Appium 1.17.0

Appium 1.17.0 is a minor release.

General

• Active driver sessions are now properly cleaned up upon main Appium process termination (#13913)
• Preliminary support for iOS 13.4

iOS

• Fix app installation on real devices (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1139) (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1138) (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1140) (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1152) (appium/appium-ios-device#67)
• Fix temporary log file to be more efficient (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1147)
• Fix port cleanup during shutdown (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1153)
• Fix starting of idb when used (appium/appium-idb#20)
• Add screenshotOrientation as Settings API to customize screenshot orientation (appium/WebDriverAgent#277)
• Capabilities:
  • simulatorStartupTimeout change the default timeout for simulator startup (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1163)
  • simulatorPasteboardAutomaticSync turn on/off simulator pasteboard synching at launch (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1168)
  • simulatorTracePointer turn on/off pointer highlighting in simulators (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1169)
• Add snapshotMaxDepth as Settings API to restrict the depth of getting the elements source tree (appium/WebDriverAgent#273)
• Add mobile: functions for new simctl functionality in Xcode 11.4+ (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1162) (appium/appium-ios-simulator#260) (appium/node-simctl#96)
  • mobile: setPermission
  • mobile: getAppearance
  • mobile: setAppearance
• Webviews/Safari:
  • Add webview bundle identifier to data returned with fullContextList
  • Add waitForWebviewMs option to mobile:getContexts endpoint, to block for a period while waiting for webview report (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1135)
  • Allow SafariViewController webviews to be reached automatically (appium/appium-remote-debugger#189) (appium/appium-remote-debugger#197)
  • Fix asynchronous execution in webview context for iOS 12.1 and below (appium/appium-remote-debugger#199)
  • Fix handling of React components whose state is handled by React (appium/appium-remote-debugger#202)
  • Fix webviews for iOS 13.3 and 13.4 (appium/appium-remote-debugger#203) (appium/appium-remote-debugger#204) (appium/appium-remote-debugger#205) (appium/appium-remote-debugger@e067f0e) (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1174)
  • Fix handling of alerts opened from webview (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1176)

Android

• Add mobile: functions:
  • mobile: listSms to get the list of SMS (appium/appium-android-driver#602 appium/appium-espresso-driver#548)
  • mobile: startScreenStreaming, mobile: stopScreenStreaming (appium/appium-espresso-driver#521)
  • mobile: getNotifications to get the list of notifications (appium/appium-android-driver#598)
• Fix toggle_location_services on Android 9.0 (appium/appium-android-driver#594)
• Add to allow letter as a platformVersion like R in preview/beta Android OS release ( appium/appium-android-driver#607 )
• Updated emulator detection logic (#14015)
• Allow mobile: functions to perform actions in WebView contexts (appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver#366) (appium/appium-espresso-driver#549)

Android (UiAutomator2)

• Added mobile: type endpoint (appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver#365)
• Tuned sendKeys endpoint (appium/appium-uiautomator2-server#329)