Changelog

6.1

Released 21/10/2025

⚡ Features

• All New `webview.settings['DRAG_REGION_DIRECT_TARGET_ONLY'] setting to control whether drag region selector matches only direct targets or any element in the event path. Default is False. Thanks @chrissantamaria
• EdgeChromium Ability to bundle WebView2 runtime with the application via webview.settings['WEBVIEW2_RUNTIME_PATH']. Thanks @leovuk
• Cocoa Support for application menu. Thanks @camdarley. #1725

🚀 Improvements

• All Handle new elements in draggable and drag region client logic. Thanks @chrissantamaria
• All Improve detection of cyclic structures during serialization from JS to Python. #1708
• QT Properly handle SIGINT to quit program allowing to close the window with Ctrl+C in terminal. Thanks @chrissantamaria.
• Cocoa Add support for 'New Folder' button in FOLDER_DIALOG on macOS. Thanks @camdarley. #1710
• Dev Automatic linting and formatting on pre-commit hook installation.

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Fix state change event not being fired on state change from JS side #1698
• All Fix state values with special characters not being set properly.
• All Fix special characters handling in HTML attributes and styles in Element object.
• Android Fix window.event.closed not being fired
• Android Improve cleanup on application exit
• Cocoa Support for partial functions in menu actions #1707
• Cocoa Add missing pyobjc-framework-UniformTypeIdentifiers dependency. Thanks @Josef-Haupt.
• Cocoa module 'objc._objc' has no attribute 'file' after package #1717
• GTK Fix data not being remove on application quit in private mode #1713
• Winforms AttributeError: 'Screen' object has no attribute 'X #1704
• MSHTML Fix MSTML compatibility #1701

6.0

Released 08/08/2025

⚡ Features

• All Shared state management via window.state object. State object is automatically updated between Javascript and Python.
• All New request_sent and response_received events. The events are fired when a HTTP request is sent and a response is received. Request headers can be modified before sending.
• All New initialized event that is fired when GUI library / Web is chosen and before the window is created. The first argument is a chosen renderer. If event handler returns False, the window creation will be cancelled and GUI loop will not be started.
• All Window specific menu that can be created via webview.create_window(menu=webview.menu.Menu).
• All Add origin coordinates (x, y) to webview.screen.Screen object
• All JS API nested classes can now be omitted from serialization by setting _serializable = False class attribute.
• Cocoa New webview.settings['SHOW_DEFAULT_MENUS'] parameter to omit default menus. True by default. Thanks @mikeylemmon.
• Android New Android Kivyless implementation for improved startup time and smaller package size. Thanks @kengoon.
• Android Fullscreen mode support #1598. Thanks @michelle-avery.

🚀 Improvements

• All BREAKING: webview.SAVE_DIALOG, webview.OPEN_DIALOG and webview.FOLDER_DIALOG constants are deprecated in favor of webview.FileDialog enum with values SAVE, LOAD and FOLDER.
• All BREAKING: Deprecated functions window.get_element and window.get_elements are removed. Use window.dom.get_element and window.dom.get_elements instead.
• All BREAKING: webview.DRAG_REGION_SELECTOR is deprecated. Use webview.settings['DRAG_REGION_SELECTOR'] instead.
• All Modify JS API to use callback instead of setInterval #1607. Thanks @qaqFei.
• All When exposing a Window object to JS API, dom, events and state objects are omitted.
• All Logging level set by PYWEBVIEW_LOG environment level takes precedence over debug parameter.
• Android New test suite for Android platform.
• Cocoa Add handler for Javascript prompt/input #1567. Thanks @maddyaby.
• Winforms Dark mode support with automatic theme changing #1595. Thanks @godcop.

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Better duplicate object detection in JS API serialization.
• All Loading URLs with a hash served by local HTTP server. #1574
• All Multiwindow with local-url setups sets wrong server root (BottleServer). Thanks @Sopze92.
• All SSL support for HTTP apps. Thanks @Gu-f.
• All Fix duplicate logging when webview is imported multiple times.
• Android Fix JSON-encoded values returned by window.evaluate_js.
• Android Fix cookie support.
• Cocoa Don't terminate app if windows shouldn't close #1580. Thanks @mikeylemmon.
• Cocoa File filter set via <input type="file"> tag.
• GTK Fix Javascript exception handling #1648.
• QT Fix user agent string.
• QT Fix QWebPage enums. #1639
• EdgeChromium Fix easy drag
• EdgeChromium Remote Debugging Fails When Both storage_path and REMOTE_DEBUGGING_PORT are set
• EdgeChromium Fix window transparency. Transparent windows can now react to mouse events.
• Winforms Fix window placing on a screen

5.4

Released 27/01/2025

⚡ Features

• All A new function for executing Javascript as is window.run_js(code) without returning a result
• All New before_load event that is fired right before pywebview code is injected into the page. The event roughly corresponds to DOMContentLoaded DOM event.
• All Screen object now have origin coordinates as screen.x and screen.y
• EdgeChromium Add remote debugging support via webview.settings['REMOTE_DEBUGGING_PORT']. Thanks @Lugribossk

🚀 Improvements

• All Implement a len method for Event objects to get a number of event subscribers.
• All The order of firing of loading events loading, before_load and loaded is standardized across the platforms.
• All Window objects can now be exposed via JS API
• All Make webview.settings key immutable.
• GTK 'undefined'and 'null' string values are no longer translated to None during JS API serialization.
• Cocoa Add support for the download attribute on links. Thanks @maddyaby.
• Cocoa Ignore ssl errors for local HTTP server by default
• Cocoa Native Color Picker on MacOS is drawn in the wrong place #1568. Thanks @maddyaby
• Cocoa Improved support for py2app #1565
• EdgeChromium Update webview2 binaries to 1.0.2957.106

🐞 Bug fixes

• HTTP Fix loading local urls with a hash served by local HTTP server.
• EdgeChromium Delete browser data in private mode on program exit
• Cocoa Fix typo in abortModal call. Thanks @simonrob
• Cocoa Fix missing menu
• Cocoa Fix window close termination when pressing Cmd+Q. Thanks @mikeylemmon.
• Cocoa Fix missing get_active_window. Thanks @sardination
• Windows Fix window placing in certain monitor layouts when assigning to a specific monitor.
• Windows Fix a short blank when closing the window. Thanks @godcop

5.3.2

Released 22/10/2024

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix Pyinstaller compatibility for non-Windows platforms #1508
• Error occurs when alert() is called with non-string arguments #1506

5.3.1

Released 21/10/2024

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix Pyinstaller compatibility

5.3

Released 16/10/2024

⚡ Features

• All Native window object for each platform is now exposed window.native. You can use it for example for applying custom appearance to a window. Additionally WebView is exposed via window.native.webview
• All New window.events.before_show event.
• All New DomEventHandler debounce parameter. It can be used it for solving performance issues with dragover and mouseover events.
• GTK/QT application icon support for GTK and QT platforms webview.start(icon=<path>)

🚀 Improvements

• All Storage path is now verified for write permissions before application start. An exception is thrown, if path is not writable.
• All Refined logic at which point of the startup procedure shown event is fired.
• Cocoa Better handling of stopping event loop in headless environments.
• Windows Fallback to WinForms when QT is forced and not available
• Windows Remove white border in a fullscreen window.
• Windows Support multiple selection in open folder dialog.

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Support for Unicode filenames in drag and drop. Thanks @hustshenl
• Cocoa Fix open file dialog file type selector and all files filter
• Cocoa Fix folder drag and drop. Thanks @pythons
• GTK Fix multiple file drag and drop on certain Linux distributions. Thanks @coffeejunk
• QT QT6 compatilibity
• QT Release of profile requested but WebEnginePage still not deleted with multiple windows
• Windows Graceful handling for shcore.dll not being present on Windows 7. Thanks @rafael-vasconcellos.
• Windows Return result of open folder dialog is fixed to tuple.
• Edge Chromium Current url not being updated after a navigation event. Thanks @hustshenl

5.2

Released 17/08/2024

🚀 Improvements

• All Replace print with logging in JS API exception handling.
• All Replace ssl.wrap_socket() with SSLContext().wrap_socket(). Thanks @lanzz
• WinForms Add a modern Vista open folder dialog. Thanks @v_yonghliao
• Winforms Fallback to Winforms when QT is forced, but not available.
• EdgeChromium Replace window.alert with a message box implementation.
• MSHTML Convert JS API code to ES5 to be compatible with MSHTML.

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Add missing return in DOM.body property. Thanks @lanzz.
• All Use json.dumps to serialise the html template in create_element. Thanks @lanzz
• All Fix ever-growing main menu bug. Thanks @lanzz
• All Change on_closing event handlers to be executed synchronously in order to prevent a deadlock when using thread join. #1439
• All Fix TypeError: unhashable type with certain unhashable object types exposed via JS API. #1442
• Cocoa Fix nil pointer dereference during file download. Thanks @realityone.
• EdgeChromium Support multiple pywebviews at the same time. Thanks @huan1936.
• QT QT6 compatibility.
• QT Fix devtools in PySide6. Thanks @TransparentLC
• QT Fix user agent.
• QT Fix segfault on window close.

5.1

Released 18/04/2024

⚡ Features

• All Clear all the cookies (including HttpOnly) with window.clear_cookies(). Sponsored by TBS
• All pywebview event handler can now have an optional window parameter that holds an instance of the Window object that triggered the event.

🚀 Improvements

• Windows Add window shadow with webview.create_window(..., shadow=True). Thanks @yllhwa

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Fix showing window
• QT Fix fetching cookies in private mode
• QT Fix blank screen in Pop! OS. Thanks @ysfchn.
• GTK Fix frameless windows having a hard-coded minimum size. Thanks @coffeejunk

5.0.5

Released 07/03/2024

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Prevent infinite recursion in nested JS API #1327
• CEF Crash due incorrect settings #1330
• QT WebEnginePage not deleted after window is closed #1328
• QT Blank screen on certain Linux systems #1325

5.0.4

Released 04/03/2024

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Python 3.7 compatibility

5.0.3

Released 03/03/2024

🚀 Improvements

• QT window position is returned in coordinates excluding the window frame to be in line with provided coordinates.

🐞 Bug fixes

• EdgeChromium CoreWebView2Settings exception in debug mode. #1323
• QT Crashing when closing additional windows #525
• QT DevTools failing to focus on open

5.0.1

Released 02/03/2024

⚡ Features

• Android support. pywebview can now be used on Android devices with help of buildozer in producing APK. #377
• DOM manipulation, traversal and events. pywebview provides a set of functions for mutating DOM nodes and traversing DOM, as well as you can subscribe to DOM events directly in Python. #1218
• Application settings webview.settings. You can now override default behaviour of pywebview by modifying this dictionary. Currently configurable settings include.

webview.settings = {
    'ALLOW_DOWNLOADS': False, # Allow file downloads
    'ALLOW_FILE_URLS': True, # Allow access to file:// urls
    'OPEN_EXTERNAL_LINKS_IN_BROWSER': True, # Open target=_blank links in an external browser
    'OPEN_DEVTOOLS_IN_DEBUG': True, # Automatically open devtools when `start(debug=True)`.
}

• Support for file downloads. To enable file downloads, set webview.settings['ALLOW_DOWNLOADS'] = True. Disabled by default.
• Full path support for file drag n drop. To get a full path of the dragged file, pywebview introduces event['domTransfer']['files'][0]['pywebviewFullPath'] value in the drop event caught on the Python side. To subscribe to the event you use window.dom.document.events.drop += on_drop.
• window.maximize() - maximize window.

🚀 Improvements

• All A more powerful JS data serializer capable of handling different data types and detecting circular references #1217
• All Nested JS API support. See examples/js_api.py for details. Thanks @AlecHaring
• All BREAKING: window.get_elements returns a list of instances of a new Element object.
• All BREAKING: evaluate_js throws a webview.errors.JavascriptException if executed codes raises an error
• Windows WebView2 control updated to 1.0.2045.28
• Windows Add SSL support for local HTTP server.
• GTK Update deprecated code

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Suppress secure coding is not enabled for restorable state warning. Thanks @awesomo4000
• EdgeChromium Background color not available in webview2. Thanks @Vanthys
• EdgeChromium Multiple focus events on window show. Thanks @yllhwa
• GTK Fallback for Webkit4.0 if 4.1 not found. Thanks @starnight.
• QT Fix user agent string. #1256 Thanks @TransparentLC.
• QT Solve the blank main window issue on RHEL9. Thanks @justincui #1266
• QT Submenu actions firing incorrectly #1318

4.4.1

Released 31/10/2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• GTK Fallback for Webkit4.0 if 4.1 not found.

4.4

Released 26/10/2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Window not retaining focus on keystrokes. #1187
• Cocoa App crashing when closing fullscreen window. #1236
• Cocoa Video keeps playing after closing window. #1235
• Cocoa Uploaded file is empty if filename contains a space. #1231
• Cocoa Return value of confirmation dialog created by window.confirm. #976
• Windows Fullscreen application disappearing after disconnecting extended display. #1229

🚀 Improvements

• All Don't start http server for file:// urls. Thanks @glorpen
• GTK Bump WebKit2 to 4.1. Thanks @starnight
• Windows Disable swipe navigation #1230
• Windows Window is changed to fullscreen on the current monitor in a multi-monitor setup.

4.3.3

Released 08/09/2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• QT Fix QT implementation

4.3.2

Released 01/09/2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Winforms Fix easy_drag from being always enabled.

4.3.1

Released 30/08/2023

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Add missing maximized implementation

4.3

Released 30/08/2023

⚡ Features

• All webview.create_window(maximized=False) Create a window in a maximized state. Thanks @vsajip
• All webview.create_window(screen=screen_instance) Create a window on a specific monitor, where screen is a screen returned by window.screens. Thanks @louisnw01
• All Window title can be obtained / set via window.title.

🚀 Improvements

• All Window closing event fired after closing confirmation #1178. Thanks @p4bl0-
• All Improve performance of JS API calls by removing the initial delay of 100ms.
• GTK Native JS Bridge. HTTP server based JS bridge is removed.
• GTK Remove support for Webkit older than 2.2

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Easy drag memory leak #1176
• Winforms Easy drag support #1125
• Winforms Incorrect DPI scaling
• Winforms Private mode not working if webview.screens is returned before webview.start #1193
• QT Add no sandbox for arch/manjaro/nixos to avoid white screen problem #890. Thanks @myuanz
• GTK Closing event handlers cancellation. Thanks @p4bl0-
• GTK SEGFAULT on second webview.start() call #1063. Thanks @PercentBoat4164

4.2.2

Released 25/06/2023

• All Fix 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'start_server'. #1159

4.2.1

Released 22/06/2023

• All Fix installation

4.2

Released 22/06/2023

⚡ Features

• All webview.create_window(focus=False) to create a non-focusable window. Thanks @mi4code #1030.

🚀 Improvements

• All Modernization of project infrastructure + typing. Thanks @demberto.
• Winforms Top level menu item support. Thanks @zhengxiaoyao0716.
• Winforms Disable touchpad elastic overscroll. Thanks @firai.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Winforms Unable to load DLL 'WebView2Loader.dll': The specified module could not be found. Thanks @kawana77b #1078
• Cocoa Fix missing pip dependency pyobjc-framework-security.

4.1

Released 02/05/2023

⚡ Features

• Cocoa/QT/GTK SSL support for built-in http server webview.start(ssl=True). Thanks @keredson

🚀 Improvements

• All JS API exceptions are now printed both in Python and Javascript consoles.
• All Hide menu bar when there is no menu. Thanks @Joffreybvn

⚡ Features

• All Fix bug where http_port was not being forwarded to the actual window #1060. Thanks @robb-brown
• All Switch from tempfile to os.devnull to fix PyInstaller issue. Thanks @simonrob
• Cocoa Fix getting cookies in cocoa. Thanks @eerimoq
• Cocoa Fix exception occurring when main menu for application cannot be obtained.
• Windows A more robust logic for setting user data directory. Thanks @al-eax
• Windows Fix exception when executing a menu function
• Windows Fix the title and message of the confirmation dialog. Thanks @zhengxiaoyao0716

4.0.2

Released 21/02/2023

🚀 Improvements

• All HTTP server is now multithreaded. This should prevent stalled requests. #1025
• Windows webview.start(storage_path) can now be set in private mode. This can be useful if you do not have write access to EdgeChromium default data directory and get 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED) error. #1026

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Fix AttributeError: module 'webview.http' has no attribute 'running' exception occurring when multiple windows are opened. Thanks @YidaozhanYa. #1024
• Winforms Fix on_top not having any effect on Windows. #1036
• Winforms Fix create_window(hidden=True) makes the show() command not work #1050
• Windows Fix pyinstaller compatibility on Windows. Thanks @simonrob #1044
• CEF Fix window.get_cookies() throwing KeyError exception. #1021
• Cocoa Fix non-QWERTY keyboard shortcuts. Thanks @max-uho
• QT Fix web inspector preventing to open. #1028
• GTK Fix "ImportError: Requiring namespace 'Soup' version '2.4', but '3.0' is already loaded" Thanks @YidaozhanYa #1041

4.0.1

Released 19/01/2023

🚀 Improvements

• All Suppress HTTP server logging if not in debug mode.

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Fix HTTP server starting twice with a single window. Thanks @robb-brown.

4.0

Released 18/01/2023

💔 BREAKING CHANGES

• All Window events are moved into window.events namespace. window.loaded, window.shown etc no longer work.
• EdgeHTML support is removed.

⚡ Features

• All Local homegrown HTTP server is replaced with bottle.py. Thanks @robb-brown for WSGI support.
• All Native application menu support. See examples/menu.py for usage example. Thanks @sardination
• All webview.start(private_mode=True, storage_path=None) Private mode and persistant storage support in a non-private mode. Private mode is enabled by default.
• All webview.create_window(zoomable=False) Enable / disable zooming on webpage. Disabled by default.
• All webview.create_window(draggable=False) Enable / disable dragging of IMG and A elements. Disabled by default.
• All webview.create_confirmation_dialog(title, content) creates a confirmation (Ok, Cancel) dialog. Thanks @sardination.
• All window.get_cookies() retrieve all the cookies (including HttpOnly) for the current webpage.
• macOS webview.create_window(vibancy=False) Window vibrancy suppport. macOS only. Thanks @CahierX.

🚀 Improvements

• All Local relative URLs (eg. src/index.html) are opened using the built-in http server by default. Support for local URLs is still possible using file:// schema
• Cocoa Disable Ctrl+click context menu. Thanks @ecpost.
• EdgeChromium Improve evaluate_js performance.
• GTK Enable media / audio / WebGL / clipboard related WebKit features

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Fix passing through keyboard events handled by pywebview. Thanks @ecpost.
• GTK Fix JS bridge maximum return object size limitation. GTK's JS bridge is implemented via HTTP server.
• GTK Fix hanging problem during window closing when JS evaluation is in progress

3.7.1

Released 14/11/2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• Edge Chromium Better platform detection

🚀 Improvements

• Edge Chromium ARM64 support

3.7

Released 04/11/2022

⚡ Features

• All New window.events.moved event. Thanks @irtimir

🚀 Improvements

• EdgeChromium Remove The system cannot find the file specified - Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime Registry path: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\Clients{F3017226-FE2A-4295-8BDF-00C3A9A7E4C5} error message displayed in debug mode.
• CEF error.log is no longer deleted when in debug mode.

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Fix evaluate_js_async crash and program termination prevention. Thanks @detritophage.
• WinForms Fix form initialization for pythonnet 3. Thanks @irtimir
• CEF Fix errorous script execution in evaluate_js, so that further script do not get stuck. Thanks @irtimir
• CEF Fix master uid not found error on startup.
• QT Remove 'Empty key passed' messages. Thanks @TomFryers
• QT PySide6 backend not working. Thanks @sbbosco
• QT Prevent 'Release of profile requested but WebEnginePage still not deleted. Expect troubles !' message on close. Thanks @sbbosco

3.6.3

Released 05/04/2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• Winforms Support for Edge Chromium v100. Thanks @greper.

3.6.2

Released 05/03/2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Fix closing window

3.6.1

Released 16/02/2022

• Fix CEF Exception on start

3.6

Released 15/02/2022

• New All Python 3.6 is the minimum supported version from now on.
• New All minimized, maximized, restored, resized events. Thanks @BillBridge for sponsorship.
• New All evaluate_js async support. evaluate_js(code, callback) can evaluate promises via an optional callback parameter.
• New All Events moved to its own window.events namespace (e.g. window.loaded → window.events.loaded). Old events are supported throughout 3.x and will be removed in 4.0.
• New All window.resize(width, height, fix_point) has now an optional parameter fix_point that controls in respect to which point the window is resized.
• New All MSHTML and EdgeHTML are deprecated. No further development will be done on these renderers.
• New Winforms Focus webview on start or window activate events.
• New EdgeChromium Custom user agent support.
• New EdgeChromium Window transparency support. Mouse and keyboards events are not supported in transparent. Thanks @odtian.
• New CEF Ability to pass custom CEF browser settings. Thanks @Rolf-MP.
• Improvement EdgeChromium Support non-elevated installations of WebView2. Thanks @ultrararetoad.
• Improvement EdgeChromium Better support for Edge Chromium runtime detectiom. Thanks @r-muthu-saravanan.
• Improvement EdgeChromium WebView2 runtime updated to
• Improvement QT Pyside support via PyQT wrapper. Thanks @tshemeng.
• Fix Cocoa Make Ctrl-C (SIGINT) work on Cocoa when running from the command line
• Fix EdgeChromium Fix `load_html. Thanks @sbbosco.
• Fix Cocoa Fix cancelling of closing the window in the closing event Thanks @fizzadar.
• Fix QT Fix simultaneous calls to JS API.
• Fix GTK Fix concurrency issues with get_size, get_position and get_current_url.

3.5

Released 02/08/2021

• New All Get information about available screens via new webview.screens property.
• New All Per window localization. Thanks @fizzadar.
• New All Window closing can be cancelled by returning False from a closing event handler. #744.
• Fix All Debug mode cannot be set under certain conditions. #628
• Improvement All Selected web renderer printed in Python console in debug mode.
• Improvement All JS API serialization logic. Thanks @peter23
• Improvement EdgeChromium Chromium runtime updated to version 1.0.774.44. Thanks @sbbosco.
• Improvement EdgeChromium Custom user agent support.
• Fix WinForms Icon handling logic to make pywebview compatible with pystray. #720. Thanks @simonrob
• Fix EdgeChromium Change webview component to transparent. Thanks @ODtian
• Fix CEF Fix exception when destroying window
• Fix Cocoa cmd+w bypasses exit confirmation dialogue. #698. Thanks @fizzadar
• Fix Cocoa Fix window coordinate calculation logic when moving a window.
• Fix MSHTML Fix drag_region
• Fix MSHTML Fix window.alert

3.4: Second wave

Released 04/12/2020

• New Windows WebView2 Chromium support. Thanks sbbosco. #521.
• Fix All Exception with HTML checkboxes and get_elements. #622.
• Fix All pystray compatibility. Thanks AlexCovizzi. #486.
• Fix All expose methods instead of all callables for JS API objects. Thanks jgentil. #629.
• Fix EdgeHTML Make returning results of evaluate_js more robust. Thanks sbbosco.
• Fix QT KDE_FULL_SESSION not being used. Thanks Maltzur.
• Fix Cocoa Unicode filenames for input files.
• Improvement Cocoa Only install the specific pyobjc packages required. Thanks Fizzadar.
• Improvement Cocoa Add support for default document navigation and window handling shortcut keys . Thanks ikhmyz and Fizzadar

3.3.5

Released 26/09/2020

• Fix EdgeHTML Server middleware handling
• Fix EdgeHTML file:// url handling

3.3.4

Released 18/09/2020

• Fix EdgeHTML Fix content not displaying with local URLs or local HTTP server
• Fix Cocoa Fixes arrow keys not responding in text input fields. Thanks awesomo4000

3.3.3

Released 08/08/2020

• Fix Cocoa Save dialog not working #578.
• Fix Cocoa Error sound being played when pressing keys on macOS #566.

3.3.2

Released 28/07/2020

• Fix All Load html triggers error - resolve_url() missing 1 required positional argument: 'should_serve' #562.
• Fix Cocoa/GTK Access window size on closing #573.
• Fix GTK Save file dialog now returns a string instead of a tuple.

3.3.1

Released 01/07/2020

• Fix WinForms TypeError : 'str' value cannot be converted to System.Drawing.Color #560.

3.3: Detroit Edition

Released 29/06/2020

• New All Brand-new WSGI based internal HTTP server. Thanks @astronouth7303(https://github.com/astronouth7303).
• New All Transparent window. Not available on Windows.
• New All Allow pywebview window to be on top of other windows.
• New All Custom window drag region using CSS classes. Thanks @Fizzadar(https://github.com/Fizzadar).
• New All Custom user-agent support. Thanks @tognee(https://github.com/tognee).
• Fix All Python function not triggered using JS #458.
• Fix All window methods do not work in loaded event #528.
• Fix Cocoa Caption bar and window control buttons are now hidden in frameless mode.
• Fix CEF CEF window resize hang #484.
• Fix MSHTML Fix easy drag in frameless mode.
• Fix EdgeHTML Do not show admin prompt for non-local URLs.
• Fix GTK Fix threading issues with recentish versions of PyGObject
• Fix QT Fix opening web inspecting in debug mode

3.2: Humate Edition

Released 24/01/2020

• New All Window x, y, width and height properties to retrieve coordinates and dimensions of the window. Thanks @Fizzadar(https://github.com/Fizzadar)
• New All window.expose(func) an ability to expose an arbitrary function to the JS realm, also during the runtime.
• Improvement All JS API methods can now accept an arbitrary number of arguments
• Improvement All Exceptions thrown in a JS API method is now raised in Javascript via its promise.
• Improvement All Exceptions thrown in window event handlers are now caught and logged.
• Improvement All Random port assigned by the built-in HTTP server can be retrieved via webview.http_server.port
• Improvement QT Microphone/webcam are enabled by default. Thanks @dtcooper(https://github.com/dtcooper)
• Improvement QT Default debugger port is changed to 8228. Thanks @melvinkcx(https://github.com/melvinkcx)
• Improvement CEF Ability to pass custom CEF settings via webview.platforms.cef.settings. See example for details.
• Fix All Built-in HTTP server is properly restarted when using window.load_url
• Fix Cocoa New window position is correctly calculated when using window.move
• Fix EdgeHTML window.alert fix

3.1: Windows Edition

Released 04/11/2019

• New All Window minimize/restore functionality. Ability to show window minimized on startup.
• New All Window hide/show functionality. Ability to show window hidden on startup.
• New All Window move functionality. Ability to set window coordinates on startup. Thanks @adbenitez.
• New All New window.pywebviewreadyDOM event that is thrown when window.pywebview is available.
• New All Links opened via window.open are opened in a new browser window.
• Fix All Fix concurrent invocations of JS API functions.
• Fix All Fix unescaped single quote in JS API calls.
• Fix All Built-in HTTP server is now multi-threaded. This fixes stalling HTTP requests in some cases.
• Improvement All window.set_window_size is deprecated in favour to window.resize.
• Improvement All Exceptions are now handled in JS API functions and rerouted to the function promise catch method.
• Improvement All Suppress built-in HTTP server logging. Logging is active only in the debug mode.
• Fix CEF Fix deadlock occurring when trying to access window.pywebview object right after the window is created.
• Fix CEF High DPI fix resulting in a small window appearing inside the main window,
• Fix EdgeHTML Unicode error when loading HTML.
• Fix MSHTML get_elements failing.
• Fix MSHTML console.log not writing to Python console in debug mode.
• Fix MSHTML Forcing MSHTML via gui=mshtml is now possible. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

3.0.2

Released 17/08/2019

• Fix All Prevent JSON like strings being converted to JSON objects when returning JS API calls. #352
• Fix Windows HTTP server is now used by default for local URLs and HTML for EdgeHTML. This fixes a PermissionDenied error, when the directory the executable is in is not writable.
• Fix Tests Tests now fail on an exception occurring in a thread.

3.0.1

Released 25/07/2019

• Fix All Don't escape line breaks in result of js_bridge_call. Thanks @kvasserman.
• Fix Windows Support for Pyinstaller noconsole mode
• Fix Windows Fix Windows version detection with frozen executables.
• Fix Windows Open folder dialog now supports directory argument.
• Fix QT Workaround for segmentation fault on closing the main window. Thanks @kvasserman.
• Fix Pytest Fix for pytest warning about invalid escape sequence

3.0

Released 11/07/2019

• New All New API. The API is not compatible with older versions of pywebview. See https://pywebview.flowrl.com for usage details. #272
• New All Built-in HTTP server. #260
• New All Autogenerated CSRF token exposed as window.pywebview.token. #316
• New All get_elements function to retrieve DOM nodes. #292
• New All New events system that lets you to subscribe to events. loaded and shown events are implemented. #201
• New Windows EdgeHTML support. Thanks @heavenvolkoff. #243
• Fix Windows Fullscreen mode. #338
• Fix GTK Better Javascript support for recent version of WebKit2
• Fix CEF Support for PyInstaller in onefile mode

2.4

Released 17/02/2019

• New All Support for frameless windows.
• Fix Windows Fix broken installation of v2.3

2.3

Released 12/02/2019

• New All Ability to resize window after creation webview.set_window_size(width, height). Thanks @aprowe #274
• New Windows Chrome Embedded Framework (CEF) support #15
• Improvement All pywebview does not interfer with Python's logger configuration #295
• Fix All Empty DOM issues when window is created without a URL #285
• Improvement macOS Web renderer upgraded to WKWebView
• Improvement macOS Add support for Mojave dark mode
• Fix macOS Problem with handling paths containing spaces #283
• Fix QT Better support for QTWebKit and QTWebChannel #304
• Improvement QT Remove support for QT4
• Fix GTK Thrown exception not Python 2 compatible #277

2.2.1

Released 24/10/2018

• Fix Dependency installation
• New Reintroduce qt extra require switch

2.2

Released 23/10/2018

• New Brand new documentation at https://pywebview.flowrl.com
• Improvement Simplify installation. Now pywebview can be installed by pip install pywebview. Dependencies will be resolved and installed automatically
• Improvement GTK Update to WebKit2

2.1

Released 16/09/2018

• New All Introduce PYWEBVIEW_GUI environment variable and webview.config.gui property. Acceptable values are are qt, gtk and win32. USE_QT and USE_WIN32 is deprecated.
• Fix Cocoa Closing main window does not result in program termination
• Fix All New main window re-creation after closing. #229
• Fix QT Debug mode #233
• Fix Cocoa/Windows Preserve JS API on page reload
• Fix Windows toggle_fullscreen() function #232. Thanks @lt94
• Fix Windows load_css() function. Thanks @wormius.

2.0.3

Released 16/05/2018

• Fix QT Fix a deadlock preventing QT implementation from starting
• Fix QT QT is set to default on QT-based systems

2.0.1/2.0.2

Released 08/05/2018

• Fix Winforms Fix installation of dlls

2.0

Released 28/04/2018

• New All Multi-window support
• New All Ability to call Python code from Javascript via window.pywebview.api
• New All Debug mode. Web inspector for Cocoa/GTK/QT and basic debug information for WinForms.
• New All File filter support in create_file_dialog
• New All target='_blank' links are now opened in an external browser
• New All Change window title via a set_title function #159
• New All load_css function
• New All Support for relative local URLs in create_window / load_html. Linked local resources are resolved as well. #186
• New All todos example app demonstrating js api and relative local URLs.
• New All Text select in the webview window is disabled by default. Added text_select argument to create_window function.
• New QT OpenBSD 6.x support #213. Thanks @hucste.
• Fix All base_uri parameter of load_html defaults to the directory of the entry script
• Fix All Consistent return types with evaluate_js across different platforms #175
• Fix All Various concurrency issues and deadlocks
• Fix Winforms Hide Message from webpage when using alert Javascript function #150
• Fix Winforms Support for high DPI #179
• Fix QT Support for QT 5.10 #171. Thanks @adbenitez
• Fix QT Deprecate QT4. Starting from this version new features won't be tested on QT4 and support will be removed in the future.

1.8

Released 29/10/2017

• pywebview has the official logo
• @shivaprsdv is now an official maintainer of the project
• New All Add an ability to run Javascript code using evaluate_js function
• Fix Cocoa Implement missing webview components (file input dialog, alert()/confirm() JS functions)
• Fix Winforms Fix issue with non-responsive UI when a loading screen background color is used
• Fix Winforms Add support for Del and Ctrl+A keys in input elements.
• New QT QT5 is now prefererred over QT4
• Fix QT Fix return parameters of create_file_dialog to have the same format as on other platforms
• Fix GTK Better threading model. Thanks to @jorants #121

1.7

Released 08/06/2017

• New All Add a basic test suite and continuous integration. #88
• New All Add a background_color parameter to create_window, which specifies the default color of the webview window. Refer to examples/loading_indicator.py for example use. Thanks to @shivaprsdv. #90
• New Cocoa Disable backspace navigation. Thanks to @shivaprsdv. #102
• New Cocoa Implementation of window.print() and window.confirm method. Thanks to @shivaprsdv. #97
• Fix Cocoa Fix non-existing localization string in save file dialog
• New Winforms Disable all the shortcut keys of web navigation
• Fix Winforms Fix load_html failing sometimes due thread violation
• Fix GTK Implement fall-through to QT, when GTK is present, but not GTK.WebKit.

1.6

Released 29/03/2017

• New All Quit confirmation dialog #31
• New All webview.config can be used using the dot notation (ie. webview.config.use_win32 = True)
• New Winforms Disable context menu
• Fix Winforms Application icon is now visible in the application window when frozen with PyInstaller #91
• Fix Mac load_html() is invoked as soon as the webview is ready #93
• Fix QT get_current_url() not working due a typo. Thanks @maroc81. #85
• Fix GTK Better exception handling when GTK is not found #94
• Fix GTK destroy_window() #95

1.5

Released 09/02/2017

• New All toggle_fullscreen function #52
• New All get_current_url function #76
• New Winforms Javascript errors are now suppressed
• Fix Winforms Fixed resizable=False not being enforced #73

1.4

Released 14/01/2017

• New All pip installation now supports choosing what dependencies to install. See README for more information. Thanks @josePhoenix
• New All Localization support. Refer to examples/localization.py for an example use
• New Mac QT5 support
• Fix Windows File dialogs are now attached to the main window
• Fix Windows Pyinstaller crash issue with an icon in Windows Forms

1.3

Released 31/10/2016

• New Cocoa Added View -> Fullscreen standard menu item. Thanks to @bastula.
• New Cocoa Added About menu item #45. Thanks to @bastula.
• New Windows An application icon for Windows Forms
• Fix Windows Removed unnecessary pywin32 dependencies from Windows Forms #60
• Fix Linux Thread violation in load_url in GTK implementation #59

1.2.2

Released 10/10/2016

• Fix All Python 2 compatibility issue in Flask Example (#52). Thanks to @bastula.
• Fix Windows Python 3 compatibility issue in Windows Forms implementation (#51)
• Fix Linux Resizing width/height: 100% problem on GTK (#53). Thanks to @klausweiss.

1.2.1

Released 29/09/2016

• Fix Linux GTK window failing to open. Thanks to @lchish. #50

1.2

Released 27/09/2016

• New All Introduced load_html function that allows dynamic loading of HTML code, instead of a URL. Implemented for all platforms except Win32 (use Windows Forms). Thanks to @ysobolev #39
• New All Added an example of a Flask-based application skeleton. The example can be found in examples/flask_app
• New Windows Windows Forms based implementation of webview window. Requires pythonnet.
• New Windows Introduced config"USE_WIN32" variable that lets you choose between Win32 and Windows Forms. Default to True (Windows Forms will be made as default in the future)
• Fix Windows/Linux Got rid of installation dependencies on Windows and Linux. The dependencies now have to be installed by hand and the choice of dependencies is left to user
• Fix Linux Compatibility with Qt 5.5. Thanks to @danidee10. #48

1.1

Released 08/06/2016

• New OSX Add a default application menu #35. Thanks @cuibonobo
• New Linux GTK is made as default and pypi dependency added. USE_GTK environment variable is also deprecated. To use QT, set webview.config"USE_QT" = True
• Fix Windows Open folder of create_file_dialog now returns Unicode, instead of byte encoding.

1.0.2

Released 19/05/2016

• Fix Windows Fix a dead-lock that sometimes occurs on a window creation, when used with a HTTP server running in a separate thread.

1.0.1

Released 17/05/2016

• Fix Windows PyInstaller: Icon not found #29

1.0

Released 12/02/2016

• New All Add an ability to programmatically destroy a webview window
• Fix Windows Fullscreen mode
• Fix Windows Change setup.py to use pypiwin32 #22
• Fix Windows Relative import of win32_gen fixed on Python 3 #20. Thanks to @yoavram for the contribution
• Fix Windows FileNotFound exception on Windows 2003. Thanks to @jicho for the contribution
• Fix OSX Non-SSL URLs are allowed by default on El Capitan. Thanks to @cr0hn for the contribution

0.9

Released 27/11/2015

• New All Right click context menu is disabled #12
• New All Window minimum size constraints #13
• New All Save file dialog
• New All Added directory and save_filename parameters to create_file_dialog
• New All An option to set a default directory in a file dialog
• New GTK Introduced USE_GTK environment variable. When set, GTK is preferred over QT.
• Fix Windows Webview scrollbar sizing with a non-resizable window
• Fix Windows Add support for application icon #9
• Fix Windows Disable logging spam for comtypes

0.8.4

• Fix Windows Invisible scrollbars
• Fix Windows Fullscreen mode

0.8.3

• Fixed #10 Underlying browser does not resize with window under windows

0.8.2

Released on 08/10/2015

• Fixed Pressing close window button terminates the whole program on OSX

0.8

Released on 06/10/2015

• New Support for native open file / open folder dialogs
• Fixed #6 FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION not in winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Thanks to @frip for the fix.

0.7

Released on 08/04/2015

• Fixed Python 3 compatibility in Win32 module (thanks @Firnagzen) #3
• Fixed Floating values for window dimensions causing issues on Windows XP (thanks @Firnagzen) #4
• Fixed Correct IE version registry key on Windows XP (thanks @Firnagzen) #5

0.6

Released on 11/02/2015

• Fixed A problem preventing from creating a window on Windows

0.5

Released on 30/11/2014

• New Windows support
• New GTK3 support
• New pip installation
• New Fullscreen mode

0.1

Released on 20/11/2014

• First release
• Linux and OSX support