cefsharp/CefSharp v63.0.0-pre01

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December 29, 2017, Chromium 63.0 / CEF 3.3239.1716.g735b746 (Chromium 63.0.3239.109)

• #1571 High DPI stops redrawing on Resize
• #2157 Added default implementation of IRequestHandler [@martinekvili]
• #2182 WebGL software rendering is broken in CefSharp 57 [@amaitland]
• #2189 Improve IRequestContextHandler.GetCookieManager type checking [@amaitland]

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, sites like Netflix/Twitter/Instagram won't play video/audio. See #1479 for more info.
• CEF has switched from using breakpad to crashpad for error reporting see https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/wiki/CrashReporting.md for details
• Anyone new to CefSharp should read the General Usage Guide
• This project now uses GitLink for better debugging, see #1680
• The chrome_elf.dll is now required, it's used for crashpad (crash reporting).
• WPF/OffScreen PDF Scrolling issue has been resolved see #1916 for details
• Chromium has not implemented the changes in the 3239 branch to enable MP3 support by default, likely included in version 65
• Javascript Binding now has basic support for dynamic keyword (using ExpandoObject)
• Added IDisplayHandler.OnAutoResize

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
• Registered JavaScript objects get lost when navigating to another domain (#1203)
• 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)
• Offscreen windows are not automatically transparent. See #2114 for more details.
• CefBrowserSettings.javascript_open_windows has been removed upstream (in CEF)
• ResourceHandler.FromFileName has been removed (after having been deprecated for a while)
• IBinder.Bind is now passed ExpandoObject instead of Dictionary<string, object> see 7a0b06a for details on how to update your binder implementation.