Appium 1.6.4 Released

Appium 1.6.4 fixes numerous issues with the previous releases. This release
supports iOS 10.3 as well as Android 7.1.

Note:
* Apple's MacOS 10.12.4 update has broken the functioning of iOS 10.2 and below
simulators.

General

• Fix UnhandledPromiseRejection errors when running Appium with Node version 7
• Better indicate missing necessary programs to users
• Fix session creation logging
• Fix server shutdown on SIGINT and SIGTERM signals
• Ensure that all requests have application/json content-type
• Add an event timing API to allow for monitoring of performance metrics such as
  time to session startup, simulator boot, etc. Add eventTimings capability
  to enable or disable

iOS

• Fix issues with error handling in Safari/Webview handling
• Increase simulator launch timeout for iOS 10+
• Better handling of page selection in Safari
• Fix memory usage issues when device logs get large
• Add startIWDP capability to allow Appium to handle starting/stopping ios-webkit-debug-proxy
  automatically.
• Fix problem where date returned from device was not parsable
• Allow custom SafariLauncher bundle id to be passed in through bundleId capability
  during real device Safari tests, in case Xcode can no longer build the bundled one
• Fix logging from real device in the case where the device data/time are different
  from the server

iOS - XCUITest

• Changes the way the Appium checks that WebDriverAgent is running on the device,
  so that rather than searching the logs, the device is pinged until it is
  ready.
  • Remove realDeviceLogger capability, since we no longer check the logs
• Add useNewWDA capability, which forces uninstall of the WDA app from the
  device before each session
• Add wdaLaunchTimeout capability, which specified the time, in ms, to wait
  for WDA to be loaded and launched on the device
• Allow for the auto-generation of the Xcode config file used to configurable
  WDA before launch. This includes two new desired capabilities
  • xcodeOrgId - the Apple developer team identifier string
  • xcodeSigningId - a string representing a signing certificate, defaulting to
    "iPhone Developer"
• Allow for automatic changing of bundle id for WDA in cases where a
  provisioning profile cannot be made for default bundle
  • add updatedWDABundleId capability to specify bundle id for which there is
    a valid provisioning profile
• Speed up setting the value of text fields
• Add wdaConnectionTimeout to control how long the server waits for WDA to
  allow connections
• Fix handling of local port on real devices
• Speed up Safari interactions
• Fix session deletion to ensure that clean up happens
• Add mobile: swipe execute method
• Ensure that scrolling through mobile: scroll works in web context
• Add class chain search strategy (see wiki37)
• Add maxTypingFrequency capability to set the speed of typing
• Introduce new set of gestures to allow access to everything the underlying
  system can do (see docs28)
• Add allowTouchIdEnroll capability to enroll simulator for touch id
• Use simctl to do simulator screenshots when possible
• Fix handling of getting status so that it returns even when other commands
  are in progress, bypassing queue
• Fix bug where commands in webviews would work, but not return for a long time
• If showXcodeLog capability set, print out the contents of the xcodebuild log
  file at the end of the session (also after a failure/retry of the build, in
  such a case)

Android

• Default installation to ChromeDriver 2.28
• Add device manufacturer, model, and screen size to session details
• Fix bug in checking avd status on some systems
• Allow wildcards in appWaitActivity capability
• Fix issue where reboot would fail
• Add new unlocking strategies (see docs39)
• Add androidNaturalOrientation capability to allow for correct handling of
  orientation on landscape-oriented devices
• Allow backgrounding to be permanent
• Dismiss Chrome welcome screen if --no-first-run Chrome option passed in
• Fix Android command line tools for recent releases
• Make network setting commands more reliable

Android - Selendroid

• Fix handling of host binary configuration for more precise installation options

The Appium GUI (https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop625) will be updated with this release early next week.