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
1. Replace the current layout library wcDocker with ReactJS based rc-dock. #6479
2. Have close buttons on individual panel tabs instead of common. #2821
3. Changes in the context menu on panel tabs - Add close, close all and close others menu items. #5394
4. Allow closing all the tabs, including SQL and Properties. #4733
5. Changes in docking behaviour of different tabs based on user requests and remove lock layout menu.
6. Fix an issue where the scroll position of panels was not remembered on Firefox. #2986
7. Reset layout now will not require page refresh and is done spontaneously.
8. Use the zustand store for storing preferences instead of plain JS objects. This will help reflecting preferences immediately.
9. The above fix incorrect format (no indent) of SQL stored functions/procedures. #6720
10. New version check is moved to an async request now instead of app start to improve startup performance.
11. Remove jQuery and Bootstrap completely.
12. Replace jasmine and karma test runner with jest. Migrate all the JS test cases to jest. This will save time in writing and debugging JS tests.
13. Other important code improvements and cleanup.
Ashesh Vashi
Aditya Toshniwal
LiZixin
Pravesh Sharma
Khushboo Vashi
Dirk Heinrichs
Akshay Joshi
Ashesh Vashi
Aditya Toshniwal
Dave Page