⚡ Features

• All Shared state management via window.state object. State object is automatically updated between Javascript and Python.
• All New request_sent and response_received events. The events are fired when a HTTP request is sent and a response is received. Request headers can be modified before sending.
• All Window specific menu that can be created via webview.create_window(menu=webview.menu.Menu).
• All Add origin coordinates (x, y) to webview.screen.Screen object
• All JS API nested classes can now be omitted from serialization by setting _serializable = False class attribute.
• Cocoa New webview.settings['SHOW_DEFAULT_MENUS'] parameter to omit default menus. True by default. Thanks @mikeylemmon.
• Android New Android Kivyless implementation for improved startup time and smaller package size. Thanks @kengoon.
• Android Fullscreen mode support #1598. Thanks @michelle-avery.

🚀 Improvements

• All BREAKING: webview.SAVE_DIALOG, webview.OPEN_DIALOG and webview.FOLDER_DIALOG constants are deprecated in favor of webview.FileDialog enum with values SAVE, LOAD and FOLDER.
• All BREAKING: Deprecated functions window.get_element and window.get_elements are removed. Use window.dom.get_element and window.dom.get_elements instead.
• All BREAKING: webview.DRAG_REGION_SELECTOR is deprecated. Use webview.settings['DRAG_REGION_SELECTOR'] instead.
• All Modify JS API to use callback instead of setInterval #1607. Thanks @qaqFei.
• All When exposing a Window object to JS API, dom, events and state objects are omitted.
• All Logging level set by PYWEBVIEW_LOG environment level takes precedence over debug parameter.
• Android New test suite for Android platform.
• Cocoa Add handler for Javascript prompt/input #1567. Thanks @maddyaby.
• Winforms Dark mode support with automatic theme changing #1595. Thanks @godcop.

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Better duplicate object detection in JS API serialization.
• All Loading URLs with a hash served by local HTTP server. #1574
• All Multiwindow with local-url setups sets wrong server root (BottleServer). Thanks @Sopze92.
• All SSL support for HTTP apps. Thanks @Gu-f.
• All Fix duplicate logging when webview is imported multiple times.
• Android Fix JSON-encoded values returned by window.evaluate_js.
• Android Fix cookie support.
• Cocoa Don't terminate app if windows shouldn't close #1580. Thanks @mikeylemmon.
• Cocoa File filter set via <input type="file"> tag.
• GTK Fix Javascript exception handling #1648.
• QT Fix user agent string.
• QT Fix QWebPage enums. #1639
• EdgeChromium Fix easy drag
• EdgeChromium Remote Debugging Fails When Both storage_path and REMOTE_DEBUGGING_PORT are set
• EdgeChromium Fix window transparency. Transparent windows can now react to mouse events.
• Winforms Fix window placing on a screen

⚡ Features

• All A new function for executing Javascript as is window.run_js(code) without returning a result
• All New before_load event that is fired right before pywebview code is injected into the page. The event roughly corresponds to DOMContentLoaded DOM event.
• All Screen object now have origin coordinates as screen.x and screen.y
• EdgeChromium Add remote debugging support via webview.settings['REMOTE_DEBUGGING_PORT']. Thanks @Lugribossk

🚀 Improvements

• All Implement a len method for Event objects to get a number of event subscribers.
• All The order of firing of loading events loading, before_load and loaded is standardized across the platforms.
• All Window objects can now be exposed via JS API
• All Make webview.settings key immutable.
• GTK 'undefined'and 'null' string values are no longer translated to None during JS API serialization.
• Cocoa Add support for the download attribute on links. Thanks @maddyaby.
• Cocoa Ignore ssl errors for local HTTP server by default
• Cocoa Native Color Picker on MacOS is drawn in the wrong place #1568. Thanks @maddyaby
• Cocoa Improved support for py2app #1565
• EdgeChromium Update webview2 binaries to 1.0.2957.106

🐞 Bug fixes

• HTTP Fix loading local urls with a hash served by local HTTP server.
• EdgeChromium Delete browser data in private mode on program exit
• Cocoa Fix typo in abortModal call. Thanks @simonrob
• Cocoa Fix missing menu
• Cocoa Fix window close termination when pressing Cmd+Q. Thanks @mikeylemmon.
• Cocoa Fix missing get_active_window. Thanks @sardination
• Windows Fix window placing in certain monitor layouts when assigning to a specific monitor.
• Windows Fix a short blank when closing the window. Thanks @godcop

🐞 Bug fixes

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

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix Pyinstaller compatibility

⚡ 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

🚀 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.

⚡ 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

🐞 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

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Python 3.7 compatibility

🚀 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