NW.js v0.112.0 Released with Chromium 149

[Kevin Fan]

We are pleased to announce NW 0.112.0 with Chromium 149.

In this release, the pointer lock behavior has been improved: ESC no longer automatically ends pointer lock. Instead, the ESC key event reaches the renderer during pointer lock so JavaScript can call event.preventDefault() in the keydown handler to keep the lock. The lock is only broken when the page does not consume the event. The 1.25s cooldown on re-lock has also been removed (#7907).

In NW v0.112, Chromium 149 contains usual under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new features to explore. It supports CSS gap decorations for grid and flexbox layouts, Programmatic scroll promises returning Promise objects for smooth-scroll completion, CSS path-length property for SVG animation and styling and much more. Please check upstream release notes for details. For a complete list of all features (including experimental features) in this release, see the Chrome 149 milestone hotlist.

We've made the 0.112 branch ready soon after Chromium beta bumps to 149. 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 149.0.7827.29
• Fix: disable ESC to automatically end requestPointerLock by calling event.preventDefault() in keydown handler (#7907)

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

Download

• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.112.0/nwjs-v0.112.0-win-x64.zip
• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.112.0/nwjs-v0.112.0-osx-arm64.zip
• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.112.0/nwjs-v0.112.0-linux-x64.tar.gz

SDK build:

• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.112.0/nwjs-sdk-v0.112.0-win-x64.zip
• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.112.0/nwjs-sdk-v0.112.0-osx-arm64.zip
• https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.112.0/nwjs-sdk-v0.112.0-linux-x64.tar.gz

Binary for other platforms: https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.112.0/

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/