OpenFin 6 Alpha on Electron

We’re excited to announce the Alpha release of OpenFin 6 (Chromium 49), which is built on Electron and adds the following capabilities:

• Security sandbox
• WPF and WinForms embedding
• True child windows
• Unified path for network traffic
• Asynchronous inter-process messaging
• Enhanced WebRTC configuration

Our new Electron-based architecture has also enabled the following:

• Cross-platform support for Windows, Mac and Linux
• Startup time is 2x as fast as version 5
• Node-based inter-process communication
• Rapid upgrade to new Chromium versions
• Significantly reduced time to implement new API features

OpenFin 6 Alpha

To utilize OpenFin 6 Alpha, please update your app.json to point the version to “alpha” as so:

{code}

You can find the detailed release notes here.