Appium 1.7.2 Released

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Appium 1.7.2 is a feature and bug fix release. It fixes many issues found in
earlier releases.

General

• Fix memory leak in server logging
• Add support for MacOS 10.13
• Clean up logging to make messages more clear and useful
• Add printPageSourceOnFindFailure to automatically log the current page source when finding an
  element or elements fails
• Add ability to take screenshots of an element
• Begin to handle Selenium W3C specification

iOS

• Simulators
  • Clean up handling in Xcode 9
  • Add support for shake gesture (requires AppleScript)
  • Add support for custom geo locations (requires AppleScript)
  • Add possibility to clear caches
  • Make sure execution does not fail when trying to shut down simulators that
    are already shut down
• Fix handling of source when within a frame/iframe, so that the source of the
  frame is retrieved instead of that of the top-most frameset
• Fix error when unable to parse real device date/time, to return unparsable
  date rather than Invalid Date
• Fix getting crash logs
• Fix getting device logs in iOS 10+
• Fix cleaning up of temporary files
• Correctly handle device names for iPhone 7, 8 and X in Xcode 9
• Fix screenshots for larger real devices
• Fix runtime Xcode selection through DEVELOPER_DIR environment variable
• Add useJSONSource desired capability to force Appium to use WDA JSON source
  and parse locally, to speed up source retrieval on larger devices
• Fix file pushing/pulling so it works for simulators and real devices

iOS - Instruments-specific

Android

• Fix handling of install/upgrade of Appium helper apps (for settings manipulation
  and unlocking of devices)
• Add support for Chromedriver 2.33 (which supports webviews on Android O)
• Add showChromedriverLog desired capability to bring Chromedriver logs in-line
  in the Appium server logs
• Fix error in stopping coverage when session failed to start
• Add support for getting and setting animation state
• Fix handling of size-limited text fields in API levels below 24
• Add support for getting the current value of progress bars
• Fix handling of initial orientation, and make sure no orientation is set if
  nothing is requested
• Make sure all UiAutomator commands are properly handled
• Ensure pageLoadStrategy capability is passed to Chromedriver
• Add support to get currently running package name
• Ensure non-working Chromedriver is correctly handled
• Add password to retrievable element attributes
• Fix locale/language setting
• Add clearDeviceLogsOnStart desired capability, to clear adb logcat logs when the session is started
• Add --relaxed-security, and mobile: shell access to adb

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Unfortunately, due to some changes in the way npm handles dependencies, this release will install the developer dependencies, so the size will be large. To get around this, use npm install -g appium --production.