NW.js v0.36.0-beta1 Released with Chromium Beta 72

2018/12/19

I'm excited to announce NW.js 0.36.0-beta1 in beta branch. It ships Chromium Beta 72 and Node.js v11.5.0.

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 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've made the 0.36 branch ready soon after Chromium beta bumps to 72. Please try it and give your valuable feedback. We've been working on 2 branches simultaneously: a released branch on current Chromium stable and a beta branch on Chromium beta.

Download

SDK build:

Binary for other platforms: https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.36.0-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/ibhDyOLJx4E/TKR5BklcEQAJ