chore(deps): bump electron 41.5.0 -> 42.1.0 and pin packaged version (#9959)
Bumps the desktop runtime to electron 42 (dependabot PR #9945) and
closes a supply-chain gap in the Linux/Mac packaging scripts that
predated this bump.
Why the bump is safe:
- macOS UNNotification API change — pgAdmin's runtime does not use
Electron's Notification API (only a UI toast comment in
src/js/pgadmin.js:211; no `new Notification(...)` anywhere).
- postinstall no longer downloads electron — production packaging
fetches the binary directly via wget from GitHub releases, never
via electron's postinstall script.
- Offscreen rendering scale-factor change — no OSR usage anywhere
in runtime/src/js/.
While verifying, found that pkg/linux/build-functions.sh and
pkg/mac/build-functions.sh resolve the packaged electron version
via:
ELECTRON_VERSION="$(npm info electron version)"
This pulls whatever currently carries the `latest` dist-tag on the
npm registry. Any newly published electron release — including a
hypothetical malicious one — would land in shipped binaries without
review, regardless of what runtime/package.json pins.
Replace with sed-based extraction from runtime/package.json and
fail loudly if extraction returns empty. The Windows installer
(pkg/win32/installer.iss.in) does not have this issue (it bundles a
pre-built tree, no electron download step).
Net change in runtime/yarn.lock is mostly deletions — electron 42
ships with @electron/get 5.x, which dropped a large transitive
dependency tree associated with the old postinstall download path.
Verified:
- eslint (runtime): clean (silent)
- yarn install (runtime): resolved to electron 42.2.0 within
^42.1.0 range
- sed extraction smoke-tested: returns 42.1.0 from current
runtime/package.json A
Ashesh Vashi committed
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Parent: 1487059
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on 6/7/2026, 6:38:56 AM