appium/CHANGELOG.md

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5 (from 1.4.?)

IN DEVELOPMENT

• add Tapster support for some more touch methods

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()

-- changes not tracked before v0.1.3 --