NW.js v0.23.0 Released with Chromium 59 Stable Upgrade and Node.js 8

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Roger

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Jun 5, 2017, 9:42:01 PM6/5/17

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We're pleased to announce NW.js 0.23.0 with Chromium 59 stable upgrade and Node.js 8.

Chromium 59 features Headless Chromium and Native notifications on macOS. See the upstream announcement for more information.

In this version, we deliever the same thing as upstream headless browser to support the usage in upstream, and we'll continue our plan for this. In the meantime, we're still collecting users requirements. Please join the discussion if you have anything needed beyond the upstream usage scenario.

0.23 also delivers huge improvements in the JavaScript Source Protection feature by default, see our previous blog post on this.

We've made the 0.23 branch ready soon after Chromium beta bumps to 59. Thanks to the testers for their valuable feedback. We've been working on 3 branches simultaneously: a released branch on current Chromium stable, a beta branch on Chromium beta and a 0.14 branch for legacy OS support.

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 59.0.3071.86
Update Node.js to v8.0.0
Add support for chrome://extensions WebUI in SDK flavor
Fix: Cannot require 'https' module in Web Worker (#5918)

Full ChangeLog: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/blob/nw23/CHANGELOG.md

Download

SDK build:

Binary for other platforms: https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.23.0/

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

Roger Wang

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Jun 5, 2017, 9:58:27 PM6/5/17

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The release notes on nwjs.io was just updated with link to newest upstream release notes and mentioning about the new image capture API.