Appium 1.6.4 fixes numerous issues with the previous releases. This release
supports iOS 10.3 as well as Android 7.1.
Note:
* Apple's MacOS 10.12.4 update has broken the functioning of iOS 10.2 and below
simulators.
General
- Fix
UnhandledPromiseRejection errors when running Appium with Node version 7
- Better indicate missing necessary programs to users
- Fix session creation logging
- Fix server shutdown on
SIGINT and SIGTERM signals
- Ensure that all requests have
application/json content-type
- Add an event timing API to allow for monitoring of performance metrics such as
time to session startup, simulator boot, etc. Add eventTimings capability
to enable or disable
iOS
- Fix issues with error handling in Safari/Webview handling
- Increase simulator launch timeout for iOS 10+
- Better handling of page selection in Safari
- Fix memory usage issues when device logs get large
- Add
startIWDP capability to allow Appium to handle starting/stopping ios-webkit-debug-proxy
automatically.
- Fix problem where date returned from device was not parsable
- Allow custom
SafariLauncher bundle id to be passed in through bundleId capability
during real device Safari tests, in case Xcode can no longer build the bundled one
- Fix logging from real device in the case where the device data/time are different
from the server
iOS - XCUITest
- Changes the way the Appium checks that WebDriverAgent is running on the device,
so that rather than searching the logs, the device is pinged until it is
ready.- Remove
realDeviceLogger capability, since we no longer check the logs
- Add
useNewWDA capability, which forces uninstall of the WDA app from the
device before each session
- Add
wdaLaunchTimeout capability, which specified the time, in ms, to wait
for WDA to be loaded and launched on the device
- Allow for the auto-generation of the Xcode config file used to configurable
WDA before launch. This includes two new desired capabilities
-
xcodeOrgId - the Apple developer team identifier string
-
xcodeSigningId - a string representing a signing certificate, defaulting to
"iPhone Developer"
- Allow for automatic changing of bundle id for WDA in cases where a
provisioning profile cannot be made for default bundle- add
updatedWDABundleId capability to specify bundle id for which there is
a valid provisioning profile
- Speed up setting the value of text fields
- Add
wdaConnectionTimeout to control how long the server waits for WDA to
allow connections
- Fix handling of local port on real devices
- Speed up Safari interactions
- Fix session deletion to ensure that clean up happens
- Add
mobile: swipe execute method
- Ensure that scrolling through
mobile: scroll works in web context
- Add
class chain search strategy (see wiki)
- Add
maxTypingFrequency capability to set the speed of typing
- Introduce new set of gestures to allow access to everything the underlying
system can do (see docs)
- Add
allowTouchIdEnroll capability to enroll simulator for touch id
- Use
simctl to do simulator screenshots when possible
- Fix handling of getting status so that it returns even when other commands
are in progress, bypassing queue
- Fix bug where commands in webviews would work, but not return for a long time
- If
showXcodeLog capability set, print out the contents of the xcodebuild log
file at the end of the session (also after a failure/retry of the build, in
such a case)
Android
- Default installation to ChromeDriver 2.28
- Add device manufacturer, model, and screen size to session details
- Fix bug in checking avd status on some systems
- Allow wildcards in
appWaitActivity capability
- Fix issue where reboot would fail
- Add new unlocking strategies (see docs)
- Add
androidNaturalOrientation capability to allow for correct handling of
orientation on landscape-oriented devices
- Allow backgrounding to be permanent
- Dismiss Chrome welcome screen if
--no-first-run Chrome option passed in
- Fix Android command line tools for recent releases
- Make network setting commands more reliable
Android - Selendroid
- Fix handling of host binary configuration for more precise installation options
The Appium GUI (https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop) will be updated with this release early next week.
