FlameRobin 26.6.18 Release Notes

We are pleased to announce the release of FlameRobin version 26.6.18. This release focuses on improving build flexibility, updating packaging dependencies, aligning core vcpkg dependencies, and introducing robust fallbacks to ensure compatibility across diverse environments.

Highlights of this Release

🛠️ PrintableHtmlWindow Fallback (wxWebView & wxHtmlWindow)

• Automatic Fallback Support: Replaced hard requirements on wxWebView inside PrintableHtmlWindow with preprocessor guards (wxUSE_WEBVIEW).
• When wxWidgets is compiled without wxUSE_WEBVIEW (e.g., in headless, lightweight, or custom Linux environments), FlameRobin automatically falls back to wxHtmlWindow and utilizes wxHtmlLinkEvent for link handling and navigation.
• This ensures compilation success and clean user-interface fallback, avoiding compile errors due to missing <wx/webview.h> headers.

📦 Debian Packaging & WebKit Support

• SVG & HTML Template Rendering: Added the libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 package to the Debian package dependencies (DEBIAN/control).
• This resolves issues where SVG icons and HTML-based templates would fail to load or render properly for users installing FlameRobin from .deb binaries.

⚙️ Build System & Dependency Updates (vcpkg / CMake)

• Wayland Force-Build: Added configuration to force wayland and wayland-protocols to build from source (force-build) within the Linux vcpkg manifest. This prevents linker issues when compiling with custom Linux triplets.
• CMake standard search fallback: Corrected the wxWidgets configuration fallback logic. If find_package(wxWidgets CONFIG) fails, standard lookup paths are used, and include(${wxWidgets_USE_FILE}) is now executed correctly only when not found via CONFIG mode.
• Documentation Refactoring: Converted BUILD.txt to BUILD.md and added updated instructions for modern package and dependency setups.

🔗 Submodule and Port Synchronization (fb-cpp)

• Port Alignment: Aligned the vcpkg local overlay port for fb-cpp with the latest submodule commit c318a4a.
• Patch Update: Regenerated ports/fb-cpp/fb-cpp-flamerobin.patch to match the exact submodule commit state. This ensures that the patch applies cleanly during build stages (such as Snapcraft builds and GitHub Actions runs).

Change Log (v26.6.17...v26.6.18)

• vcpkg: Sync fb-cpp port files (portfile.cmake & fb-cpp-flamerobin.patch) with the current submodule commit c318a4abc7e3cf259ed95c184b33a3f5c3a01655 (b478e9f3)
• Core: Bump version to 26.6.18 and update changelog (75b5ec99)
• GUI / Packaging: Build FlameRobin with required WebKitGTK webview component and update Debian dependencies (d405993b)
• Docs: Convert BUILD.txt to BUILD.md and update dependency requirements (36ed85d8)

Checksums and Verification

All release builds have been compiled and packaged. Binaries are available for download under the assets section.