Electron Changelog

The following page lists the most important features and changes brought by each Electron version update. A focus is put on the features that are most likely to be used by Obsidian developers.

New Electron versions can be installed by running the Obsidian installer again.

Minimum supported Obsidian installer version: 0.14.5 (Electron v18)

This is the last version that will still receive Obsidian updates, as communicated by the developers.

Obsidian installer update notice: 1.5.12 (Electron v28)

From this version onwards, Obsidian will display a notice to the user telling them upgrade to the latest installer version.

Obsidian 1.8.9 (2025/03/05)

Electron v34 (chromium 131 + 132)

JS <dialog> toggle and beforetoggle events: Detect when a dialog is shown or hidden
JS Capture video for a specific Element
CSS Customize <details> and <summary> elements
CSS @page margin boxes: Control the margins of printed pages
CSS sideways-rl and sideways-lr writing-mode rules: Determine the direction of text
Devtools Performance insights in Performance tab
Devtools Ignore anonymous () => {} functions in stack traces
Devtools Real-time updates for CSS attributes in Elements tab

Obsidian 1.8.3 (2025/01/30)

Electron v33 (chromium 129 + 130)

JS .yield(): Temporarily yield long-running tasks to the event loop
JS Intl.DurationFormat: Format time durations in any language
JS Document PIP: Allows PIP modes for any element, not just <video>
HTML Keyboard focusable scrollers
CSS Animate intrinsic sizes: Allow smooth animations for min, max and fit-content sizes
CSS Anchor position rule renames: Some anchor-based CSS rules have been renamed
CSS box-decoration-break: Define how split-up elements should be rendered
Devtools Search for requests in Network tab
Devtools Stack traces for performance.mark and .measure
Devtools Force more pseudo-classes on elements
Devtools Scroll overflowed elements are marked with a badge
Devtools Find detached elements with only JS reference usign Memory snapshots

Obsidian 1.7.5 (2024/11/04)

Electron v32 (chromium 127 + 128)

JS Promise.try: Errors in (sync/async) function are always returned as a rejected promise
JS Distinguish different pens via deviceProperties
CSS font-size-adjust: Decrease size for a fallback font
Devtools Gemini Console insights
Devtools Inspect CSS anchor positions
Devtools Never pause here option for breakpoints
Devtools User timings included in Performance summary
Devtools Improved Network request inspection in Performance panel
Devtools Cleaner Memory snapshots and more descriptive labels
Devtools Live editing of @keyframes animation while inspecting

Electron v31 (chromium 125 + 126)

JS Gamepad API rumble support
JS Compute Pressure API: Represent how busy the system is on CPU level
CSS Anchor Positioning: Natively position elements relative to other elements
CSS round(), mod(), clamp() functions have been added
Electron WebSQL support has been removed
Electron Added support for the File System API web standard
Devtools Capture CSS selector statistics for long-running selectors in Performance tab
Devtools Hide and reorder tracks in Performance tab
Devtools Console tab will now show chain of error causes, instead of just the last error
Devtools Enable automatic pretty-printing of minified code
Devtools 20x CPU throttling speed option for Performance inspection

Obsidian 1.6.5 (2024/06/25)

Electron v30 (chromium 123 + 124)

JS Websocket Stream API, regulates the flow of data between client and server
CSS light-dark(light_val, dark_val), which returns a value based on color-scheme
Devtools WebRTC throttling
Devtools Scroll-driven animations inspection
Devtools Improved visualization of nested CSS
Devtools Value editors for var() fallbacks
Devtools Enabled/Disable all breakpoint in Sources tab
Devtools UIX improvements for Performance tab

Electron v29 (chromium 121 + 122)

JS Capture and record specific HTML Elements via Element Capture API
JS Programmatically open <select> elements via showPicker method
CSS Set scrollbar-color and scrollbar-width to customize scrollbars
CSS Customize ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error pseudo-elements
CSS Define font-palette for COLRv1 fonts
Devtools Breadcrumbs in the Performance timeline
Devtools Initiator of event (handler) is now shown via arrow in Performance timeline
Devtools Set devtools theming to match Chrome color theme
Devtools Improved filtering of Performance tabs
Devtools Indentation markers in Sources tab

Obsidian 1.5.8 (2024/02/22)

Obsidian 1.4.5 (2023/08/31)

Electron v25 (chromium 113 + 114)

JS Popover API
CSS text-wrap:balance:A cleaner way to balance your text, max. 6 lines

Electron v24 (chromium 111 + 112)

JS View Transitions API
CSS Nesting style rules
CSS CSS Color Level 4
CSS sin(), cos(), tan() trigonometric functions
CSS More :nth-child() S syntax selectors

Electron v23 (chromium 109 + 110)

JS MathML Core support
CSS lh length unit, equal to the computed line height of the element
CSS hyphenate-limit-chars: specifies the minimum number of characters in a hyphenated word
CSS :picture-in-picture: Pseudo-class for Picture-in-Picture mode
CSS initial-letter: Style the first letter of a block
Electron app.getPreferredSystemLanguages(): Get the user’s preferred system languages

Electron v22 (chromium 107 + 108)

CSS Dynamic viewport units for creating better adaptive UIs
CSS Variable COLRv1 fonts
CSS CSS animated grid layouts

Obsidian 1.1.9 (2022/12/23)

Electron v21 (chromium 105 + 106)

JS Sanitizer API: HTML sanitization for untrusted strings
JS Intl number formatting API
HTML Popup elements
CSS :has() selector and pseudo-class for selecting elements with specific children
CSS ic unit for specifying the width of ideograms

Electron v20 (chromium 103 + 104)

JS Local Font Access API: Enumerate local fonts on the user’s device
JS AbortSignal.timeout() for setting a timeout signal on fetch requests
CSS Range media queries: specify intervals for media queries
CSS overflow-clip-margin: how far content is allowed to overflow before clipping

Electron v19 (chromium 101 + 102)

HTML inert property: Make an element non-interactive
CSS hwb() color function for specifying colors

Obsidian 0.14.5 (2022/04/01)

Electron v18 (chromium 99 + 100)

JS showPicker(): Programmatically open <input> elements
JS Multi-screen window placement API
CSS CSS Cascade Layers: Control the order of CSS rules

Obsidian 0.13.31 (2022/03/08)

Electron v17 (chromium 97 + 98)

JS Web Transport API: Client-server messaging with low latency
JS findLast and findLastIndex array methods
CSS COLRv1 fonts: Color fonts with multiple layers

Obsidian 0.13.30 (2022/03/07)

Electron v16 (chromium 95 + 96)

JS URLPattern: Match URLs with patterns
JS Eye Dropper API: Get color values from the screen

Electron v15 (chromium 94)

JS Specify color space for <canvas> elements
JS WebCodecs API: Encode and decode media streams
JS WebGPU API: Low-level graphics API
CSS scrollbar-gutter: Control the space between the scrollbar and the content

Electron v14 (chromium 92 + 93)

JS Load CSS modules with import

Electron v13 (chromium 90 + 91)

JS Read files from clipboard
CSS overflow: clip: Clip content without any scrollbars

Obsidian 0.12.3 (2021/05/10)

Electron v12 (chromium 88 + 89)

JS Pointer Lock API: Control mouse movement and acceleration
CSS aspect-ratio: Set the aspect ratio of an element

Electron v11 (chromium 86 + 87)

CSS :focus-visible: Style elements that are focused by keyboard

Obsidian 0.8.12 (2020/09/07)

Electron v10 (chromium 84 + 85)

JS Web Animations API: Control animations with JavaScript
CSS content-visibility: Skip rendering of off-screen elements
CSS @property: Define custom CSS properties

Electron v9 (chromium 81 + 83)

JS measureMemory: Measure memory usage of a page
CSS @supports: Provide feature detection for CSS selectors