Appium 1.5.1 Released on Sauce

We are happy to support the newly-released Appium 1.5.1. This release fixes a number of issues with 1.5.0, including one bug that prevented some frameworks from correctly polling for status during Safari tests.

General

• allow `platformName` to be any case
• Windows process handling is cleaned up
• Desired capabilities `language` and `locale` added

iOS

• iOS 9.3 (Xcode 7.3) support
• Fix handling of return values from `executeScript` in Safari
• Don't stop if Instruments doesn't shut down in a timely manner
• Escape single quotes in all methods that set the value on an element
• Allow custom device names
• Make full use of process arguments to Instruments
• Pass `launchTimeout` to Instruments when checking devices

Android

• Make use of `--bootstrap-port` server argument
• Fix `keystorePassword` capability to allow a string
• Fix handling of localization in Android 6
• Use Appium's unlock logic for Chrome sessions
• Make sure reset works
• Make unlock more reliable for later versions of Android
• Allow Xpath searching from the context of another element
• Make full use of process arguments to adb
• Better error messages when ChromeDriver fails to start