NW.js

NW.js v0.101.1 Released with Node.js v24.3.0

2025/06/30

NW 0.101.1 is released with Node.js v24.3.0. In this release, a new command line argument --node-options is added. You can put Node.js command line options as its value. Before this version, the only way to add Node.js options is the node-main field in manifest.

A new Node.js option --nw-stdin is also add in this release. It redirects the browser process stdio to the web engine's JavaScript context. This would allow an NW.js application to be used in shell pipelines and behave more like a standard command-line executable, which could be useful for scripting and automation. It redirects the stdio in the Chromium browser process to the Node.js residing in the Web engine so using it will feel more like using Node.js from terminal, plus you can call all the nw.* and DOM APIs from there. To enable it, use command line argument --node-options=--nw-stdin. Only Linux supports this feature for now.

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

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

Download

SDK build:

Binary for other platforms: https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.101.1/

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/2sHKhDFys08/m/g00_08emAAAJ