on Linux/GTK. #​49898 ^{(Also in 38, 39, 41)}
• Fixed startup crash when V8 sandbox is disabled. #​49884 ^{(Also in 41)}

Other Changes

• Fixed crash in platform_util::Beep() on Linux. #​49864 ^{(Also in 41)}
• Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.220. #​49869

v40.6.0: electron v40.6.0

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Release Notes for v40.6.0

Features

• Added the ability to disable auto-focusing of WebContents on navigation using webPreferences.focusOnNavigation. #​49512 ^{(Also in 41)}

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where frameless windows had resize issues in Mac App Store builds. #​49856

v40.5.0: electron v40.5.0

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Release Notes for v40.5.0

Features

• Added support for long-animation-frame script attribution (via --enable-features=AlwaysLogLOAFURL). #​49772 ^{(Also in 41)}
• Extended actions support for Windows notifications to include buttons, select dropdowns, and replies. #​49786 ^{(Also in 41)}

Fixes

• Addressed upstream Chromium shift to enable CoreAudio Tap API for audio capture used in electron's desktopCapturer (🍏 macOS). #​49741 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}
• Made pointer lock work on Wayland. #​49283

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.177. #​49800
• Updated Node.js to v24.13.1. #​49742

v40.4.1: electron v40.4.1

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Release Notes for v40.4.1

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4835695. #​49790
• Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.173. #​49766

v40.4.0: electron v40.4.0

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Release Notes for v40.4.0

Features

• Added a disclaim option to the UtilityProcess API to allow for TCC disclaiming on macOS. #​49695

v40.3.0: electron v40.3.0

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Release Notes for v40.3.0

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where native modules would either crash or not compile for MacOS 12. #​49702 ^{(Also in 41)}
• Fixed an issue where role-based menu items were incorrectly returning null for their accelerator property. #​49669 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4797260. #​49699
• Updated Chromium to 144.0.7559.134. #​49656
• Updated Node.js to v24.13.0. #​49188

v40.2.1: electron v40.2.1

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Release Notes for v40.2.1

Other Changes

• Refactored our MSIX updater code to use an upstream Chromium pattern and eliminates the need for special exception handling build flags. #​49687 ^{(Also in 39, 41)}

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