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title: "Electron 42"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/electron-42-ugdn8wmno
source_url: https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-42-0
type: article
source: "Electron"
published: 2026-05-07T21:01:55.833Z
updated: 2026-05-07T21:02:18.660Z
tags: ["security", "nodejs", "electron", "chromium"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 125
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Electron 42

**[Electron](https://daily.dev/sources/electron)** · 6 min read · 125 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Electron 42 is released with Chromium 148.0.7778.96, V8 14.8, and Node v24.15.0. Key changes include migration from deprecated NSUserNotification to UNNotification API on macOS (requiring code signing), a security-focused change where the electron npm package no longer downloads its binary via postinstall script (mitigating supply chain attacks), WebAuthn Touch ID support on macOS, and view animation/background blur capabilities. Breaking changes include the macOS notification API migration, removal of the ELECTRON_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD env variable, and a change to offscreen rendering default device scale factor. Electron 39.x.y has reached end-of-support.

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