Java Client Versions Save

• [ENHANCEMENTS]
  • BYACCESSABILITY is deprecated in favor of BYACCESSIBILITY. #1752
  • Connect directly to Appium Hosts in Distributed Environments. #1747
  • use own User Agent. #1779
  • Add alternative proxy implementation. #1790
  • Automated artefact publish to maven central. #1803 & #1807
• [BUG FIX]
  • Enforce usage of Base64 compliant with RFC 4648 for all operations. #1785
  • Override getScreenshotAs to support the legacy base64 encoding. #1787
• [REFRACTOR]
  • BYACCESSABILITY is deprecated in favor of BYACCESSIBILITY. #1752
  • JUnit5 test classes and methods are updated to have default package visibility. #1755
  • Verify if the PR title complies with conventional commits spec. #1757
  • Use Lombok in direct connect class. #1789
  • Update readme and remove obsolete documents. #1792
  • Remove unnecessary annotation. #1791
  • Force unified imports order. #1793
• [DEPENDENCY UPDATES]
  • org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java was updated to 4.5.0.
  • org.owasp.dependencycheck was updated to 7.3.2.
  • io.github.bonigarcia:webdrivermanager was updated to 5.3.1.
  • org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter was updated to 5.9.1.
  • org.slf4j:slf4j-api was updated to 2.0.4.
  • com.google.code.gson:gson was updated to 2.10.0.

• [ENHANCEMENTS]
  • AppiumDriverLocalService can handle outputStreams. #1709
  • Add creating a driver with ClientConfig. #1735
• [BUG FIX]
  • Update the environment argument type for mac SupportsEnvironmentOption. #1712
• [REFRACTOR]
  • Deprecate Appium ByAll in favour of Selenium ByAll. #1740
  • Bump Node.js version in pipeline. #1713
  • Switch unit tests to run on Junit 5 Jupiter Platform. #1721
  • Clean up unit tests asserting thrown exceptions. #1741
  • Fix open notification test. #1749
  • update Azure pipeline to use macos-11 VM image. #1728
• [DEPENDENCY UPDATES]
  • org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java was updated to 4.4.0.
  • org.owasp.dependencycheck was updated to 7.1.2.
  • io.github.bonigarcia:webdrivermanager was updated to 5.3.0.
  • gradle was updated to 7.5.1.
  • com.google.code.gson:gson was updated to 2.9.1.

8.1.1

• [BUG FIX]
  • Perform safe typecast while getting the platform name. #1702
  • Add prefix to platformVersion capability name. #1704
• [REFRACTOR]
  • Update e2e tests to make it green. #1706
  • Ignore the test which has a connected server issue. #1699

8.1.0

• [ENHANCEMENTS]
  • Add new EspressoBuildConfig options. #1687
• [DOCUMENTATION]
  • delete all references to removed MobileElement class. #1677
• [BUG FIX]
  • Pass orientation name capability in uppercase. #1686
  • correction for ping method to get proper status URL. #1661
  • Remove deprecated option classes. #1679
  • Remove obsolete event firing decorators. #1676
• [DEPENDENCY UPDATES]
  • org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java was updated to 4.2.0.
  • org.owasp.dependencycheck was updated to 7.1.0.1.
  • org.springframework:spring-context was updated to 5.3.18.
  • org.aspectj:aspectjweaver was updated to 1.9.9.
  • io.github.bonigarcia:webdrivermanager was updated to 5.2.0.
  • org.projectlombok:lombok was updated to 1.18.24.

8.0.0

• [DOCUMENTATION]
  • Set minimum Java version to 1.8.0. #1631
• [BUG FIX]
  • Make interfaces public to fix decorator creation. #1644
  • Do not convert argument names to lowercase. #1627
  • Avoid fallback to css for id and name locator annotations. #1622
  • Fix handling of chinese characters in AppiumDriverLocalService. #1618
• [DEPENDENCY UPDATES]
  • org.owasp.dependencycheck was updated to 7.0.0.
  • org.springframework:spring-context was updated to 5.3.16.
  • actions/setup-java was updated to 3.
  • actions/checkout was updated to 3.
  • io.github.bonigarcia:webdrivermanager was updated to 5.1.0.
  • org.aspectj:aspectjweaver was updated to 1.9.8.
  • org.slf4j:slf4j-api was updated to 1.7.36.
  • com.github.johnrengelman.shadow was updated to 7.1.2.

8.0.0-beta2

• [DOCUMENTATION]
  • Add a link to options builder examples to the migration guide. #1595
• [BUG FIX]
  • Filter out proxyClassLookup method from Proxy class (for Java 16+) in AppiumByBuilder. #1575
• [REFRACTOR]
  • Add more nice functional stuff into page factory helpers. #1584
  • Switch e2e tests to use Appium2. #1603
  • relax constraints of Selenium dependencies versions. #1606
• [DEPENDENCY UPDATES]
  • Upgrade to Selenium 4.1.1. #1613
  • org.owasp.dependencycheck was updated to 6.5.1.
  • org.springframework:spring-context was updated to 5.3.14.
  • actions/setup-java was updated to 2.4.0.
  • gradle was updated to 7.3.

• [ENHANCEMENTS]
  • Start adding UiAutomator2 options. #1543
  • Add more UiAutomator2 options. #1545
  • Finish creating options for UiAutomator2 driver. #1548
  • Add WDA-related XCUITestOptions. #1552
  • Add web view options for XCUITest driver. #1557
  • Add the rest of XCUITest driver options. #1561
  • Add Espresso options. #1563
  • Add Windows driver options. #1564
  • Add Mac2 driver options. #1565
  • Add Gecko driver options. #1573
  • Add Safari driver options. #1576
  • Start adding XCUITest driver options. #1551
  • Implement driver-specific W3C option classes. #1540
  • Update Service to properly work with options. #1550
• [BREAKING CHANGE]
  • Migrate to Selenium 4. #1531
  • Make sure we only write W3C payload into create session command. #1537
  • Use the new session payload creator inherited from Selenium. #1535
  • unify locator factories naming and toString implementations. #1538
  • drop support of deprecated Selendroid driver. #1553
  • switch to javac compiler. #1556
  • revise used Selenium dependencies. #1560
  • change prefix to AppiumBy in locator toString implementation. #1559
  • enable dependencies caching. #1567
  • Include more tests into the pipeline. #1566
  • Tune setting of default platform names. #1570
  • Deprecate custom event listener implementation and default to the one provided by Selenium4. #1541
  • Deprecate touch actions. #1569
  • Deprecate legacy app management helpers. #1571
  • deprecate Windows UIAutomation selector. #1562
  • Remove unused entities. #1572
  • Remove setElementValue helper. #1577
  • Remove selenium package override. #1555
  • remove redundant exclusion of Gradle task signMavenJavaPublication. #1568
• [DEPENDENCY UPDATES]
  • org.owasp.dependencycheck was updated to 6.4.1.
  • com.google.code.gson:gson was updated to 2.8.9.

7.6.0

• [ENHANCEMENTS]
  • Add custom commands dynamically [Appium 2.0]. #1506
  • New General Server flags are added [Appium 2.0]. #1511
  • Add support of extended Android geolocation. #1492
• [BUG FIX]
  • AndroidGeoLocation: update the constructor signature to mimic order of parameters in org.openqa.selenium.html5.Location. #1526
  • Prevent duplicate builds for PRs from base repo branches. #1496
  • Enable Dependabot for GitHub actions. #1500
  • bind mac2element in element map for mac platform. #1474
• [DEPENDENCY UPDATES]
  • org.owasp.dependencycheck was updated to 6.3.2.
  • org.projectlombok:lombok was updated to 1.18.22.
  • com.github.johnrengelman.shadow was updated to 7.1.0.
  • actions/setup-java was updated to 2.3.1.
  • io.github.bonigarcia:webdrivermanager was updated to 5.0.3.
  • org.springframework:spring-context was updated to 5.3.10.
  • org.slf4j:slf4j-api was updated to 1.7.32.
  • com.google.code.gson:gson was updated to 2.8.8.
  • gradle was updated to 7.1.1.
  • commons-io:commons-io was updated to 2.11.0.
  • org.aspectj:aspectjweaver was updated to 1.9.7.
  • org.eclipse.jdt:ecj was updated to 3.26.0.
  • 'junit:junit was updated to 4.13.2.

• [ENHANCEMENTS]
  • Add iOS related annotations to tvOS. #1456
• [BUG FIX]
  • Bring back automatic quote escaping for desired capabilities command-line arguments on windows. #1454
• [DEPENDENCY UPDATES]
  • org.owasp.dependencycheck was updated to 6.1.2.
  • org.eclipse.jdt:ecj was updated to 3.25.0.

• [ENHANCEMENTS]
  • Add support for Appium Mac2Driver. #1439
  • Add support for multiple image occurrences. #1445
  • BOUND_ELEMENTS_BY_INDEX Setting was added. #1418
• [BUG FIX]
  • Use lower case for Windows platform key in ElementMap. #1421
• [DEPENDENCY UPDATES]
  • org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 was updated to 3.12.0.
  • org.springframework:spring-context was updated to 5.3.4.
  • org.owasp.dependencycheck was updated to 6.1.0.
  • io.github.bonigarcia:webdrivermanager was updated to 4.3.1.
  • org.eclipse.jdt:ecj was updated to 3.24.0.
  • org.projectlombok:lombok was updated to 1.18.16.
  • jcenter repository was removed.