Release Notes for v43.6.0

Features

• Added a badge property to MenuItem on macOS 14+ for showing a count or custom text badge next to a menu item's label. #53045 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Added webContents.caretBrowsingEnabled for toggling caret browsing in a WebContents. #53034 ^{(Also in 44)}

Fixes

• Fixed VoiceOver Braille displays showing the wrong line in multi-line text fields on macOS: AXLineForIndex and AXRangeForLine now return the line containing the caret. #53428
• Fixed a pending read on a net.request chunked upload stream inside a protocol handler never settling when the request failed or was aborted. #53374 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}
• Fixed a potential crash when using menu.popup with a frame from an offscreen rendered window. #53432 ^{(Also in 44)}
• Fixed an intermittent crash (access violation) on Windows when an ASAR integrity violation is detected, so the process now exits with code 1 as intended. #53456 ^{(Also in 44, 45)}
• Fixed application crash after a large number of IPC messages from renderers. #53420 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}
• Fixed native addons deriving from node::ObjectWrap aborting during garbage collection on Node.js 24.19.0 and later. #53393 ^{(Also in 42, 44, 45)}

Other Changes

• Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Skia and V8. #53485
• Backported fixes from upstream Chromium, Dawn and V8. #53396
• Updated Node.js to v24.20.0. #53249