Unreleased# v3.12.0# Improvements/bugfixes# Improved the performance of the draggable regions API by throttling Neutralino framework function calls. Fix the restarting issue that happens when the app path contains spaces. v3.11.0# API: window# Avoid saving the window state for child windows in the window.create
function by using the --window-use-saved-state=false
internal CLI argument. v3.10.0# API: window# Export the window.center
function. v3.9.0# API: file watchers# Export filesystem.createWatcher
and filesystem.removeWatcher
functions. DevOps# Publish to NPM only if there are unreleased changes in changelog. v3.8.2# NPM/ESM support# Add ESM support for the client library via neutralino.mjs
. Publish (and automate) the client library as an NPM package,@neutralinojs/lib
. v3.8.0# API: custom methods and file streams# v3.7.0# API: os, filesystem, storage, and computer# Expose new framework functions: os.getEnvs
, storage.getKeys
, and computer.getMousePosition
. Add size
and pos
options to filesystem.readFile
and filesystem.readBinaryFile
functions. v3.6.0# API: System information API# Expose the new system information API functions: computer.getArch
, computer.getKernelInfo
, computer.getOSInfo
, computer.getCPUInfo
, and computer.getDisplays
. API: os# Add the defaultPath
option to set the default file path for all file dialogs. v3.5.0# API: filesystem# Expose createdAt
and modifiedAt
JavaScript timestamps with the filesystem.getStats
function. API: os# Add new functions for spawning processes. spawnProcess
, getSpawnedProcesses
, and updateSpawnedProcess
. v3.4.0# DevOps# Add nightly builds support. Developers can download the nightly builds by setting cli.clientVersion
to nightly
. Core: global variables# Add NL_CCOMMIT
to hold the release commit of the client library. v3.3.0# API: window# Add window.getPosition
to get the current window coordinates. API: filesystem# Add filesystem.appendFile
to append text content to a file. Thrown errors are similar to the filesystem.writeFile
function. Add filesystem.appendBinaryFile
to append binary content to a file. Thrown errors are similar to the filesystem.writeBinaryFile
function. v3.2.0# API: init# Store NL_TOKEN
in sessionStorage and handle native API calls after page reload. Show a message to the user via HTML if NL_TOKEN
is not valid (Eg: when the user tries to open the app from another client with one-time
token). API: window# Add window.setAlwaysOnTop(bool)
. Add window.getSize
. v3.1.0# API: clipboard# clipboard.readText
and clipboard.writeText
functions added. v3.0.0# Core: Extensions# Extension API functions. Queue messages dispatched to extensions and send when the extension is ready. Core: Init# Reload app based on --neu-dev-auto-reload
(--debug-mode
removed) with the neuDev_reloadApp
event. API: window.create# Return process information with the promise. API: window.setDraggableRegion# Allow passing DOM element as the param. API: window.unsetDraggableRegion# Newly introduced method to remove draggable region handlers from an element. API: Updater# Improvements# Make return values of events
namespace functions consistent. Rename res.neu
to resources.neu
. Core: Ping on browsers# Polling action to the server was removed and replaced by the server process's internal idle check. app.keepAlive
was removed. Events# Client-side implementaion of extensionReady
. Allow developers to call native APIs without depending on the ready
event (it's not removed becuase of the internal usage).