Crosswalk 8 Release Notes

Crosswalk 8.37.189.2 Beta

New Features

• Rebased to [Chromium 37.0.2062.20] (http://www.chromestatus.com/features) which brings:

  • <dialog> element
  • CSS Shapes Module Level 1
  • Navigator.hardwareConcurrency
  • NavigatorLanguage: navigator.languages and languagechange event
  • Subpixels font scaling
  • [Web Crypto API] (http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/)

• Initial support of http://w3c.github.io/manifest/

Android

• Support for Copy/Paste
• [W3C Gamepad API] (http://www.w3.org/TR/gamepad/) (on devices that support it in the MotionEvent API - so far tested on Nexus 7 and Nexus 5 with Android 4.4.2)
• Pluggable extensions for embedded Crosswalk
• [Embedding API v2.1] (https://crosswalk-project.org/apis/embeddingapidocs_v2/reference/org/xwalk/core/package-summary.html)
• ~30% performance improvement when transferring large blocks of data with extensions

Notable bug fixes

• [XWALK-1037] - Open web pages in default browser instead of in-app browsing
• [XWALK-1348] - Fail to get correct value of “client.statusText” when running “WebAPI/xmlhttprequest” on Android OS
• [XWALK-1408] - Resource timing data contains negative values when running “Use Case/ResourceTiming” on Android OS
• [XWALK-1833] - [REG]Crosswalk crashed when running “WebAPI/getUserMedia” component on Android OS
• [XWALK-1931] - [REG] Webapp 100% crashes on Android Crosswalk if no SD card on test device
• [XWALK-1952] - Native filesystem API initialize crash for cordova
• [XWALK-1970] - XWalkView shows a white background momentarily as the app starts and stops from the task switcher
• [XWALK-2010] - Hook the native destroying into GC
• [XWALK-2053] - "version" field in manifest should not be mandatory and should be renamed to "xwalk_version"
• [XWALK-2059] - The scroll experience is poor when scrolling a rich and long page
• [XWALK-2135] - [Android] make apk doesn't take alias password as argument
• [XWALK-2292] - App goes into full screen mode after switching from Android task manager