v8.0.0-beta

• [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.