Funding Request - Release 75.0.0

[amaitland]

As always a big thank you to those who have contributed previously and especially those who make recurring contributions through BountySource Salt.

Again I'm asking for funding to continue my work on maintaining/developing CefSharp. As some of you may well know I'm currently a stay at home dad and spend a fairly large amount of time (roughly 10-12hrs per week) developing and supporting the project. Your contributions are the only reason I'm allowed to continue working on the project. Without continued funding the time I currently spend on the project will have to be put into finding other paid work.

There are multiple options for contributing at this time:

• Contribute an amount towards the Bounty on this issue
• Recurring contribution through BountySource Salt
• Recurring contribution through Patreon
• A one time contribution through BountySource
• A one time contribution through Paypal at https://paypal.me/AlexMaitland

If you'd like to made a donation through Paypal directly, I'll happily reduce the target accordingly.

The milestone is https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=milestone%3A75.0.0+

Release 75.0.0-pre01

• Chromium NetworkService API Changes Chromium NetworkService API Changes #2743
• Create cefsharp/75 release branch

Release 75.0.0

When 100% of target reached

• Resolve remaining issues attached to 75 Milestone
• Update changelog and create release notes
• Generate new API Doc and upload to http://cefsharp.github.io/api/
• Release 75.0.0 pacakges to nuget.org

[amaitland]

A large amount of work has already gone into upgrading to the latest version of CEF with a fairly major rewrite of large parts of the API required due to Chromium switching to a new Network Service. The relevant upstream issue is https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2622/implement-support-for-networkservice

See #2743 for CefSharp specific details, the API changes should be complete, there is still a large amount of work involved in documenting all the breaking changes.

[nocanstillbb]

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[jankurianski]

My company, Displayr, donated to the overall project before we realised that there was a specific issue bounty: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/cefsharp

Either way, thanks for all your hard work @amaitland 👍

[amaitland]

My company, Displayr, donated to the overall project before we realised that there was a specific issue bounty

Thank you! All goes to the same place.

Either way, thanks for all your hard work @amaitland

@jankurianski Really appreciated your continued support, so greatly appreciated!

[amaitland]

I will prepare the -pre release after upgrading to the latest version of CEF.

The number of issues with the Network Service keeps growing, so we might ship with it disabled by default, see #2743 (comment) for the issues that I'm currently aware of, there might be a few more that are relevant, I'll update #2743 with all the details.

Before the -pre release I'll need to finish the list of breaking changes in #2743, hopefully that will be ready in the next day or two.

[amaitland]

I had planned to to create the first -pre release yesterday, some problems with AppVeyor meant the final build didn't actually happen. Checked today and there's some relevant CEF bug fixes in regard to the NetworkService, so I'll upgrade hopefully tomorrow when the build is available and release the -pre packages then.

[amaitland]

More network service related fixes landed yesterday and today, I have and upgraded build from yesterday, this doesn't include three bug fixes. I'll hold off a little longer until I can upgrade to a build with these changes. Review the commits at https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/commits/branch/3770

[amaitland]

The -pre release has been tagged https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/releases/tag/v75.1.140-pre01
Packages are on MyGet currently.

The MinimalExample has been upgraded https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp.MinimalExample/tree/cefsharp/75

Still a few more tests to perform before pushing to Nuget.org

[amaitland]

Packages are on Nuget.org see

https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen/75.1.140-pre01
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf/75.1.140-pre01
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms/75.1.140-pre01

There are many many breaking changes as CEF has added support for using a Network Service (network requests are run in their own process). See #2743 for more details. As part of this I am tracking a list of upstream issues see #2743 (comment)

The release notes are https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/releases/tag/v75.1.140-pre01

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

Google are also starting to block direct signin requests when using CEF.

[amaitland]

Somewhat unexpectedly CEF has merged a fix into the 3770 branch, to fix issue https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2740/cefsettings-root_cache_path-is-not

If an updated built becomes available on http://opensource.spotify.com/cefbuilds/index.html (I'm fairly hopefuly that it will) then I'll upgrade before the final release.

[amaitland]

API is now available at http://cefsharp.github.io/api/75.1.x/index.html

[amaitland]

If an updated built becomes available on http://opensource.spotify.com/cefbuilds/index.html (I'm fairly hopefully that it will) then I'll upgrade before the final release.

No build as yet, I've asked https://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16983 to see what the chances are.

If the answer is no then I'll finalise the official 75 release ASAP.

[amaitland]

If the answer is no then I'll finalise the official 75 release ASAP.

There won't be another 3770 build via the spotify build server. The fix only requires changes to a header file, seeing if I can hack something together to apply the change during build.

[amaitland]

Unfortunately just changing the header wasn't sufficent, looks like the whole libcefwrapper needed to be recompiled.

Instead of delaying any further I've created and pushed version 75.1.141 to Nuget.org.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen/75.1.141
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf/75.1.141
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms/75.1.141

The MinimalExample has been upgraded as well.

Note the version number increment, I've decided to increase the version for each -pre release and official release. This keeps the version numbers unique for the assemblies previously 73.1.140-pre01 and 73.1.140 would have had the exact same assembly version numbering.

[amaitland]

I've started updating https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/General-Usage

Still outstanding:

• Update https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/General-Usage#request-context-browser-isolation to add reference to the new RootCachePath requirement.

[amaitland]

A 75.1.142 bug fix release is out, see https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/releases/tag/v75.1.142
The nuget packages are available
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen/75.1.142
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf/75.1.142
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms/75.1.142

Closing this issue now as the official release has been out for a while now.