Electron backported the fix to Electron 1.7.10 (1.7.11 is current stable).
https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.7.10
Therefore I'm closing this bug. Note that freetype 2.8.1 is stuck in bionic-proposed because of a regression in libfont-freetype-perl's autopkgtests.
Electron backported the fix to Electron 1.7.10 (1.7.11 is current stable).
https:/ /github. com/electron/ electron/ releases/ tag/v1. 7.10
Therefore I'm closing this bug. Note that freetype 2.8.1 is stuck in bionic-proposed because of a regression in libfont- freetype- perl's autopkgtests.