We are pleased to announce the release of Appium 1.5.3 through npm and on Sauce Labs! Appium 1.5.3 is primarily a bug-fix release. However, it also adds functionality to support for iOS WKWebViews and for automating the iOS Calendar app, as well as adding a capability to use abd for screenshots in Android web/hybrid sessions, and providing a list of Android activities to wait for on session startup. General

• Fix handling of statuses from proxied drivers (Chrome, Selendroid, etc.).
• Fix intermittent bug where creating a directory might crash the server.

iOS

• Add support for WKWebView-based webviews.
• Add support for automating the built-in Calandar app.
• Fix bug where scrolling in Safari would crash.
• Fix handling of Safari in "new window" state.
• Fix handling of arguments for keys method so that clients that send an array do not fail.
• Clean up handling of ipa files for real device tests.
• Make sure processArguments parsing works.

Android

• Add nativeWebScreenshot capability, to use adb screenshots instead of ChromeDriver if necessary.
• Add support to auto-select device based on platformVersion rather than using first available device.
• Allow appWaitActivity to be a list of activities.
• Fix setting wifi and data state.
• Implement initAutoWebView capability.
• Report appPackage, appActivity, and deviceUDID when requesting session details, so tests have more information about running state.
• Make sure unlock app is closed at the end of a session so that the device works again.
• Fix handling of unlock to make less flakey.
• Make sure unicode encoding works correctly when strings are long.
• Fix handling of disableAndroidWatchers capability.
• Fix bug where early ChromeDriver failure crashed Appium.