NW.js v0.117.0 Released with Chromium 154

[Kevin Fan]

We are pleased to announce NW 0.117.0 with Chromium 154.

This release fixes a FATAL crash ("Unknown API bluetoothPrivate") seen on real-world sites such as Amazon and Cloudflare, where the privileged self-extension exposed a ChromeOS-only API with no compiled schema (#8387).

In NW v0.117, Chromium 154 contains the usual under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new features to explore. It supports scroll-marker-group links and tabs modes for accessible carousels, text-decoration-inset and text-decoration-skip-spaces for finer control over text decorations, the FontFace width attribute and font-width descriptor, Iterator.prototype.includes(), an options bag for the WebSocket constructor, and post-quantum cryptography in WebCrypto (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and X-Wing). Please check upstream release notes for details. For a complete list of all features (including experimental features) in this release, see the Chrome 154 milestone hotlist.

We've made the 0.117 branch ready soon after Chromium beta bumps to 154. Thanks to the testers for their valuable feedback and bug reports. We've been working on 2 branches simultaneously: a released branch on the current Chromium stable and a beta branch on Chromium beta.

Best regards, NW.js maintainers

ChangeLog

• Update to Chromium 154.0.8037.58
• Fix: "Unknown API bluetoothPrivate" crash on real-world sites (#8387)

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

Download

• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.117.0/nwjs-v0.117.0-win-x64.zip
• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.117.0/nwjs-v0.117.0-osx-arm64.zip
• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.117.0/nwjs-v0.117.0-linux-x64.tar.gz

SDK build:

• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.117.0/nwjs-sdk-v0.117.0-win-x64.zip
• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.117.0/nwjs-sdk-v0.117.0-osx-arm64.zip
• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.117.0/nwjs-sdk-v0.117.0-linux-x64.tar.gz

Binary for other platforms: https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.117.0/

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/