v55.0.0

February 02, 2017, Chromium 55.0 / CEF 3.2883.1552(Chromium 55.0.2883.87)

• #1009 Feature Request - Add CefSSLInfo wrapper [@amaitland]
• #1680 Feature Request - Add support for GitLink [@amaitland]
• #1793 Feature Request - Add Ability to retrieve SSL certificate details [@amaitland]
• #1799 WPF/OffScreen PDF Viewer not working [@amaitland]
• #1801 Fix for browser subprocess crash with null reference exception. [@maloshuk]
• #1819 53 Crash running x64 build on processors that do not support vmovaps [@amaitland]
• #1875 Cannot inject script due to CSP (WPF Version) [@amaitland]
• #1876 Unable to customise path for the crash dump process (crashpad) [@amaitland]
• #1877 Added DownloadItem .OriginalUrl [@philipbeber]
• #1878 Add IRequestHandler.OnSelectClientCertificate [@smaranh]
• #1893 Feature Request - Release 55.0.0 [@amaitland]
• #1897 Humanify the ghostdoc comments [@barbeque]

Notes

• Chromium has removed support for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
  https://chrome.googleblog.com/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platform-support.html
• Due to licensing issues default builds do not support proprietary codecs like H264 and MP3, sites like Netflix/Twitter/Instagram won't play video/audio. See #1479 for more info.
• Issue when running x64 build on older CPUs that don't support vmovaps has been resolved see #1819 for details.
• CEF has switched from using breakpad to crashpad for error reporting see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/1995/migrate-from-breakpad-to-crashpad for details
• As part of this release a General Usage Guide has been added to the Wiki
• This release was funded using Bounty Source A big thank you to all those who contributed!
• This project now uses GitLink for better debugging, see #1680
• The chrome_elf.dll is now required, it's used for crashpad (crash reporting).

Known Issues

• WinForms when running on Windows 10 Anniversary pressing certain key combinations freezes the browser see #1822 The issue has been reported upstream, there are workarounds listed in #1822
• WPF/OffScreen PDF Scrolling isn't working properly with the mouse wheel see #1916 for details, needs to be fixed in CEF. Use the WinForms version hosted in WPF as a workaround for now.
• See https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aknown-issue for other known issues

Breaking Changes

• CefSharp requires at least .Net 4.5.2 (Last version to support .Net 4.0 is 49)
• Added isMainFrame to IRequestContextHandler.OnBeforePluginLoad (CEF API changed)