NW.js v0.17.2 Released with Today's Chromium 53 update

Roger Wang

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Sep 14, 2016, 9:44:40 AM9/14/16

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NW.js 0.17.2 is here with today's Chromium stable 53 update and bug fixes.

Following our release plan in 2016, we have released new major versions as soon as new Chromium stable release within 1 day. We've been working on 3 branches simultaneously: a released branch on current Chromium stable, a beta branch on Chromium beta and a LTS branch which will be supported for the next 2 years.

For more information on the new milestone 0.13 and later versions, please see our blog "What's New in 0.13" for a better introduction.

ChangeLog

Update Chromium to 53.0.2785.113
Fix: chrome.app.window.getall() broken with remote pages windows (#5181)
Fix: background page was destroyed when "main" points to remote pages (#5282)

Full changelog: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/blob/nw17/CHANGELOG.md

Download

SDK build:

Binaries for other platforms: https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.17.2/

There are 2 builds for each platform - normal build, and SDK build. Normal build doesn't have devtools, only SDK build does. lt can be opened by pressing F12 (Cmd-Alt-I on OSX). SDK packages also have more development tools to be exposed in the following releases, as well as the NaCl support.

Our build infrastructure enables live binary build from git tip so you can access to the latest binary from https://dl.nwjs.io/live-build/

Known issues

http://docs.nwjs.io/en/latest/For%20Users/Migration/From%200.12%20to%200.13/#known-issues

Ervin Kosch

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Sep 14, 2016, 1:44:21 PM9/14/16

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The 'please see our blog "What's New in 0.13"' link should be: http://nwjs.io/blog/v0.17.2/

The current link is point to a 192.x.x.x address.

Roger Wang

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Sep 14, 2016, 7:26:17 PM9/14/16

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Thanks. Will fix it in the next release.

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