BUG FIX RELEASE

• [BUG FIX] The fix of the element genering on iOS was fixed. Issue report: #704. Fix: #705

v5.0.0

• [REFACTOR] [BREAKING CHANGE] 5.0.0 finalization. Removal of obsolete code. #660
• [ENHANCEMENT] Enable nativeWebTap setting for iOS. #658
• [ENHANCEMENT] The getCurrentPackage was added. #657
• [ENHANCEMENT] The toggleTouchIDEnrollment was added. #659
• [BUG FIX] The clearing of existing actions/parameters after perform is invoked. #663
• [BUG FIX] #669 missed parameters of the OverrideWidget were added:
  • iOSXCUITAutomation
  • windowsAutomation
• [BUG FIX] ByAll was re-implemented. #680
• [BUG FIX] [BREAKING CHANGE] The issue of compliance with Selenium grid 3.x was fixed. This change is breaking because now java_client is compatible with appiun server v>=1.6.5. Issue report #655. FIX #682
• [BUG FIX] issues related to latest Selenium changes were fixed. Issue report #696. Fix: #699.
• [UPDATE] Dependency update
  • selenium-java was updated to 3.5.x
  • org.apache.commons-lang3 was updated to 3.6
  • org.springframework.spring-context was updated to 4.3.10.RELEASE
• [ENHANCEMENT] Update of the touch ID enroll method. The older PerformsTouchID#toggleTouchIDEnrollment was marked Deprecated.
  It is recoomended to use PerformsTouchID#toggleTouchIDEnrollment(boolean) instead. #695

v5.0.0-BETA9

• [ENHANCEMENT] Page factory: Mixed locator strategies were implemented. Feature request:#565 Implementation: #646
• [DEPRECATED] All the content of the io.appium.java_client.youiengine package was marked Deprecated. It is going to be removed. #652
• [UPDATE] Update of the com.google.code.gson:gson to v2.8.1.

v5.0.0-BETA8

• [ENHANCEMENT] Page factory classes became which had package visibility are public now. #630

  • io.appium.java_client.pagefactory.AppiumElementLocatorFactory
  • io.appium.java_client.pagefactory.DefaultElementByBuilder
  • io.appium.java_client.pagefactory.WidgetByBuilder

• [ENHANCEMENT] New capabilities were added #626:

  • AndroidMobileCapabilityType#AUTO_GRANT_PERMISSIONS
  • AndroidMobileCapabilityType#ANDROID_NATURAL_ORIENTATION
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#XCODE_ORG_ID
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#XCODE_SIGNING_ID
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#UPDATE_WDA_BUNDLEID
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#RESET_ON_SESSION_START_ONLY
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#COMMAND_TIMEOUTS
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#WDA_STARTUP_RETRIES
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#WDA_STARTUP_RETRY_INTERVAL
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#CONNECT_HARDWARE_KEYBOARD
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#MAX_TYPING_FREQUENCY
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#SIMPLE_ISVISIBLE_CHECK
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#USE_CARTHAGE_SSL
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#SHOULD_USE_SINGLETON_TESTMANAGER
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#START_IWDP
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#ALLOW_TOUCHID_ENROLL
  • MobileCapabilityType#EVENT_TIMINGS

• [UPDATE] Dependencies were updated:

  • org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java was updated to 3.4.0
  • cglib:cglib was updated to 3.2.5
  • org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient was updated to 4.5.3
  • commons-validator:commons-validator was updated to 1.6
  • org.springframework:spring-context was updated to 4.3.8.RELEASE

v5.0.0-BETA7

• [ENHANCEMENT] The ability to customize the polling strategy of the waiting was provided. #612
• [ENHANCEMENT] [REFACTOR] Methods which were representing time deltas instead of elementary types became Deprecated. Methods which use java.time.Duration are suugested to be used. #611
• [ENHANCEMENT] The ability to calculate screenshots overlap was included. #595.

v5.0.0-BETA6

5.0.0-BETA6

• [UPDATE] Update to Selenium 3.3.1
• [ENHANCEMENT] iOS XCUIT mode automation: API to run application in background was added. #593
• [BUG FIX] Issue report: #594. FIX: #597
• [ENHANCEMENT] The class chain locator was added. #599

v5.0.0-BETA5

• [UPDATE] Update to Selenium 3.2.0
• [BUG FIX] Excessive dependency on guava was removed. It causes errors. Issue report: #588. FIX: #589.
• [ENHANCEMENT]. The capability io.appium.java_client.remote.AndroidMobileCapabilityType#SYSTEM_PORT was added. #591

v5.0.0-BETA4

• [ENHANCEMENT] Android. API to read the performance data was added. #562
• [REFACTOR] Android. Simplified the activity starting by reducing the number of parameters through POJO clas. Old methods which start activities were marked @Deprecated. #579 #585
• [BUG FIX] Issue report:#574. Fix:#582

v5.0.0-BETA3

[BUG FIX]

• [BUG FIX]:Issue report: #567. Fix: #568

v5.0.0-BETA2

• [BUG FIX]:Issue report: #549. Fix: #551
• New capabilities were added #533:
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#USE_NEW_WDA
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#WDA_LAUNCH_TIMEOUT
  • IOSMobileCapabilityType#WDA_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT

The capability IOSMobileCapabilityType#REAL_DEVICE_LOGGER was removed. #533

• [BUG FIX]/[ENHANCEMENT]. Issue report: #552. FIX #556
  • Additional methods were added to the io.appium.java_client.HasSessionDetails
    • String getPlatformName()
    • String getAutomationName()
    • boolean isBrowser()
  • io.appium.java_client.HasSessionDetails is used by the io.appium.java_client.internal.JsonToMobileElementConverter to define which instance of the org.openqa.selenium.WebElement subclass should be created.
• [ENHANCEMENT]: The additional event firing feature. PR: #559. The WIKI chapter about the event firing was updated.