Apr 25 2020

Appium 1.16.0

Appium 1.16.0 is a minor release.

General

Fix handling of unexpected shutdown (appium/appium-base-driver#370) (#13635) (#13662)
Beta support for Flutter (#12945)
Add log a custom event and get events (appium/appium-base-driver#364, appium/appium-base-driver#365)
Improve memory usage

iOS

Fix creation of simulators on Xcode patch versions (appium/node-simctl#89)
Support setting geolocation on simulators using Lyft's set-simulator-location CLI (appium/appium-ios-simulator#249)
Add support for shadow DOM elements (appium/appium-remote-debugger@559395a)
fix problem in webview asynchronous execute on older versions of iOS, when low timeouts would cause the return value to never be returned (appium/appium-remote-debugger#185)
Allow execution of WDA without app under test (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1093)
Add mobile: deleteFile command for removing files/folders from the device (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1095)
Fall back to ios-deploy if native install fails (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1098)
Make sure ports are properly closed when cleaning up (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1094)
Handle socket errors on session start (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1101)
Properly handle creating simulators with patch versions (appium/node-simctl#89)
Fix handling of Safari console log (appium/appium-remote-debugger#176)
Add ability to interact with Shadow DOM in Safari (appium/appium-remote-debugger@559395a)
New capabilities
- safariLogAllCommunication - log all plists passed to and received from the Web Inspector (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1105)
- safariLogAllCommunicationHexDump - log the raw data passed to and received from the Web Inspector (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1105)
- safariSocketChunkSize - change the size of the data passed to the Web Inspector on real devices (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1105)
- additionalWebviewBundleIds - accept an array of bundle identifiers to poll for during webview app selection (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1117)
- appPushTimeout - timeout for application upload in millisecond, on real devices (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1104)

Android

Add mobile: sensorSet to gain access to setting device sensor data (appium/appium-android-driver#555)
Speed up manifest parsing (appium/appium-adb#471)
Fix process identification on older Android versions (appium/appium-adb#472)
Fix batch permission setting (appium/appium-adb#477)
Allow appWaitDuration to be set as low as 0 (appium/appium-adb#479)