Electron 8.

app/assets/js/scripts/landing.js

@@ -1076,8 +1076,7 @@ function loadNews(){
         const distroData = DistroManager.getDistribution()
         const newsFeed = distroData.getRSS()
         const newsHost = new URL(newsFeed).origin + '/'
-        $.ajax(
-            {
+        $.ajax({
             url: newsFeed,
             success: (data) => {
                 const items = $(data).find('item')
@@ -1124,8 +1123,7 @@ function loadNews(){
                 })
             },
             timeout: 2500
-            }
-        ).catch(err => {
+        }).catch(err => {
             resolve({
                 articles: null
             })

app/assets/js/scripts/uicore.js

@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ remote.getCurrentWebContents().on('devtools-opened', () => {
 // Disable zoom, needed for darwin.
 webFrame.setZoomLevel(0)
 webFrame.setVisualZoomLevelLimits(1, 1)
-webFrame.setLayoutZoomLevelLimits(0, 0)
 
 // Initialize auto updates in production environments.
 let updateCheckListener

index.js

@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ ipcMain.on('distributionIndexDone', (event, res) => {
 // https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/offscreen-rendering
 app.disableHardwareAcceleration()
 
+// https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18397
+app.allowRendererProcessReuse = true
+
 // Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
 // be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
 let win

package.json

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "cross-env": "^7.0.2",
-    "electron": "^7.1.14",
+    "electron": "^8.1.1",
     "electron-builder": "^22.4.0",
     "eslint": "^6.8.0"
   },