Appium 1.5.2 Released on Sauce

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. Use newCommandTimeout desired capability instead
• ensure implicit wait can be set through timeout method
• add better logging for EPIPE errors

iOS

• make sure ipa files 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 timeout method
• make sure Xpath searches respect implicit wait timeout
• make sure bare Instruments process arguments are accepted

Android

• fix failure when apk file 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 release would throw an error
• fix bug in later Android SDK version where noticing a newly started avd would fail
• implement autoWebviewTimeout