NW.js v0.36.0 Released with Chromium 72 and Node.js 11.8.0

2019/01/31

I'm excited to announce NW.js 0.36.0 stable release. It ships Chromium 72 and Node.js v11.8.0.

Chromium 72 contains usual under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new features to explore. It supports Public class fields, user activation API, screen capturing for WebRTC, Web Authentication for U2F/CTAP2 FIDO BLE and Windows devices and more. Please check Chromium blog and v8 blog for details. For a complete list of all features (including experimental features) in this release, see the Chrome 72 milestone hotlist.

We made the 0.36 branch ready soon after Chromium beta bumped to 72. Thanks to the testers for their valuable feedback and bug reports. We've been working on 2 branches simultaneously: a released branch on current Chromium stable and a beta branch on Chromium beta.

ChangeLog

Update Chromium to 72.0.3626.81
Update Node.js to v11.8.0
support NW_PRE_ARGS environment variable
nw2: macOS: fix Cmd-Q with user menu bar
nw2: disable ExtensionDevToolsInfoBar
[macos] ship libffmpeg with sdk; move libffmpeg location in bundle
[docs] NW_PRE_ARGS environment variable

Download

SDK build:

Binary for other platforms: https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.36.0/

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/

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/bTsOlujDz9E/wX8GdgjaHgAJ