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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](https://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/spec-draft.md?repo=mobile))
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](https://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/spec-draft.md?repo=mobile) 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