We are pleased to announce the release of Appium 1.5.2 through npm and on Sauce Labs! This is a bug fix release that deals with many issues with 1.5.1, including a major bug where large Android applications would cause Appium to run out of memory and die. General
- deprecated
--command-timeout. UsenewCommandTimeoutdesired capability instead - ensure implicit wait can be set through
timeoutmethod - add better logging for
EPIPEerrors
iOS
- make sure
ipafiles are handled correctly for installing on real devices - ensure that existing SafariLauncher on device is used instead of rebuilding and reinstalling
- fix issues with getting webview contexts on real devices
- add full timeout support through
timeoutmethod - make sure Xpath searches respect implicit wait timeout
- make sure bare Instruments process arguments are accepted
Android
- fix failure when
apkfile is too large - re-implement setting geolocation so it does not use Telnet
- add support for Chromium browser
- fix issues with
flick - fix bug where touch action
releasewould throw an error - fix bug in later Android SDK version where noticing a newly started avd would fail
- implement
autoWebviewTimeout
