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2020-09-04 - Announcing EVS

This week we publicly rolled out a new service, EVS, that allows users of Electron for Content Security to VMP-sign their applications for production use without applying for their own VMP certificate. EVS is a free service, but requires signup to use, and it supports both streaming-only and offline-capable applications depending on the kind of VMP signature that is requested.

For futher information, and usage instructions, check out the EVS wiki page.

Supported versions

The Widevine News page has a table depicting when certain CDM versions are available and/or when they will be removed. CDMs that are removed will no longer be able to retrieve licenses, effectively also ending support for Electron for Content Security versions that can no longer support more recent CDMs.

As of this writing the last CDM using the older CDM9 interface is about to be removed which will end support for Electron for Content Security versions prior to 4.0.0 since they do not support the more recent CDM10 interface. To help keep track of this the table below depicts the Chromium and CDM versions used by different Electron for Content Security release series, and their current CDM removal status.

The goal is to mimic the Electron team policy and support the three latest stable major versions, but in cases where this happens to be in conflict with CDM version deprecations deviations may occur.

Status

Electron Chromium CDM Delivery Status Comment
18.x TBD TBD CUS In development
17.x 98 4.10.x CUS
16.x 96 4.10.x CUS
15.x 94 4.10.x Lorry
14.x 93 4.10.x Lorry
13.x 91 4.10.x Lorry ⚠️ End-of-life
12.x 89 4.10.x Lorry ⚠️ End-of-life
11.x 87 4.10.x Lorry ⚠️ End-of-life
10.x 85 4.10.x Lorry ⚠️ End-of-life
9.x 83 4.10.x Lorry ⚠️ End-of-life
8.x 80 4.10.x Lorry ⚠️ End-of-life
7.x 78 4.10.x Lorry ⚠️ End-of-life
6.x 76 4.10.x Lorry ⚠️ End-of-life
5.x 73 4.10.x Lorry ⚠️ End-of-life
4.x 69 4.10.x Lorry ⚠️ End-of-life
3.x 66 1.4.9.x Lorry ⛔️ End-of-life
CDM removed Aug 13, 2019
1.8 59 1.4.8.1010 Lorry ⛔️ End-of-life
CDM removed Jan 8, 2019
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