v9.19.0

v9.19.0 (2025-08-11)

🚀 New Feature

• wdio-local-runner, wdio-types, wdio-xvfb
  • #14663 feat: @wdio/xvfb (@goosewobbler)
• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #14680 Add ignore hooks support for v9 (@xxshubhamxx)

🐛 Bug Fix

• webdriverio
  • #14694 fix(webdriverio): don't fail if last window is closed (@christian-bromann)
  • #14683 fix: fix longpress on iOS Safari (@wswebcreation)
  • #14589 [BUG-14514] - Switch frame to an iframe in a Shadow DOM (@vishnuv688)
  • #14661 fix: simplify the getNativeContext check (@wswebcreation)
• wdio-cucumber-framework
  • #14672 feat(cucumber): Fix skipping tests with skip tag (@Nyaran)

💅 Polish

• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #14677 A11y targeted scans v9 (@xxshubhamxx)

📝 Documentation

• #14660 core: update visual docs with @wdio/image-comparison-core (@wswebcreation)

Committers: 6

• Christian Bromann (@christian-bromann)
• Luis Zurro (@Nyaran)
• Shubham Garg (@xxshubhamxx)
• Vishnu Vardhan (@vishnuv688)
• Wim Selles (@wswebcreation)
• @goosewobbler