Prerelease SDK 1.0.721-prerelease, for Runtime 86 (Dec. 8, 2020)

Release notes for Microsoft Edge WebView2 Prerelease SDK, release date: Dec. 8, 2020.

NuGet package for WebView2 SDK 1.0.721-prerelease

This Prerelease version of the WebView2 SDK requires Microsoft Edge version 86.0.616.0 or later; see Runtime 86.0.705.50 (Jan. 25, 2021).

Detailed contents:

• Breaking changes
  • Features
• Promotions to Phase 2 (Stable in Prerelease)
  • .NET
    • Features
    • Bug fixes
• See also

Breaking changes

Important

Breaking Change: WebView2 prerelease package 1.0.707 and package 0.9.628 are deprecated. Discontinue development with package 1.0.707 and package0.9.628.

Features

• Added Microsoft Edge WebView2 - Policies. For best practices, see Enterprise management of WebView2, in the Microsoft Edge Enterprise documentation.

• Important

  Breaking Change: Deprecated the old registry location.

  {Root}\Software\Policies\Microsoft\EmbeddedBrowserWebView\LoaderOverride\{AppId}
  

• Added support for Drag and Drop in WebView2.

• Added APIs to handle DPI support.

  • Added RasterizationScale property to change the DPI scale for WebView2 content and UI pop-ups, and associated RasterizationScaleChanged event.

  • Added ShouldDetectMonitorScaleChanges property to automatically update RasterizationScale property if needed.

  • Added BoundsMode property to specify that the bounds are logic pixels and allow WebView2 to use RasterizationScale for WebView2 pixel display, and WebView2 use the RasterizationScale with the Bounds to get the physical size.

• Updated NewWindowRequested event to handle Ctrl+click and Shift+click. (Issue #168 and Issue #371).

Promotions to Phase 2 (Stable in Prerelease)

The following APIs have been promoted from Phase 1: Experimental in Prerelease, to Phase 2: Stable in Prerelease, and are included in this Prerelease SDK.

• WebResourceResponseReceived API

• NavigateWithWebResourceRequest API

• Cookie management API

• DOMContentLoaded API

• Environment property

.NET

Features

• Turned on WinForms designer in .NET Core 3.1+ and .NET 5.

• Improved .NET cookie management. (Issue #611).

• Replaced CoreWebView2Ready with CoreWebView2InitializationCompleted.

Bug fixes

• Added AcceleratorKeyPressed event to support AcceleratorKey select in WebView2. (Issue #288).

• Removed unnecessary files from being output to WebView2 folders. (Issue #461).

• Improved host object API. (Issue #335 and Issue #525).

See also

• Runtime 86.0.705.50 (Jan. 25, 2021)
• Release notes for WebView2
  • Release notes for the WebView2 Runtime
  • Release notes for WebView2 SDKs