1.2.3

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

1.2.2

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

1.2.1

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

1.2.0

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

1.1.0 (Cygnus)

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

Appium.app

• new AppleScript OM

1.0.0 (Orion)

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

v1.0.0-beta.2

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

0.18.2

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

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

1.0.0-beta.1

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

0.18.1

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

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

Android

• fix bug with XML page source where it wouldn't create the dump file correctly

Selendroid

• fix command timeout bug