JxBrowser 8.9.0

Widevine on Linux

Widevine is a technology that allows companies to distribute DRM-encoded content. JxBrowser supports it since version 7.4 on Windows and macOS.

In this release, we’re extending the Widevine support to Linux, and introduce the new API to manage it:

Widevine widevine = engine.widevine();
WidevineActivationStatus status = widevine.activate().join();
boolean isActivated = widevine.isActivated();

Check out the detailed guide on the new Widevine API on the Media page.

In favour of the new API, we have removed the ProprietaryFeature.WIDEVINE constant.

Check out the 8.8.0 to 8.9.0 migration guide to learn how to replace this constant.

We upgraded Chromium to a newer version, which introduces major security fixes including:

You can read more about it in the Chromium blog posts:

Fixed broken off-screen rendering when GPU is disabled or not available.
Fixed handling of swt.autoScale property in SWT 3.129.0 and newer.
Fixed incorrect scaling when JavaFX window is programmatically moved to another display on Windows.
Fixed brief flickering when creating BrowserView in both rendering modes on Windows.
Fixed JNI crash in BeaconWindow class in JavaFX.
Fixed NullPointerException thrown by SWT on macOS when using accessibility tools like VoiceOver.
Fixed a crash on downloads that end very fast.
Fixed unexpected Latin characters appearing next to Japanese symbols when using IME on Windows in the off-screen mode.
Fixed the “swipe up” gesture to scroll the page as expected instead of selecting text in the off-screen mode, with the native input enabled, on Windows.
Fixed incorrect characters appearing in tin the off-screen mode, with the native input enabled, on Windows.
Fixed a memory leak in SWT off-screen rendering on macOS.

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