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Bumps electron from 40.8.4 to 40.8.5.

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electron v40.8.5

Release Notes for v40.8.5

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Windows notification icons could fail to save because their temporary filenames contained invalid characters. #50484 (Also in 41)
  • Fixed a crash in clipboard.readImage() when the clipboard contains malformed image data. #50491 (Also in 39, 41, 42)
  • Fixed a crash when calling an offscreen shared texture's release() after the texture object was garbage collected. #50500 (Also in 39, 41, 42)
  • Fixed an accessibility issue where the AXMenuOpened event was not fired on menu creation. #50505 (Also in 41, 42)
  • Fixed an issue where an app shortcut may lose its icon after auto-updating on Windows. #50518

Other Changes

  • Backported fix for chromium:475877320. #50438
Commits
  • c09e2aa fix: outdated execution path for COM activation (#50518)
  • 44f02f6 fix: hex-encode Windows notification icon temp filenames (#50484)
  • 904fbbd fix: fall back to default DPI when GTK returns 0 on Linux (#50488)
  • 36c88a4 fix: [a11y] fire AXMenuOpened event when ARIA menu is added to DOM (#50505)
  • 9bf9c36 refactor: remove dead named-window lookup from guest-window-manager (#50495)
  • d284168 fix: crash calling OSR shared texture release() after texture GC'd (#50500)
  • 4aa3610 fix: crash in clipboard.readImage() on malformed image data (#50491)
  • e1c17fd chore: cherry-pick fbfb27470bf6 from chromium (#50438)
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Bumps [electron](https://github.com/electron/electron) from 40.8.4 to 40.8.5.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/electron/electron/releases)
- [Commits](electron/electron@v40.8.4...v40.8.5)

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updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: electron
  dependency-version: 40.8.5
  dependency-type: direct:development
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