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⚡ Features

• [All] webview.create_window(maximized=False) Create a window in a maximized state. Thanks @vsajip
• [All] webview.create_window(screen=screen_instance) Create a window on a specific monitor, where screen is a screen returned by window.screens. Thanks @louisnw01
• [All] Window title can be obtained / set via window.title.

🚀 Improvements

• [All] Window closing event fired after closing confirmation #1178. Thanks @p4bl0-
• [All] Improve performance of JS API calls by removing the initial delay of 100ms.
• [GTK] Native JS Bridge. HTTP server based JS bridge is removed.
• [GTK] Remove support for Webkit older than 2.2

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Easy drag memory leak #1176
• [Winforms] Easy drag support #1125
• [Winforms] Incorrect DPI scaling
• [Winforms] Private mode not working if webview.screens is returned before webview.start #1193
• [QT] Add no sandbox for arch/manjaro/nixos to avoid white screen problem #890. Thanks @myuanz
• [GTK] Closing event handlers cancellation. Thanks @p4bl0-
• [GTK] SEGFAULT on second webview.start() call #1063. Thanks @PercentBoat4164

• [All] Fix 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'start_server'. #1159

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Fix installation.

⚡ Features

• [All] webview.create_window(focus=False) to create a non-focusable window. Thanks @mi4code #1030.

🚀 Improvements

• [All] Modernization of project infrastructure + typing. Thanks @demberto.
• [Winforms] Top level menu item support. Thanks @zhengxiaoyao0716.
• [Winforms] Disable touchpad elastic overscroll. Thanks @firai.

🐞 Bug fixes

• [Winforms] Unable to load DLL 'WebView2Loader.dll': The specified module could not be found. Thanks @kawana77b #1078
• [Cocoa] Add missing pip dependency pyobjc-framework-security.

Released 02/05/2023

⚡ Features

• [Cocoa/QT/GTK] SSL support for built-in http server webview.start(ssl=True). Thanks @keredson

🚀 Improvements

• [All] JS API exceptions are now printed both in Python and Javascript consoles.
• [All] Hide menu bar when there is no menu. Thanks @Joffreybvn

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Fix bug where http_port was not being forwarded to the actual window #1060. Thanks @robb-brown
• [All] Switch from tempfile to os.devnull to fix PyInstaller issue. Thanks @simonrob
• [Cocoa] Fix getting cookies in cocoa. Thanks @eerimoq
• [Cocoa] Fix exception occurring when main menu for application cannot be obtained.
• [Windows] A more robust logic for setting user data directory. Thanks @al-eax
• [Windows] Fix exception when executing a menu function
• [Windows] Fix the title and message of the confirmation dialog. Thanks @zhengxiaoyao0716

🚀 Improvements

• [All] HTTP server is now multithreaded. This should prevent stalled requests. #1025
• [Windows] webview.start(storage_path) can now be set in private mode. This can be useful if you do not have write access to EdgeChromium default data directory and get 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED) error. #1026

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Fix AttributeError: module 'webview.http' has no attribute 'running' exception occurring when multiple windows are opened. Thanks @YidaozhanYa. #1024
• [Winforms] Fix on_top not having any effect on Windows. #1036
• [Winforms] Fix create_window(hidden=True) makes the show() command not work #1050
• [Windows] Fix pyinstaller compatibility on Windows. Thanks @simonrob #1044
• [CEF] Fix window.get_cookies() throwing KeyError exception. #1021
• [Cocoa] Fix non-QWERTY keyboard shortcuts. Thanks @max-uho
• [QT] Fix web inspector preventing to open. #1028
• [GTK] Fix "ImportError: Requiring namespace 'Soup' version '2.4', but '3.0' is already loaded" Thanks @YidaozhanYa #1041

🚀 Improvements

• [All] Suppress HTTP server logging if not in debug mode.

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Fix HTTP server starting twice with a single window. Thanks @robb-brown.

💔 BREAKING CHANGES

• [All] Window events are moved into window.events namespace. window.loaded, window.shown etc no longer work.
• EdgeHTML support is removed.

⚡ Features

• [All] Local homegrown HTTP server is replaced with bottle.py. Thanks @robb-brown for WSGI support.
• [All] Native application menu support. See examples/menu.py for usage example. Thanks @sardination
• [All] webview.start(private_mode=True, storage_path=None) Private mode and persistant storage support in a non-private mode. Private mode is enabled by default.
• [All] webview.create_window(zoomable=False) Enable / disable zooming on webpage. Disabled by default.
• [All] webview.create_window(draggable=False) Enable / disable dragging of IMG and A elements. Disabled by default.
• [All] webview.create_confirmation_dialog(title, content) creates a confirmation (Ok, Cancel) dialog. Thanks @sardination.
• [All] window.get_cookies() retrieve all the cookies (including HttpOnly) for the current webpage.
• [macOS] webview.create_window(vibancy=False) Window vibrancy suppport. macOS only. Thanks @CahierX.

🚀 Improvements

• [All] Local relative URLs (eg. src/index.html) are opened using the built-in http server by default. Support for local URLs is still possible using file:// schema
• [Cocoa] Disable Ctrl+click context menu. Thanks @ecpost.
• [EdgeChromium] Improve evaluate_js performance.
• [GTK] Enable media / audio / WebGL / clipboard related WebKit features

🐞 Bug fixes

• [Cocoa] Fix passing through keyboard events handled by pywebview. Thanks @ecpost.
• [GTK] Fix JS bridge maximum return object size limitation. GTK's JS bridge is implemented via HTTP server.
• [GTK] Fix hanging problem during window closing when JS evaluation is in progress

Released 16/11/2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Fix missing libraries from the previous release

🚀 Improvements

• [Windows / Linux] Devtools is automatically opened in debug mode.
• [EdgeChromium] Browser shortcut keys are disabled by default

🐞 Bug fixes

• [Edge Chromium] Better platform detection

🚀 Improvements

• [Edge Chromium] ARM64 support