Release Notification - 94.4.x

[amaitland]

Due to upstream changes starting in version 93 the minimum VC++ version has changed from 2015 to 2019 see #3636 for details.

Release 94.3.x-pre

• Update to latest CEF build
• Create release notes
• Update resource type https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/commits/1c8e13da00d69fe1fb20cbbf6995517ee8d150e8
• Update DevTools client API
• Create cefsharp/94 release branch
• Release -pre packages to nuget.org

Release 94.4.x

• Resolve remaining issues attached to 94 Milestone
• Create release notes
• Update General Usage API doc links
• Update Issue Template CEF Sample application links
• Generate new API Doc and upload to http://cefsharp.github.io/api/
• Release 94.4.x packages to nuget.org
• Update Output files description table (Redistribution) Wiki to include new SwANGLE dlls.

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This will be the first version to support BackforwardCache.

BackForwardCache is currently being tested via field trials (see
https://crbug.com/1171298) and can be explicitly disabled using the
--disable-back-forward-cache or --disable-features=BackForwardCache
command-line flags. The default behavior now matches the Chrome runtime.

CEF now has BFCache enabled by default. Relevant commit. In the short term you can disable if required.

[amaitland]

The 94.3.0-pre release packages have been pushed to Nuget.org and should be available shortly.

All packages require Visual C++ 2019

For the .Net 4.5.2 and above

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms/94.3.0-pre
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf/94.3.0-pre
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen/94.3.0-pre

For .Net Core 3.1/.Net 5.0

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms.NETCore/94.3.0-pre
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf.NETCore/94.3.0-pre
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen.NETCore/94.3.0-pre

NOTE A minimum of .Net Core 3.1 is required (for .Net 3.0 which is no longer supported by Microsoft you'll need to use the older packages).

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• The CefSharp.MinimalExample/tree/cefsharp/94 branch has been created for testing purposes.
• For .Net Core/5 the Ijwhost.dll file is required, see below for details

Known Issues

• Older Non-SdkStyle projects (packages.config) when using VS2017 still have issues when opening a fresh checkout workaround I had attempted didn't work (details in Nuget Package Restructure #3319 (comment)). For now closing/opening the project will resolve the issue. A message is displayed to the build output log when the files weren't copied as expected.

Ijwhost.dll
To support C++/CLI libraries in .NET Core, ijwhost was created as a shim for finding and loading the runtime. All C++/CLI libraries are linked to this shim, such that ijwhost.dll is found/loaded when the C++/CLI library is loaded.

[amaitland]

The 94.4.20 release packages have been pushed to Nuget.org.

All packages require Visual C++ 2019

For the .Net 4.5.2 and above

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms/94.4.20
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf/94.4.20
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen/94.4.20

For .Net Core 3.1/.Net 5.0

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms.NETCore/94.4.20
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf.NETCore/94.4.20
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen.NETCore/94.4.20

NOTE A minimum of .Net Core 3.1 is required (for .Net 3.0 which is no longer supported by Microsoft you'll need to use the older packages).

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• The CefSharp.MinimalExample/tree/cefsharp/94 branch has been created for testing purposes.
• For .Net Core/5 the Ijwhost.dll file is required, see below for details

Known Issues

• Older Non-SdkStyle projects (packages.config) when using VS2017 still have issues when opening a fresh checkout workaround I had attempted didn't work (details in Nuget Package Restructure #3319 (comment)). For now closing/opening the project will resolve the issue. A message is displayed to the build output log when the files weren't copied as expected.

Ijwhost.dll
To support C++/CLI libraries in .NET Core, ijwhost was created as a shim for finding and loading the runtime. All C++/CLI libraries are linked to this shim, such that ijwhost.dll is found/loaded when the C++/CLI library is loaded.

[amaitland]

CEF will start shipping the dlls required for SwANGLE, the new software rendering implementation.

https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/3176/win-linux-ship-vk_swiftshaderdll-vulkan

These will be included in the next release. As a workaround until then you can use the following command line argument.

--use-gl=swiftshader

This only impacts on those using software rendering. Most will use GPU accelerated rendering.

[GrabzIt]

CEF will start shipping some the dlls required for the SwANGLE for the new software rendering implementation.

https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/3176/win-linux-ship-vk_swiftshaderdll-vulkan

These will be included in the next release. As a workaround until then you can use the following command line argument.

--use-gl=swiftshader

This only impacts on those using software rendering. Most will use GPU accelerated rendering.

Thanks @amaitland as usual! Please can you keep a record of this in the next or future releases? As this is important for my cefsharp implementation.

[amaitland]

Please can you keep a record of this in the next or future releases? As this is important for my cefsharp implementation.

@GrabzIt Sorry for the delayed reply. Going forward this shouldn't be required as the new SwANGLE dlls are included with version 94.4.50 and greater. Long as you ship the new dlls with your app then falling back to using SwiftShader shouldn't be nessicary.

• 'vk_swiftshader.dll'
• 'vk_swiftshader_icd.json'
• 'vulkan-1.dll'

Let me know if you have any problems with this.

[amaitland]

The 94.4.110 release packages have been pushed to Nuget.org.

All packages require Visual C++ 2019

For the .Net 4.5.2 and above

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms/94.4.110
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf/94.4.110
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen/94.4.110

For .Net Core 3.1/.Net 5.0

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms.NETCore/94.4.110
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf.NETCore/94.4.110
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen.NETCore/94.4.110

NOTE A minimum of .Net Core 3.1 is required (for .Net 3.0 which is no longer supported by Microsoft you'll need to use the older packages).

---

• The CefSharp.MinimalExample/tree/cefsharp/94 branch has been updated for testing purposes.
• For .Net Core/5 the Ijwhost.dll file is required, see below for details

Known Issues

• Older Non-SdkStyle projects (packages.config) when using VS2017 still have issues when opening a fresh checkout workaround I had attempted didn't work (details in Nuget Package Restructure #3319 (comment)). For now closing/opening the project will resolve the issue. A message is displayed to the build output log when the files weren't copied as expected.

Ijwhost.dll
To support C++/CLI libraries in .NET Core, ijwhost was created as a shim for finding and loading the runtime. All C++/CLI libraries are linked to this shim, such that ijwhost.dll is found/loaded when the C++/CLI library is loaded.