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CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5 (from 1.4.?)

IN DEVELOPMENT

  • add Tapster support for some more touch methods

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.8 (from 1.4.7)

General

  • fix for Windows users! Now the system architecture is properly detected, npm installs should work again

Chromedriver / Android hybrid

  • fix for an issue in responding to /status api endpoint, this is used heavily by Selenium grid

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.7 (from 1.4.6)

Chromedriver / Android hybrid

  • fix for problem in downstream jsonwp-proxy; now sessionId returned is replaced with sessionId present in url(original sessionId). Fixed this in appium-jsonwp-proxy 1.2.3

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.6 (from 1.4.5)

General

  • this is a republish because of a misconfiguration before 1.4.5 got published resulting in a server startup failure

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.5 (from 1.4.4)

General

  • fix problem with npm shrinkwrap that caused Appium not to start

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.4 (from 1.4.3)

Chromedriver / Android hybrid

  • fix a problem in downstream appium-chromedriver; no longer rely on async methods returning objects of the Promise type. This was causing undefined errors when running Chromedriver/hybrid tests.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.3 (from 1.4.2)

iOS

  • update the appium-instruments dependency with working subdeps

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.2 (from 1.4.1)

General

  • update ES6-based dependencies which got bit by a breaking Regenerator change

iOS

  • keep track of the correct app ID for Safari webviews (fixes problems in finding the webview for iOS)

Android

  • fix sendKeys and clear for Samsung devices

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.1 (from 1.4)

Chromedriver

  • have the appium-chromedriver manage the chromedriver binary download/install

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4 (from 1.3.7)

General

  • fix for broken ./reset.sh --dev due broken UICatalog build package in sample-code submodule
  • fix for issues with cookie encoding
  • updated sample code
  • updated documentation
  • updated test suite
  • deprecate node 0.10

iOS

  • support for iOS 8.3
  • deprecate iOS 6.1 and iOS 7.0 (support will be removed soon, probably 1.5)
  • deprecate Xcodes less than 6.3 (moving to support of latest versions only, and Xcode 6.3+ together allows automation of all supported iOS versions). The only exception to this is the combination of Xcode 6.0.1 + iOS 8.0.
  • fix for issues relating to finding xcode folder and Info.plist
  • new sever flag --instruments <path> to specify custom path to instruments commandLine tool
  • fix for getOrientation
  • fix for iOS crash log retrieval

Android

  • fix for killing chromedriver on windows
  • fix for parsing java version correctly
  • support for searching elements by id without passing package name
  • requesting capabilities from server now returns correct deviceName and platformVersion for Android
  • fix for scrollTo
  • new capability disableAndroidWatchers
  • deprecated capability stopAppOnReset
  • new capability dontStopAppOnReset
  • fix a crash possibly encountered during extracting app strings
  • new server argument suppress-adb-kill-server
  • fix issue with keys(); now it correctly targets currently-focused element

Selendroid

  • Support for installApp, isAppInstalled and removeApp

Android+Chrome

  • Chormedriver version updated to 2.15
  • fix for driver.quit()
  • use the correct ADB path already identified by Appium

iOS+Safari

  • fix for handling real device object
  • fix for safariAllowPopups for iOS 8.x
  • reduce logging in remote debugger for real devices, and don't use console.log
  • fix issues with SafariLauncher on real devices
  • fix execute_async so that it now works at all

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.7

General

  • fix failure to remap session id in proxied responses

iOS

  • fix intermittent failure to find Xcode

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.6

Android

  • fix XPath regression where Appium failed to recognize non-ASCII characters
  • fix regression where Appium failed to set ADB's path during Chromedriver tests

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.5

iOS

  • fix for a bug when driver.get() never returns for page with alert.
  • iOS 8.2 support.
  • fixed safari startup crashes.
  • ensure Appium drops into the right continuation cb when selecting hybrid contexts.

Android

  • now finds the location of adb earlier.
  • ensure encoding stream in Bootstrap.jar closes correctly.
  • add workaround for issue where UiAUtomator fails to find visible elements.
  • fixed undefined member error for the release object.
  • add a delete key test.

Selendroid

  • upgrade to Selendroid 0.13.0.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.4

General

  • better handling of session closing.
  • tmp dir customization via env variable.
  • app/browserName error message fix.
  • functional test fixes.

iOS

  • allow location services in zip file.
  • ensure a string is returned from iOS getText.
  • simpler device type detection logic.
  • screenshotWaitTimeout cap
  • added ios-webkit-debug-proxy launcher to go round libidevice 8.1 bugs
  • waitForAppScript capability.
  • syslog fix
  • getStrings refactoring
  • simulator folder fix
  • doctor support for OSX 10.10.1

Android

  • exec refactoring.
  • uses for latest apktool (2.0.0-RC2) when Java 7 is detected.
  • ADB.jars refactored into instance property.
  • smart keyboard closing fix.
  • added support for getting the resourceId attribute of an element.
  • clear text fix for large centered edit fields.
  • better handling of errors in clear text.
  • ensure an already-running Android device's language and country settings are correct.
  • fixed unknown server-side error is thrown when the XPath expression doesn't match any nodes.
  • better error handling is SetText
  • edit + clear fields with hint text fix.
  • make hideKeyboard do nothing when keyboard is present but not closable (has no UI).

Selendroid

  • upgrade to Selendroid 0.12.0.
  • throws when getting a redirect from Selendroid.
  • added hideKeyboard support.
  • uses for latest apktool (2.0.0-RC2) when Java 7 is detected.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.3 (from 1.3.1)

General

  • fix several internal Appium tests
  • add a sendKeyStrategy capability to allow testers to enable less reliable, but faster sendKey method
  • add handling for safeRimRafSync ENOENT mesages
  • clean up sessions when session clobbering enabled
  • fix stripping log colors on --stripColors
  • create system logs file before tailing it

iOS

  • fix issue where driver.current_context is null for native app context
  • fix bug that prevents closing tabs in Safari
  • fix log capture when Appium starts a simulator for the first time
  • add OSX 10.10 and iOS8 support for Appium Doctor
  • fix inability to open Safari on a real device

Android

  • fix arg and cap parsing when passing arguments to adb
  • add support for passing elements as targets for swipe actions
  • correctly calculate relative position of swipe targets
  • ensure ChromeDriver instances are properly terminated
  • fix appPackage parsing error with overlapping namespaces
  • fix TouchAction release bug when released element is not valid
  • ensure logcat correctly appended to command string

Selendroid

  • add comment to caps page, and to running tests page, to note the need for a period before an activity

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.2

Patch number skipped due to NPM error

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.1 (from 1.3.0)

iOS

  • fixed a bug where appium could hang if the 'full-reset' and 'keepKeychain' capabilities were both used on ios8.1
  • default context now set to NATIVE_APP instead of being null

Android

  • fix bugs which arise from spaces in the path to adb tool
  • fix detection of whether the screen is locked
  • fix an error with running remote apk's on Windows

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.0 (from 1.2.4)

General

  • allow full-reset desired capability to work alongside language/locale desired capabilities

iOS

  • add iOS 8 support
  • add support for launching an app on the sim just by bundleId (iOS8 only)
  • ensure screenshot process uses dir specified in --tmp
  • add --isolate-sim-device which removes all other xcode 6 simulators before running test (might be necessary for some platforms)
  • update mobile safari temp app to include platformVersion so we don't get strange version conflicts
  • reset push notification privacy settings in between sessions
  • fix the flakiness of getting a list of available devices
  • auto-refresh Safari if no webviews are found
  • rewrite cookie handling code to use code derived from jQuery instead of mozilla docCookie
  • force device string when device name starts with "="
  • fix a security hole in pullFile() where users could download files on the machine hosting appium

Android

  • fix Chromedriver to work with newer versions
  • Chromedriver will work if adb is not running on default port
  • speed up clearing text fields when there is hint text

Selendroid

  • fix sendKeys() in CHROMIUM context
  • fix getContexts()

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.0-beta1 (from 1.2.3)

General

  • add objective-c examples

iOS

  • update appium-instruments with logging fixes
  • add iOS 8 support
  • add support for launching an app on the sim just by bundleId (iOS8 only)
  • ensure screenshot process uses dir specified in --tmp
  • add --isolate-sim-device which removes all other xcode 6 simulators before running test (might be necessary for some platforms)
  • update mobile safari temp app to include platformVersion so we don't get strange version conflicts
  • reset push notification privacy settings in between sessions

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.4 (from 1.2.3)

General

  • add objective-c examples

iOS

  • update appium-instruments with logging fixes
  • update appium-instruments with getDevices stalling fix

Android

  • give better error for UiScrollable parse exception
  • fix UiSelector instance in finds
  • use last coordinates for touch release

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.3 (from 1.2.2)

General

  • add a settings api (used currently only for Android xpath compression)
  • add configurable loglevels for different transports
  • allow appium to be run under sudo if the sudo user owns the appium files

iOS

  • fix crash while recovering from instruments failure
  • add ability to launch app by 'bundleId' cap alone (no 'app' cap)
  • misc groundwork for iOS8
  • fix bug that prevented scrolling collectionViews
  • more crash recovery bugfixes
  • use 'click' atom in webviews, 'tap' sent two clicks
  • fix bug where we'd try to kill a null logging proc and crash
  • enable performance logs for webviews
  • allow automation of native frame in safari (actually works on 7.1!)
  • fix uiautomation predicate search bug
  • fix 'spawn ENOENT' bug caused by a missing deviceconsole binary
  • fix autoAcceptAlert bug
  • fix certain findElement crashes
  • fix hideKeyboard bugs

Android

  • fix issue with unzipping apk
  • add ability to launch arbitrary apps/activities mid-session
  • add lock() method to lock screen
  • add unlock() method to unlock screen
  • fix bug where app would be classified incorrectly as not installed
  • add settings api member for setting layout hierarchy compression
  • fix crash when touch actions attempted on webviews
  • undo setText changes and simply handle hint text fields better

Selendroid

  • fix --selendroid-quick reset.sh option
  • fix unicode keyboard issues
  • fix bug in getting window_handles
  • fix bug that would prevent launching an app with spaces in its apk path

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.2 (from 1.2.1)

General

  • add doc for running on multiple devices simultaneously
  • move sample code and sample apps out of the main appium repo
  • remove http request size limit

iOS

  • check to make sure an element is not UIAElementNil before returning it
  • add a configurable key delay to help with keyboard smudging
  • fix issue with deleting cookies in mobile safari
  • correct sendKeys behavior not to clear text before sending keys
  • remove 'iwebview' support, since automating safari works
  • fix bug where apostraphes in accessibility ids caused elements not to be found
  • use deviceconsole instead of idevicesyslog to capture ios logs
  • fix bug where automating safari on a real device would hang forever and never start a session
  • fix bug where getting text() on a textfield would return its label instead of its value

Android

  • cache Chromedriver webview objects so we don't need to start a new Chromedriver on every context switch
  • correct sendKeys behavior not to clear text before sending keys
  • allow chromeOptions cap object to be passed to chromedriver
  • download all chromedriver architectures for linux (32 and 64 bit)
  • make sure we stop adb logcat logging when ending a chrome session so we don't leak processes
  • add noSign capability to skip the apk resigning process
  • add setText method that will clear a text field before adding text; this is primarily useful for textfields with hint text where clear() does not work in general
  • move xpath parsing into the android bootstrap, for fewer bugs and greater reliability. NOTE: this could be a breaking change depending on the kind of xpath selectors you are using
  • clean android XML tags of invalid characters like '$'
  • fix bug where '&' would be sent into a textfield as '&-'
  • add isLocked method to determine whether screen is locked
  • add ability to automate the native portion of the Chrome/Browser apps

Selendroid

  • make sure the contact manager test app has the required internet permissions

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.1 (from 1.2.0)

General

  • fix up sample code
  • bring back support for autoLaunch=false case
  • reset commandTimeout during implicit wait cycles
  • remove deprecated window_handles methods
  • add --local-timezone flag that uses timezone for timestamps
  • add a configurable --callback-address and --callback-port for execute_async
  • update setLocation method to use correct spec params for geolocation
  • add networkConnection to server capabilities so clients can use the API
  • if boolean cap values are sent in as strings, convert them to boolean

iOS

  • fix bug where we waited for safari7 dirs when we weren't on ios7.x
  • improve deviceName flexibility and device recognition
  • make sure instruments and uiauto know about the tmp dir flag
  • fix install/uninstall logic for real ios device
  • fix bug with parsing of binary vs XML plists
  • fix handling of multiple taps
  • clean up iOS simulator log
  • fix hang when ending a real safari session
  • implement pushFile for ios
  • allow .ipa in the list of downloadable app types
  • retry getting screenshot if it fails
  • fix JavaScript error when using sendKeys
  • fix error where testsuite would kill appium in its ios reset cycle
  • fix error in getting localized strings

Android

  • fix handling of IME activation
  • fix chromedriver kill logic
  • support API level 10 style focused activity strings
  • add lots of fallback strategies for element.clear()
  • update api level dependency for the project to 19
  • add fallback strategies for finding app activity from AndroidManifest
  • fix bug with xpath searches for //*
  • fix xpath search bugs, now we use UiAutomator's instance() which is more reliable
  • fix grunt-helpers bug when building appium on windows
  • retry all adb commands to make all adb commands less flakey
  • upgrade chromedriver to 2.10

Selendroid

  • fix for setValue and getContexts methods, they were not using a custom selendroid port if active
  • selendroid now requires internet permission in apps; fail if it's not present
  • add custom keystore support
  • upgrade selendroid to 0.11.0

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.0 (from 1.1.0)

General

  • migrated to express 4 for the webserver
  • allow setting tmp dir with --tmp flag
  • upgrade many submodules including wd
  • add --strict-caps mode which will cause sessions to fail which send in bad or unknown caps
  • add error handling for invalid multi-pointer gestures
  • add autoWebview capability to automatically get into a webview context of a hybrid app
  • remove deprecated -real xpath locator strategy
  • allow bypassing appium's sudo checks
  • add generic crash handler
  • many documentation and sample code updates

iOS

  • prevent log lines without dates from being filetered out
  • add keepAppToRetainPrefs cap to avoid deleting location plists
  • check for accessibility id matching selector then fall back to string match
  • add flag for specifying where in .app hierarchy Localizable.strings is
  • use a dynamic bootstrap in appium-uiauto
  • upgrade mechanic
  • implement pullFolder to get an entire folder from the sim
  • make sure launchAndKill can wait for specified directories before killing sim
  • get rid of ForceQuitInstruments
  • update hideKeyboard to take various possible strategies
  • fix launchAndKill to wait for safari-specific directories
  • make sure all pageload timeouts are cleared and called only once
  • disable ios grace delay
  • don't return duplicate elements

Android

  • renamed keyevent to press_keycode and long_press_keycode
  • add dedupe to complex_find
  • fix activity-finding logic
  • fix error handling in installApp
  • extract adb code into its own package, appium-adb
  • add support for opening notifications
  • add automation support for embedded chromium
  • fix pushStrings to work with 'app' as package
  • fix id serach
  • cause appium to fail if we can't parse package/activity
  • add package name to android webview context
  • make sure UNZIP env var doesn't confuse our internal unzip calls
  • add appIntent etc capabilities so app can be launched with a certain intent
  • add IME methods, and an appium-specific IME that is automatically installed
  • add unicodeKeyboard capability which allows sending unicode text
  • fix installApp, prevent a server crash

Selendroid

  • faster selendroid installer

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.0 (from 1.0.0)

General

  • less buggy xcode locator strategy for iOS and Android
    • note that for Android this might cause previous xpath selectors not to work, since we now always set compressed hierarchy when getting the xml dump used for xpath
  • fix defaults for swipe duration
  • add fixes for context switching
  • add optional argument 'language' to getStrings
  • update docs and code samples (including adding perl code samples)
  • continue work on appium CI
  • make sure we can't close already ended sessions
  • upgrade all node deps besides express

iOS

  • add -ios uiautomation strategy doc

Android

  • allow for encoding of non-ASCII text
  • clearer activity error messages
  • add language and country support
  • extract strings from apk corresponding to device language instead of default to be used with ID locator strategy
  • update complex find with new uiautomator constants
  • upgrade Chromedriver to 2.10
  • allow automation of Chrome Beta with browserName: ChromeBeta

Selendroid

  • update selendroid to 0.10.0
  • add getStrings method

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.0 (from 1.0.0-beta.2)

General

  • update python samples to use 1.0 style
  • don't convert 'proxy' or 'launchTimeout' caps into strings
  • make sure commit hooks use local grunt and mocha
  • update some ruby samples to use 1.0 style
  • add more 1.0 docs and sample code

iOS

  • fix mobile safari native tap on android by offsetting tap position by 40px
  • go back to using unpatched UICatalog
  • fix autoAcceptAlerts
  • allow multiple calls to /contexts
  • update appium-instruments with fix that would prevent the basic 'iPhone Simulator' device from launching correctly

Android

  • fix gesture timing so it doesn't interpret ms as seconds

Selendroid

  • ensure selendroid isn't proxied appium endpoint commands

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.0-beta.2 (from 1.0.0-beta.1)

General

  • extensive docs updates (make it ready for the new Slate docs)
  • decode sequence of actions to native "swipe" method
  • fix valid platform error message
  • update WD dep
  • fix proxying when session id is null
  • allow spaces in appium folder name in reset.sh
  • get rid of tag name loc strat in favor of class name

Android

  • allow for different input sets to mobile: find
  • fix apk signing with custom keystore
  • allow MultiActions without an element
  • move chrome tests into their own emulator type
  • fix async bug in getting xml dump
  • use async.queue to ensure synchronicity of commands
  • improve DumpWindowHierarchy so xpath queries don't crash

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.0-beta.1 (from 0.18.0)

General

  • fix broken log options: --log, --log-no-colors, and --log-timestamp
  • update docs to work with Jekyll
  • change 'launch' desired cap to 'autoLaunch', same defaults
  • fix installApp, launchApp, closeApp, removeApp to use correct app path
  • fix bug in action handling for python client
  • remove deprecated window handle support for native clients (in favor of contexts)
  • remove deprecated old xpath support and promote the '-real xpath' strategy to the default
  • remove deprecated json page source in favor of xml
  • remove deprecated mobile methods: location, fireEvent, waitForPageLoad, findElementNameContains, localScreenshot, getCommandTimeout, findAndAct
  • rewrite caps.md doc to use new 1.0 style caps
  • remove deprecated --merciful and --device-port flags (add --force-quit-instruments flag instead of -m)
  • lots of docs reorganization and prep for new publishing method
  • fix valid platform list
  • update npm deps to latest (except for express)
  • remove all deprecated "mobile: xxx" commands, except for gestures for now
  • use new native methods from WD in testsuite

iOS

  • fix bug where iOS < 7.1 would try to ask instruments for available devices
  • loosen up sudo check for authorize_ios so it can run without issue under sudo
  • rename nonSyntheticWebClick cap to nativeWebTap, and turn it off by default

Android

  • fix bug with XML page source where it wouldn't create the dump file correctly
  • change caps with hyphens (-) like "app-package" to be camelCased like the rest of Appium caps, e.g., "appPackage"
  • fix bug with custom keystore apk signing
  • allow multi actions without an element

Selendroid

  • fix command timeout bug

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.18.0 (from 0.17.6)

Important: This is the Appium 1.0 feature-complete pre-release. Please the discussion group for more context and details about this release and where Appium is headed in the near future.

General

  • disallow use of appium under sudo (except for authorize_ios)
  • don't autopopulate node config host (so appium url can be set in nodeconfig)
  • many build and test tweaks and fixes to improve build stability
  • don't link commit hooks if we're not in a git repo
  • add "accessibility id" locator strategy
  • get rid of a bunch of unused grunt commands
  • deprecate use of JSON page source (XML will be the standard)
  • simplify reset strategy and make reset strategies available through caps. There's now the default (fastReset), fullReset, and noReset.
  • deprecate "tag name" locator strategy
  • add real xpath support (for now under the "-real xpath" locator strategy)
  • deprecate old xpath strategy
  • a lot of work on appium CI
  • further update new capability handling and device selection; use only the new caps internally
  • implement TouchAction and MultiTouch APIs
  • migrate all "mobile: " methods to their own REST endpoints; they are now deprecated
  • don't allow users to send in bad platformNames; fail with an error instead
  • allow app paths relative to appium root
  • add command-line flags corresponding to the new desired capabilities

iOS

  • add "-ios uiautomation" locator strategy
  • make backup path for built-in apps in ios 7.0 configurable
  • only count one out of the two textfields which compose an ios 7.1 textfield
  • introduce a distinction between global and post-launch timeouts for instruments, to fine-tune flake management
  • rewrite screenshot logic
  • modify "mobile: scroll" to take an element argument
  • fix bug where bundleID would be improperly lowercased
  • allow changing of remote debugger ports with env variable
  • fix bug in device launching logic that would try to launch an invalid device as the default
  • add "mobile: pullFile" support for retrieving files from the sim folders
  • update fruitstrap to a version which doesn't segfault for Japanese

Android

  • make sure app is signed before getting MD5 hash for use in on-device install
  • ensure that the app is always force-stopped before uninstalling the APK
  • add "-android uiautomator" locator strategy
  • fix bug involving storing android binary paths incorrectly
  • add avdLaunchTimeout and avdReadyTimeout caps to fine-tune these timeouts
  • retry launching AVD once if it never connects to adb
  • if installing a remote apk fails, uninstall/rm, then retry

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.6 (from 0.17.6)

General

  • disallow use of Appium in sudo mode
  • ensure publishes happen with a version of Node which doesn't generate shasum errors in NPM

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.5 (from 0.17.4)

Selendroid

  • update Selendroid to 0.9.0

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.4 (from 0.17.3)

General

  • fix "mobile: reset"
  • use the new Context API (from the spec draft) for switching back and forth between webviews. The window handles strategy will be deprecated in 1.0
  • update Wd.js to use a version with context support
  • sanitize desired caps so they are always a manageable type

iOS

  • allow testing of iOS7.1 in Appium's testsuite/test.sh
  • don't error out of pref path finding too soon if there are multiple dirs

Android

  • fix "mobile: push"
  • fix fastReset going undefined between sessions
  • add --avd-args server param to pass args to avd on boot
  • various fixes for starting avds, including allowing multiple emulators to be running
  • fix getElement() to set isElement to false instead of throwing
  • fix touch actions by fixing leaking state across executions
  • remove fastClear and run pm clear on fastReset

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.3 (from 0.17.2)

General

  • add new desired capabilities handling to conform to the Selenium 3 spec. Use of old desired capabilities will now be deprecated. See the spec draft for more information

Android

  • fix process detection
  • make sure temp dir exists before writing zipaligned apk to it

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.2 (from 0.17.1)

This is simply a release to make Appium downloadable on npm.

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.1 (from 0.17.0)

General

  • move toward CI: build appium and run reset.sh on Travis

iOS

  • pass quiet flag to fruitstrap when in quiet mode
  • update appium-instruments (which fixes retry behavior)

Android

  • fix uninstall detection

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.0 (from 0.16.0)

General

  • fix maxBuffer error in installApp command
  • rearchitect device extraction and configuration from args/caps, and add lots of unit tests
  • show non-default server params in server log for easier debugging
  • add --command-timeout as a server arg
  • don't ever use sudo to install npm submodules
  • ensure appium's CWD is always the appium dir
  • clear out commandTimeout between sessions, so subsequent sessions don't count the session launching time as command time
  • set npm submodules to track published branches
  • relax requirements for unpacking zipfiles and finding app names

iOS

  • handle both binary and xml plists when changing ios settings plists
  • break out appium-instruments into its own npm package
  • fix bug where command line --force-iphone or --force-ipad wouldn't set device. This should fix issues with Appium.app
  • add --keep-keychains server arg / keepKeychains desired cap in order to disallow deletion of Keychains dir
  • bring reset behavior back to what it was before location services / settings updates, so that with the default reset, most directories are still cleared out
  • use actual current ios sdk in reset.sh
  • create plist basedirs if they don't exist
  • add processArguments cap to pass args to AUT
  • make --merciful the default
  • require bundleId when using location services caps
  • update UICatalog test app for 7.1
  • fix duplicate textfield issue in iOS 7.1
  • use new instruments - w param in iOS 7.1 to set device type
  • add location and contact alert request buttons to TestApp

iOS+Safari

  • update initial webview navigation logic to work on 7.1
  • if we start with a real webview, don't try to nav to webview through favs

Android

  • added support for 'direction' in scrollTo
  • fix source command
  • add longClick by position and duration
  • fix reset.bat issues on Windows
  • updated Windows installation instructions
  • added --udid flag to reset.sh/bat, so it can uninstall from specific devices
  • added support for touch{Down|Up|Move}
  • add "mobile: push" and "mobile: pull" commands to send files to/from device
  • ensure apks are always run through zipalign
  • parse launch package and activity from apk, so that app-package and app-activity caps are no longer required
  • use better version of isAppInstalled

Chrome+Android

  • update bundled chromedriver to 2.9
  • add enablePerformanceLogging cap

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.16.0 (from 0.15.0)

General

  • auto-configure the host and port for nodes in an appium grid
  • fix usage of temp folders on windows/linux
  • allow better usage of reset.sh in windows git-bash
  • add linking of pre-commit hook in reset.sh so everyone runs it

iOS

  • fix regression where special keys wouldn't be sent
  • add mobile: scroll with direction: up/down/left/right to scroll views
  • display correct error when app install/uninstall fails on real device
  • update TestApp to show location services enabled status
  • add locationServicesAuthorized cap
  • add locationServicesEnabled cap
  • add safariIgnoreFraudWarning cap
  • add safariAllowPopups cap
  • update uiauto js to retrieve references to app/windows dynamically every time

iOS+Safari

  • wait longer for webviews to appear in ios7
  • return latest window with getWindowHandles()
  • move hardcoded atoms out of appium into its own npm module which builds them
  • add nonSyntheticWebClick cap to use atoms for click in ios7

Android

  • fix installing unlock app on windows paths with spaces
  • add test coverage mechanism
  • don't fail the test if we can't find strings.xml in an apk
  • add hybrid support for webviews in 4.4+ apps
  • fix mobile: launchApp

Chrome+Android

  • bundle chromedriver into appium itself, remove system dependency

Selendroid

  • remove requirement to manually update selendroid test apk path in test code
  • update selendroid (with maven 3.1.1 requirement)

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.15.0 (from 0.14.2)

General

  • fix for issue where logger would log colors even when asked not to
  • stricter jshint rules enforceable from editor
  • reformat/restructure test suite
  • handle previously-unhandled errors when using spawn()
  • fix startup bug (status object being taken as session id)
  • clear sessionOverride instance var when cleaning up session
  • fix regression where appium git revision wasn't shown in server output
  • various testsuite tweaks/fixes

iOS

  • don't wait 30s for instruments to terminate
  • use SIGKILL for instruments again
  • allow ios logs to be not found without crashing appium
  • allow automation of settings app via 'app: settings' cap
  • don't crash if IDevice init fails (when requesting real device)
  • don't try to remove app if it's not on the device
  • escape single quotes for id search
  • lint the uiauto js code
  • allow accented characters in send_keys()
  • delete the entire sim folder when using --full-reset (before & after)

iOS+Safari

  • allow safari to pre-launch
  • don't tap apple button to get into webview on real device safari
  • don't use synthetic click on real device safari
  • fix undefined window handle bug
  • fix safariLauncher crashes

Android

  • add new mobile methods: toggleData, toggleFlightMode, toggleWifi, toggleLocationServices
  • convert uiautomator error stream to string
  • use a better method for finding build-tools and platform-tools dirs
  • implement new version of longClick
  • add mobile: find example
  • return element's classname by selenium tag_name method/property
  • add app-wait-package desired cap, to be used in concert with app-wait-activity

Chrome+Android

  • fix unlock errors
  • fix port-in-use bug which prevented automation of multiple chromes on multiple emulators

Selendroid

  • upgrade to 0.8.0

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.14.2 (from 0.14.1)

General

  • fix bug that prevented appium from starting in ios

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.14.1 (from 0.14.0)

General

  • fix bug that prevented appium from pre-launching without specified device

iOS

  • when alert title is null, return text instead
  • add framework for setting iOS and app preferences via plists
  • add enableLocationServices desired cap for enabling/disabling location services on the simulator

Android

  • fix fast reset/clear logic to not fail when remote apk doesn't exist

Selendroid

  • actually wait for app-wait-activity instead of app-activity

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.14.0 (from 0.13.0)

General

  • add ability to set launch timeout from command line
  • require 'device' cap and fail without it
  • bring back appium shell
  • add new node examples
  • add troubleshooting docs in Chinese
  • fix app download suffix issue
  • major refactor of test code

iOS

  • delete cache data for all versions of sim
  • fix sporadic DOM corruption issue
  • make reset.sh more Xcode 4.6 friendly
  • add flag to show simulator logs in-line with appium logs
  • add cap for automatically accepting photo permission alerts
  • update appium doctor to read new auth db value
  • keep track of ios crash logs and make available through selenium interface
  • cleanup app state pre-test and post-test
  • fix installing/removing .app (instead of .ipa)
  • escalate to SIGKILL if instruments doesn't respond to SIGTERM
  • add cap for using native instruments lib
  • return accessibility hint as 'hint' attribute

Android

  • fix AVD startup bug
  • better error handling in element finding code
  • update ApiDemos app with webview
  • support doing web testing against stock browser on 4.4
  • increase support of android 4.4 toolchain
  • fix multiple device issue
  • implement mobile: background for android/selendroid
  • fix custom keystore unzip call stack issue

Chrome+Android

  • add ability to deal with a different kind of session redirect
  • kill chromedriver before starting it up again to clear out ports

Selendroid

  • re-instate closeApp and removeApp
  • fix issue where selendroid would crash based on activity mangling, resulting in a mysterious connection reset error
  • upgrade to 0.7.0
  • show selendroid logs in appium output

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.13.0 (from 0.12.3)

General

  • add sauce reporting to ruby example
  • normalize all ruby examples
  • don't allow linux platforms to run ios doctor checks
  • allow building of single platforms in reset.sh (don't delete other platforms)
  • fix bug with --show-config & npm
  • removed some unused tests
  • remove retry support from appium test harness
  • catch grid syntaxerror issue
  • make sure gappium tests actually get run

iOS

  • update docs for setting up ios-webkit-debug-proxy
  • fix authorize_ios
  • make sure setLocale doesn't run on real devices
  • give webviews a bit of time to show up before we say they aren't there
  • fix the auth db doctor check to work for 10.7
  • when launching simulator without instruments, wait for sim logs
  • kill zombie sim daemon launchers
  • update mobile: reset
  • automatically retry launching instruments if it flakes out. The number of retries can be set with -r N or --backend-retries N, where N is the number of retries, including 0.
  • add support for automating real Safari (and other built-in apps) in iOS7
  • remove support for using iwebview as a Safari replacement
  • when running mobile safari tests, automatically detect ios version
  • update i-w-d for compatibility with xcode 5.1 / ios 7.1

Android

  • remove dependency on grep for real devices
  • add 19.0.0 to possible build paths
  • add tests for apk downloading and fix apk downloading issue
  • check for API level >= 17 for uiautomator and fail sooner if not
  • fix issue where calculating md5 of app would use too much memory, for large apps
  • fix bug with checking whether app already existed on device

Selendroid

  • give useful error message if user tries to run a uiautomator-based "mobile: " command in selendroid
  • update selendroid

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.12.3 (from 0.12.2)

General

  • reset command timeout during mobile: reset
  • fixes for strategy validation ('dynamic' and 'class name' are valid)
  • add --show-config flag to dump appium config and exit
  • add option to set newCommandTimeout to 0 or false to disable it entirely rather than working around it by setting a high value
  • refactor server/main.js -- things were getting ugly
  • fix issue where ForceQuitUnresponsiveApps would try to run even on non-Mac systems

iOS

  • change default device for iOS 6 to "iPhone" (non-retina)
  • change Xcode 5.0.1 warning message to indicate an upgrade is possible now
  • add --default-device flag to allow instruments to launch the sim like it used to
  • get rid of deprecated authorization strategy code
  • include ForceQuitUnresponsiveApps output in appium log
  • add --merciful (-m) flag to avoid running ForceQuitUnresponsiveApps. Show Instruments a bit of mercy...or don't.

Selendroid

  • upgrade Selendroid to 0.7.0

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.12.2 (from 0.12.1b)

  • None (npm fix release)

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.12.1b (from 0.12.1)

  • None (npm fix release)

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.12.1 (from 0.12.0)

General

  • add appium doctor for checking system config issues that prevent appium from working properly. Run with node bin/appium-doctor.js, or appium-doctor if installed via NPM, or via the GUI in Appium.app
  • fail sooner if user passes in bad locator strategy
  • fix app extracting logic

iOS

  • fix locale settings logic
  • fix 64-bit device string
  • fail with a nicer message if xcrun can't find instruments
  • allow iwebview tests to automate https sites
  • kill simulators before launching new ones
  • automatically force quit unresponsive instruments processes

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.12.0 (from 0.11.4)

General

  • make sure there's no color in console when --log-no-colors is used
  • add more chinese docs
  • allow periods in xpath node names
  • update style guide
  • bring all NPM dependencies up to date

iOS

  • mobile web: doc updates
  • mobile web: make sure window.close() works on real devices
  • mobile web: connect to most recent webview instead of first
  • allow uiauto to get path to node binary from node_bin key in .appiumconfig
  • fix automatic UDID detection
  • improve webviewapp to be a safari replacement; can now be used for mobile web automation using app: iwebview
  • use deviceName cap to select specific iOS device
  • mobile web: automatically accept popup window alerts
  • give informative error message if ideviceinstaller isn't present
  • add a wait after flick calls so client doesn't regain control before flick has finished

Android

  • make sure chrome tests don't require package/activity
  • make sure we force-stop apps before starting them
  • fix issue with checking for package/activity for chrome
  • make sure to kill any running uiautomator processes before test
  • add fastClear desired cap, default true. If false, uses reinstall instead of pm clear to reset an app
  • anytime we call dumpsys windows when checking for screen lock, dump output to $APPIUM_HOME/.dumpsys.log so we can learn more about error cases

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.11.4 (from 0.11.3)

General

  • add ruby scrollTo example

iOS

  • fix dismissAlert / acceptAlert on ios7
  • make instruments logging quiet by default (put verbose=true in ~/.instruments.conf to re-enable)
  • fix safarilauncher shutdown issue
  • add tests for setting slider values
  • set ios sim language using desired caps
  • add more error handling in instruments_client

Android

  • fix issue with adb path and quote truncation
  • fail with a nice message if app activity/package are not sent in

Selendroid

  • fix keyevent
  • add command timeout tests

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.11.3 (from 0.11.2)

General

  • remove wiki
  • various doc updates
  • reset command timeout for proxied devices (incl selendroid)
  • translate docs to Chinese
  • make desired capabilities returned by /session/:id non-hard-coded

iOS

  • add support for sim and devices for safari launcher
  • major refactor of ios startup cascade
  • fix tracetemplate detection logic
  • add ability to select code-signing identity for safari launcher
  • use securitydb for authorization on 10.9
  • expose 'syslog' logs through selenium log interface

Android

  • various control flow/subprocess fixes
  • don't uninstall app when --no-reset is used

Selendroid

  • update selendroid version

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.11.2 (from 0.11.1)

General

  • fix bug where running appium after installing via npm would error out because the logger was not initialized correctly
  • fix bug in reset.sh where setting --real-safari would cause android et al not to build

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.11.1 (from 0.11.0)

General

  • fix launch timeout bug
  • update travis CI to use newer version of node
  • remove .appiumconfig before running reset.sh
  • update reset.sh to build safarilauncher for real devices only when passing in the --real-safari flag
  • made test.sh sh-compatible
  • update all example code to use correct desired capabilities
  • don't set content-length header for http POSTS with no body
  • add more desired caps to docs
  • expand on android setup for mac osx in docs
  • remove multiple device handling code--appium just does one device at a time per server
  • handle command timeouts centrally rather than per-device
  • add --log-timestamp and --log-no-colors options to server

iOS

  • fix sim control authorization on mavericks
  • copy instead of symlink xpath/status into uiauto for non-breaking npm install
  • fix cookie methods error case in mobile safari
  • fail with an error message if user is on xcode 5.0.1 since it comes with a broken instruments binary

Android

  • don't uninstall app on fast reset
  • fix crash that occurred when no devices were connected
  • fix unlock logic and change order of regex search
  • correctly handle responses for element{Displayed|Enabled|Selected}
  • refactor adb/android/uiautomator startup/shutdown logic to make callback-based
  • kill uiautomator if the startup cascade for android fails, so it doesn't zombify

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.11.0 (from 0.10.4)

General

  • make tempdirs uniquely named
  • massive code reorganization
  • retry getting a session in testsuite to avoid flaky fails

iOS

  • update ios alert handling
  • use safariLauncher without 20/30 secs timeout
  • allow .ipa extension for local apps

Android

  • clean app using pm clear instead of clean.apk
  • massive refactor/rewrite of android/adb code
  • fix dependency download error
  • ensure all apks are signed

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.10.4 (from 0.10.3)

iOS

  • add callback for remote debugger socket disconnect to avoid race conditions

Android

  • allow _ in package name
  • add timeout for orientation change

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.10.3 (from 0.10.2)

General

  • this is a bugfix release

iOS

  • compile the i-w-d shim correctly for ios7

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.10.2 (from 0.10.1)

General

  • update docs
  • README rewrite

iOS

  • allow spaces in xcode path
  • completely reset and restart simulator between sessions
  • turn CA_DEBUG_TRANSACTIONS on
  • enable authorize_ios on Mavericks
  • fix bug making handling alerts take longer than necessary

Android

  • update clean.apk
  • refactored setOrientation
  • fix screenshot method
  • implement pinch in / out
  • upgrade unlock.apk
  • use pm uninstall/install in reset

Windows

  • lots of reset.bat improvements
  • make some more paths windows friendly

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.10.1 (from 0.10.0)

Android

  • add hybrid app docs
  • fix unlock.apk for android 2.3
  • get unlock.apk into build/ so prebuilt packages can use it

Selendroid

  • make unlock.apk work with selendroid
  • change remote url for selendroid submodule
  • update selendroid to 0.6.0

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.10.0 (from 0.9.1)

General

  • update contributor style guide
  • add some troubleshooting tips to doc
  • update test.sh for a better testing flow

iOS

  • autodetect tracetemplate rather than bundling with appium
  • choose version of instruments-without-delay based on xcode version
  • get rid of --ios-sdk flag in reset.sh since appium now autodetects

Android

  • fix find elements by ID
  • update clean.apk
  • update touchevent for longpress
  • add unlock.apk which is a more robust device unlock solution
  • enable mobile chrome support on windows
  • better support for tapping invisible elements

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.9.1 (from 0.9.0)

General

  • add desired caps doc
  • moveTo defaults to 0.5, 0.5
  • add some more node/yiewd examples
  • beefed up test.sh

iOS

  • fix issue with finding ids
  • add --ios-sdk flag to reset.sh to choose between 6.1/7.0
  • various ios 7 compatibility fixes
  • significant refactor of ios session lifecycle code, fixing various issues
  • add automatic UDID detection
  • attempt to tap element's coordinates when typical method doesn't work
  • support more types of zip archives

Android

  • restart adb up to 10 times instead of 2
  • fix --avd launching bug
  • fix swipe steps/duration logic (note: will affect test behavior)
  • support metastate for keyevent

Phonegap

  • fix submodule issues

Historical Note: This version of Appium was published by @jlipps in a moving vehicle on a drive from Krakow, Poland to Warsaw, Poland. Thanks, @bkobos, for the chaffeurship and wi-fi!

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.9.0 (from 0.8.5)

General

  • update troubleshooting doc
  • fix app unzip issue
  • remove app/apk files from zip path before appium starts
  • fix location of UICatalog in reset.sh
  • fix reset.sh android device matching
  • update ruby examples
  • add chrome example in node
  • improve python example code
  • begin to migrate tests from wd to yiewd

iOS

  • respond to the last command even if instruments crashes
  • don't attempt to reset real devices
  • update instruments-without-delay with ios7 support
  • add findById support (uses localization strings)
  • add mobile: getStrings
  • support setting value for sliders and switches with sendKeys()
  • add preliminary support for ios7 with a different tracetemplate
  • make mobile: localScreenshot more robust by fixing race condition
  • add phonegap example

Android

  • don't require 'avd' to be set in order to install/uninstall to android
  • dynamic find can use classmap aliases
  • make it easy to run multiple android devices simultaneously
  • support for dragFrom / dragTo functions in API level 18
  • use resource-id for finding elements (findById)
  • make getSize available
  • make desired cap for compressedLayoutHierarchy
  • add new version of unsign.jar
  • fix stopCapture bug
  • remove some deprecated methods (xmlKeyContains, etc)
  • add mobile: getStrings
  • always return true for click() (uiautomator bug)
  • fix getAttribute to return strings instead of bool
  • fix tests for use with now-required 4.3 emulator
  • add phonegap example

Selendroid

  • track selendroid dev branch instead of master
  • upgrade to selendroid 0.5.0

Windows

  • update docs
  • some windows compat fixes

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.5 (from 0.8.4)

GENERAL

  • reorder problematic async calls (issue #1000!)
  • misc refactoring

Android

  • allow install/uninstall without device id
  • fix race condition in starting chromedriver

Selendroid

  • update selendroid version
  • fix issue preventing errors from proxying correctly

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.4 (from 0.8.3)

GENERAL

  • some documentation updates
  • give appium server a big http timeout so it doesn't drop connections

Android

  • make sure chromedriver tries to restart adb if it fails the first time
  • add logcat retrieval for android and selendroid

IOS

  • allow use of --ipa and --app flags together
  • try out a fix in mechanic.js for the (null) tap issues

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.3 (from 0.8.2)

GENERAL

  • update various documentation (gestures, inspector tutorial, README)
  • allow dashes in bundle/package IDs
  • fix bad address startup error message
  • use native function.bind() throughout instead of a mix of scoped objects and underscore.bind()

Android

  • use UiAutomator for back() instead of keyevent
  • use UiAutomator for keyCode instead of adb shell
  • use UiAutomator for screenshot instead of adb shell

IOS

  • add some more mechanic aliases (keyboard, key)
  • add pinch/zoom gestures
  • add Java example for automating mobile safari
  • automatically accept location services dialogs if we can access them
  • accept text-based Info.plist files in addition to binary ones
  • use reset.sh to download UICatalog rather than node/grunt

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.2 (from 0.8.1)

GENERAL

  • make sure build/ is deleted by reset.sh
  • re-publish without extraneous artifacts in build/

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.1 (from 0.8.0)

GENERAL

  • update java examples to show correct use of JavascriptExecutor
  • fix parser bug that prevented launching on windows
  • fix missing parameter generating exceptions in testsuite
  • fix more stdout maxBuffer errors
  • fix android tests to use new activity style
  • return timeout in set timeout commands

IOS

  • fix mobile safari alert-handling issues
  • attempt to capture and resolve location services popup using desired cap

ANDROID

  • require shortcut activities to start with ".", allowing fully-qualified activities with packages different from the main appPackage
  • if appium fails to launch activity with ".", it will retry
  • allow downloaded apps to end in .apk as well as .zip
  • fix xpath parser error not allowing widget packages to be used
  • add longClick command
  • added JUnit and TestNG examples
  • support ChromiumTestShell as well as Google Chrome for Chrome tests

SELENDROID

  • fall back to am start if Selendroid doesn't successfully launch the app

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.0 (from 0.7.3)

GENERAL

  • bump maxBuffer for various subprocesses
  • automatically re-register appium with grid if it disconnects
  • augment style guide
  • allow appium tests to read appium server port from $APPIUM_PORT

IOS

  • add support for locking device for X seconds
  • add support for backgrounding app for X seconds
  • make finding node/instruments_client more robust for instruments context
  • mobile methods for installing/uninstalling apps to device
  • add shortcut for UIACollectionCell and UIATableCell
  • ensure isEnabled returns a boolean value

ANDROID

  • add mobile: searchId method to search for string by ID
  • add mobile: resolveId method to resolve strings
  • fix activity detection to be more allowing of different strings
  • enable keystore for using different certs
  • fix issue when large messages are transferred from bootstrap
  • fix takesScreenshot capability
  • add long tap method
  • make screenshot work on windows
  • fix scrollTo support

CHROME

  • add support for automating Chrome on Android!

SELENDROID

  • update selendroid to 90aef5d

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.3 (from 0.7.2)

IOS

  • bugfix: authorize_ios needed #!

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.2 (from 0.7.1)

GENERAL

  • make sure reset.sh checks for JAVA_HOME set for android/selendroid
  • add mobile: reset docs
  • alias POST /touch/click to POST /click

IOS

  • fix discrepancy between isDisplayed() and isVisible() and isEnabled()
  • use new Automation.tracetemplate
  • fixes for checking alerts in webviews
  • page source now gets all windows, not just main window
  • allow custom node path by setting NODE_BIN in a settings file
  • add authorize_ios binary to npm install so npm users can authorize their ios sim

ANDROID

  • use path.resolve in a cross-platform way

SELENDROID

  • fix use of adb from within selendroid
  • keyevent support
  • fix app-wait-activity

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.1 (from 0.7.0)

SELENDROID

  • update to new version with new build instructions
  • make selendroid port configurable

WINDOWS

  • fix use of exec and spawn so external commands work

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.0 (from 0.6.1)

GENERAL

  • allow new session requests to override current session; this can be disabled with the --no-session-override flag
  • make sure reset.sh fails if android bootstrap can't build
  • make --no-reset do what it's supposed to do, and fix description in docs
  • check to make sure conflicting arguments aren't passed to the server before launching
  • removed deprecated flags completely (hence the minor version bump)
  • bringing some error messages into line across platforms
  • fix some issues with grunt building functions

ANDROID

  • add find element by ID (parses strings.xml)
  • remove a sleep in bootstrap server that caused delays
  • make sure app is uninstalled when not using fast reset
  • make sure AndroidManifest.xml.apk is writable (for npm installed appium)
  • make sure device wakes up / unlocks before running test
  • add set geo location support
  • clean up and fix issues relating to mid-session bootstrap.jar restart
  • app-wait-activity now takes comma-separated list of valid activities

IOS

  • fix some tests
  • fix mobile: reset

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.6.1 (from 0.6.0)

GENERAL

  • started work on mobile_methods.md doc
  • added hardcore mode to reset.sh that will refresh uicatalog inter alia
  • ios-webkit-debug-proxy docs
  • appium now registers correctly with selenium grid
  • better bundle/package detection

IOS

  • mobile: setLocation and POST /location for setting geolocation
  • updated tests to work with new uicatalog version
  • allow registering a websocket handler for alerts
  • escape sendKeys values so you can send '
  • fixed up tests a little bit

ANDROID

  • fix fast reset race condition
  • fix lack of AndroidManifest.xml.src in npm
  • allow registering a websocket handler for alerts
  • added method for getting location of element
  • fixed package name for webviews

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.6.0 (from 0.5.2)

GENERAL

  • initial Windows appium support (Android-only)
  • reset.sh no longer fails silently if it errors
  • added reset.bat for windows
  • get status now returns actual appium version
  • make sure reset.sh uninstalls android test apps if emulator is running
  • include the git revision in the status object and in the logs at startup
  • misc bugfixes

IOS

  • ability to talk to mobile Safari on a real device over USB
  • added native back() method
  • sendKeys now only taps on field if it doesn't already have focus

ANDROID

  • find by name checks to see if it found the element
  • find by xpath no longer returns duplicate elements
  • add support for ADT 22
  • add "mobile: waitForPageLoad" that waits for indicators to clear
  • fix scrollTo

SELENDROID

  • build selendroid modded servers in /tmp for npm
  • fixed issue with running tests for multiple apps sequentially

ROBOT

  • initial support for robot automation (robot intercepts tap etc)

APPIUM.EXE

  • not strictly part of appium, but the Windows GUI has arrived in beta!

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5.2 (from 0.5.1)

IOS

  • fixed regression in mobile safari pre-launch

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5.1 (from 0.5.0)

GENERAL

  • updates to python examples
  • refactored configuration code
  • initial work making Appium's node code windows-compatible
  • more lenient treatment of relationship between $HOME and system username

IOS

  • fixing webview not waiting for page loading on url nav issue
  • added node-idevice which streamlines installing .ipas on real devices
  • implement scrollTo
  • fixed bug in xpath code which returned last element first

ANDROID

  • add some docs for installing HAXM
  • add scroll_into_view for mobile: find
  • completed android element class map

SELENDROID

  • http timeout tweaks

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5.0 (from 0.4.1)

GENERAL

  • significant change for command-line params for appium:
    • --without-delay is now on by default. to turn it off, use --native-instruments-lib if you don't want it
    • --fast-reset is now on by default. to turn it off, use --full-reset
    • --verbose is now on by default. to turn it off, use --quiet

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4.1 (from 0.4.0)

GENERAL

  • added --dev flag to reset.sh to optionally include test apps / dev deps
  • added --verbose flag to reset.sh to optionally spew info (was default)
  • reset.sh now puts all binaries in /build so it can be packaged and reused by npm et al

IOS

  • added more Java examples

SELENDROID

  • updated selendroid to 56581e27b45c3a4483d89701fc893ac37b172e46

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4.0 (from 0.3.1)

GENERAL

  • more python examples including for android
  • node android code example
  • migrated wiki to appium/docs
  • added troubleshooting docs
  • added auto-tagging of repo on npm publish
  • add a config check to make sure reset.sh was run for a specific device before allowing appium to try to start a session with that device

IOS

  • various efforts to fix/workaround the (null).tap() issue in UIAutomation
  • added shake()

ANDROID

  • partial match on content-desc
  • find aapt in SDK or path
  • better logging all around
  • ensure app apk exists and fail if not
  • added content-desc to all ApiDemos elements
  • added --avd flag for launching emulator if not running
  • added getName()
  • fix mobile: find

SELENDROID

  • updated selendroid to 0.4
  • don't re-build selendroid for each app, just re-insert manifest and build selendroid in reset.sh instead

FIREFOXOS

  • Initial Firefox OS support landed!

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.3.1 (from 0.3.0)

GENERAL

  • support for xpath indexes
  • support for xpath last()
  • docs specific to linux
  • fix name of npm binary-plist dependency

IOS

  • update instruments-without-delay (fix #432)
  • fix #437 (implicit wait didn't work after ios reset)
  • when searching for @text, fall back to @label and @value
  • allow @name to refer to @text, @label, and @value
  • have "textfield" searches return "secure" fields as well
  • add "collection" tag name
  • make sure to do a clean build before building sample apps

ANDROID

  • fix xpath wildcard issue
  • fix tag name selector
  • alias "window" tag name to "frame"
  • tweak flick timing
  • have swipe/flick return errors if we know they didn't execute
  • fix page source on real device
  • use aapt rename to handle manifest stuff
  • screenshot support
  • support for the clear() method

SELENDROID

  • fix proxy behavior
  • added example/test for selendroid webview
  • add WebViewDemo app with tasks for building it

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.3.0 (from 0.2.3)

GENERAL

  • Running tests with grunt will now not crash on first test failure
  • Rewrote reset.sh to respect sudo and to run for individual platforms
  • Changed markdown rendering engine and logic for generating appium.io from README.md

ANDROID

  • Add "mobile: find" method for complex find combinations
  • Check that clean.apk is signed
  • Orientation support
  • Update verify.jar to work on java 6
  • Massive refactoring of adb.js
  • Added Selendroid proxy support (!)

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.3 (from 0.2.2)

GENERAL

  • removed bloated appium.io submodule, replaced with no-binary one
  • Fix plist resetting regression (#342)
  • Fix to ensure GET /sessions doesn't return false information

IOS

  • Allow instruments to find node binaries in MacPorts default location
  • Allow instruments to find node binaries from Appium.app
  • Rotate screenshots to match orientation of device
  • Fix python examples
  • Webview: add tests for implicit attributes
  • Made sure window handles are always strings
  • Reduced flakiness of swipe tests
  • Added a Sauce Connect example
  • C# example updates
  • Fixed a few minor regressions

ANDROID

  • Large refactoring of bootstrap code
  • Moved ApiDemos code into a submodule which is included and built for tests
  • Fix install command
  • Support for element-based swiping
  • Use selenium touch actions for flick()
  • Some error message improvements
  • Make sure we lint adb.js

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.2 (from 0.2.1)

IOS

  • safari: use js close() instead of clicking buttons to close windows
  • webview: make title() always return title for default context
  • webview: async javascript execute
  • webview: fix when webelements are returned to client
  • allow launching app via bundle id and not just app path
  • webview: get/set/delete cookie(s)
  • correctly rotate screenshot images if taken in landscape mode

ANDROID

  • add eclipse formatting file for bootstrap
  • stop when activity fails to show up
  • make content-desc search case-insensitive and partial
  • allow launching emulator according to device id
  • only sign app for clean apk once

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.1 (from 0.2.0)

GENERAL

  • fix bug in npm dependencies (make swig a real dependency)

IOS

  • fixed scoping bug in alert handling
  • get rid of --warp flag, instruments-without-delay is better
  • safari: clear cookies/history/windows in between test runs

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.0 (from 0.1.3)

GENERAL

  • updates to reset.sh
  • host our own guinea pig html page for webview tests
  • updated java examples and docs

IOS

  • webview: isActive()
  • webview: submit()
  • webview: clear()
  • webview: selected()
  • webview: implicit waits
  • webview: location()
  • webview: getName()
  • webview: moveTo() and generalized click()
  • webview: getWindowSize()
  • webview: close()
  • webview: don't allow alerts to cause webview requests to hang forever
  • webview: find element(s) from element
  • webview: get alert text
  • webview: set prompt value
  • allow pre-launching local zips/apps/safari from cli
  • webview: allow execution in arbitrary frames
  • "mobile: leaveWebView" special command instead of frame(null)
  • webview: equalsElement()
  • webview: back() and forward()
  • webview: refresh()
  • "mobile: fireEvent" for webview
  • enable setting of device orientation through desired caps
  • fix to not allow native commands to execute if webview command in progress
  • bugfix in ios.js that left multiple remote debugger objs hanging around
  • bumped command timeout since webview commands don't reset it

ANDROID

  • fix in swipe where steps weren't converted to integers
  • "mobile: keyevent" for hitting arbitrary keys
  • native back()
  • xpath search by "*"
  • skip uninstall if --fast-reset set
  • better error handling if activity is not found
  • match other kinds of button than android.widget.Button with "button"
  • allow matching custom class name (partial class name matching)
  • relaunch on failure (or on screen cap)
  • begun work to get bootstrap in maven
  • flick() as an alias of sorts for swipe()

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