v53.0.0

October 10, 2016, Chromium 53.0 / CEF 3.2785.1482 (Chromium 53.0.2785.116)

• #1002 WPF: ChromiumWebBrowser as child to ScrollViewer prevent focus of HTML elements [@amaitland]
• #1634 WPF, OffScreen GPU Problems [@amaitland]
• #1683 SetFocus AccessViolation [@amaitland]
• #1720 Feature Request - Update BrowserSubProcess to be Per-monitor DPI aware [@amaitland]
• #1729 anonymous function callback inside an object parameter [@Tuxan]
• #1734 Offscreen popup (dropdown list) merge with the background browser. [@valentin-deschaintre]
• #1748 Feature Request - Add IBrowserProcessHandler.OnScheduleMessagePumpWork [@amaitland]
• #1749 Feature - Add IBinder [@amaitland]
• #1753 Configure directory where msbuild will copy CefSharp files [@intrueder]
• #1764 Fix LifeSpanHandler not Called During Dispose [@dpbackes]
• #1774 PostBuild error on CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess [@amaitland]
• #1775 Dropdown list no longer opens [@amaitland]
• #1780 CefSettings Duplicate Args exception [@amaitland]
• #1788 Fixing nullreferenceexception on ControlExtensions.IsActive [@smcilveen]
• #1790 NullReferenceException from SchemeHandlerFactoryWrapper.Create [@justin-caldicott]
• #1820 VS2015 Unable to build in Debug mode [@amaitland]

Notes

• Chromium has removed support for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
  https://chrome.googleblog.com/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platform-support.html
• Due to licensing issues default builds do not support proprietary codecs like H264 and MP3, sites like Netflix/Twitter/Instagram won't play video/audio.

Known Issues

• WPF/Offscreen PDF rendering isn't working see #1799 for tracking of the problem and possible workarounds. Will require an upstream fix in CEF.
• WinForms when running on Windows 10 Anniversary pressing certain key combinations freezes the browser see #1822 The issue has been reported upstream.
• When running on older CPUs that don't support vmovaps your application will crash. This only affects x64 builds see #1819 for details. Either use an x86 build or rollback to a previous version for now.
• See https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aknown-issue for other known issues

Breaking Changes

• Cef.OnContextInitialized has been moved and is now part of the IBrowserProcessHandler interface.
• Cef.Initialize param shutdownOnProcessExit has been removed (It wasn't used).
• Cef.Initialize now takes optional IBrowserProcessHandler interface
• CefSettings.EnableInternalPdfViewerOffScreen() has been removed, see known issues above.
• CefSharp requires at least .Net 4.5.2 (Last version to support .Net 4.0 is 49)