This is primarily a bugfix release. It is highly recommended that you update, but not urgent for most users. The biggest fix here is for issue FIREBREATH-45 – a change to FireEvent caused it to be synchronous in the 1.5.0 release, which can cause performance and/or deadlock issues for some users.
Core Changes
Windows changes
Mac changes
FireBreath 1.5.0 is officially released with only one serious issue found in the RC phase! This release has undergone some extraordinarily rigorous testing and is by far our most efficient and stable release yet.
Major new features include:
- Completely refactored PluginWindowMac libraries with Mac drawing example in BasicMediaPlayer
- Drastically improved memory usage efficiency when dealing with multiple JSAPI objects
- Significant improvements to overall stability
- Numerous memory leaks fixed
- Support for POST requests in BrowserStreams
- New "typesafe event" macro for creating helper methods for firing events to javascript
- Significant improvements to the CMake structure (Breaking change!)
For a complete change list as well as information on the breaking changes (relatively few, but there are a couple), look at Version History.
Changes since FireBreath 1.5.0RC1
- Example added to fbgen template for typesafe event macro
- FIREBREATH-42
- FIREBREATH-41
- FIREBREATH-43
- FIREBREATH-37
We're nearing the release of FireBreath 1.5.0, and the first Release Candidate is out!
Major new features include:
- Completely refactored PluginWindowMac libraries with Mac drawing example in BasicMediaPlayer
- Drastically improved memory usage efficiency when dealing with multiple JSAPI objects
- Significant improvements to overall stability
- Numerous memory leaks fixed
- Support for POST requests in BrowserStreams
- Significant improvements to the CMake structure (Breaking change!)
For a complete change list as well as information on the breaking changes (relatively few, but there are a couple), look at Version History.
This is a bugfix release. There are no breaking changes since 1.4.0. There is are fixes for significant memory leaks in this release as well as fixes to make IE9 work correctly and fixes for a couple of edge-case crashes, so we highly recommend that you update.