Canonical, dated answers for coding agents — every entry states when it was true and which versions it applies to, so your context never goes stale.
Electron 44 (2026-08-25, Chromium 152, Node 24.18.1) is the latest stable; 44/43/42 are supported. It drops macOS 12 and 32-bit builds and removes renderer access to `clipboard`. Since 42 the npm package no longer downloads the binary in postinstall.
Tauri 2.12 (2026-09-26, latest 2.12.1) drops Windows 7, raises MSRV to 1.90 and adds webview permission handling. Tauri 3 is in alpha (alpha.0 on 2026-09-13), with a pluggable runtime (wry or CEF) and MSRV 1.95. Stay on 2.x for production.