v1.21.0

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CHANGES IN VERSION 1.21.0 (FROM 1.20.2)

Appium 1.21.0 is a minor release

General

• Minimum NodeJS version moved to 12
• Support multiple image matches for Finding and Interacting with Image Elements appium-base-driver#449 (@khaong)

Android General

• Disable sending of Google analytics data by instruments appium-uiautomator2-driver#452, appium-espresso-driver#666
• Improve detection of screen lock status appium/appium-adb#564
• Add speed optional parameter to mock location appium-android-driver#681 (Thanks to @salabogdan)
• Fix autoLaunch to install applications by app and otherApps capabilities, but does not launch them as same as iOS appium-uiautomator2-driver#440, appium-espresso-driver#654, appium-android-driver#676
• Fix to handle special characters by mobile:type appium-adb#567
• Fix to switch to Web Views with same package name, but different process names appium-android-driver#687
• Fix to stop screen recording after a session is closed appium-android-driver#675 and each driver

Android(UIAutomator2)

• Add mobile: extensions:
  • mobile:doubleClickGesture for double click guesture appium-uiautomator2-driver#441, appium-uiautomator2-server#415
  • mobile:installMultipleApks to install multiple apks via adb install-multiple command. Please read mobile:installMultipleApks for more details
• Fix XPath lookup for queries which have @* attribute pattern appium-uiautomator2-server#417

Android(Espresso)

• Fix to raise an error in Reset App. It must quit the session and create a new one in Espresso driver. appium-espresso-driver#649
• Fix to reset instrumentation state before starting a new instance appium-espresso-driver#662
• Gradle wrapper has been rewritten using Kotlin DSL appium-espresso-driver#658, appium-espresso-driver#659 (Thanks to @misa)

iOS General

• Xcode 12.5 support

iOS(XCUITest)

• Add capabilities:
  • appium:includeDeviceCapsToSessionInfo to skip adding the screen information in order to improve Get Session Capabilities API. mobile:viewportRect and mobile:deviceScreenInfo help to get these information when this capability is false. appium-xcuitest-driver#1278
  • appium:disableAutomaticScreenshots to handle automatic screenshot by XCTest. Defaults to true appium-xcuitest-driver#1288 (@mrmacete)
  • appium:shouldTerminateApp to handle if Appium terminates the application under test process on the session end. Defaults to true appium-xcuitest-driver#1290, WebDriverAgent#486/ (Thanks to @mrmacete)
• Add mobile: extensions:
  • mobile:viewportRect returns the screen viewport information which is part of Get Session Capabilities
  • mobile:deviceScreenInfo returns the screen information which is part of Get Session Capabilities, WebDriverAgent#483
  • mobile:pushNotification to simulator push notification on simulator by xcrun simctl push command. It requires Xcode 11.4+. Please read mobile:pushNotification for mroe details to trigger a push notification. appium-xcuitest-driver#1286
  • mobile:expectNotification to wait for a notification on the device under test. Please read mobile:expectNotification for more information on how to use it. appium-xcuitest-driver#1287 WebDriverAgent#480
  • mobile:performIoHidEvent to emulate low-level IO HID device events. Read mobile:performIoHidEvent for more details. appium-xcuitest-driver#1291, WebDriverAgent#494
• Add css selector support appium-xcuitest-driver#1274
  • css selector selector will be converted to -ios class chain selector
• Support Get Geolocation API appium-xcuitest-driver#1266
  • Allow Location Access in Location Services for WebDriverAgent-Runner must be set to Always
• Add accessible attribute field into the XML page source WebDriverAgent#493 (Thanks to @TheDarkestDay)
• Improve performance of the keyboard dismissal logic appium-xcuitest-driver#1267, WebDriverAgent#458
• Fix performance degradation of interaction in nativeWebTap:true appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1265

Mac2

• Add capabilities:
  • appium:webDriverAgentMacUrl to allow Appium to connect to a running WebDriverAgentMac instance at this URL appium-mac2-driver#41
• Add a possibility to provide key names for macos:keys extension appium-mac2-driver#60
• Add hittable attribute field into the XML page source appium-mac2-driver#65
• More fine-grained handling of orphaned xcodebuild processes appium-mac2-driver#73

You.i Engine Driver

The version is 1.2.8

Community based drivers

Flutter driver

The version is 0.0.28

New drivers

Add the ability to load appium-roku-driver(appium#15227) and appium-webos-driver(appium#15260) by @cbuelvasc

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