chore(deps): update dependency electron to v38.8.6

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
electron	38.2.1 → 38.8.6

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electron/electron (electron)

v38.8.6: electron v38.8.6

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Release Notes for v38.8.6

[!WARNING]
Electron 38.x.y has reached end-of-support as per the project's support policy. Developers and applications are encouraged to upgrade to a newer version of Electron.

Fixes

• Added validation to protocol client methods to reject protocol names that do not conform to the RFC 3986 URI scheme grammar. #​50157 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 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. #​50177 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where invalid characters in custom protocol or webRequest response header values were not rejected. #​50130 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41)}
• Fixed an issue where permission and device-chooser handlers received the top-level page origin instead of the requesting subframe's origin. #​50151 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41)}

v38.8.4: electron v38.8.4

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Fixes

• Fixed memory leak when setting icons on Linux/GTK. #​49897 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41)}

v38.8.2: electron v38.8.2

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Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4835695. #​49792

v38.8.1: electron v38.8.1

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Fixes

• Fixed an issue whereby a duplicate "Toggle Full Screen" menu item appeared in the View menu on macOS. #​49596 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41)}
• Fixed dock menu items not respecting enabled and checked properties on macOS. #​49627 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41)}

v38.8.0: electron v38.8.0

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Release Notes for v38.8.0

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where menu-did-close was not emitted properly for some application menus. #​49094 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where systemPreferences.getAccentColor inverted the color. #​49066 ^{(Also in 37, 39)}

Other Changes

• Updated Node.js to v22.22.0. #​49388

Unknown

• Fixed an issue where some packages weren't correctly filtered on macOS in dialogs. #​49471 ^{(Also in 39, 40, 41)}

v38.7.2: electron v38.7.2

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Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the close callback param for menu.popup would fire when any arbitrary submenu of the given menu closed, and not the menu itself. #​49047 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed the issue where the parent window leave disabled after the modal window call show() multiple time. #​49020 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}

v38.7.1: electron v38.7.1

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Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4503289. #​49009
• Backported fix for 4573510. #​48984

v38.7.0: electron v38.7.0

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Release Notes for v38.7.0

Features

• Added app.isHardwareAccelerationEnabled(). #​48681 ^{(Also in 37, 39)}
• Added bypassCustomProtocolHandlers option to net.request. #​48881 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Automatically focus DevTools when element is inspected or breakpoint is triggered. #​48701 ^{(Also in 37, 39)}
• Enables resetting accent color to follow system accent settings if a previous color has been set via window.setAccentColor(null). #​48853 ^{(Also in 39)}

Fixes

• Corrected the appearance of tiled windows on GNOME (when frame: true), and removed resize handles from tiled edges. #​48836 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fix: ESM-from-CJS import when CJK characters are in path. #​48876 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue where calling webContents.openDevTools({ mode: 'detach' }) would cause a crash on Wayland. #​48926 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed crash on windows when UTF-8 is in path. #​48947 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed oom crash when optimizing certain wasm functions involving large phi nodes. #​48817 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed the issue where the parent window remained interactive after the modal window was opened. #​48866 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Restored window's canHide property. #​48900 ^{(Also in 37, 39)}

Other Changes

• Backported fix for 4600173. #​48950

Unknown

• Fixed an issue that menu items on macOS could not be disabled under all circumstances. #​48829 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}

v38.6.0: electron v38.6.0

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Fixes

• Fixed an application crash when clicking or hovering over the native MacOS "Window" menu. Reverts #​48598. #​48801 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue on Wayland (Linux) where right-clicking in the titlebar could break mouse interactions. #​48757 ^{(Also in 39, 40)}
• Fixed an issue that menu items on macOS could not be disabled under all circumstances. #​48710 ^{(Also in 37, 39)}
• Fixed draw smoothing round corner issue. #​48780 ^{(Also in 40)}
• Fixed incorrect signal variable reference in nan-spec-runner that could cause install failures to go undetected. #​48708 ^{(Also in 39)}

Other Changes

• Updated Node.js to v22.21.1. #​48615

v38.5.0: electron v38.5.0

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Features

• Added methods to enable more granular accessibility support management. #​48626 ^{(Also in 37, 39)}

Fixes

• Fixed a potential crash in dialog.showOpenDialog on Windows with an empty extension filter array. #​48660 ^{(Also in 37, 39)}
• Fixed an error when checking environmental variables when using remote checksums when installing Electron via npm. #​48672 ^{(Also in 37, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where trafficLightPosition would not be correctly applied when using titleBarStyle: 'customButtonsOnHover' on macOS 26. #​48620 ^{(Also in 37, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where button background on mouse hover with titleBarOverlay wasn't always calculated to provide appropriate minimum contrast. #​48595 ^{(Also in 37, 39)}
• Fixed an issue where icons didn't show up as expected on Windows Toast notifications. #​48630 ^{(Also in 39)}
• Fixed crash when inspector agent attempts to evaluate on provisional frames. #​48513 ^{(Also in 39)}

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 140.0.7339.249. #​48569

Documentation

• Documentation changes: #​48684

v38.4.0: electron v38.4.0

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Release Notes for v38.4.0

Features

• Support dynamic ESM imports in non-context isolated preloads. #​48489 (Also in 39)

Fixes

• Fixed shader-f16 to work on Windows. #​48555 (Also in 37, 39)
• Fixed white flash on call to BrowserWindow.show. #​48560 (Also in 37, 39)
• Titlebar buttons now appear on the correct side of windows on Wayland in Ubuntu. #​48602 (Also in 39)

v38.3.0: electron v38.3.0

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Release Notes for v38.3.0

Fixes

• Fixed Windows dialog.showMessageBox default button handling. #​48519 (Also in 36, 37, 39)
• Fixed an issue where shell.openExternal caused an unexpected dialog to open when there was no app suitable to open the url. #​48517 (Also in 39)
• Fixed an issue where authentication via websockets can crash. #​48539 (Also in 37, 39)
• Fixed an issue where changing the resizable property on a window would break the styles of a transparent window. #​48499 (Also in 39)

Other Changes

• Fixed a development issue where the metal toolchain could not be found when building on macOS 26. #​48473 (Also in 37, 39)
• Updated Chromium to 140.0.7339.240. #​48486
• Updated Node.js to v22.20.0. #​48381

v38.2.2: electron v38.2.2

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Fixes

• AccentColor set distinguishes the frame. #​48451 (Also in 37, 39)
• Fix: runtime JS error that crashes GetPackageJSON. #​48424 (Also in 37, 39)
• Fixed download button does not work in PDF Viewer. #​48409 (Also in 39)

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