Crosswalk 9 release notes

Crosswalk 9 Beta

New Features

• Rebased to Chromium 38 (38.0.2125.66), bringing:
  • <picture> Element
  • File constructor
  • JS iterators (ES6)
  • Map (ES6)
  • Math functions (ES6)
  • Screen Orientation API
  • Set (ES6)
  • Symbols (ES6)
  • Unscopables (ES6)
  • image-rendering: pixelated

Crosswalk on Android

• [XWALK-1638] - Enable shared mode for Crosswalk core.
• [XWALK-1914] - Implement the changes in SIMD.JS according to API spec change
• [XWALK-1930] - Add Crosswalk library to the Maven repository
• [XWALK-1947] - Packaging enhancement for external extensions (extension_manager.py )
• [XWALK-2376] - Embedding API: Preference value
• [XWALK-2378] - Add a new onNewIntent method that users can override to handle a new Intent
• [XWALK-2391] - Crosswalk script make_apk.py is runnable from any location
• [XWALK-2394] - Temporary build directories are in system "temp" location
• Embedding API version 3.0

Notable Bug Fixes

• [XWALK-1664] - Unable to save the image in Capture component on Cordova 3.5.0
• [XWALK-2150] - Fail to switch to Full Screen mode when tapping "Request" button in Webapi Usecase/Full Screen Test
• [XWALK-2154] - Unable to get cpu/storage/memory/display/avcodecs info of the device and system in Webapi/DeviceCapabilities on Android
• [XWALK-2188] - [Android] XWalkView will display a short white screen when press home button
• [XWALK-2417] - CordovaCrossWalk - onPause javascript code not executed until onresume
• [XWALK-2432] - [Android] Crash on http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_video_all
• [XWALK-2462] - [REG] Fail to run Cordova remote debug testing in chrome browser
• [XWALK-2051] - screen.orientation.type is undefined when running “W3C/ScreenOrientation” on Android OS
• [XWALK-1321] - No words show in the text area when running “Usecase/WebSpeech” on Android OS
• [XWALK-2229] - White Flash between application transitions