NW.js v0.13.0-beta4 Release Notes

We are pleased to announce NW.js 0.13.0-beta4. The major target of this release is updating Chromium to 48 branch and Node.js to latest 5.4.1. The list of changelog is short and we'll keep fixing reported issues in the following frequent releases.

Chromium 48 brings exciting changes including custom buttons in the notification; VP9 as the codec for WebRTC, see http://blog.chromium.org/2015/12/chrome-48-beta-present-to-cast-devices_91.html . You can use them in your NW app today.

If you're new to this major new beta version 0.13, please read http://nwjs.io/blog/v0.13.0-beta1/

ChangeLog

Update Chromium to 48.0.2564.82
Update Node.js to 5.4.1
[OSX] Fix process.nextTick in some cases
[OSX] Fix hidden window title (#4186)
ported nw.App.fullArgv
Fix: nw.App.quit() does nothing when use JS file as main (#4227)

Download

SDK build:

NaCl build and other platforms: http://dl.nwjs.io/v0.13.0-beta4/

There are 3 builds for each platform - normal build, sdk build and Nacl 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 http://dl.nwjs.io/live-build/

Known issues

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