v1.2.0

Highlights

• New ios ui run (wda | devicekit) — bring up a WebDriverAgent or DeviceKit UI-automation runner and forward its port, the run counterpart to ui download/ui install (#761).
• Accessibility audit — ios ax audit runs the on-device accessibility audit on iOS 14–18, with structured output (#618).
• WebInspector / CDP — new WebInspector service with a Chrome DevTools Protocol bridge, interactive controls, and a JS shell (#744).
• Apple signing + UI automation commands — sign and drive WDA/DeviceKit runners directly from the CLI.
• runtest / runxctest now emit test results as JSON to stdout, always (#573).

Tunnel (iOS 17+)

• Per-device tunnel stop and refresh (#738).
• Userspace tunnel: IPv6 framing fix and TLS-PSK transport for iOS 18.2+, plus robustness and performance work (#748).
• Limit automatic tunnel lookup to RSD commands (#753); attach tunnel info to devicestate / resetlocation / setlocationgpx (#756).
• Fix a usbmux socket leak in TunnelManager — skip network devices and back off failed ones (#682).
• More reliable single-device reconnect handling (#691).

Fixes

• forward: stop logging normal connection teardown as errors (#754, #639) and make teardown race-free (#762).
• instruments: retry transient device launch failures (NSError code 2), fixing flaky ios launch (#763).
• Windows: stop the TUN event loop spinning when a device disconnects (#690).
• Replace a panic with an error return in the archive path (#705).
• Warn that --pair-record-path=default is TCC-blocked on macOS 26+ (#747).
• Better error messages explaining why instruments/devmode fail on unsupported devices (#742).

Internal

• Go 1.26 across all modules; device command dispatch refactored into per-domain handlers; expanded real-device e2e coverage (pre-iOS17, WebInspector, signing, accessibility) with the data-race detector enabled in unit CI.

🙏 Thanks to our contributors

This release was made possible by a fantastic group of contributors — thank you all:

• @sakhisheikh (Sakhi Mansoor) — built out the accessibility APIs (toggle caption text, first/last element, AX queries) that underpin ios ax audit (#618). 🎉
• @aluedeke (Andreas Lüdeke) — sharp-eyed fix to stop forward logging normal connection teardown as errors, with a clean half-duplex refactor (#754).
• @lizhizhuanshu (Ponder) — caught and fixed a Windows goroutine that busy-spun forever when a device disconnects (#690). A year-old fix, finally landed — worth the wait!
• @vbragaru — diagnosed and fixed a real usbmux socket leak in TunnelManager, complete with overnight lsof evidence (#682). Excellent debugging.
• @briankrznarich (Brian Krznarich) — spotted spurious errors logged when a forward connection is cleanly closed (#639). Precise root-cause, patiently carried across go-ios's logrus→golog migration.
• @dmdmdm-nz — made runtest/runxctest emit machine-readable JSON results, so test output is finally pipeable (#573, #574).
• @mvanhorn (Matt Van Horn) — replaced a panic with a proper error return in the archive path, making the library safer to embed (#705).

…and @danielpaulus for the WebInspector/CDP bridge, ios ui run, the tunnel and signing work, and shepherding it all in. 🚀

Several of these PRs had been waiting a while and were rebased onto current main with the contributors' original authorship preserved. Thank you for your patience and your excellent work — go-ios is better because of you.