NW.js v0.18.0-beta1 Released with Chromium Beta 54

2016/09/13

We're pleased to announce NW.js 0.18.0-beta1 in beta branch.

Chromium 54 beta contains under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, and some cool new features to explore. See the upstream announcement for more information. NW18 also features V8 5.4, which has some exciting improvements on performance and memory consumption.

We've made the 0.18 branch ready soon after Chromium beta bumps to 54. Please try it and give your valuable feedback.

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.

Download

SDK build:

Binary for other platforms: https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.18.0-beta1/

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/

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/wPg-nwPkIOk/mIJ5R52UAAAJ