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Releases of WebView2

0.3.15 current version, released on: 2026-07-21

  • Fix 0x8007139F failure by not executing scripts until initial navigation completes [bug]
  • Add component submenu to context menu opened over images [bug]

0.3.14 released on: 2026-07-21

  • Add `requestSharedBuffer()` for visualisation initialization [feature]
  • Add `notifyOthers()`/`on_notify_data()` inter-panel broadcast [feature]
  • Add F11 shortcut and `isFullScreen`/`toggleFullScreen()` API [feature]
  • Add foobar2000 JavaScript façade and inject bootstrap [feature]
    • Inject "fb2k.js" API and favicon shim via document bootstrap script
  • Add public `webview_notification_api` service [feature]
    • Refactor out `DispatchNotifyData()` from `NotifyOthers()`
  • Resolve templates by name inside the profile folder [feature]
  • Add "Profile name" preferences field [change]
  • Prune unwanted WebView context menu items [change]
  • Update HTML default template [change]
  • Move templates into profile folder on first run [change]
  • Fix template file path expansion [bug]
  • Fix Columns UI dark mode and panel visibility detection [bug]
  • Detect preference changes against the active configuration [bug]
  • Unregister `FrameCreatedToken` and `AcceleratorKeyPressedToken` and reset all other event tokens on teardown [bug]
  • Reveal template in Explorer when no "edit" association exists [bug]
  • Enable building with "Treat Warnings As Errors" (`/WX`) [developer]

0.3.10 released on: 2026-06-23

  • Hide popup container when entering fullscreen [bug]
  • Fix overflowing edit box in Preferences page [bug]
  • Remove redundant build options [developer]

0.3.9 released on: 2026-06-23

  • Fall back to "now playing" front cover before trying the stub path [feature]
  • Load raw PNG resource bytes for context menu icon and re-enable it [change]
  • Update WebView2 to 1.0.4022.49 [developer]
  • Update Columns UI SDK to 8.1.0 [developer]
  • Restructure build and CI workflow [developer]

0.3.8 released on: 2026-03-24

  • Ensure preferences are applied only to the selected instance [bug]
  • Remove "favicon.ico" resource handler [change]
  • Add option for file-based routing [change]
  • Update context menu [workaround, WebView2 GH #5546]

0.3.7 released on: 2026-03-23

  • Add playlist item formatting and playlist artwork host APIs [feature]
  • Use virtual host template navigation and suppress favicon request noise [change]
  • Normalize template doctypes to lowercase HTML5 form [change]
  • Normalize COM type declarations and align host method signatures [developer]

0.3.6 released on: 2026-03-23

  • Update WTL to 10.01 [developer]

0.3.5 released on: 2026-03-10

  • Do not recreate WebView on color change [change]
  • Fix WebView shutdown [bug]

0.3.4 released on: 2026-02-02

  • Remove stray conversion specifier [bug]
  • Eliminate file watcher memory leaks and improve worker thread behavior [bug]
  • Fix memory leak on `BrowserProcessExited` callback [bug]
  • Change project name to "foo_webview2" [change]
  • Improve lifetime management for the WebView2 creation, recreation and deletion functions [change]
  • Try to prevent crashes when the UI element or configuration are undefined due to removal/destruction [bug]
  • Use `std::filesystem` instead of `PathCch` [developer]
  • Rename "Templates" directory [developer]
  • Move external packages to "Ext" directory [developer]
  • Make minor adjustments [developer]

0.3.3 released on: 2026-01-29

Forked from foo_uie_webview v0.3.0.0-alpha3. Features:
  • Add timestamp argument to `onTimer()` callback
  • Convert relative paths that begin with "file://" to native paths
  • Add ability to load a user-specified COM interface as host object
    • Use `__cdecl` instead of `__stdcall` for COM interface
  • Add borderless fullscreen mode to Default UI element and Columns UI panel
    • Add "Alt+Enter" key combination to enter and exit fullscreen
  • Add DPI-aware icon loader
  • Support relative file paths (to the user profile directory) in the Preferences page
    • Expand `%fb2k_profile_path%` in addition to environment variables
  • Implement instance selector in Preferences page
  • Enable ARM64 and ARM64EC builds
  • Reduce x64 DLL size by 256 KB or 29% (from 884,736 bytes in 0.3.2-alpha0 to 622,592 bytes in 0.3.3)

Optimizations:
  • Change shared buffer to "read only"
  • Use enumeration from configuration for scroll bar
  • Use `CreateFile2()` for file watcher
  • Fix crashes in text format functions when error messages exceed 256 characters
  • Fix inactive component in debug mode
  • Fix single pixel border on fullscreen
  • Fix context menu icon not appearing
  • Remove foobar2000 SDK helpers as dependency
  • Reuse "foobar2000.exe" icon instead of budling

Fork:
  • Rename component to "foo_webview2"
    • Change component and preferences GUID
    • Update file headers and copyright
    • Update "About"
    • Update "LICENSE.txt"

Repository/Development:
  • Reorganize header inclusions
  • Move "framework.h" content directly into "pch.h"
    • Update "framework.h" with additional headers
  • Add console print macro and update log messages
  • Update foobar2000 SDK classes to their latest version
  • Clean up SDK function prototypes
  • Remove scope resolution to the global namespace and Unicode function suffix where not needed
  • Specify full namespace for "Microsoft::WRL"
  • Update layout of third-party libraries/packages in solution
  • Remove unused files
  • Use ClangFormat to normalize code style
  • Clean up configuration files
  • Move resources, documentation and scripts into their own directories
  • Add ARM64 platforms to build, CI workflow and SDK patching
  • Change `!SUCCEEDED()` macro to `FAILED()`
  • Update WebView2 NuGet package to 1.0.3719.77
  • Update WIL NuGet package to 1.0.260126.7
  • Convert resource files to UTF-8
  • Update resource syntax
  • Update ".gitattributes"
  • Trim ".gitignore"

Quality:
  • Normalize HTML and JavaScript template formatting using Prettier
  • Fix iterator in JavaScript template (MetaDB handle list class)
  • Fix incorrect function name in JavaScript template (`getChannelConfigurationText()`)
  • Fix Code Analysis messages
  • Fix C4100 warnings
  • Update build script
  • Update README