Appium 1.10.0 Released

[Daniel_Graham]

Appium 1.10.0 is a minor release.

General

• Bring Espresso Driver out of beta and into general availability
• Support Xcode 10, discontinue support for Xcode 8
• Bump up minimum Node version to 8 and minimum NPM version to 6
• Improve string extractions for Android and iOS
• Fix synchronization of applications caching #274
• Disable CORS on createServer by default.Add --allow-cors flag to server flags #11719

iOS

• Add mobile: methods:
  • Add biometrics (touchId, faceId) methods that can enroll/unenroll biometric features and send matching/non-matching biometric inputs (iOS Simulator only) #816
  • Add method to clear keychains for an iOS Simulator #816
• Add permissions capability that sets service permissions (calendar, siri, etc…) prior to creating a session #818
• Add possibility to upload files into different container types on Simulator #770
• Add reduceMotion capability #760
• Improve video recording
• Improved iOS simulator booting procedure
• Add mobile endpoint for running Siri commands #837

Android

• Add mobile: command for performing editor actions #428
• Can record videos up to 30 minutes (requires FFMPEG to be installed) #399
• Add localeScript capability to set script in locale (https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale) #460
• Allow locale and language for real devices under API level 23 #379
• Improved video recording
• Fix bug calling getRect in MJSONWP sessions #240
• Fix pin entry error on Samsung devices that wasn’t correctly locating the “Enter” button #458
• Relax hidden API policy for Android P and above
• Support running tests using Android App Bundle #11601

Android (UiAutomator2)

• Add mobile: command for retrieving device information #221
• Support .apks bundles #233
• Fix bug with timeouts calls for W3C sessions #239
• Refactored XML source generation and xpath search in order to fix known bugs and to improve the general performance of these operations #208
• Refactored and fixed issues with W3C Actions #205