CefSharp v81.3.20-pre Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-05-10 // almost 4 years ago-
May 10, 2020, January 29, 2020, CEF 81.3.2+gb9282cc+chromium-81.0.4044.138 / Chromium 81.0.4044.138
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CEF
now supports theChromium Network Service
which brings a huge number of breakingAPI
changes, please make sure you read #2743 for details if you are upgrading from a version prior to75.1.x
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Visual C++ 2015
is required, seeNotes
below for more information๐ For changes see the 81.3.x Milestone
Notes
- ๐
CefSharp
requiresVisual C++ 2015
. See #1983 for details. You can bin deploy theVC++
dependencies, read theFAQ
for more details. - โก๏ธ
Chromium
has removed support forWindows XP
,Windows Vista
,Windows Server 2003
andWindows Server 2008
. See https://chrome.googleblog.com/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platform-support.html - Starting in June 2019 Google will require OAuth authentication when accessing web services that rely only Google Account Data, this includes Gmail, Drive, Docs, see https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/better-protection-against-man-in-middle.html?m=1 for further discussion see https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/embedder-dev/STyM5ZNTHMM/POj1v_cqBgAJ
- ๐ Due to licensing issues default builds do not support proprietary codecs like
H264/AAC
, sites likeNetflix/Twitter/Instagram/Facebook
won't play video/audio. See #1479 for more info.MP3
audio is supported,MP4
video is not. - Anyone new to
CefSharp
should read the General Usage Guide - ๐ This project uses
GitLink
for better debugging, you can step directly into much of the project source directly fromVisual Studio
see #1680 for details on how to enableGitLink
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WPF
now has touch support which is enabled by default. Support for Stylus is not enabled by default, see #228 (comment) for further details - ๐ CEF now supports
Print Preview
see #2332 for details on how to enable it (WinForms
only) - ๐ CEF now supports range requests for ResourceHandlers see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2836/cefstreamreader-createforfile for details.
Known Issues
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WinForms
when running onWindows 10 Anniversary
pressing certain key combinations freezes the browser see #1822 The issue has been reportedupstream
, there are workarounds listed in #1822 - ๐
Save as PDF
is not working when viewing PDF with Print Preview enabled see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2867/save-as-pdf-is-not-working-in-pdf-viewer - ๐ WPF Browser goes blank if used in combination with TabControl see #2779
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CefSettings.IgnoreCertificateErrors
no longer works, use theignore-certificate-errors
command line arg as a workaround or alternatively useOnCertificateError
to selectively allow a certificate and/or display a dialog to your users see https://stackoverflow.com/a/35564187/852806 for an example. - ๐ See https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aknown-issue for other known issues
๐ฅ Breaking Changes
- ๐ For
Network Service API
changes see #2743 - All paths (CachePath, BrowserSubProcessPath, etc) must be absolute paths, if using a non-absolute path an exception will be throw. See #3102 for details.
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CefErrorCode
enumerator has been updated see #3106 - 0๏ธโฃ
Adobe Flash
is now disabled by default, it can be re-enabled if required #3048
โฑ (Flash support is scheduled to be removed from Chromium) AbstractCefSettings
was renamed toCefSettingsBase
#3093- ๐ See also https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Abreaking-change+milestone%3A81.3.x+is%3Aclosed
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