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# Electron Support
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## Finding Support
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If you have a security concern,
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please see the [security document](https://github.com/electron/electron/tree/master/SECURITY.md).
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If you're looking for programming help,
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for answers to questions,
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or to join in discussion with other developers who use Electron,
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you can interact with the community in these locations:
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- [`electron`](https://discuss.atom.io/c/electron) category on the Atom
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forums
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- `#atom-shell` channel on Freenode
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- `#electron` channel on [Atom's Slack](https://discuss.atom.io/t/join-us-on-slack/16638?source_topic_id=25406)
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- [`electron-ru`](https://telegram.me/electron_ru) *(Russian)*
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- [`electron-br`](https://electron-br.slack.com) *(Brazilian Portuguese)*
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- [`electron-kr`](https://electron-kr.github.io/electron-kr) *(Korean)*
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- [`electron-jp`](https://electron-jp.slack.com) *(Japanese)*
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- [`electron-tr`](https://electron-tr.herokuapp.com) *(Turkish)*
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- [`electron-id`](https://electron-id.slack.com) *(Indonesia)*
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- [`electron-pl`](https://electronpl.github.io) *(Poland)*
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If you'd like to contribute to Electron,
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see the [contributing document](https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
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If you've found a bug in a [supported version](#supported-versions) of Electron,
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please report it with the [issue tracker](../development/issues.md).
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[awesome-electron](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-electron)
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is a community-maintained list of useful example apps,
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tools and resources.
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## Supported Versions
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The latest three *stable* major versions are supported by the Electron team.
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For example, if the latest release is 6.x.y, then the 5.x.y as well
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as the 4.x.y series are supported.
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The latest stable release unilaterally receives all fixes from `master`,
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and the version prior to that receives the vast majority of those fixes
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as time and bandwidth warrants. The oldest supported release line will receive
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only security fixes directly.
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All supported release lines will accept external pull requests to backport
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fixes previously merged to `master`, though this may be on a case-by-case
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basis for some older supported lines. All contested decisions around release
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line backports will be resolved by the [Releases Working Group](https://github.com/electron/governance/tree/master/wg-releases) as an agenda item at their weekly meeting the week the backport PR is raised.
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### Currently supported versions
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- 8.x.y
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- 7.x.y
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- 6.x.y
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### End-of-life
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When a release branch reaches the end of its support cycle, the series
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will be deprecated in NPM and a final end-of-support release will be
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made. This release will add a warning to inform that an unsupported
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version of Electron is in use.
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These steps are to help app developers learn when a branch they're
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using becomes unsupported, but without being excessively intrusive
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to end users.
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If an application has exceptional circumstances and needs to stay
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on an unsupported series of Electron, developers can silence the
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end-of-support warning by omitting the final release from the app's
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`package.json` `devDependencies`. For example, since the 1-6-x series
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ended with an end-of-support 1.6.18 release, developers could choose
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to stay in the 1-6-x series without warnings with `devDependency` of
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`"electron": 1.6.0 - 1.6.17`.
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## Supported Platforms
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Following platforms are supported by Electron:
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### macOS
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Only 64bit binaries are provided for macOS, and the minimum macOS version
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supported is macOS 10.10 (Yosemite).
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### Windows
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Windows 7 and later are supported, older operating systems are not supported
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(and do not work).
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Both `ia32` (`x86`) and `x64` (`amd64`) binaries are provided for Windows.
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[Electron 6.0.8 and later add native support for Windows on Arm (`arm64`) devices](windows-arm.md).
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Running apps packaged with previous versions is possible using the ia32 binary.
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### Linux
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The prebuilt `ia32` (`i686`) and `x64` (`amd64`) binaries of Electron are built on
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Ubuntu 12.04, the `armv7l` binary is built against ARM v7 with hard-float ABI and
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NEON for Debian Wheezy.
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[Until the release of Electron 2.0][arm-breaking-change], Electron will also
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continue to release the `armv7l` binary with a simple `arm` suffix. Both binaries
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are identical.
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Whether the prebuilt binary can run on a distribution depends on whether the
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distribution includes the libraries that Electron is linked to on the building
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platform, so only Ubuntu 12.04 is guaranteed to work, but following platforms
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are also verified to be able to run the prebuilt binaries of Electron:
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* Ubuntu 12.04 and newer
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* Fedora 21
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* Debian 8
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[arm-breaking-change]: ../breaking-changes.md#duplicate-arm-assets
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