Release Notification - 98.1.x

[amaitland]

Due to upstream changes starting in version 93 the minimum VC++ version has changed from 2015 to 2019 see #3636 for details.

Release 98.1.x

• Create cefsharp/98 release branch
• Update to latest CEF build
• Update DevTools client API
• Resolve remaining issues attached to 98 Milestone
• Create release notes
• Update General Usage API doc links
• Update Issue Template CEF Sample application links
• Generate new API Doc and upload to http://cefsharp.github.io/api/
• Release 98.1.x packages to nuget.org

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[amaitland]

CEF has today updated to Chromium version 98.0.4758.80.

As this is a little behind the Chromium release I'm going to skip the -pre release. The cefsharp/98 branch was created from the cefsharp/97 branch and will only have a small number of changes applied (as well as updating to latest CEF build).

[amaitland]

The 98.1.190 release packages have been pushed to Nuget.org

All packages require Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 or greater.

For the .Net 4.5.2 and above

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms/98.1.190
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf/98.1.190
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen/98.1.190

For .Net Core 3.1/.Net 5.0+

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms.NETCore/98.1.190
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf.NETCore/98.1.190
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen.NETCore/98.1.190

NOTE A minimum of .Net Core 3.1 is required.

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• The CefSharp.MinimalExample/tree/cefsharp/98 branch has been created for testing purposes.
• For .Net Core/5/6 the Ijwhost.dll file is required, see below for details

Ijwhost.dll
To support C++/CLI libraries in .NET Core, ijwhost was created as a shim for finding and loading the runtime. All C++/CLI libraries are linked to this shim, such that ijwhost.dll is found/loaded when the C++/CLI library is loaded.

[amaitland]

The 98.1.210 release packages have been pushed to Nuget.org

All packages require Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 or greater.

For the .Net 4.5.2 and above

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms/98.1.210
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf/98.1.210
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen/98.1.210

For .Net Core 3.1/.Net 5.0+

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.WinForms.NETCore/98.1.210
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.Wpf.NETCore/98.1.210
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CefSharp.OffScreen.NETCore/98.1.210

NOTE A minimum of .Net Core 3.1 is required.

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• The CefSharp.MinimalExample/tree/cefsharp/98 branch has been updated for testing purposes.
• For .Net Core/5 the Ijwhost.dll file is required, see below for details

Ijwhost.dll
To support C++/CLI libraries in .NET Core, ijwhost was created as a shim for finding and loading the runtime. All C++/CLI libraries are linked to this shim, such that ijwhost.dll is found/loaded when the C++/CLI library is loaded.