NW.js v0.101.0 Released with Chromium 138

2025/06/25

I'm pleased to announce NW 0.101.0 with Chromium 138 stable upgrade. Per upstream, Chromium 138 is the final release of Chromium to support macOS 11. M139 will require at least macOS 12.

In NW v0.101, Chromium 138 contains usual under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new features to explore. It supports new CSS features, video frame orientation metadata to WebCodecs and much more. Please check upstream release notes for details. For a complete list of all features (including experimental features) in this release, see the Chrome 138 milestone hotlist.

I've made the 0.101 branch ready soon after Chromium beta bumps to 138. Thanks to the testers for their valuable feedback and bug reports. I've been working on 2 branches simultaneously: a released branch on the current Chromium stable and a beta branch on Chromium beta.

Best regards,
Roger Wang

ChangeLog

Update to Chromium 138.0.7204.50
Fix NwDesktopCaptureMonitor
Fix loading chrome://extensions (#8272)
Fix crash in Menu.insert()
Fix devtools crash with NWESM (#8268)
Fix Performance profiler in devtools (#8266)
Fix D3D12 backend support (#8271)
[docs] update build instructions
[docs] update options nw-node-inspector

Full ChangeLog: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Download

SDK build:

Binary for other platforms: https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.101.0/

There are 2 builds for each platform - normal build, and SDK build. Normal build doesn't have devtools, only SDK build does. lt can be opened by pressing F12 (Cmd-Alt-I on OSX). SDK packages also have more development tools to be exposed in the following releases, as well as the NaCl support.

Our build infrastructure enables live binary build from git tip so you can access to the latest binary from https://dl.nwjs.io/live-build/

Discussion

See our mailing list to discuss on this release: https://groups.google.com/g/nwjs-general/c/X3_sSLh6LaQ/m/bXEK4Oy_AQAJ