NW.js v0.16.0 Released with Today's Chromium 52 Upgrade

2016/07/21

We are happy to release NW.js 0.16.0 with today's Chromium stable 52. Node.js is updated to v6.3.0. It also contains new features and bug fixes since 0.15.4.

Chromium 52 contains under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, and some cool new features to explore. See upstream blog for exciting new features and improvements in Chromium 52: http://blog.chromium.org/2016/06/chrome-52-beta-css-containment-simpler.html

We made the 0.16 branch ready soon after Chromium beta bumps to 52 in the same day. We've been working on 3 branches simultaneously: a released branch on current Chromium stable, a beta branch on Chromium beta and a LTS branch which will be supported for the next 2 years.

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 since v0.15.4

Update Chromium to 52.0.2743.82
Update Node.js to 6.3.0
Add App.clearAppCache(manifest_url) for clearing Application Cache (#4991)
Enable password autosaving for http auth dialog (#4966)
Margin option support for printer api (#5033)
Fix: nw is creating a file with the first command line argument it's opened with (#5097)
Fix: finding bundled pepper flash plugin (#5068)
Fix: Silent printing with win.print() for pdfs (#5002)
Fix: Permission Denied error when using chrome.bluetoothLowEnergy API (#5010)
Fix: [OSX] Choose directory dialog shows "Upload" instead of "Select" (#5058)
Fix: menu bar background (#4851)
Fix: send positions arguments to click event handler of Tray (#1874)
Fix: DesktopCaptureMonitor desktop stream does not get AudioTrack (#5029)
Fix: crash in win.showDevTools() with string id (#5061)
Fix: webview.clearData crash (#5087)
Fix: Buffer encoding handling with input from DOM elements (#5069)
Fix: Window resize event returns undefined for height (#4993)
Fix: can not remove shortcut key at menuItem (#5026)
Fix: win.showDevTools crash with empty string id (#5061)
Updated win_delay_load_hook.c to work with node-gyp@3.4.0 (#5088)
[docs] margins for Window.print()
[docs] Native Module building in nw15 and later
[docs] fixed typos for docs (#5091)
[docs] updated Quick Start section for "Package and Distribute" (#5054)

Full ChangeLog: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/blob/nw16/CHANGELOG.md

Download

SDK build:

Binary for other platforms: http://dl.nwjs.io/v0.16.0/

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. The NaCl build flavor in 0.14 and 0.13 was dropped due to very low usage and feedback

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

Discussion

See our mailing list to discuss on this release: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nwjs-general/WCMz1BlHXKs/MKCfWBnqAgAJ