neutralinojs/neutralinojs v5.0.0

Neutralinojs v5.0.0 released!

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What's new

API: Reading, writing with standard streams

• Implement app.readProcessInput(readAll=false) for reading string data from the standard input stream. This function can read a single line or multiple lines at once.
• Implement app.writeProcessOutput and app.writeProcessError for sending string data to standard output and error streams accordingly.

API: filesystem

• Enable default recursive behavior in the filesystem.createDirectory function.
• Add filesystem.copy, filesystem.move, and filesystem.remove functions.
• Add {recursive} options object to filesystem.readDirectory(path, options) activate recursive directory listing.

API: os

• Accept stdin with the background mode of the os.execCommand function.

Core: security

• Now, all app clients and extensions require a valid connect token (A part of the NL_TOKEN) to connect to the Neutralinojs framework WebSocket server to receive app events.
• The framework now sends the access token, connect token, port, and extension identifier to extension processes via the standard input, so other processes can't read them by scanning the process list.
• The WebSocket client connection origin is checked during the HTTP/WS handshake to make sure that only local clients connect with a specific Neutralinojs app that runs on window, browser, or Chrome mode. Any URL origin is allowed for the cloud mode.
• The above security enhancements fix two security advisories on GitHub.

Global variables

• Now the NL_ARCH global variable returns the same value that computer.getArch returns.

Deprecations

• Removed filesystem.removeFile, filesystem.removeDirectory, filesystem.copyFile, and filesystem.moveFile functions.
• Extensions won't receive --nl-port, --nl-token, and --nl-extension-id as command-line arguments. Now the framework sends these via stdin as a JSON string.

Update the config file option cli.binaryVersion with 5.0.0 and enter neu update to fetch this version.

Get started: https://neutralino.js.org/docs

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