5.3.2

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix Pyinstaller compatibility for non-Windows platforms #1508
• Error occurs when alert() is called with non-string arguments #1506

5.3.1

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix Pyinstaller compatibility

5.3

⚡ Features

• All Native window object for each platform is now exposed window.native. You can use it for example for applying custom appearance to a window. Additionally WebView is exposed via window.native.webview
• All New window.events.before_show event.
• All New DomEventHandler debounce parameter. It can be used it for solving performance issues with dragover and mouseover events.
• GTK/QT application icon support for GTK and QT platforms webview.start(icon=<path>)

🚀 Improvements

• All Storage path is now verified for write permissions before application start. An exception is thrown, if path is not writable.
• All Refined logic at which point of the startup procedure shown event is fired.
• Cocoa Better handling of stopping event loop in headless environments.
• Windows Fallback to WinForms when QT is forced and not available
• Windows Remove white border in a fullscreen window.
• Windows Support multiple selection in open folder dialog.

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Support for Unicode filenames in drag and drop. Thanks @hustshenl
• Cocoa Fix open file dialog file type selector and all files filter
• Cocoa Fix folder drag and drop. Thanks @pythons
• GTK Fix multiple file drag and drop on certain Linux distributions. Thanks @coffeejunk
• QT QT6 compatilibity
• QT Release of profile requested but WebEnginePage still not deleted with multiple windows
• Windows Graceful handling for shcore.dll not being present on Windows 7. Thanks @rafael-vasconcellos.
• Windows Return result of open folder dialog is fixed to tuple.
• Edge Chromium Current url not being updated after a navigation event. Thanks @hustshenl

5.2

🚀 Improvements

• All Replace print with logging in JS API exception handling.
• All Replace ssl.wrap_socket() with SSLContext().wrap_socket(). Thanks @lanzz
• WinForms Add a modern Vista open folder dialog. Thanks @v_yonghliao
• Winforms Fallback to Winforms when QT is forced, but not available.
• EdgeChromium Replace window.alert with a message box implementation.
• MSHTML Convert JS API code to ES5 to be compatible with MSHTML.

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Add missing return in DOM.body property. Thanks @lanzz.
• All Use json.dumps to serialise the html template in create_element. Thanks @lanzz
• All Fix ever-growing main menu bug. Thanks @lanzz
• All Change on_closing event handlers to be executed synchronously in order to prevent a deadlock when using thread join. #1439
• All Fix TypeError: unhashable type with certain unhashable object types exposed via JS API. #1442
• Cocoa Fix nil pointer dereference during file download. Thanks @realityone.
• EdgeChromium Support multiple pywebviews at the same time. Thanks @huan1936.
• QT QT6 compatibility.
• QT Fix devtools in PySide6. Thanks @TransparentLC
• QT Fix user agent.
• QT Fix segfault on window close.

5.1

⚡ Features

• All Clear all the cookies (including HttpOnly) with window.clear_cookies(). Sponsored by TBS
• All pywebview event handler can now have an optional window parameter that holds an instance of the Window object that triggered the event.

🚀 Improvements

• Windows Add window shadow with webview.create_window(..., shadow=True). Thanks @yllhwa

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Fix showing window
• QT Fix fetching cookies in private mode
• QT Fix blank screen in Pop! OS. Thanks @ysfchn.
• GTK Fix frameless windows having a hard-coded minimum size. Thanks @coffeejunk

5.0.5

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Prevent infinite recursion in nested JS API #1327
• CEF Crash due incorrect settings #1330
• QT WebEnginePage not deleted after window is closed #1328
• QT Blank screen on certain Linux systems #1325

5.0.4

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Python 3.7 compatibility

5.0.3

🚀 Improvements

• QT window position is returned in coordinates excluding the window frame to be in line with provided coordinates.

🐞 Bug fixes

• EdgeChromium CoreWebView2Settings exception in debug mode. #1323
• QT Crashing when closing additional windows #525
• QT DevTools failing to focus on open

5.0.1

⚡ Features

• Android support. pywebview can now be used on Android devices with help of buildozer in producing APK. #377
• DOM manipulation, traversal and events. pywebview provides a set of functions for mutating DOM nodes and traversing DOM, as well as you can subscribe to DOM events directly in Python. #1218
• Application settings webview.settings. You can now override default behaviour of pywebview by modifying this dictionary. Currently configurable settings include.

webview.settings = {
    'ALLOW_DOWNLOADS': False, # Allow file downloads
    'ALLOW_FILE_URLS': True, # Allow access to file:// urls
    'OPEN_EXTERNAL_LINKS_IN_BROWSER': True, # Open target=_blank links in an external browser
    'OPEN_DEVTOOLS_IN_DEBUG': True, # Automatically open devtools when `start(debug=True)`.
}

• Support for file downloads. To enable file downloads, set webview.settings['ALLOW_DOWNLOADS'] = True. Disabled by default.
• Full path support for file drag n drop. To get a full path of the dragged file, pywebview introduces event['domTransfer']['files'][0]['pywebviewFullPath'] value in the drop event caught on the Python side. To subscribe to the event you use window.dom.document.events.drop += on_drop.
• window.maximize() - maximize window.

🚀 Improvements

• All A more powerful JS data serializer capable of handling different data types and detecting circular references #1217
• All Nested JS API support. See examples/js_api.py for details. Thanks @AlecHaring
• All BREAKING: window.get_elements returns a list of instances of a new Element object.
• All BREAKING: evaluate_js throws a webview.errors.JavascriptException if executed codes raises an error
• Windows WebView2 control updated to 1.0.2045.28
• Windows Add SSL support for local HTTP server.
• GTK Update deprecated code

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Suppress secure coding is not enabled for restorable state warning. Thanks @awesomo4000
• EdgeChromium Background color not available in webview2. Thanks @Vanthys
• EdgeChromium Multiple focus events on window show. Thanks @yllhwa
• GTK Fallback for Webkit4.0 if 4.1 not found. Thanks @starnight.
• QT Fix user agent string. #1256 Thanks @TransparentLC.
• QT Solve the blank main window issue on RHEL9. Thanks @justincui #1266
• QT Submenu actions firing incorrectly #1318

4.4.1

🐞 Bug fixes

• GTK Fallback for WebKit 4.0 if 4.1 not found.