Upgrading Chrome Checklist
Upgrading Chrome Checklist
This document is meant to serve as an overview of what steps are needed on each Chrome upgrade in Electron.
These are things to do in addition to updating the Electron code for any Chrome/Node API changes.
- Verify the new Chrome version is available from https://github.com/zcbenz/chromium-source-tarball/releases
- Update the
VERSION
file at the root of theelectron/libchromiumcontent
repository - Update the
CLANG_REVISION
inscript/update-clang.sh
to match the version Chrome is using inlibchromiumcontent/src/tools/clang/scripts/update.py
- Upgrade
vendor/node
to the Node release that corresponds to the v8 version being used in the new Chrome release. See the v8 versions in Node on https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases for more details - Upgrade
vendor/crashpad
for any crash re