Release Notification - 95.7.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 95.7.x-pre

• Update to latest CEF build
• Create release notes
• Update DevTools client API
• Create cefsharp/95 release branch
• Release -pre packages to nuget.org

Release 95.7.x

• Resolve remaining issues attached to 95 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 95.7.x packages to nuget.org

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This will be the second 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]

This will be the first version to have Chromium Site Isolation(#2967) enabled by default. You can of course disable site isolation as in previous releases if you experience problems. The xUnit tests are occasionally failing in LoadLegacyJavaScriptBindingQunitTestsSuccessfulCompletion, so those using Legacy Sync javascript binding might need to disable Chromium Site Isolation.

[amaitland]

The 95.7.140-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/95.7.140-pre
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf/95.7.140-pre
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen/95.7.140-pre

For .Net Core 3.1/.Net 5.0

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms.NETCore/95.7.140-pre
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf.NETCore/95.7.140-pre
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen.NETCore/95.7.140-pre

NOTE A minimum of .Net Core 3.1 is required.

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• The CefSharp.MinimalExample/tree/cefsharp/95 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 95.7.141 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/95.7.141
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf/95.7.141
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen/95.7.141

For .Net Core 3.1/.Net 5.0

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms.NETCore/95.7.141
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf.NETCore/95.7.141
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen.NETCore/95.7.141

NOTE A minimum of .Net Core 3.1 is required.

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• The CefSharp.MinimalExample/tree/cefsharp/95 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.