new release: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.3

[Ashish Kulkarni]

Hello,

I'd like to announce the release of wkhtmltopdf 0.12.3, which has generic linux binaries and a few improvements/bugfixes. You can get it from the downloads page, as usual -- it is recommended for all users of 0.12.x to upgrade to 0.12.3 immediately. This release comes exactly 1 year and 1 day after the previous release, for which the inspiration was this quote:

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife -- chopping off what's incomplete 
and saying: "Now, it's complete because it's ended here."

Changes since the last release:

• [qt] upgrade the patched Qt to the last Qt 4.8 commit
• removed support for CentOS 5 builds
• update OpenSSL to 1.0.2e and xz to 5.2.2 and libjpeg to 9b
• downgrade libpng to 1.2.56
• #1843: add --keep-relative-links and --resolve-relative-links to resolve relative links
• #1981: fix temporary PDF files not being removed when writing to stdout
• #2104: renamed COPYING to LICENSE
• #2183: apply --javascript-delay settings for non-main resource loaders
• #2190: do not depend on ICU even if it is already installed
• #2194: [qt] fix debugging of Qt/WebKit due to missing debug information
• #2214: [qt] fix broken rendering of transparent images when converting to PDF
• #2252: fix ownership of /usr/local being changed during installation on OS X
• #2280: do not allow data URIs for --header-html or --footer-html
• #2322: fix broken debug builds with MSVC
• #2355: add support for proxy bypass for specific hosts with --bypass-proxy-for
• #2418: fix build error on OS X
• #2560: allow using email address as proxy username
• #2572: fix incorrect version detection when building distro-specific packages

Regards,
Ashish

[bakiaba...@gmail.com]

Hi Ashish,

Many thanks for the new release and for informing us about it. Could you please help us with a question.

We are currently using  wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.2 to generate PDFs in a web application. Our application is hosted on 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2. We wish all the wkhtmltopdf flags in our application to remain intact when we upgrade to wkhtmltopdf 0.12.3.

In your expert opinion, will the flags that we use in wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.2 behave exactly the same after we install wkhtmltopdf 0.12.3?

Thank you.

BKBK

Op woensdag 20 januari 2016 16:05:55 UTC+1 schreef Ashish Kulkarni:

[Subhash Kamath]

Hi Ashish,

I tried to install this version on Win7 , but had problems installing it. The installer would hang for no apparent reason and would also remain in memory.

Secondly when it finally did get installed ( I have added it to my PATH).

running the file wkhtmltopdf    on the command prompt just hangs even if I type -H or -V options.

Can somebody point me to the issue if you have faced and resolved it.

Thanks

Subhash K