v9.16.0

v9.16.0 (2025-06-23)

👓 Spec Compliancy

• #14534 fix(infra) have not present required generate optional argument (@dprevost-LMI)

🚀 New Feature

• wdio-config, wdio-runner, wdio-types
  • #14546 feat(wdio-runner): automatically include SoftAssertionService (@JustasMonkev)

🐛 Bug Fix

• wdio-config
  • #14236 fix: Combines exclude and wdio:exclude. (@damencho)
• wdio-utils
  • #14572 Fix for isAndroid outside of test (@AakashHotchandani)
  • #14565 fix(wdio-utils):fix to support windows path string (@mato533)
  • #14531 fix(webdriverio): detect Samsung devices as Android in BrowserStack (@christian-bromann)
• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #14557 fix for accessibility build error [wdio-browsertstack-service] (@rounak610)
• webdriverio
  • #14549 fix(types): Fix overwriteCommand inconsistent typing (@dprevost-LMI)
• wdio-local-runner
  • #14511 refactor(wdio-local-runner): replace async-exit-hook with exit-hook (@harsha509)
• wdio-protocols
  • #14522 fix(@wdio/protocols): Have options of appium terminateApp command optional (@dprevost-LMI)

💅 Polish

• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #14538 Added support for running accessibility on Non-browserstack infrastructure (@Bhargavi-BS)

📝 Documentation

• Other
  • #14578 fix: Updates exclude docs. (@damencho)
  • #14547 fix(docs) Masking doc glitches + update Appium required version following PR merge (@dprevost-LMI)
• wdio-appium-service, wdio-cli, wdio-protocols, wdio-types, webdriverio
  • #14523 fix(docs): update various Appium-related links (@eglitise)

🏠 Internal

• #14569 fix(ci): hardening security of GH actions (@christian-bromann)

Committers: 10

• Aakash Hotchandani (@AakashHotchandani)
• Christian Bromann (@christian-bromann)
• David Prevost (@dprevost-LMI)
• Edgars Eglītis (@eglitise)
• JustasM (@JustasMonkev)
• Rounak Bhatia (@rounak610)
• Sri Harsha (@harsha509)
• @Bhargavi-BS
• @mato533
• Дамян Минков (@damencho)