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Utility for downloading artifacts from different versions of Electron
Last release 2 months ago
27 Jul 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 4 weeks to 11 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 43 of 44 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
7 years old
44 releases · first in 2019
error for win32/ia32 and linux/armv7l downloads of Electron >= 44
feat!: replace got with native fetch as default downloader
Co-authored-by: Claude noreply@anthropic.com
One column per quarter.
proxy ESM loading, progress bar suppression, and temp directory handling
avoid permission errors on windows during double-installs
handle cross-device cache locations
Removed deprecated nightly_mirror option. Please use `nightlyMirror` instead.
nightly_mirror option. Please use nightlyMirror instead.force option. Please use cacheMode: ElectronDownloadCacheMode.WriteOnly instead.Full Changelog: https://github.com/electron/get/compare/v3.1.0...v4.0.0
# 3.1.0 (2024-07-15) ### Features * cacheMode option
update dependencies to clean up yarn audit
Co-authored-by: Black-Hole 158blackhole@gmail.com
validate checksum of cached artifacts too
remove global-tunnel-ng library
support npmrc for custom-version env variable
fix!: upgrade got to 11.8.5 (#225) (a8bb6f1), closes #225
## 1.14.1 (2022-03-14) ### Bug Fixes * parse proxy error
proxy: support http(s)_proxy sans prefix on nodejs@>=10
## 1.13.1 (2021-10-28) ### Bug Fixes * upgrade global-agent to ^3.0.0
# 1.13.0 (2021-08-18) ### Features * support hardcoded checksums
avoid long paths in cache & lower the number of folders created (#186) (1165598), closes #185
skip checksum for versions before it was implemented
## 1.12.2 (2020-05-07) ### Bug Fixes * force release
allow custom URL resolution with resolveAssetURL
add environment variable to override version downloaded
GotDownloader: add progress bar & progress callback option
always transform arch passed to downloadArtifact
GotDownloader: add URL to 404 error message
GotDownloader: destroy the writeStream if possible when the download errors
pass through cacheRoot when downloading SHASUMS256.txt
## 1.7.2 (2019-12-13) ### Bug Fixes * use CFA v2
use armv7l if process.config.variable.arm_version is undefined
add optional "tempDirectory" download request option
add initializeProxy helper for downstream packages
make the cache to respect an artifact url
make platform and arch optional in downloadArtifact (#109) (7b1b9c1), closes #107
actually use the artifactSuffix when generating the filename
ensure the SHASUM download call provides mirrorOptions
## 1.3.1 (2019-06-25) ### Bug Fixes * export all types
emit warning if downloading a deprecated linux/ia32 binary
# 1.2.0 (2019-06-13) ### Features * add debug support
## 1.1.1 (2019-05-29) ### Bug Fixes * downgrade fs-extra to ^7.0.1
pass in downloader options to got
add user-friendly validation when an invalid input object is provided
correctly ship type definitions
## 1.0.1 (2019-05-23)
Nothing published for this version
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