v67.0.0

September 5, 2018, CEF 3.3396.1786.gd3e36d0 / Chromium 67.0.3396.79

Visual C++ 2015 is now required, see Breaking Changes below for more information

• #2277 CefFileDialogMode should probably not have [Flags] [@fuzzykiller]
• #2300 WPF Address Binding causing Error Aborted [@amaitland]
• #2408 WPF/OffScreen Mouse wheel becomes unresponsive [@amaitland]
• #2428 Fix possible null reference of RenderHandler [@DamirAinullin]
• #2431 WPF/OffScreen require setting windowless_rendering_enabled in 67+ [@amaitland]
• #2448 Feature Request - Add IRequestContextHandler.OnRequestContextInitialized [@amaitland]
• #2463 OffScreen - Remove BrowserSettings property [@amaitland]
• #2466 Feature Request - JSB throw exception if Window/Form/Control is bound [@amaitland]
• #2468 Feature Request - IFocusHandler should expose IBrowser [@amaitland]
• #2470 Feature Request - IDownloadHandler Add IWebBrowser param [@amaitland]
• #2474 GetScreenInfo - Allow setting of Rect/AvaliableRect [@alfein]
• #2477 Move CefSettings into Wpf, WinForms and Offscreen namespaces [@amaitland]
• #2480 Add OSR AccessiblityHandler [@igor-eremyashev]

Notes

• Chromium has removed support for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. See https://chrome.googleblog.com/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platform-support.html
• MP3 audio is now supported by default.
• Due to licensing issues default builds do not support proprietary codecs like H264/AAC, sites like Netflix/Twitter/Instagram/Facebook won't play video/audio. See #1479 for more info.
• CEF has switched from using breakpad to crashpad for error reporting see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/wiki/CrashReporting.md for details, make sure you set ExternalHandler=CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe
• Anyone new to CefSharp should read the General Usage Guide
• This project uses GitLink for better debugging, see #1680
• The chrome_elf.dll is now required, it's used for crashpad (crash reporting).
• SharedBufferArray should be disabled in this release, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer and https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2360/sharedarraybuffer-enabled-so-cef-3112-3282

Known Issues

• WPF/OffScreen the PDF viewer crashes when you hover over the controls, see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2488/cef-crashes-in-osr-when-opening-pdf-for
• WinForms when running on Windows 10 Anniversary pressing certain key combinations freezes the browser see #1822 The issue has been reported upstream, there are workarounds listed in #1822
• Registered JavaScript objects get lost when navigating to another domain (#1203), see #2247 for details on the new implementation.
• WinForms version in certain scenarios fails to load the Url passed into the ChromiumWebBrowser constructor, see #2234 (comment) for workaround.
• WPF/Offscreen rendering stops redrawing on resize see upstream issue https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2370/cefrenderhandler-onpaint-stops-receiving
• See https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aknown-issue for other known issues

Breaking Changes

• CefSharp requires Visual C++ 2015 starting with this release. See #1983 for details. You can bin deploy the VC++ dependencies, read the FAQ for more.
• CefSettings has moved from CefSharp namespace, there are now specific versions in Wpf, WinForms and OffScreen namespaces, add the relevant namespace prefix or using statement, see #2477 for details.
• Cef.Initialize() (the paramaterless version) has been removed. You only need to explicitly call Cef.Initialze when you need to specify custom settings. See #2477
• IDialogHandler.OnFileDialog has an additional CefFileDialogFlags flags param, see #2280 for details.
• IFocusHandler methods now have additional params, see #2468
• IDownloadHandler methods now have additional params, see #2470