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
