Add chromedriverDisableBuildCheck capability which sets the –disable-build-check flag on Chromedriver #474
Add skipDeviceInitialization capability which speeds up session startup for cases where Appium doesn’t need to wait for the device, push a settings app, or set permissions #480
Fall back to pressing BACK button if ESC fails to close soft keyboard #471
Improve XML source building performance by using Jaxen/JDOM2 library on Espresso and UiAutomator2 #237
Add setting normalizeTagNames which is set to true by default, which normalizes source tag names to workaround parsing problems
Fix: Include API level 23 for granting of permissions to apps. 23 was being incorrectly excluded previously #473
Fix: Only call helpers.ensureDeviceLocale if language or locale was set, to avoid spending startup time on locale unnecessarily #477
Fix: Don’t regard apps as ‘temporary’ if the app is a relative path #479
Fix session init. Uninstalls Espresso server if server is older or newer than currently installed Espresso server #358