PhantomJS 2.1 Release Notes

PhantomJS 2.1 was released on January 23, 2016. It came with an updated WebKit library based on Qt 5.5.

New features

• Upgraded Qt to 5.5.1 (issue #13377)
• Added support for SSL Client Authentication (issue #11275)
• Added support for context menu event (issue #11429)
• Allow remote debugging to use random port assigned by the OS (issue #13432)

Improvements

• Allow outer context to access arbitrary URLs (issue #11217)
• Fixed --local-storage-path and localStoragePath config option (issue #11596)
• Restored --local-url-access=no regression (issue #13412)
• Fixed an issue with loading JS modules contains a last-line comment (issue #12868)
• Fixed an issue with returning binary content in WebServer module (issue #13026)
• Fixed encoded URL loading on Windows (issue #12953)
• Fixed building with GCC 5 (issue #13518)
• Fixed file upload (issue #12506)
• Fixed latest OS detection (issue #13829)

Known Regression compared to PhantomJS 1.x

Note: If you encounter more regression, please file a bug on PhantomJS issue tracker and label it as Regression. Please search the issue tracker first to make sure the problem has not been reported yet.

• onLongRunningScript and stopJavaScript do not work (issue 12504)
• PDF rendering too large, page.zoomFactor doesn't work (issue 12685)

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