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-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.18.1 (FROM 1.18.0)
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-Appium 1.18.1 is a patch release
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-#### Android General
-* Fix to properly clean up forwarded ports if parallel sessions are running [appium-chromedriver#183](https://github.com/appium/appium-chromedriver/pull/183)
-* Fix to avoid a redundant Chromedriver download operation if a matching driver is already present [appium-chromedriver#186](https://github.com/appium/appium-chromedriver/pull/186)
-
-#### Android (UiAutomator2)
-* Fix to return a proper response for missing route [appium/appium-uiautomator2-server#373](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/373) 
-* Fix to allow double values as touch action coordinates [ appium/appium-uiautomator2-server#372](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/372)
-* Fix [#14586](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/14586) which might affect XPath locators executed on elemetns, retrieved from nested lookup requests [appium/appium-uiautomator2-server#372](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/371)
-    * A known issue in 1.18.0
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.18.0 (FROM 1.17.1)
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-Appium 1.18.0 is a minor release
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-#### General
-* Add `score` attribute for ImageElement [appium-base-driver#396](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/396)
-* Add a route to be able to execute Chrome DevTools commands to downstream drivers [appium-base-driver#405](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/405)
-  * e.g. Clients can send `/session/:sessionId/goog/cdp/execute` command to Chromedriver
-* Fix socket leak by handling connections in a shared pool [appium-base-driver#416](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/416)
-* Fix to encode filenames with UTF-8 while extracting `.ipa` packages [appium-base-driver#419](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/419)
-  * The change fixes `.ipa` packages deployment that contain file names containing non-ASCII characters like [this issue](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/14100)
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-#### Android General
-* Add capabilities:
-  * `mockLocationApp` to make location mock configurable [appium-android-driver#632](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/632)
-  * `logcatFormat`, `logcatFilterSpecs` to allow logcat output format customization [appium-adb#528](https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/528)
-  * `ignoreHiddenApiPolicyError` to ignore permission error when hidden api policy change happens [appium-adb#507](https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/507)
-* Add `mobile:` functions:
-  * `mobile: getDeviceTime` to get the device time [appium-android-driver#623](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/623)
-  * `mobile: execEmuConsoleCommand` to send [emulator console commands](https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-console) [appium-android-driver#517](https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/517) [#630](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/630)
-  * `mobile: deleteFile` to delete a file [appium-android-driver#634](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/634)
-  * `mobile: startService` and `mobile: stopService` to start or stop services via [adb shell commands](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7415997/how-to-start-and-stop-android-service-from-a-adb-shell) [appium-android-driver#647](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/647)
-* Add including native context log for getLog command [appium-android-driver#646](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/646)
-* Fix tapping by element coordinate [appium-android-driver#355](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/355)
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-#### Android (UiAutomator2)
-* Add capabilities:
-  * `disableSuppressAccessibilityService` to control [FLAG_DONT_SUPPRESS_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICES]((https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/UiAutomation#FLAG_DONT_SUPPRESS_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICES)) flag [appium-uiautomator2-driver#376](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/376)
-waitForLaunch
-  * `mjpegServerPort` to customize MJPEG server port [appium-uiautomator2-driver#386](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/386)
-* Add `mobile:` functions:
-  * `mobile: sensorSet` to set sensor [appium-uiautomator2-driver#378](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/378)
-  * `mobile: scroll` to allow to scroll action in some ways. Please read [appium-uiautomator2-driver](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/blob/master/lib/commands/general.js) for more details. [appium-uiautomator2-driver#385](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/385)
-  * `mobile: deepLink` to send deeplink command with `waitForLaunch` option to handle the wait for logic [appium-uiautomator2-driver#389](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/389)
-  * `mobile: viewportRect` to return view port rectangle [appium-uiautomator2-driver#404](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/404)
-* Known issue
-  * [#14586](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/14586): [Root element fix](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/363) might affect XPath locators executed on elements, retrieved from nested lookup requests (the document root for such elements is now the element itself rather than a fake `hierarchy` root)
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-#### Android (Espresso)
-* Add capabilities:
-  * `disableSuppressAccessibilityService` to control [FLAG_DONT_SUPPRESS_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICES]((https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/UiAutomation#FLAG_DONT_SUPPRESS_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICES)) flag [appium-espresso-driver#559](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/559)
-  * `appLocale` to set [Locale](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale) for [the target context](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/test/core/app/ApplicationProvider#getApplicationContext()) [appium-espresso-driver#580](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/580)
-* Add `mobile:` functions:
-  * `mobile: sensorSet` to set sensor [appium-espresso-driver](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/560)
-
-### iOS (XCUITest)
-* Add Xcode 12 beta and iOS 14 support
-* Add settings:
-  * `boundElementsByIndex` for bounding strategy to lookup elements [WebDriverAgent#357](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/357)
-* Add XCTest `mobile:` functions: [appium-xcuitest-driver#1205](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1205). Please read [test code](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/blob/master/test/functional/device/xctest-e2e-specs.js) as an example.
-  * `mobile: runXCTest` to run XCTest bundle
-  * `mobile: installXCTestBundle` to install the xctest bundle
-  * `mobile: listXCTestBundles` to get list of xctests within bundle
-  * `mobile: listXCTestsInTestBundle` to return the list of XCTest bundles
-* Add audio recording for simulators and real devices [appium-xcuitest-driver#1207](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1207)
-  * Read [Audio Capture From iOS Simulators and Real Devices](https://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios/audio-capture/)
-* Add prebuilt WebDriverAgentRunner snapshots to speed up tests execution on iOS Simulator in `appium-webdriveragend` npm package [WebDriverAgent#331](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/331)
-  * The path is `appium/node_modules/appium-webdriveragend/WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner.app.zip`
-  * The usage is:
-    ```bash
-    idb install /WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner.app --udid <device-udid>
-    idb launch com.facebook.WebDriverAgentRunner.xctrunner
-    ```
-* Fix a memory leak by removing unnecessary dependencies [WebDriverAgent#348](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/348) [WebDriverAgent#350](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/350) [WebDriverAgent#351](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/351)
-* Fix respecting `webDriverAgentUrl` in favor of `wdaLocalPort` and `wdaBaseUrl` for real devices [WebDriverAgent#342](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/342)
-* Fix ignoring the case where process locking the socket is not alive [WebDriverAgent#339](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/339)
-* Fix to improve alert buttons detection [WebDriverAgent#322](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/322)
-
-### Windows
-* Add video recording [appium-windows-driver#66](https://github.com/appium/appium-windows-driver/pull/66)
-* Add findByImage [appium-windows-driver#67](https://github.com/appium/appium-windows-driver/pull/67)
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-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.17.1 (FROM 1.17.0)
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-Appium 1.17.1 is a patch release
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-### iOS (XCUITest)
-* feature: get idb working under launchWithIDB cap (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1193)
-* feature: Add mobile command to get device time (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1190)
-* feature: Add mobile command for tapWithNumberOfTaps (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1184)
-* fix: datetime retrieval for real devices (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1189) (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1192)
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-## iOS (Web)
-* feature: allow safari alert with block/allow buttons to be handled (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1185)
-* fix: cookie functions should not get proxied to wda ever (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1182)
-* fix: wait for atom finish before checking for alerts (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1183)
-* fix: properly handle promise during wait for atom (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1187)
-* fix: do not send Target.exists on iOS 13.4 (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/219)
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-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.17.0 (FROM 1.16.0)
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-Appium 1.17.0 is a minor release.
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-#### General
-* Active driver sessions are now properly cleaned up upon main Appium process termination (https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/13913)
-* Preliminary support for iOS 13.4
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-#### iOS General
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-#### iOS (XCUITest)
-* Fix app installation on real devices (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1139) (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1138) (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1140) (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1152) (https://github.com/appium/appium-ios-device/pull/67)
-* Fix temporary log file to be more efficient (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1147)
-* Fix port cleanup during shutdown (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1153)
-* Fix starting of `idb` when used (https://github.com/appium/appium-idb/pull/20)
-* Add `screenshotOrientation` as Settings API to customize screenshot orientation (https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/277)
-* Capabilities:
-  * `simulatorStartupTimeout` change the default timeout for simulator startup (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1163)
-  * `simulatorPasteboardAutomaticSync` turn on/off simulator pasteboard synching at launch (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1168)
-  * `simulatorTracePointer` turn on/off pointer highlighting in simulators (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1169)
-* Add `snapshotMaxDepth` as Settings API to restrict the depth of getting the elements source tree (https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/273)
-* Add `mobile:` functions for new `simctl` functionality in Xcode 11.4+ (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1162) (https://github.com/appium/appium-ios-simulator/pull/260) (https://github.com/appium/node-simctl/pull/96)
-  * `mobile: setPermission`
-  * `mobile: getAppearance`
-  * `mobile: setAppearance`
-* Webviews/Safari:
-  * Add webview bundle identifier to data returned with `fullContextList`
-  * Add `waitForWebviewMs` option to `mobile:getContexts` endpoint, to block for a period while waiting for webview report (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1135)
-  * Allow SafariViewController webviews to be reached automatically (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/189) (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/197)
-  * Fix asynchronous execution in webview context for iOS 12.1 and below (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/199)
-  * Fix handling of React components whose state is handled by React (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/202)
-  * Fix webviews for iOS 13.3 and 13.4 (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/203) (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/204) (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/205) (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/commit/e067f0eab012b5ef67f1ce67eb85479c4abe440b) (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1174)
-  * Fix handling of alerts opened from webview (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1176)
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-#### Android General
-* Add `mobile:` functions:
-  * `mobile: listSms` to get the list of SMS (https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/602 https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/548)
-  * `mobile: startScreenStreaming`, `mobile: stopScreenStreaming` (https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/521)
-  * `mobile: getNotifications` to get the list of notifications (https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/598)
-* Fix `toggle_location_services` on Android 9.0 (https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/594)
-* Add to allow letter as a `platformVersion` like `R` in preview/beta Android OS release ( https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/607 )
-* Updated emulator detection logic (https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/14015)
-* Allow `mobile:` functions to perform actions in WebView contexts (https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/366) (https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/549)
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-#### Android (UiAutomator2)
-* Added `mobile: type` endpoint (https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/365)
-* Tuned `sendKeys` endpoint (https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/329)
-
-#### Android (Espresso)
-* Capabilities:
-  * `espressoBuildConfig` customize the espresso server build configuration (https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps.md#espresso-server-build-configuration-json)
-  * `intentOptions` customize intent for launching activities (https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/542)
-  * `skipServerInstallation` skip espresso driver preparation (https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/526)
-* Add `-android viewmatcher` selector (https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/516)
-* Add `noMultilineButtons`, `noEllipsizedText` and `noOverlaps` as available element attributes to extend available view assertions (https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/544)
-* Support `open_notifications` endpoint (https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/536/files)
-
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-#### Windows
-
-#### MacOS
-* Capabilities:
-  * `a4mHost`, `a4mPort`, `a4mAppPath` and `killAllA4MAppBeforeStart` make mac driver configurable (https://github.com/appium/appium-mac-driver/pull/42) (https://github.com/appium/appium-mac-driver/pull/44)
-* Added the possibility to autodetect the location of the server app: https://github.com/appium/appium-mac-driver/pull/44
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-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.16.0 (FROM 1.15.1)
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-Appium 1.16.0 is a minor release
-
-#### General
-* Fix handling of unexpected shutdown (https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/370) (https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/13635) (https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/13662)
-* Beta support for Flutter (https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/12945)
-* Add log a custom event and get events (https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/364, https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/365)
-* Improve memory usage
-
-#### IOS General
-* Fix creation of simulators on Xcode patch versions (https://github.com/appium/node-simctl/pull/89)
-* Support setting geolocation on simulators using [Lyft's set-simulator-location CLI](https://github.com/lyft/set-simulator-location) (https://github.com/appium/appium-ios-simulator/pull/249)
-
-#### IOS (XCUITest):
-* Add support for shadow DOM elements (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/commit/559395a16088142b27289dbac6d3a5ab36caa716)
-* fix problem in webview asynchronous execute on older versions of iOS, when low timeouts would cause the return value to never be returned (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/185)
-* Allow execution of WDA without app under test (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1093)
-* Add `mobile: deleteFile` command for removing files/folders from the device (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1095)
-* Fall back to `ios-deploy` if native install fails (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1098)
-* Make sure ports are properly closed when cleaning up (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1094)
-* Handle socket errors on session start (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1101)
-* Properly handle creating simulators with patch versions (https://github.com/appium/node-simctl/pull/89)
-* Fix handling of Safari console log (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/176)
-* Add ability to interact with Shadow DOM in Safari (https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/commit/559395a16088142b27289dbac6d3a5ab36caa716)
-* New capabilities
-  * `safariLogAllCommunication` - log all plists passed to and received from the Web Inspector (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1105)
-  * `safariLogAllCommunicationHexDump` - log the raw data passed to and received from the Web Inspector (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1105)
-  * `safariSocketChunkSize` - change the size of the data passed to the Web Inspector on real devices (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1105)
-  * `additionalWebviewBundleIds` - accept an array of bundle identifiers to poll for during webview app selection (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1117)
-  * `appPushTimeout` - timeout for application upload in millisecond, on real devices (https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1104)
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-#### Android General
-* Add `mobile: sensorSet` to gain access to setting device sensor data (https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/555)
-* Speed up manifest parsing (https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/471)
-* Fix process identification on older Android versions (https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/472)
-* Fix batch permission setting (https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/477)
-* Allow `appWaitDuration` to be set as low as `0` (https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/479)
-
-#### Android (UiAutomator2)
-* Add get clipboard for Android 10+ (https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/348)
-* Fix prefer IPv4 address to the host name (https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/343)
-* Fix Turn write access verification on Windows environment (https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/340)
-* Add bluetooth state as deviceInfo (https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/312)
-* Allow session creation without starting an application (https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/337)
-
-#### Android (Espresso)
-* Allow configuring Gradle, AGP, various SDK and Kotlin versions for Espresso server (https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/496)
-  * Many thanks to @tinder-ktarasov
-* Add get clipboard for Android 10+ (https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/512)
-
-#### Windows
-* Support WinAppDriver 1.2 release candidate (https://github.com/appium/appium-windows-driver/pull/60)
-  * Important capabilities: `ms:waitForAppLaunch`, `ms:experimental-webdriver`
-* Add a possibility to customize application startup timeout (https://github.com/appium/appium-windows-driver/pull/59)
-  * `createSessionTimeout` (https://github.com/appium/appium-windows-driver#windowsdriver-specific-capabilities)
-
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-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.15.1 (FROM 1.15.0)
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-Appium 1.15.1 is a patch release that addresses incompatibilities with Node < 10.10
-
-#### General
-* Fix: support older nodejs version by just using stat [#130](https://github.com/appium/appium-support/commit/12396d7db50206e70d7f8f633d7e9a5a6f14553a)
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.15.0 (FROM 1.14.1)
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-Appium 1.15.0 is a minor release, with support for iOS 13.0.
-
-#### General
-* Add `--base-path` server argument to set a custom route prefix [#13079](https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/13079)
-* Store the image element for retrieval [#327](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/327)
-* Fix handling of W3C/MJSONWP protocols [#331](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/331)
-[#336](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/336) [#337](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/337)
-[#348](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/348) [#351](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/351)
-[#353](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/353) [#355](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/355)
-* Fix handling of timezone when getting the device data/time [#392](https://github.com/appium/appium-ios-driver/pull/392) [#557](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/557)
-* Fix handling of globally installed `opencv4nodejs` and `mjpeg-consumer` modules [#105](https://github.com/appium/appium-support/pull/105)
-* Make it possible to start server without an app or a package id using UiAutomator2 and XCUITest [#337](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/337) [#195](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/195)
-* Internally, WebDriverAgent, UiAutomator2 and Espresso servers operate only through W3C spec protocol
-
-#### IOS (XCUITest):
-* Support iOS 13/Xcode 11
-* Bump generic `"iphone simulator"` device name for iOS 13.0 from `iPhone 8` to `iPhone X` [#1068](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1068)
-* Add support for `otherApps` capability on iOS like we have on Android [#988](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/988)
-* Add `"mobile: activeAppInfo"` feature [#1025](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1025)
-* Settings
-  * `mjpegScalingFactor` [#983](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/983)
-  * `snapshotTimeout` [#181](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/181)
-  * `useFirstMatch` [#187](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/187)
-  * `defaultActiveApplication` [#209](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/209)
-  * `activeAppDetectionPoint` [#215](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/215)  [#218](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/218)
-  * `includeNonModalElements` [#222](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/222)
-* New capabilities
-  * `includeSafariInWebviews` [#1060](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1060)
-  * `safariGlobalPreferences` [#1057](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1057)
-* Remove some third-party dependencies
-  * `idevicedate` [#1042](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1042)
-  * `iproxy` [#996](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/996)
-  * `idevicesyslog` [#1000](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1000)
-  * `idevicelocation` [#1006](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1006)
-  * `ifuse` [#1019](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1019)
-  * `ios-webkit-debug-proxy` [#1023](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1023)
-  * `ios-deploy` [#1009](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1009)
-* Get only user apps in file-movement for performance aspect [#1014](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1014)
-* Switch `reduceMotion` via settings API instead of update simulator pref [#1065](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1065)
-* Add the necessary primitives to be able to automate split-screen apps [#209](https://github.com/appium/webdriveragent/pull/209)
-* Add a new endpoint for element rotation [#213](https://github.com/appium/webdriveragent/pull/213)
-* Add useful information in `"mobile: deviceInfo"` [#210](https://github.com/appium/webdriveragent/pull/210)
-* Add ability to automate split screen applications [#214](https://github.com/appium/webdriveragent/pull/214) [#215](https://github.com/appium/webdriveragent/pull/215) [#204](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/204)
-* Allow setting compression quality and scaling factor for `mjpeg-stream` [#196](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/196)
-* Fix `GET` `/timeouts` [#1067](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1067)
-* Switch `async execute` to not need CORS (works for real and simulated devices) [#1063](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1063)
-* Fix uninstalling of `WDA` with '.xctrunner' suffix for real device [#1052](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1052)
-* Fix caching issues [#1053](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1053)
-* Fix `mjpegstream` logic for returning screenshots [#1039](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1039)
-* Fix Node bug when ending session [#1040](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1040)
-* Fix launching `WDA` multiple times [#999](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/999)
-* Fix "get active element" [#1011](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1011)
-* Fix screenshot taking for iOS below 11 [#193](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/193)
-* Fix to not throw exception if the app is not in foreground after a timeout [#211](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/211)
-* Fix `tap` and `tapByCoordinate` to use their native implementations since iOS 13.0 [#212](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/212) [#217](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/217)
-* Fix calculation of touch coordinates in landscape orientation for iOS 13.1 [#220](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/220)
-
-#### Android General
-* Default Chromedriver version is `77.0.3865.40` [#143](https://github.com/appium/appium-chromedriver/pull/143)
-* Add server feature to enable automated Chromedriver downloads [#548](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/548)
-* New capabilities
-  * `waitForLaunch` [#556](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/556) [#327](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/327)
-  * `ensureWebviewsHavePages` [#553](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/553)
-  * `enforceAppInstall` [#573](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/573)
-* Fix partial platform version matching [#567](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/567)
-
-#### Android (UiAutomator2)
-* New capabilities
-  * `gpsEnabled` [#320](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/320)
-* New settings
-  * `wakeLockTimeout` [#298](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/298)
-* Fix server package install by enabling replace option [#336](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/336)
-* Fix server package install by copying apks to temporary writeable location if they cannot be written where they are [#338](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/338)
-
-#### Android (Espresso)
-* Add timezone and locale in `deviceinfo` [#465](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/465)
-* Fix `sendKey` to allow multi byte strings [#474](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/474)
-* Fix clipboard get/set `contentType` [#478](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/478)
-* Fix current context when creating session [#483](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/483)
-* Fix set value immediately, replace value [#484](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/484)
-* Fix printing of the original stack trace rather than the wrapped one [#488](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/488)
-* Fix raise an error for launch app, close app, and reset since they do not apply to Espresso [#485](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/485) [#491](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/491)
-* Fix `createSession` to fulfill W3C spec [#490](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/490)
-* Fix raise an error for reset as they do not apply to Espresso [#491](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/491)
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.14.1 (FROM 1.14.0)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.14.1 is a patch release. You.I Engine Driver is the only affected driver.
-
-#### YouI Engine Driver
-* Added support for YIKeyEvents (all supported key events) via Execute Mobile Command when using `mobile:PressButton`
-* Added new default port for You.i Engine socket server on PS4 and ability to make it configurable.
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.14.0 (FROM 1.13.0)
-===================================
-
- Appium 1.14.0 is a minor release.
-
- #### General
-* **IMPORTANT**: The default driver for Android is now set to [UiAutomator2](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver) instead of [UiAutomator1](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver). If the [UiAutomator1](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver) driver is still desired, then this can be achieved by setting `automationName=UiAutomator1` in the capabilities
-* **IMPORTANT**: Minimum Node version is bumped up to v10
-* `--allow-insecure` and `--deny-insecure` server flags are added to deprecate `--relaxed-security` in the future releases [#12778](https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/12778). Please check the [documentation](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/security.md) for further information
-* Drop `--enable-heapdump` for debugging [#12609](https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/12609)
-* Fix `--tmp` server arg [#12585](https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/12585)
-* Can get selected image by `find element by image` for debugging [#327](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/327)
-
- #### Android (Espresso)
-* Fix problems with activity startup not working when the package name value in `appActivity` is different from the one in `appPackage` [#441](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/441)
-* Add a mobile helper to disable autofill dialog in Android O [#456](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/456)
-
- #### Android (UIAutomator2)
- * Remove the extra wait for idle calls to speed up element queries [#279](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/279)
- * Added a new capability `trackScrollEvents` to configurate the tracking of scroll movement. This improves performance of touch actions significantly[#284](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/284)
-
- #### iOS (XCUITest)
-* Make `platformVersion` a required capability for iOS Simulators [#954](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/954)
-* Enforce Simulator shutdown if `resetOnSessionStartOnly` is set to false [#950](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/950)
-* Fixed the issue with [addresses problems with long startup times for Safari WebViews on iOS 12.2](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/12590)
-* `platformVersion` capability is now mandatory for Simulators and optional for real devices (but only if Appium can determine the version from ideviceinfo output)[#954](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/954)
-* Update to call `idb` instead of `fbsimctl` which is used for some commands for simulator environment [#12574](https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/12574)
-* Fixed the file translation for real device [#12710](https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/12710)
-  * Read https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios/ios-xctest-file-movement.md about the rule
-* Fixed the WDA manual code signing issue which happens in some cases [#961](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/961)
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.13.0 (FROM 1.12.1)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.13.0 is a minor release
-
-#### General
-* Appium 1.13 will be the last minor version to use [UiAutomator1](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver) as the default Android automation. As of Appium 1.14, the default Android driver will be [UiAutomator2](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver). If you don't set the `automationName` for an Android session a big [warning](https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/12481) will be displayed notifying you of the change. This will be a breaking change, and it's recommended if you wish to keep the same behavior, add the capability `automationName=UiAutomator1` to your scripts
-* Appium 1.13 will be the last minor version to support Node v8. As of Appium 1.14 the supported Node versions will be v10 and v12.
-* Added capability `defaultImageTemplateScale` to allow arranging of image comparison logic [#307](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/307)
-* Fixes:
-  * Treat W3C /property and /attribute as aliases in a web context [#311](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/311)
-
-#### Android
-* New capabilities:
-  * `remoteAppsCacheLimit`: sets the limit for how many APKs will be cached on a device [#523](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/523)
-  * `chromedriverPorts`: allows specifying multiple ports or a range of Chromedriver ports to use for web tests [#529](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/529)
-  * `buildToolsVersion`: allows you to set the Android `build-tools` version to be something different than the default, which is to use the most recent version [#532](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/532)
-* Fixes:
-  * Emulators have a bug where they sometimes go offline when root/unroot is called. Only affects unrooted emulators. Workaround is to check if a device went offline after root/unroot was called and then restarting the ADB server if it did [#443](https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/443)
-  * Calls to `mobile:` endpoints weren't being called in web context. Default now is that, in a web context, the native mobile endpoint is always called [#527](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/527)
-  * `network_connection` endpoint was also not usable from web context [#531](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/531)
-  * `pushFile` was not working on some later Android SDK's due to permission errors [#439](https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/439)
-  * Default values in caps not being set correctly [#436](https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/436)
-* No longer uninstalls apps when session is terminated if `dontStopAppOnReset` is set [#530](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/530)
-* Allow touch actions in a web context. Only works for absolute coordinates. JSONWP only, not related to W3C Actions implementation [#534](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/534/files)
-* Update Chromedriver to 73.0.0 [#318](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/318)
-
-#### Android (UiAutomator2)
-* Use UiAutomator's screenshot method when default screenshoter fails [#264](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/264)
-* Add detailed network information to the device information endpoint (appium/device/info) [#265](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/265). Addresses [Issue #12502](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/12502)
-
-#### Android (Espresso)
-* Fixes:
-  * Changed incorrect naming of Espresso argument `installTimeout` to the correct `androidInstallTimeout` [#426](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/426/files)
-  * Use ADB instead of Espresso to verify activities for better reliability [#425](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/425/files)
-
-#### iOS
-* Support webview testing for real devices running iOS 12.2+ (1.12.1 already added support for iOS Simulators) [#122](https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/122). Make sure your ios-webkit-debug-proxy is [up-to-date](https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy/releases/latest) for real devices.
-* Supports tvOS [#151](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/151).
-  * See [documentation](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios/ios-tvos.md) for details.
-  * Be sure to update Carthage to the [latest](https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage/releases) to handle TVOs dependencies
-* Fixes:
-  * Improve performance of video recording by using superior startup detection tools [#12486](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/12486)
-  * Not able to change video recording parameters in IOS [#12463](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/12463)
-* Change behavior of capability `showXcodeLog` so that when it is explicitly set to false, don't print any Xcode logs, even error logs [#12466](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/12466)
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.12.1 (FROM 1.12.0)
-===================================
-
-* Appium 1.12.1 is a patch release that addresses iOS Simulator 12.2 WebView issues
-* `platformVersion` becomes a required capability
-
-#### iOS
-* `platformVersion` is necessary for real devices
-* Updated Appium Remote Debugger so that Safari webview tests are compatible with Xcode 10.2 (addresses [issue #12239](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/12239)) [#118](https://github.com/appium/appium-remote-debugger/pull/118)
-* Fix `screenshotQuality` cap not being forwarded to WebDriverAgent [#907](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/907)
-* Fix xctestrun file detection when `useXctestrunFile` is true [#903](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/903)
-* Fix problem with Appium not using cached WebDriverAgent [#909](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/909)
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.12.0 (FROM 1.11.1)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.12.0 is a minor release
-
-#### General
-* Fix wrong coordination in _find element by_ . [#306](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/306), [#307](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/307)
-* Added `fixImageTemplateScale` to arrange image comparison logic. Read [doc](docs/en/advanced-concepts/image-elements.md) for more details
-
-#### Android
-* Add `mobile:` endpoint for enabling/disabling/viewing app permissions [#305](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/305)
-* Fix exception caused when Appium Settings fails to provide geolocation [#493](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/493)
-* Stop chromedriver proxies when reset command is called [#495](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/495)
-* Fix pin unlock errors. Turn screen off before doing pin unlock to ensure pin unlock screen has no existing entries. [#498](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/498)
-* Add `uninstallOtherPackages` capability [#289](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/289)
-* Fix pattern unlock problems caused by not using relative touches [#489](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/489)
-* Add `chromedriverArgs` capability that passes chromedriver flags into sessions [#519](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/519/files)
- * Add `skipLogcatCapture` capability that skip capturing logcat, for possible performance enhancement.
-
-#### Android (UiAutomator2 only)
-* Verify file system permissions before signing files to avoid confusing signing errors [#294](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/294)
-
-#### Android (Espresso only)
-* Add `dataMatcher` selector strategy [#386](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/386)
-* `mobile:` commands
-  * Call UiAutomator commands from Espresso [#371](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/371)
-  * `swipe` and `clickAction` delegates to Espresso's `GeneralSwipeAction` and `GeneralClickAction` [#372](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/372)
-  * `webAtom` which delgates to Espresso's `Web Atoms` library [#380](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/380)
-* Fix orientation change event to not require element [#383](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/383)
-* Add `remoteAdbHost` capability to allow tests on remote machines [#381](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/381)
-
-#### iOS
-* Add `eventLoopIdleDelaySec` capability. Delays the invocation of `-[XCUIApplicationProcess setEventLoopHasIdled:]` by the number of seconds specified with this capability. This can help quiescence apps that fail to do so for no obvious reason (and creating a session fails for that reason) [#881](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/881)
-* Add `-r` flag for video recording to make screen video recording more flexible [#867](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/867)`
-* Add `enforceFreshSimulatorCreation` capability [#859](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/859)
-* More helpful logging
-* Add `mjpegScalingFactor` settings that change image scale of mjpeg server to stream screen [#138](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/138)
-* Returns a couple of lines of xcodebuild error message if WDA xcodebuild fails. It helps to understand the cause. [#888](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/888)
-
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.11.1 (from 1.11.0)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.11.1 is a patch release
-
-#### General
-* Upgrade Appium You.I Engine Driver to 1.1.2
-* Fix protocol translation bug (W3C -> MJSONWP) in `/actions` [#302](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/302)
-* Fix protocol conversion for `setValue` [#297](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/297)
-
-#### Android (UiAutomator2 only)
-* Fix null pointer exception on Session Details retrieval [#247](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/247)
-* Make logging configurable [#242](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/242)
-* Change implementation of the ScrollTo command, so that now it supports different strategies to search for a GUI element (by accessibility id, by class name, and by using the Android uiautomator selectors) [#244](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/244)
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.11.0 (from 1.10.0)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.11.0 is a minor release
-
-#### iOS
-* Fix issues with MJPEG video streaming [#134](https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/pull/134)
-* Xcode 10.2 device list support [appium/node-simctl#77](https://github.com/appium/node-simctl/pull/77)
-
-#### Android
-* Add `chromedriverDisableBuildCheck` capability which sets the `--disable-build-check` flag on Chromedriver [#474](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/474)
-* Add `skipDeviceInitialization` capability which speeds up session startup for cases where Appium doesn't need to wait for the device, push a settings app, or set permissions [#480](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/480)
-* Fall back to pressing BACK button if ESC fails to close soft keyboard [#471](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/471)
-* Improve XML source building performance by using Jaxen/JDOM2 library on Espresso and UiAutomator2 [#237](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/237)
-* Add setting `normalizeTagNames` which is set to true by default, which normalizes source tag names to workaround parsing problems
-* Fix: Include API level 23 for granting of permissions to apps. 23 was being incorrectly excluded previously [#473](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/473)
-* Fix: Only call `helpers.ensureDeviceLocale` if language or locale was set, to avoid spending startup time on locale unnecessarily [#477](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/477)
-* Fix: Don't regard apps as 'temporary' if the `app` is a relative path [#479](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/479)
-* Fix session init. Uninstalls Espresso server if server is older or newer than currently installed Espresso server [#358](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/358)
-* Fix setting WiFi connection status [#30](https://github.com/appium/io.appium.settings/pull/30)
-
-#### Android (UiAutomator2)
-* Add `skipServerInstallation` capability that skips the step of installing the UIAutomator2 server [#266](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/266)
-* Fix duplicate chrome startup [#266](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/266)
-* Only perform uiautomation process cleanup if instrumentation crashes [#280](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/280)
-
-#### Android (Espresso)
-* Add `mobile:` endpoints to run [Espresso contrib methods](http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/mobile-command/): `openDrawer`, `closeDrawer`, `setDate`, `setTime`, `navigateTo`, `scrollToPage` [#324](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/324) (warning: See [open issue](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/issues/331) from problem with `scrollToPage`)
-* Add `mobile: backdoor` method that allows accessing app-internal functionality [#317](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/317)
-* Add `mobile: flashElement` method [#337](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/337)
-* Backport [clipboard features](http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/device/clipboard/get-clipboard/) from UiAutomator2 [#361](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/361)
-* Fix XML memory problems
-  * Limit traversal depth [#341](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/341)
-  * Fallback to using filesystem if in-memory can't handle XML [#344](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/344)
-  * Limit max length of text values in the XML to 64K
-* Fix ID selector by automatically prefixing with current package name [#346](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/346)
-* Fix crash on calling `/enabled` and `/selected` on elements [#353](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/353)
-* Add `nativeWebScreenshot` capability to allow screen capture of webviews [#366](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/366)
-* Fix element screenshot endpoint to support MJSONWP and not just W3C [#370](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver/pull/370)
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.10.0 (from 1.9.1)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.10.0 is a minor release.
-
-#### General
-* Bring Espresso Driver out of beta and into general availability
-* Support Xcode 10, discontinue support for Xcode 8
-* Bump up minimum Node version to 8 and minimum NPM version to 6
-* Improve string extractions for Android and iOS
-* Fix synchronization of applications caching [#274](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/pull/274)
-* Disable CORS on `createServer` by default.Add `--allow-cors` flag to server flags [#11719](https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/11719)
-
-#### iOS
-* Add [mobile:](http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/mobile-command/#ios-xcuitest-only) methods:
-  * Add biometrics (touchId, faceId) methods that can enroll/unenroll biometric features and send matching/non-matching biometric inputs (iOS Simulator only) [#816](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/816)
-  * Add method to clear keychains for an iOS Simulator [#816](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/816)
-* Add [permissions capability](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#desired-capabilities) that sets service permissions (calendar, siri, etc...) prior to creating a session [#818](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/818)
-* Add possibility to upload files into different container types on Simulator [#770](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/770)
-* Add [reduceMotion](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/blob/master/README.md#L161) capability [#760](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/760)
-* Improve video recording
-* Improved iOS simulator booting procedure
-* Add mobile endpoint for running Siri commands [#837](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/837)
-
-#### Android
-* Add [mobile:](http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/mobile-command) command for performing editor actions [#428](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/428)
-* Can record videos up to 30 minutes (requires [FFMPEG](https://www.ffmpeg.org/) to be installed) [#399](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/399)
-* Add `localeScript` capability to set script in `locale` (https://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale) [#460](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/460)
-* Allow `locale` and `language` for real devices under API level 23 [#379](https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/379)
-* Improved video recording
-* Fix [bug](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/11619) calling `getRect` in MJSONWP sessions [#240](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/240)
-* Fix pin entry error on Samsung devices that wasn't correctly locating the "Enter" button [#458](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/pull/458)
-* Relax [hidden API policy](https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/restrictions-non-sdk-interfaces) for Android P and above
-* Support running tests using Android App Bundle [#11601](https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/11601)
-
-#### Android (UiAutomator2)
-* Add [mobile:](http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/mobile-command) command for retrieving device information [#221](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/211)
-* Support `.apks` bundles [#233](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/233)
-* Fix bug with timeouts calls for W3C sessions [#239](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver/pull/239)
-* Refactored XML source generation and xpath search in order to fix known bugs and to improve the general performance of these operations [#208](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/208)
-* Refactored and fixed issues with W3C Actions [#205](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/pull/205)
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.9.1 (from 1.9.0)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.9.1 is a patch release. Next version will likely not support Xcode 8
-
-#### General
-* Append the current session identifier to the protocol name prefix in server logs
-* Fix the way current protocol is determined from execute response
-
-#### iOS
-* Support Xcode 10 and iOS 12.0
-* Add a possibility to set container type for Simulator while pushing/pulling files
-* Fix W3C format handling by receiveAsyncResponse command
-* Fix iPhone X Simulator screen recording
-
-#### Android
-* Fix `getStrings` for no app
-* Fix screen recording bug
-* Return the current geolocation from `getGeoLocation`
-* Add `mobile:mobileGetDeviceInfo` command (UiAutomator2 only)
-* Make 'by tag name' selector compatible with View Tag selector (Espresso only)
-* Convert mouse action events to touch actions (Espresso only)
-
-#### Windows
-* Add more support for [W3C Actions API](https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver1/#actions)
-  * Support pointer input methods: up, down and move
-  * Add advanced modifier attributes to 'touch' inputs: pressure, twist, width, height
-  * Add advanced modifier attributes to 'pen' inputs: pressure, twist, tilt x and y, eraser, barrel button
-  * Support interpolation for 'pen' and 'multitouch'
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.9.0 (from 1.8.1)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.9.0 is a feature release, comprising multiple updates.
-
-#### General
-* Full W3C Specification support.
-* Add full beta of [Espresso driver](https://github.com/appium/appium-espresso-driver)
-  for Android automation (used by specifying `automationName` capability to be
-  `"Espresso"`).
-* Add driver for [Samsung Tizen devices](https://github.com/Samsung/appium-tizen-driver)
-* Add `-image` find element strategy,
-* Fix `--async-trace` server argument, and rename as `--long-stacktrace`
-* Sample code has been moved into the main repository to aid in maintenance.
-* Fix status retrieval to speed up performance.
-
-#### iOS
-* Add support for Xcode 10 beta 5 and iOS 12 beta 5.
-* Add preliminary support for MacOS Mojave beta.
-* Add face id biometric support.
-* Fix retrieval of device time, and add optional `format` parameter.
-* Do not crash if there is no `idevicesyslog` when ending session.
-* Handle frames when page changes in Safari.
-* Add desired capabilities:
-  * `remoteDebugProxy` - port or Unix domain socket on which a proxy for the
-    remote debugger sits.
-  * `safariGarbageCollect` - turn on/off JS garbage collection in Safari.
-  * `showSafariNetworkLog` - print Safari network logs in the Appium server logs.
-  * `mjpegServerPort` - port to which screenshots can be streamed.
-* Fix handling of settings updates, so simulators are not restarted unnecessarily.
-* Allow pulling of folder from real devices.
-* Add `mobile: getContexts` execute function, to retrieve meta-information (title,
-  url, etc.) about available contexts.
-* Fix certificate retrieval and handling.
-* Fix cookie handling, to allow secure cookies.
-* Fix Safari timeout issues.
-* Add support to retrieve Safari network logs, as `safariNetwork` log type.
-
-#### Android
-* Update Chromedriver to v2.41.
-* Get Chrome version for Webviews in Android 7+, to find correct Chromedriver.
-* Make sure UiAutomator processes are cleaned up during test.
-* Fix handling of `autoWebview` capability.
-* New desired capabilities:
-  * `mjpegScreenshotUrl` - url to stream screenshots to.
-  * `chromedriverUseSystemExecutable` - boolean flag to use the default Chromedriver
-    installed with Appium, avoiding any attempt to find correct Chromedriver.
-  * `disableWindowAnimation` - disable window animations on device (now available
-    on UiAutomator _and_ UiAutomator2).
-  * `pageLoadStrategy` - page load strategy for Chromedriver.
-* Allow test-only APKs to be installed.
-* Fix implicit wait handling for finding elements.
-* Better handle Unicode IME installation.
-* Relax package validation logic.
-* Fix error in UiAutomator searches with nested quotes.
-* Perform accessibility refresh when needed on UiAutomator2.
-* Improve logic for determining if apps need upgrade.
-* Fix screen recording to allow longer recordings, up to 30 minutes.
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.8.1 (from 1.8.0)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.8.1 introduces multiple fixes and features. Most notably, it improves the performance of XCUITest
-getPageSource.
-
-#### General
-* Fix shrinkwrap problem caused due to package-lock being set to false (#10660)
-
-#### iOS
-* Add keyboard presence verification endpoint (see http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/device/keys/is-keyboard-shown/)
-* Add `mobile:startLogsBroadcast` feature (see http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/mobile-command/)
-* Add cap called `realDeviceScreenshotter` to use idevicescreenshot for real device screenshots
-* Add application platform verification
-* Validates that `webdriverAgentUrl` capability is a valid URL
-* Add an extension to retrieve battery info from a real device
-* Fix Safari console log retrieval
-
-#### Android
-* Return the current connection state instead of undefined for setNetworkConnection
-* Add a possibility to include stderr output into adb:shell call (see https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/android/android-shell.md#supported-arguments)
-* Add flags argument to pressKeyCode so it is possible to generate IME actions if needed (UIAutomator2 only)
-* Add a cap called `userProfile` which is an integer to enforce user profile while launching applications
-* Make it possible to retrieve a battery info from the device under test (mobile:batteryInfo)
-* Add `deviceApiLevel` to returned session capabilities (UIAutomator2 only)
-* Fix passing suppressKillServer option while creating ADB instance
-* Improve performance of swipe unlock action
-* Improve restore from background behaviour
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.8.0 (from 1.7.2)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.8.0 introduces full support for the [W3C WebDriver specification](https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/)
-([digested version of the spec](https://github.com/jlipps/simple-wd-spec)).
-
-#### General
-* Minimum [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/) version moved to 6
-* Add methods for
-  * getting and setting the clipboard contents
-  * get full screen screenshots
-  * Application management
-* More efficient app downloading by caching URLs
-* All `moveTo` operations in touch actions now take coordinates as absolute
-* Support for registering selenium grid through HTTPS by setting the configuration
-  key `"hubProtocol"` to `"https"`
-* Add `otherApps` desired capability, to specify array of ancillary apps to install
-  on session creation
-
-#### iOS
-* Support for iOS 11.3/Xcode 9.3
-* Fix handling of process arguments
-* Add capabilities
-  * `shutdownOtherSimulators` - shutdown other running simulators at session start up
-* Add ability to record screen
-* Add support for complex gestures
-* Fix handling of custom SSL certificate on simulators
-* Better handling of `xcodebuild` processes
-* Maintain keychains while upgrading apps
-* Better handle simulators in unexpected states
-* Add performance measuring (see [documentation](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios/ios-xctest-performance.md))
-
-#### Android
-* Support for Android P (API Level 28)
-  * Known issue in screenshot: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/76114030
-* Fix handling of webview contexts when resetting apps
-* Fix handling of screen recording
-* Make sure intent is broadcast when file is uploaded
-* Add possibility to broadcast device logs through WebSocket
-* Chromedriver
-  * Bundle version 2.37
-  * Automatically choose compatible Chromedriver for Chrome version
-    * `chromedriverExecutableDir` capability to specify where Chromedrivers are located
-    * `chromedriverChromeMappingFile` capability to specify what Chromedriver version corresponds to what Chrome version
-* Fix Handling of idle state waiting
-* Speed up screenshot logic in UiAutomator2
-* Allow disabling of notification watching through settings
-* Fix parsing and granting of permissions for app under test
-* Support deep linking and Android Instant Apps
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.8.0-beta (from 1.7.2)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.8.0 introduces full support for the [W3C WebDriver specification](https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/)
-([digested version of the spec](https://github.com/jlipps/simple-wd-spec)).
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.2 (from 1.7.1)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.7.2 is a feature and bug fix release. It fixes many issues found in
-earlier releases.
-
-
-#### General
-* Fix memory leak in server logging
-* Add support for MacOS 10.13
-* Clean up logging to make messages more clear and useful
-* Add `printPageSourceOnFindFailure` to automatically log the current page source when finding an
-  element or elements fails
-* Add ability to take screenshots of an element
-* Begin to handle Selenium W3C specification
-
-#### iOS
-* Simulators
-  * Clean up handling in Xcode 9
-  * Add support for `shake` gesture (requires AppleScript)
-  * Add support for custom geo locations (requires AppleScript)
-  * Add possibility to clear caches
-  * Make sure execution does not fail when trying to shut down simulators that
-    are already shut down
-* Fix handling of source when within a frame/iframe, so that the source of the
-  frame is retrieved instead of that of the top-most frameset
-* Fix error when unable to parse real device date/time, to return unparsable
-  date rather than `Invalid Date`
-* Fix getting crash logs
-* Fix getting device logs in iOS 10+
-* Fix cleaning up of temporary files
-* Correctly handle device names for iPhone 7, 8 and X in Xcode 9
-* Fix screenshots for larger real devices
-* Fix runtime Xcode selection through `DEVELOPER_DIR` environment variable
-* Add `useJSONSource` desired capability to force Appium to use WDA JSON source
-  and parse locally, to speed up source retrieval on larger devices
-* Fix file pushing/pulling so it works for simulators and real devices
-
-#### iOS - Instruments-specific
-
-
-#### Android
-* Fix handling of install/upgrade of Appium helper apps (for settings manipulation
-  and unlocking of devices)
-* Add support for Chromedriver 2.33 (which supports webviews on Android O)
-* Add `showChromedriverLog` desired capability to bring Chromedriver logs in-line
-  in the Appium server logs
-* Fix error in stopping coverage when session failed to start
-* Add support for getting and setting animation state
-* Fix handling of size-limited text fields in API levels below 24
-* Add support for getting the current value of progress bars
-* Fix handling of initial orientation, and make sure no orientation is set if
-  nothing is requested
-* Make sure all UiAutomator commands are properly handled
-* Ensure `pageLoadStrategy` capability is passed to Chromedriver
-* Add support to get currently running package name
-* Ensure non-working Chromedriver is correctly handled
-* Add `password` to retrievable element attributes
-* Fix locale/language setting
-* Add `clearDeviceLogsOnStart` desired capability, to clear `adb` `logcat` logs when the session is started
-* Add `--relaxed-security`, and `mobile: shell` access to `adb`
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.1 (from 1.7.0)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.7.1 fixes multiple issues with the previous release.
-
-#### iOS
-* Add ability to change default Simulator preferences
-
-#### iOS - XCUITest
-* Can use xctestrun file to launch WDA
-* Fix bug that was causing startCapture to be called more than once
-* Apply a workaround for setting default device orientation
-* Update offset determination for iPad
-
-#### iOS+Safari
-* Add handler for starting/stopping JS console capture
-
-#### Android
-* Add support to force upgrade settings app
-* Always assumes the file to be pushed by `pushFile` command contains binary data
-* Add ADB option to to force reinstall on upgrade
-
-#### Android - UiAutomator 2
-* Do not proxy getting app strings
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.0 (from 1.6.5)
-===================================
-
-**Note:** This is a feature release, marking two major changes:
-  * Support iOS 11 through Xcode 9 beta 6
-  * Support multiple simultaneous sessions in Android and iOS (9+)
-
-**Known Issues:**
-  * Android
-    * Webviews on Android O do not work because of a bug in Chromedriver. We
-      are working on a workaround. Chrome sessions still work
-  * iOS
-    * Touch ID enrollment on simulators in Xcode 9 does not work because of an
-      issue with AppleScript
-    * Scaling simulators with Xcode 9 does not work
-    * Simulators in Xcode 9 produce no meaningful device logs
-    * Parallel Safari/Webview sessions are not working due to an Apple bug
-
-#### General
-* Fix handling of sending keys to elements in recent versions of Selenium
-* Allow `app` capability that is a url to have query parameters
-* Begin to allow multiple device support in situations where it is possible
-  (e.g., iOS under Xcode 9)
-* Add `isHeadless` capability to allow running simulator/emulator with no UI
-
-#### iOS
-* Add command to upload media to simulator
-* Fix reliability of touch ID functionality
-* Fix detection of system apps
-* Update atoms used for MobileSafari automation to those of Selenium 3.5.3
-* Add `realDeviceLogger` capability to allow specification of what program to
-  use to capture logs on real device
-* Fix handling of `enablePerformanceLogging` capability in Safari tests
-* Fix offset when Safari on an iPad has multiple tabs
-
-#### iOS - XCUITest
-* Support for latest Beta of iOS 11 (Xcode 9 beta 6)
-* Multiple device support
-* Fix handling of bundle id on simulators
-* Make `nativeWebTap` a setting as well as a desired capability
-* Allow `nativeWebTap` to work on real devices
-* Do not try to uninstall app before installing on real device, which was causing
-  many issues
-* Fix clearing of text fields
-* Change behavior of `useNewWDA`: if `true`, forces uninstall of any existing
-  WebDriverAgent app on device. Set it to `true` if you want to apply different
-  startup options for WebDriverAgent for each session. Real devices require
-  WebDriverAgent client to run for as long as possible without reinstall/restart
-  to avoid issues. The `false` value will try to detect currently running WDA
-  listener executed by previous testing session(s) and reuse it if possible,
-  which is highly recommended for real device testing and to speed up suites of
-  multiple tests in general. A new WDA session will be triggered at the default
-  URL (http://localhost:8100) if WDA is not listening and `webDriverAgentUrl`
-  capability is not set.
-* Allow setting url in native context
-* Fix screenshot functionality
-
-#### Android
-* Add `remoteAdbHost` capability to specify the host on which adb is running, if
-  it is not localhost
-* Add methods to start and stop recording the screen
-* Fix screenshot commands
-* Skip setting of mock location for emulators
-* Add methods for emulator phone capacity: `sendSMS`, `gsmCall`, `gsmSignal`,
-  `gsmVoice`, `powerAC`, `powerCapacity`, and `networkSpeed`
-* Fix cleanup of adb port forwarding during Chrome sessions
-* Fix error where package name would be appended to fully qualified activity
-  name and package finding would then fail
-* Properly handle bootstrap failure on launch
-* Make sure correct logger is used for bootstrap
-
-#### Android - UIAutomator 2
-* Fix handling of `adbPort` capability
-* Fix coverage handling
-* Handle pressing and long pressing key codes
-* Enable `nativeWebScreenshot` capability
-* Fix restoring of IME when `unicodeKeyboard`/`resetKeyboard` capabilities are
-  used
-* Add `disableWindowAnimation` capability to launch instrumentation with no
-  animation
-* Correctly start ChromeDriver session for Chrome session
-* Allow getting `password` attribute from elements
-
-
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.0-beta (from 1.6.5)
-===================================
-
-**Note:** This is a **_BETA_** release. Please direct any issues to the [Appium
-issue tracker](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues) and provide as much
-information as possible.
-
-This release exists to provide an updatable package in order to get the latest
-work on Appium. To install, first uninstall Appium and then re-install with the
-`beta` tag. To get any changes that have been published to sub-packages, simply
-repeat that process.
-```
-npm uninstall -g appium
-npm install -g appium@beta
-```
-
-If you are running iOS tests with the XCUITest backend (i.e., iOS 10+ tests, and
-some iOS 9.3 tests, if the `automationName` capability is set to `XCUITest`), you
-should also remove the old build artifacts.
-1. Remove derived data: `rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WebDriverAgent-*`
-2. Remove `WebDriverAgentRunner` application from any real device being tested.
-
-#### Android
-* Add beta version of Espresso Driver. To use, set `automationName = espresso`.
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.6-beta.4 (from 1.6.5)
-===================================
-
-**Note:** This is a **_BETA_** release. Please direct any issues to the [Appium
-issue tracker](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues) and provide as much
-information as possible.
-
-This release exists to provide an updatable package in order to get the latest
-work on Appium. To install, first uninstall Appium and then re-install with the
-`beta` tag. To get any changes that have been published to sub-packages, simply
-repeat that process.
-```
-npm uninstall -g appium
-npm install -g appium@beta
-```
-
-If you are running iOS tests with the XCUITest backend (i.e., iOS 10+ tests, and
-some iOS 9.3 tests, if the `automationName` capability is set to `XCUITest`), you
-should also remove the old build artifacts.
-1. Remove derived data: `rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WebDriverAgent-*`
-2. Remove `WebDriverAgentRunner` application from any real device being tested.
-
-#### Android
-* Add beta version of Espresso Driver. To use, set `automationName = espresso`.
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.5 (from 1.6.4)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.6.5 fixes many issues and continues the trend to make more aspects of
-the automation process configurable.
-
-#### General
-* Add `--enable-heapdump` server flag to turn on NodeJS memory dump collection,
-  to aid in memory management.
-* Better logging of erroneous responses.
-* Full support of W3C specification's handling of capabilities.
-* Fix licensing in all dependencies.
-
-#### Android
-* Added handlers for basic system alerts, so now it is possible to accept/decline/get text of the most of
-them using the standard Selenium's switchTo().alert() interface (UIA2 only)
-* Fix backgrounding of app.
-* Add `androidInstallPath` capability to specify where on the device apps are installed.
-* Speed up taking screenshots on Android 5.0 and higher devices.
-* Fix handling of activity names that are inner classes.
-* Support latest Android SDK directory structure.
-* Fix issue where granting permissions would fail if there were too many.
-* Fix handling of parent element information when finding elements.
-
-#### Android - UIAutomator 2
-* Fix handling of boolean return values.
-* Add `skipUnlock` capability to skip the device unlock process.
-* Fix issue where setting the network connection would crash.
-
-
-#### iOS
-* Add `enableAsyncExecuteFromHttps` capability to allow simulators to execute
-  asynchronous JavaScript on pages using HTTPS.
-* Allow setting url in native context, for opening deep links.
-* Better memory management when capturing device logs.
-* Add `webkitResponseTimeout` capability to adjust the timeout for responses in
-  Safari real device tests.
-* Add `enablePerformanceLogging` capability (previously Android-only) to turn on
-  performance logging in Safari tests.
-
-#### iOS - XCUITest
-* Fully support `clearSystemFiles` desired capability, deleting the derived data
-  for the `xcodebuild` process.
-* Fix `longPress` duration, to be milliseconds.
-* Add `mobile: selectPickerWheelValue` method to aid in interacting with picker wheels.
-* Add `mobile: alert` method to enable passing of `buttonLabel` option, to handle
-  alerts with non-standard button names.
-* Fix hanging if an app is not installed and only bundle identifier is given in
-  capabilities.
-* Allow `platformVersion` to be a number or a string.
-
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.5-beta (from 1.6.4)
-===================================
-
-**Note:** This is a **_BETA_** release. Please direct any issues to the [Appium
-issue tracker](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues) and provide as much
-information as possible.
-
-This release exists to provide an updatable package in order to get the latest
-work on Appium. To install, first uninstall Appium (`npm uninstall -g appium`)
-and then re-install with the `beta` tag (`npm install -g appium@beta`). To get
-any changes that have been published to sub-packages, simply repeat that process.
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.4 (from 1.6.3)
-===================================
-
-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 [wiki](https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent/wiki/Queries#searching-for-elements))
-* 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 [docs](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios-xctest-mobile-gestures.md))
-* 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 [docs](https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver/blob/master/docs/UNLOCK.md))
-* 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
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.4 Beta (from 1.6.3)
-===================================
-
-**Note:** This is a **_BETA_** release. Please direct any issues to the [Appium
-issue tracker](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues) and provide as much
-information as possible.
-
-#### General
-* Fixed `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
-
-#### 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
-
-#### iOS - XCUITest
-* Changed 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.
-  - Removed `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
-
-#### Android
-* Default installation to ChromeDriver 2.26
-* Add device manufacturer, model, and screen size to session details
-* Fix bug in checking avd status on some systems
-* Allow wildcards in `appWaitActivity` capability
-
-#### Android - Selendroid
-* Fix handling of host binary configuration for more precise installation options
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.3 (from 1.6.2)
-===================================
-
-_This is another emergency release due to an issue with the NPM shrinkwrap_
-
-#### iOS
-
-* Fix issue where we might try and uninstall an ssl cert from a real device
-  where this isn't sensible
-* Fix another issue with acceptSslCerts where it might potentially miss the
-  correct sim UDID
-
-#### iOS - XCUITest
-* Upgrade version of WebDriverAgent used. Includes following updates:
-    * Improve xpath query performance
-    * Verify predicates
-    * Fix crash for some xpath selectors
-* Decorate proxied getSession response with Appium's capabilities (fixes
-  issues with clients that call getSession to determine server capabilities
-  and are confused by WDA's non-standard response) ([#7480](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/7480))
-* Fix issue with starting XCUITests on a real device, due to changes in WDA
-  that invalidated our startup detection logic. ([#7313](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/7313))
-* Allow connecting to an already-running WebDriverAgent through the
-  `webDriverAgentUrl` capability, rather than starting our own
-
-#### Android
-* Fix bug where we would attempt to get target SDK version from manifests
-  even when they might not include it. ([#7353](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/7353))
-* Actually pass the `acceptSslCerts` capability to the underlying automation
-  so that it can have an effect ([#7326](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/7326))
-* Updated permission granting logic to speed up permission granting by doing
-  it in bulk rather than one at a time ([#7493](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/7493))
-* Hide the new permission granting logic behind an `autoGrantPermissions`
-  capability which doesn't attempt to grant permissions unless it's `true`
-  ([#7497](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/7497))
-
-#### Android - Uiautomator2
-
-* Add ability to verify TOAST messages (these can't be interacted with, only
-  text retrieval allowed)
-
-#### Windows
-* _Actually_ upgrade WinAppDriver to 0.7 ([#7445](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/7445)). Includes following updates:
-    * Click on arbitrary elements
-    * Support for sendKeys modifiers
-    * Various bugfixes
-    * Added `GET /orientation`
-    * Added support for WPF apps
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.2 (from 1.6.1)
-===================================
-
-_This is a small, mostly-emergency release because we realized we omitted
-XCUITest upgrades via WebDriverAgent that we had mistakenly presumed were part
-of 1.6.1._
-
-#### iOS - XCUITest
-* Upgrade version of WebDriverAgent used. Includes following updates:
-    * Support for setting values on sliders
-    * Fix tapping in various orientations
-    * Allow tapping on arbitrary coordinates
-    * Support for pinch gestures
-    * Make `clear` faster
-    * Improve xpath query performance
-* Add `preventWDAAttachments` capability to help with XCUITest speed and disk usage
-
-#### Android - UiAutomator2
-* Code refactoring to pave the way for some UiAutomator2 wifi automation work
-* Find an unused system port automatically to avoid port clashes
-
-#### Windows
-* Upgrade WinAppDriver to 0.7. Includes following updates:
-    * Click on arbitrary elements
-    * Support for sendKeys modifiers
-    * Various bugfixes
-    * Added `GET /orientation`
-    * Added support for WPF apps
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.1 (from 1.6.0)
-===================================
-
-Appium 1.6.1 is the first release since bringing Appium into the [JS Foundation](https://js.foundation/)
-(see [press release](https://js.foundation/announcements/2016/10/17/Linux-Foundation-Unites-JavaScript-Community-Open-Web-Development/)).
-
-Much of the development energy has been spent on fixing issues that have come up
-from the newly-integrated XCUITest and UI Automator 2 vendor-provided test
-backends.
-
-#### General
-* Add `clearSystemFiles` desired capability, to specify whether to delete any generated
-files at the end of a session (see iOS and Android entries for particulars)
-* Better handle signals for stopping server
-* Fix operation of Selenium 3 Grid
-* Log more of the proxied requests and responses, for better debugging
-* Better handle source mapping for IDE support
-* Move `appium-doctor` into globally-installed utility, not bundled with server
-* Move `appium-logger` into `appium-base-driver`
-* Better handle downloading of zip files which may not have a `.zip` extension (like `.apk`)
-
-
-##### iOS
-* Add support for iOS 10.1
-* Add support for iOS 10.2 Beta 1
-* Add `clearSystemFiles` desired capability to specify whether to Core Simulator
-files, and Instruments (for iOS Driver) or XCUITest (for XCUITest Driver) generated files
-* Ensure correct files are tested when checking for Simulator newness
-* Map `iPad Simulator` `deviceName` to iPad Retina instead of discontinued iPad 2
-* Gracefully return when Webkit Remote Debugger doesn't return on a real device
-* Better log errors from xcode handling
-* Add `customSSLCert` capability to pre-authorize a specific SSL cert in the iOS trust store
-* During reset, don't try to uninstall an app from a real device if it's not installed
-
-
-##### iOS - XCUITest specific
-* clean up logging to remove confusing "Waiting..." lines
-* Fix issue in which switching to NATIVE_APP would still proxy find commands to Remote debugger
-* Fix handling of Selenium Grids
-* Correctly handle long press so duration is respected
-* Add `tapWithShortPressDuration` desired capability to specify a length for tapping,
-if the regular tap is too long for the app under test
-* Add support for scrolling through Touch Actions
-* Make sure keyboard is available when keys are sent to Text Fields
-* Add support for Zoom via Touch Action API (Pinch still not supported by Apple)
-* Fix implementation of double tap
-* Improvements in startup flow for real devices
-* Allow gestures on coordinates, not just elements
-* Add `scaleFactor` capability to direct Appium to set the simulator scale
-
-
-##### Android
-* Use ChromeDriver version 2.25
-* Correctly handle `--suppress-adb-kill-server` command line argument
-* Pass actual failure back when session fail and deleting the session also fails
-* Add `clearSystemFiles` desired capability to specify whether to delete temporary
-copies of the application under test at the end of the session
-* Fix issue where finding UI Automator process id would throw an error
-* Add `chromeAndroidPackage` capability which will be passed to `chromeOptions`
-* Add APIs for gathering various kinds of performance data
-* Ensure we don't try to stop app if `dontStopAppOnReset` is in force
-* Fix issue where we tried to determine the bounds of a non-existent element
-
-
-##### Android - UiAutomator2
-* Fix handling of element attributes
-* Better handle element finding
-* Toast message verification support
-* Ensure that there is a <hierarchy> root tag for xml/xpath source
-* Implement /rotation endpoint (supports 4 rotations)
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.0 (from 1.5.3)
-===================================
-
-This release of Appium is a significant milestone, introducing support for two new platforms:
-* [Windows](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows) desktop applications (see the [usage documentation](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/windows-app-testing.md)).
-* [You.i TV](http://www.youi.tv/) (see the [driver documentation](https://github.com/YOU-i-Labs/appium-youiengine-driver#appium-youi-engine-driver)).
-
-There is also support for two new frameworks for automating iOS and Android:
-* XCUITest support for automating iOS 9.3 and 10 (see [migration docs](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/advanced-concepts/migrating-to-xcuitest.md) and [driver docs](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#appium-xcuitest-driver)).
-* UI Automator 2 support for enhanced automation of Android devices (see [wiki](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/wiki)).
-
-#### General
-- Require Node 4 or above (**possible breaking change**)
-- Add `automationName` capability entries for `XCUITest`, `UIAutomator2`, and `youiengine`
-- Add `platformName` capability entry for `Windows`
-
-#### iOS
-- Add  support for Xcode 8 and iOS 10 (using `automationName` of `XCUITest`). For information on using this driver, see the [driver documentation](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#external-dependencies)
-- Make sure device name gets properly translated into actual device name
-- Fix case where orientation would get lost
-- Fix Safari page change logic to actually catch when a page changes
-- Try harder to kill Instruments if the normal way does not work, to avoid hanging processes
-- Move `authorize-ios` into global package
-
-#### Android
-- Add `androidInstallTimeout` desired capability, to customize the timeout when installing an app
-- Add `androidScreenshotPath` desired capability, to set the path in which screenshot files are saved on the device
-- Add `appWaitDuration` desired capability, to customize how long to wait for an application
-- Fix optional intent arguments to allow for hyphens
-- Wait for apps to launch before proceeding
-- Switch to clearing text fields using adb, to improve reliability and speed
-- Add ability to detect screen orientation
-- Make sure Selendroid mode doesn't lose connection through adb when network changes
-- Make sure the release action in a touch action chain doesn't happen in the wrong place
-- Make application install more reliable
-- Fix screenshot on Windows
-- Make Chromedriver connect on a random port if none specified
-- Add `reboot` server argument, to specify that the avd ought to be cleaned and rebooted
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6.0 beta 1 (from 1.5.3)
-===================================
-
-This release of Appium marks the beginning of support for two brand new platforms:
-* [Windows](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows) desktop applications (see the [usage documentation](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/windows-app-testing.md))
-* [You.i TV](http://www.youi.tv/) (see the [driver documentation](https://github.com/YOU-i-Labs/appium-youiengine-driver#appium-youi-engine-driver)).
-
-Further, since Apple removed the Instruments automation functionality in Xcode 8,
-this release of Appium has preliminary support for XCUITest, allowing for the automation
-of applications in iOS 9.3 and 10.
-
-#### General
-- Require Node 4 or above (**possible breaking change**)
-- Add `automationName` entries for `XCUITest`, and `youiengine`
-- Add `platformName` entry for `Windows`
-
-#### iOS
-- Add preliminary support for Xcode 8 and iOS 10 (using `automationName` of `XCUITest`). For information on using this driver, see the [driver documentation](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#external-dependencies)
-- Make sure device name gets properly translated into actual device name
-- Fix case where orientation would get lost
-- Fix Safari page change logic to actually catch when a page changes
-- Try harder to kill Instruments if the normal way does not work, to avoid hanging processes
-
-#### Android
-- Add `androidInstallTimeout` desired capability, to customize the timeout when installing an app
-- Add `androidScreenshotPath` desired capability, to set the path in which screenshot files are saved on the device
-- Add `appWaitDuration` desired capability, to customize how long to wait for an application
-- Fix optional intent arguments to allow for hyphens
-- Wait for apps to launch before proceeding
-- Switch to clearing text fields using adb, to improve reliability and speed
-- Add ability to detect screen orientation
-- Make sure Selendroid mode doesn't lose connection through adb when network changes
-- Make sure the release action in a touch action chain doesn't happen in the wrong place
-- Make application install more reliable
-- Fix screenshot on Windows
-- Make Chromedriver connect on a random port if none specified
-
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.3 (from 1.5.2)
-===================================
-
-*NOTE*: Appium 1.5.3 is primarily a bug-fix release.
-
-It also adds functionality to support for iOS [WKWebViews](https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/WebKit/Reference/WKWebView_Ref/) and for automating the iOS Calendar app, as well as adding a capability to use `abd` for screenshots in Android web/hybrid sessions, selecting the correct version of Android emulator, and providing a list of Android activities to wait for on session startup.
-
-Further, Android session reporting is increased, so that automation clients can get the device UDID for the automation session, as well as the currently running `appPackage` and `appActivity`.
-
-#### General
-- Allow `--default-capabilities` server argument to specify a file containing the default capabilities.
-- Fix handling of statuses from proxied drivers (Chrome, Selendroid, etc.).
-- Fix handling of `browserName` capability for Selenium Grid usage.
-- Fix intermittent bug where creating a directory might crash the server.
-- Fix handling of `--session-override` server argument.
-
-#### iOS
-- Add support for `WKWebView`-based webviews.
-- Add support for automating the built-in Calendar app.
-- Fix `ios-debug-proxy-launcher`.
-- 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.
-- Fix iwd script to allow re-running.
-
-#### 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.
-- 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 killing ChromeDriver on Ubuntu 16.04.
-- Fix bug where early ChromeDriver failure crashed Appium.
-
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.2 (from 1.5.1)
-===================================
-
-*NOTE*: Appium 1.5.2 is a bug-fix release.
-
-#### 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`
-
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.1 (from 1.5)
-===================================
-
-*NOTE*: Appium 1.5.1 is a bug-fix release.
-
-#### 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
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5 (from 1.4.16)
-======================================
-
-*NOTE*: Appium 1.5 is a complete rewrite of Appium from the ground up. Every
-effort has been made to avoid any breaking changes but caution should be
-exercised. Please let us know on GitHub if you notice any issues with your
-tests.
-
-#### General
-- Appium now requires Node 0.12 as a minimum Node version
-- Deprecate server arguments that are also desired capabilities. Instead, add
-  a `--default-capabilities` argument which takes a JSON string of capabilities
-  that will be the default for any session. E.g., `--default-capabilities '{"launchTimeout": 60000}'`
-- Various docs and contributing docs updates (including a code of conduct for
-  the project)
-- Add capability validation on the protocol and driver level. Along with this
-  we have tightened up requirements on capability values so that they can be
-  strictly validated. For example, before you were able to send in a string
-  value of `"180"` for the `newCommandTimeout` capability. Now you must send in
-  an actual JSON number, e.g., `180`.
-- Remove the `autoLaunch` capability since it added a significant
-  amount of complexity to the startup flow and Appium shouldn't be responsible
-  for this kind of use case
-- Remove long-deprecated `name` locator strategy
-- Remove long-deprecated `mobile: xxx` gesture commands, except scroll
-
-#### iOS
-- add Tapster support for some more touch methods
-- fix moveTo: treat coordinates as relative, instead of absolute
-- iPhone 6 + 6S support
-- iOS 9.3 support
-
-#### Android
-- enable navigating to an android URI via the set url driver methods, e.g.,
-  driver.get('content://contacts/people/1')
-- fix some adb issues in Windows (e.g., `signWithCustomCert`, sdk binary names)
-- fix issue with UIWatcher ssl certificate errors
-- if you want to install all chromedrivers, use --chromedriver-install-all; if
-  you want to install a specific chromedriver version, use
-  --chromedriver-version="$VER"
-- `driver.closeApp` no longer runs through the shutdown routine; it simply
-  force-stops the app
-- The `ANDROID_ADB_SERVER_PORT` environment variable has been removed in favor
-  of the `adbPort` desired capability, which does the same thing.
-
-#### Non-exhaustive examples of internal changes
-- see the [developer's
-  overview](/docs/en/contributing-to-appium/developers-overview.md) for
-  a fuller description of Appium 1.5 from a developer's perspective
-- get rid of reset.sh and various other appium build tools in favor of a simple
-  npm install
-- split apart Appium into various smaller modules each with their own
-  repositories and NPM packages
-- use gulp instead of grunt
-- use babel to transpile from es2015+ to standard es5 code
-- get rid of .appiumconfig.json
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.16 (from 1.4.15)
-===================================
-
-#### iOS
-- fix for safari and webview issues for 9.2
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.15 (from 1.4.14)
-===================================
-
-#### iOS
-- fix for safari and webview issues in iOS9+
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.14 (from 1.4.13)
-===================================
-
-#### iOS
-- support for iOS9.2
-- fix for webview, resolving context issues in iOS9+
-
-#### Selendroid
-- upgrade to Selendroid 0.17.0.
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.13 (from 1.4.12)
-===================================
-
-#### Chromedriver
-- Setting appium-chromedriver version to 2.3.2 as it is stable on Node version 0.10.32
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.12 (from 1.4.11)
-===================================
-
-#### iOS
-- support for iOS9.1
-- fix for iOS simulator with similar device names on Xcode 7
-- fix to idevicelog (real device) to record logs only for device under test
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.11 (from 1.4.10)
-===================================
-
-#### iOS
-- fix for iOS simulator selector for Xcode 7
-- fix for selecting default device for iOS9
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.10 (from 1.4.9)
-===================================
-
-#### General
-- fixed bug in a config file accidentally published in version 1.4.9
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.9 (from 1.4.8)
-===================================
-
-#### iOS
-- support for iOS9 and xcode 7
-- at this point instruments-without-delay is not supported for xcode-7
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.8 (from 1.4.7)
-===================================
-
-#### General
-- fix for Windows users! Now the system architecture is properly detected, npm installs should work again
-
-#### Chromedriver / Android hybrid
-- fix for an issue in responding to `/status` api endpoint, this is used heavily by Selenium grid
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.7 (from 1.4.6)
-===================================
-
-#### Chromedriver / Android hybrid
-- fix for problem in downstream jsonwp-proxy; now sessionId returned is replaced
-  with sessionId present in url(original sessionId). Fixed this in appium-jsonwp-proxy 1.2.3
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.6 (from 1.4.5)
-===================================
-
-#### General
-- this is a republish because of a misconfiguration before 1.4.5 got published
-  resulting in a server startup failure
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.5 (from 1.4.4)
-===================================
-
-#### General
-- fix problem with npm shrinkwrap that caused Appium not to start
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.4 (from 1.4.3)
-===================================
-
-#### Chromedriver / Android hybrid
-- fix a problem in downstream appium-chromedriver; no longer rely on async
-  methods returning objects of the Promise type. This was causing undefined
-  errors when running Chromedriver/hybrid tests.
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.3 (from 1.4.2)
-===================================
-
-#### iOS
-- update the appium-instruments dependency with working subdeps
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.2 (from 1.4.1)
-===================================
-
-#### General
-- update ES6-based dependencies which got bit by a breaking Regenerator
-  change
-
-#### iOS
-- keep track of the correct app ID for Safari webviews (fixes problems in
-  finding the webview for iOS)
-
-#### Android
-- fix sendKeys and clear for Samsung devices
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.1 (from 1.4)
-===================================
-
-#### Chromedriver
-- have the appium-chromedriver manage the chromedriver binary download/install
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4 (from 1.3.7)
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix for broken `./reset.sh --dev` due broken UICatalog build package in sample-code submodule
-- fix for issues with cookie encoding
-- updated sample code
-- updated documentation
-- updated test suite
-- deprecate node 0.10
-
-#### iOS
-- support for iOS 8.3
-- deprecate iOS 6.1 and iOS 7.0 (support will be removed soon, probably 1.5)
-- deprecate Xcodes less than 6.3 (moving to support of latest versions only,
-  and Xcode 6.3+ together allows automation of all supported iOS versions). The
-  only exception to this is the combination of Xcode 6.0.1 + iOS 8.0.
-- fix for issues relating to finding xcode folder and Info.plist
-- new sever flag `--instruments <path>` to specify custom path to instruments commandLine tool
-- fix for getOrientation
-- fix for iOS crash log retrieval
-
-#### Android
-- fix for killing chromedriver on windows
-- fix for parsing java version correctly
-- support for searching elements by id without passing package name
-- requesting capabilities from server now returns correct deviceName and platformVersion for Android
-- fix for scrollTo
-- new capability `disableAndroidWatchers`
-- deprecated capability `stopAppOnReset`
-- new capability `dontStopAppOnReset`
-- fix a crash possibly encountered during extracting app strings
-- new server argument `suppress-adb-kill-server`
-- fix issue with `keys()`; now it correctly targets currently-focused element
-
-#### Selendroid
-- Support for installApp, isAppInstalled and removeApp
-
-#### Android+Chrome
-- Chormedriver version updated to 2.15
-- fix for driver.quit()
-- use the correct ADB path already identified by Appium
-
-#### iOS+Safari
-- fix for handling real device object
-- fix for safariAllowPopups for iOS 8.x
-- reduce logging in remote debugger for real devices, and don't use console.log
-- fix issues with SafariLauncher on real devices
-- fix execute_async so that it now works at all
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.7
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix failure to remap session id in proxied responses
-
-#### iOS
-- fix intermittent failure to find Xcode
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.6
-======================================
-
-#### Android
-- fix XPath regression where Appium failed to recognize non-ASCII characters
-- fix regression where Appium failed to set ADB's path during Chromedriver tests
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.5
-======================================
-
-#### iOS
-- fix for a bug when driver.get() never returns for page with alert.
-- iOS 8.2 support.
-- fixed safari startup crashes.
-- ensure Appium drops into the right continuation cb when selecting hybrid contexts.
-
-#### Android
-- now finds the location of adb earlier.
-- ensure encoding stream in Bootstrap.jar closes correctly.
-- add workaround for issue where UiAUtomator fails to find visible elements.
-- fixed undefined member error for the release object.
-- add a delete key test.
-
-#### Selendroid
-- upgrade to Selendroid 0.13.0.
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.4
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- better handling of session closing.
-- tmp dir customization via env variable.
-- app/browserName error  message fix.
-- functional test fixes.
-
-#### iOS
-- allow location services in zip file.
-- ensure a string is returned from iOS getText.
-- simpler device type detection logic.
-- screenshotWaitTimeout cap
-- added ios-webkit-debug-proxy launcher to go round libidevice 8.1 bugs
-- waitForAppScript capability.
-- syslog fix
-- getStrings refactoring
-- simulator folder fix
-- doctor support for OSX 10.10.1
-
-#### Android
-- exec refactoring.
-- uses for latest apktool (2.0.0-RC2) when Java 7 is detected.
-- ADB.jars refactored into instance property.
-- smart keyboard closing fix.
-- added support for getting the resourceId attribute of an element.
-- clear text fix for large centered edit fields.
-- better handling of errors in clear text.
-- ensure an already-running Android device's language and country settings are correct.
-- fixed unknown server-side error is thrown when the XPath expression doesn't match any nodes.
-- better error handling is SetText
-- edit + clear fields with hint text fix.
-- make hideKeyboard do nothing when keyboard is present but not closable (has no UI).
-
-#### Selendroid
-- upgrade to Selendroid 0.12.0.
-- throws when getting a redirect from Selendroid.
-- added hideKeyboard support.
-- uses for latest apktool (2.0.0-RC2) when Java 7 is detected.
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.3 (from 1.3.1)
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix several internal Appium tests
-- add a sendKeyStrategy capability to allow testers to enable less reliable, but faster sendKey method
-- add handling for safeRimRafSync ENOENT mesages
-- clean up sessions when session clobbering enabled
-- fix stripping log colors on --stripColors
-- create system logs file before tailing it
-
-#### iOS
-- fix issue where driver.current_context is `null` for native app context
-- fix bug that prevents closing tabs in Safari
-- fix log capture when Appium starts a simulator for the first time
-- add OSX 10.10 and iOS8 support for Appium Doctor
-- fix inability to open Safari on a real device
-
-#### Android
-- fix arg and cap parsing when passing arguments to adb
-- add support for passing elements as targets for swipe actions
-- correctly calculate relative position of swipe targets
-- ensure ChromeDriver instances are properly terminated
-- fix appPackage parsing error with overlapping namespaces
-- fix TouchAction release bug when released element is not valid
-- ensure `logcat` correctly appended to command string
-
-#### Selendroid
-- add comment to caps page, and to running tests page, to note the need for a period before an activity
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.2
-=====================================
-
-#### Patch number skipped due to NPM error
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.1 (from 1.3.0)
-=====================================
-
-#### iOS
-- fixed a bug where appium could hang if the 'full-reset' and 'keepKeychain' capabilities were both used on ios8.1
-- default context now set to `NATIVE_APP` instead of being null
-
-#### Android
-- fix bugs which arise from spaces in the path to `adb` tool
-- fix detection of whether the screen is locked
-- fix an error with running remote apk's on Windows
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.0 (from 1.2.4)
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- allow `full-reset` desired capability to work alongside `language`/`locale` desired capabilities
-
-#### iOS
-- add iOS 8 support
-- add support for launching an app on the sim just by bundleId (iOS8 only)
-- ensure screenshot process uses dir specified in --tmp
-- add --isolate-sim-device which removes all other xcode 6 simulators
-  before running test (might be necessary for some platforms)
-- update mobile safari temp app to include platformVersion so we don't get
-  strange version conflicts
-- reset push notification privacy settings in between sessions
-- fix the flakiness of getting a list of available devices
-- auto-refresh Safari if no webviews are found
-- rewrite cookie handling code to use code derived from jQuery instead of mozilla docCookie
-- force device string when device name starts with "="
-- fix a security hole in pullFile() where users could download files on the machine hosting appium
-
-#### Android
-- fix Chromedriver to work with newer versions
-- Chromedriver will work if adb is not running on default port
-- speed up clearing text fields when there is hint text
-
-#### Selendroid
-- fix sendKeys() in CHROMIUM context
-- fix getContexts()
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.0-beta1 (from 1.2.3)
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- add objective-c examples
-
-#### iOS
-- update appium-instruments with logging fixes
-- add iOS 8 support
-- add support for launching an app on the sim just by bundleId (iOS8 only)
-- ensure screenshot process uses dir specified in --tmp
-- add --isolate-sim-device which removes all other xcode 6 simulators
-  before running test (might be necessary for some platforms)
-- update mobile safari temp app to include platformVersion so we don't get
-  strange version conflicts
-- reset push notification privacy settings in between sessions
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.4 (from 1.2.3)
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- add objective-c examples
-
-#### iOS
-- update appium-instruments with logging fixes
-- update appium-instruments with getDevices stalling fix
-
-#### Android
-- give better error for UiScrollable parse exception
-- fix UiSelector instance in finds
-- use last coordinates for touch release
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.3 (from 1.2.2)
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- add a settings api (used currently only for Android xpath compression)
-- add configurable loglevels for different transports
-- allow appium to be run under sudo if the sudo user owns the appium files
-
-#### iOS
-- fix crash while recovering from instruments failure
-- add ability to launch app by 'bundleId' cap alone (no 'app' cap)
-- misc groundwork for iOS8
-- fix bug that prevented scrolling collectionViews
-- more crash recovery bugfixes
-- use 'click' atom in webviews, 'tap' sent two clicks
-- fix bug where we'd try to kill a null logging proc and crash
-- enable performance logs for webviews
-- allow automation of native frame in safari (actually works on 7.1!)
-- fix uiautomation predicate search bug
-- fix 'spawn ENOENT' bug caused by a missing deviceconsole binary
-- fix autoAcceptAlert bug
-- fix certain findElement crashes
-- fix hideKeyboard bugs
-
-#### Android
-- fix issue with unzipping apk
-- add ability to launch arbitrary apps/activities mid-session
-- add lock() method to lock screen
-- add unlock() method to unlock screen
-- fix bug where app would be classified incorrectly as not installed
-- add settings api member for setting layout hierarchy compression
-- fix crash when touch actions attempted on webviews
-- undo setText changes and simply handle hint text fields better
-
-#### Selendroid
-- fix --selendroid-quick reset.sh option
-- fix unicode keyboard issues
-- fix bug in getting window_handles
-- fix bug that would prevent launching an app with spaces in its apk path
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.2 (from 1.2.1)
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- add doc for running on multiple devices simultaneously
-- move sample code and sample apps out of the main appium repo
-- remove http request size limit
-
-#### iOS
-- check to make sure an element is not UIAElementNil before returning it
-- add a configurable key delay to help with keyboard smudging
-- fix issue with deleting cookies in mobile safari
-- correct sendKeys behavior not to clear text before sending keys
-- remove 'iwebview' support, since automating safari works
-- fix bug where apostraphes in accessibility ids caused elements not to be
-  found
-- use deviceconsole instead of idevicesyslog to capture ios logs
-- fix bug where automating safari on a real device would hang forever and never
-  start a session
-- fix bug where getting text() on a textfield would return its label instead of
-  its value
-
-#### Android
-- cache Chromedriver webview objects so we don't need to start a new
-  Chromedriver on every context switch
-- correct sendKeys behavior not to clear text before sending keys
-- allow chromeOptions cap object to be passed to chromedriver
-- download all chromedriver architectures for linux (32 and 64 bit)
-- make sure we stop adb logcat logging when ending a chrome session so we don't
-  leak processes
-- add noSign capability to skip the apk resigning process
-- add setText method that will clear a text field before adding text; this is
-  primarily useful for textfields with hint text where clear() does not work
-  in general
-- move xpath parsing into the android bootstrap, for fewer bugs and greater
-  reliability. NOTE: this could be a breaking change depending on the kind of
-  xpath selectors you are using
-- clean android XML tags of invalid characters like '$'
-- fix bug where '&' would be sent into a textfield as '&-'
-- add isLocked method to determine whether screen is locked
-- add ability to automate the native portion of the Chrome/Browser apps
-
-#### Selendroid
-- make sure the contact manager test app has the required internet permissions
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.1 (from 1.2.0)
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix up sample code
-- bring back support for autoLaunch=false case
-- reset commandTimeout during implicit wait cycles
-- remove deprecated window_handles methods
-- add --local-timezone flag that uses timezone for timestamps
-- add a configurable --callback-address and --callback-port for execute_async
-- update setLocation method to use correct spec params for geolocation
-- add networkConnection to server capabilities so clients can use the API
-- if boolean cap values are sent in as strings, convert them to boolean
-
-#### iOS
-- fix bug where we waited for safari7 dirs when we weren't on ios7.x
-- improve deviceName flexibility and device recognition
-- make sure instruments and uiauto know about the tmp dir flag
-- fix install/uninstall logic for real ios device
-- fix bug with parsing of binary vs XML plists
-- fix handling of multiple taps
-- clean up iOS simulator log
-- fix hang when ending a real safari session
-- implement pushFile for ios
-- allow .ipa in the list of downloadable app types
-- retry getting screenshot if it fails
-- fix JavaScript error when using sendKeys
-- fix error where testsuite would kill appium in its ios reset cycle
-- fix error in getting localized strings
-
-#### Android
-- fix handling of IME activation
-- fix chromedriver kill logic
-- support API level 10 style focused activity strings
-- add lots of fallback strategies for element.clear()
-- update api level dependency for the project to 19
-- add fallback strategies for finding app activity from AndroidManifest
-- fix bug with xpath searches for //*
-- fix xpath search bugs, now we use UiAutomator's instance() which is more
-  reliable
-- fix grunt-helpers bug when building appium on windows
-- retry all adb commands to make all adb commands less flakey
-- upgrade chromedriver to 2.10
-
-#### Selendroid
-- fix for setValue and getContexts methods, they were not using a custom
-  selendroid port if active
-- selendroid now requires internet permission in apps; fail if it's not
-  present
-- add custom keystore support
-- upgrade selendroid to 0.11.0
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2.0 (from 1.1.0)
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- migrated to express 4 for the webserver
-- allow setting tmp dir with --tmp flag
-- upgrade many submodules including wd
-- add --strict-caps mode which will cause sessions to fail which send in
-  bad or unknown caps
-- add error handling for invalid multi-pointer gestures
-- add autoWebview capability to automatically get into a webview context of a
-  hybrid app
-- remove deprecated -real xpath locator strategy
-- allow bypassing appium's sudo checks
-- add generic crash handler
-- many documentation and sample code updates
-
-#### iOS
-- prevent log lines without dates from being filetered out
-- add keepAppToRetainPrefs cap to avoid deleting location plists
-- check for accessibility id matching selector then fall back to string match
-- add flag for specifying where in .app hierarchy Localizable.strings is
-- use a dynamic bootstrap in appium-uiauto
-- upgrade mechanic
-- implement pullFolder to get an entire folder from the sim
-- make sure launchAndKill can wait for specified directories before killing sim
-- get rid of ForceQuitInstruments
-- update hideKeyboard to take various possible strategies
-- fix launchAndKill to wait for safari-specific directories
-- make sure all pageload timeouts are cleared and called only once
-- disable ios grace delay
-- don't return duplicate elements
-
-#### Android
-- renamed keyevent to press_keycode and long_press_keycode
-- add dedupe to complex_find
-- fix activity-finding logic
-- fix error handling in installApp
-- extract adb code into its own package, appium-adb
-- add support for opening notifications
-- add automation support for embedded chromium
-- fix pushStrings to work with 'app' as package
-- fix id serach
-- cause appium to fail if we can't parse package/activity
-- add package name to android webview context
-- make sure UNZIP env var doesn't confuse our internal unzip calls
-- add appIntent etc capabilities so app can be launched with a certain intent
-- add IME methods, and an appium-specific IME that is automatically installed
-- add unicodeKeyboard capability which allows sending unicode text
-- fix installApp, prevent a server crash
-
-#### Selendroid
-- faster selendroid installer
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.0 (from 1.0.0)
-======================================
-
-#### General
-- less buggy xcode locator strategy for iOS and Android
-  - note that for Android this might cause previous xpath selectors not to
-    work, since we now always set compressed hierarchy when getting the xml
-dump used for xpath
-- fix defaults for swipe duration
-- add fixes for context switching
-- add optional argument 'language' to getStrings
-- update docs and code samples (including adding perl code samples)
-- continue work on appium CI
-- make sure we can't close already ended sessions
-- upgrade all node deps besides express
-
-#### iOS
-- add `-ios uiautomation` strategy doc
-
-#### Android
-- allow for encoding of non-ASCII text
-- clearer activity error messages
-- add language and country support
-- extract strings from apk corresponding to device language instead of default
-  to be used with ID locator strategy
-- update complex find with new uiautomator constants
-- upgrade Chromedriver to 2.10
-- allow automation of Chrome Beta with browserName: `ChromeBeta`
-
-#### Selendroid
-- update selendroid to 0.10.0
-- add getStrings method
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.0 (from 1.0.0-beta.2)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- update python samples to use 1.0 style
-- don't convert 'proxy' or 'launchTimeout' caps into strings
-- make sure commit hooks use local grunt and mocha
-- update some ruby samples to use 1.0 style
-- add more 1.0 docs and sample code
-
-#### iOS
-- fix mobile safari native tap on android by offsetting tap position by 40px
-- go back to using unpatched UICatalog
-- fix autoAcceptAlerts
-- allow multiple calls to /contexts
-- update appium-instruments with fix that would prevent the basic 'iPhone
-  Simulator' device from launching correctly
-
-#### Android
-- fix gesture timing so it doesn't interpret ms as seconds
-
-#### Selendroid
-- ensure selendroid isn't proxied appium endpoint commands
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.0-beta.2 (from 1.0.0-beta.1)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- extensive docs updates (make it ready for the new Slate docs)
-- decode sequence of actions to native "swipe" method
-- fix valid platform error message
-- update WD dep
-- fix proxying when session id is null
-- allow spaces in appium folder name in reset.sh
-- get rid of tag name loc strat in favor of class name
-
-#### Android
-- allow for different input sets to mobile: find
-- fix apk signing with custom keystore
-- allow MultiActions without an element
-- move chrome tests into their own emulator type
-- fix async bug in getting xml dump
-- use async.queue to ensure synchronicity of commands
-- improve DumpWindowHierarchy so xpath queries don't crash
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.0-beta.1 (from 0.18.0)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix broken log options: --log, --log-no-colors, and --log-timestamp
-- update docs to work with Jekyll
-- change 'launch' desired cap to 'autoLaunch', same defaults
-- fix installApp, launchApp, closeApp, removeApp to use correct app path
-- fix bug in action handling for python client
-- remove deprecated window handle support for native clients (in favor of contexts)
-- remove deprecated old xpath support and promote the '-real xpath' strategy to the
-  default
-- remove deprecated json page source in favor of xml
-- remove deprecated mobile methods: location, fireEvent, waitForPageLoad,
-  findElementNameContains, localScreenshot, getCommandTimeout, findAndAct
-- rewrite caps.md doc to use new 1.0 style caps
-- remove deprecated --merciful and --device-port flags (add
-  --force-quit-instruments flag instead of -m)
-- lots of docs reorganization and prep for new publishing method
-- fix valid platform list
-- update npm deps to latest (except for express)
-- remove all deprecated "mobile: xxx" commands, except for gestures for now
-- use new native methods from WD in testsuite
-
-#### iOS
-- fix bug where iOS < 7.1 would try to ask instruments for available devices
-- loosen up sudo check for authorize_ios so it can run without issue under sudo
-- rename `nonSyntheticWebClick` cap to `nativeWebTap`, and turn it off by
-  default
-
-#### Android
-- fix bug with XML page source where it wouldn't create the dump file correctly
-- change caps with hyphens (-) like "app-package" to be camelCased like the
-  rest of Appium caps, e.g., "appPackage"
-- fix bug with custom keystore apk signing
-- allow multi actions without an element
-
-#### Selendroid
-- fix command timeout bug
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.18.0 (from 0.17.6)
-=======================================
-
-*Important*: This is the Appium 1.0 feature-complete pre-release. Please the
-discussion group for more context and details about this release and where
-Appium is headed in the near future.
-
-#### General
-- disallow use of appium under sudo (except for authorize_ios)
-- don't autopopulate node config host (so appium url can be set in nodeconfig)
-- many build and test tweaks and fixes to improve build stability
-- don't link commit hooks if we're not in a git repo
-- add "accessibility id" locator strategy
-- get rid of a bunch of unused grunt commands
-- deprecate use of JSON page source (XML will be the standard)
-- simplify reset strategy and make reset strategies available through caps.
-  There's now the default (fastReset), fullReset, and noReset.
-- deprecate "tag name" locator strategy
-- add real xpath support (for now under the "-real xpath" locator strategy)
-- deprecate old xpath strategy
-- a lot of work on appium CI
-- further update new capability handling and device selection; use only the
-  new caps internally
-- implement TouchAction and MultiTouch APIs
-- migrate all "mobile: " methods to their own REST endpoints; they are now
-  deprecated
-- don't allow users to send in bad platformNames; fail with an error instead
-- allow app paths relative to appium root
-- add command-line flags corresponding to the new desired capabilities
-
-#### iOS
-- add "-ios uiautomation" locator strategy
-- make backup path for built-in apps in ios 7.0 configurable
-- only count one out of the two textfields which compose an ios 7.1 textfield
-- introduce a distinction between global and post-launch timeouts for
-  instruments, to fine-tune flake management
-- rewrite screenshot logic
-- modify "mobile: scroll" to take an element argument
-- fix bug where bundleID would be improperly lowercased
-- allow changing of remote debugger ports with env variable
-- fix bug in device launching logic that would try to launch an invalid device
-  as the default
-- add "mobile: pullFile" support for retrieving files from the sim folders
-- update fruitstrap to a version which doesn't segfault for Japanese
-
-#### Android
-- make sure app is signed before getting MD5 hash for use in on-device install
-- ensure that the app is always force-stopped before uninstalling the APK
-- add "-android uiautomator" locator strategy
-- fix bug involving storing android binary paths incorrectly
-- add avdLaunchTimeout and avdReadyTimeout caps to fine-tune these timeouts
-- retry launching AVD once if it never connects to adb
-- if installing a remote apk fails, uninstall/rm, then retry
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.6 (from 0.17.6)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- disallow use of Appium in sudo mode
-- ensure publishes happen with a version of Node which doesn't generate
-  shasum errors in NPM
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.5 (from 0.17.4)
-=======================================
-
-#### Selendroid
-- update Selendroid to 0.9.0
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.4 (from 0.17.3)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix "mobile: reset"
-- use the new Context API (from [the spec
-  draft](https://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/spec-draft.md?repo=mobile))
-  for switching back and forth between webviews. The window handles strategy
-  will be deprecated in 1.0
-- update Wd.js to use a version with context support
-- sanitize desired caps so they are always a manageable type
-
-#### iOS
-- allow testing of iOS7.1 in Appium's testsuite/test.sh
-- don't error out of pref path finding too soon if there are multiple dirs
-
-#### Android
-- fix "mobile: push"
-- fix fastReset going undefined between sessions
-- add --avd-args server param to pass args to avd on boot
-- various fixes for starting avds, including allowing multiple emulators to be
-  running
-- fix getElement() to set isElement to false instead of throwing
-- fix touch actions by fixing leaking state across executions
-- remove fastClear and run `pm clear` on fastReset
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.3 (from 0.17.2)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- add new desired capabilities handling to conform to the Selenium 3 spec. Use
-  of old desired capabilities will now be deprecated. See [the spec
-  draft](https://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/spec-draft.md?repo=mobile) for more information
-
-#### Android
-- fix process detection
-- make sure temp dir exists before writing zipaligned apk to it
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.2 (from 0.17.1)
-=======================================
-
-This is simply a release to make Appium downloadable on npm.
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.1 (from 0.17.0)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- move toward CI: build appium and run reset.sh on Travis
-
-#### iOS
-- pass quiet flag to fruitstrap when in quiet mode
-- update appium-instruments (which fixes retry behavior)
-
-#### Android
-- fix uninstall detection
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.17.0 (from 0.16.0)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix maxBuffer error in installApp command
-- rearchitect device extraction and configuration from args/caps, and add lots
-  of unit tests
-- show non-default server params in server log for easier debugging
-- add --command-timeout as a server arg
-- don't ever use sudo to install npm submodules
-- ensure appium's CWD is always the appium dir
-- clear out commandTimeout between sessions, so subsequent sessions don't count
-  the session launching time as command time
-- set npm submodules to track published branches
-- relax requirements for unpacking zipfiles and finding app names
-
-#### iOS
-- handle both binary and xml plists when changing ios settings plists
-- break out appium-instruments into its own npm package
-- fix bug where command line --force-iphone or --force-ipad wouldn't set
-  device. This should fix issues with Appium.app
-- add --keep-keychains server arg / keepKeychains desired cap in order to
-  disallow deletion of Keychains dir
-- bring reset behavior back to what it was before location services / settings
-  updates, so that with the default reset, most directories are still cleared
-  out
-- use actual current ios sdk in reset.sh
-- create plist basedirs if they don't exist
-- add processArguments cap to pass args to AUT
-- make --merciful the default
-- require bundleId when using location services caps
-- update UICatalog test app for 7.1
-- fix duplicate textfield issue in iOS 7.1
-- use new instruments `- w` param in iOS 7.1 to set device type
-- add location and contact alert request buttons to TestApp
-
-#### iOS+Safari
-- update initial webview navigation logic to work on 7.1
-- if we start with a real webview, don't try to nav to webview through favs
-
-#### Android
-- added support for 'direction' in scrollTo
-- fix source command
-- add longClick by position and duration
-- fix reset.bat issues on Windows
-- updated Windows installation instructions
-- added --udid flag to reset.sh/bat, so it can uninstall from specific devices
-- added support for touch{Down|Up|Move}
-- add "mobile: push" and "mobile: pull" commands to send files to/from device
-- ensure apks are always run through zipalign
-- parse launch package and activity from apk, so that `app-package` and
-  `app-activity` caps are no longer required
-- use better version of `isAppInstalled`
-
-#### Chrome+Android
-- update bundled chromedriver to 2.9
-- add enablePerformanceLogging cap
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.16.0 (from 0.15.0)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- auto-configure the host and port for nodes in an appium grid
-- fix usage of temp folders on windows/linux
-- allow better usage of reset.sh in windows git-bash
-- add linking of pre-commit hook in reset.sh so everyone runs it
-
-#### iOS
-- fix regression where special keys wouldn't be sent
-- add `mobile: scroll` with direction: up/down/left/right to scroll views
-- display correct error when app install/uninstall fails on real device
-- update TestApp to show location services enabled status
-- add `locationServicesAuthorized` cap
-- add `locationServicesEnabled` cap
-- add `safariIgnoreFraudWarning` cap
-- add `safariAllowPopups` cap
-- update uiauto js to retrieve references to app/windows dynamically every time
-
-#### iOS+Safari
-- wait longer for webviews to appear in ios7
-- return latest window with getWindowHandles()
-- move hardcoded atoms out of appium into its own npm module which builds them
-- add `nonSyntheticWebClick` cap to use atoms for click in ios7
-
-#### Android
-- fix installing unlock app on windows paths with spaces
-- add test coverage mechanism
-- don't fail the test if we can't find strings.xml in an apk
-- add hybrid support for webviews in 4.4+ apps
-- fix `mobile: launchApp`
-
-#### Chrome+Android
-- bundle chromedriver into appium itself, remove system dependency
-
-#### Selendroid
-- remove requirement to manually update selendroid test apk path in test code
-- update selendroid (with maven 3.1.1 requirement)
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.15.0 (from 0.14.2)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix for issue where logger would log colors even when asked not to
-- stricter jshint rules enforceable from editor
-- reformat/restructure test suite
-- handle previously-unhandled errors when using spawn()
-- fix startup bug (status object being taken as session id)
-- clear sessionOverride instance var when cleaning up session
-- fix regression where appium git revision wasn't shown in server output
-- various testsuite tweaks/fixes
-
-#### iOS
-- don't wait 30s for instruments to terminate
-- use SIGKILL for instruments again
-- allow ios logs to be not found without crashing appium
-- allow automation of settings app via 'app: settings' cap
-- don't crash if IDevice init fails (when requesting real device)
-- don't try to remove app if it's not on the device
-- escape single quotes for id search
-- lint the uiauto js code
-- allow accented characters in send_keys()
-- delete the entire sim folder when using --full-reset (before & after)
-
-#### iOS+Safari
-- allow safari to pre-launch
-- don't tap apple button to get into webview on real device safari
-- don't use synthetic click on real device safari
-- fix undefined window handle bug
-- fix safariLauncher crashes
-
-#### Android
-- add new mobile methods: toggleData, toggleFlightMode, toggleWifi,
-  toggleLocationServices
-- convert uiautomator error stream to string
-- use a better method for finding build-tools and platform-tools dirs
-- implement new version of longClick
-- add `mobile: find` example
-- return element's classname by selenium `tag_name` method/property
-- add `app-wait-package` desired cap, to be used in concert with
-  `app-wait-activity`
-
-#### Chrome+Android
-- fix unlock errors
-- fix port-in-use bug which prevented automation of multiple chromes on
-  multiple emulators
-
-#### Selendroid
-- upgrade to 0.8.0
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.14.2 (from 0.14.1)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix bug that prevented appium from starting in ios
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.14.1 (from 0.14.0)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix bug that prevented appium from pre-launching without specified device
-
-#### iOS
-- when alert title is null, return text instead
-- add framework for setting iOS and app preferences via plists
-- add `enableLocationServices` desired cap for enabling/disabling location
-  services on the simulator
-
-#### Android
-- fix fast reset/clear logic to not fail when remote apk doesn't exist
-
-#### Selendroid
-- actually wait for app-wait-activity instead of app-activity
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.14.0 (from 0.13.0)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- add ability to set launch timeout from command line
-- require 'device' cap and fail without it
-- bring back appium shell
-- add new node examples
-- add troubleshooting docs in Chinese
-- fix app download suffix issue
-- major refactor of test code
-
-#### iOS
-- delete cache data for all versions of sim
-- fix sporadic DOM corruption issue
-- make reset.sh more Xcode 4.6 friendly
-- add flag to show simulator logs in-line with appium logs
-- add cap for automatically accepting photo permission alerts
-- update appium doctor to read new auth db value
-- keep track of ios crash logs and make available through selenium interface
-- cleanup app state pre-test and post-test
-- fix installing/removing .app (instead of .ipa)
-- escalate to SIGKILL if instruments doesn't respond to SIGTERM
-- add cap for using native instruments lib
-- return accessibility hint as 'hint' attribute
-
-#### Android
-- fix AVD startup bug
-- better error handling in element finding code
-- update ApiDemos app with webview
-- support doing web testing against stock browser on 4.4
-- increase support of android 4.4 toolchain
-- fix multiple device issue
-- implement `mobile: background` for android/selendroid
-- fix custom keystore unzip call stack issue
-
-#### Chrome+Android
-- add ability to deal with a different kind of session redirect
-- kill chromedriver before starting it up again to clear out ports
-
-#### Selendroid
-- re-instate closeApp and removeApp
-- fix issue where selendroid would crash based on activity mangling,
-  resulting in a mysterious connection reset error
-- upgrade to 0.7.0
-- show selendroid logs in appium output
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.13.0 (from 0.12.3)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- add sauce reporting to ruby example
-- normalize all ruby examples
-- don't allow linux platforms to run ios doctor checks
-- allow building of single platforms in reset.sh (don't delete other platforms)
-- fix bug with --show-config & npm
-- removed some unused tests
-- remove retry support from appium test harness
-- catch grid syntaxerror issue
-- make sure gappium tests actually get run
-
-#### iOS
-- update docs for setting up ios-webkit-debug-proxy
-- fix authorize_ios
-- make sure setLocale doesn't run on real devices
-- give webviews a bit of time to show up before we say they aren't there
-- fix the auth db doctor check to work for 10.7
-- when launching simulator without instruments, wait for sim logs
-- kill zombie sim daemon launchers
-- update mobile: reset
-- automatically retry launching instruments if it flakes out. The number of
-  retries can be set with `-r N` or `--backend-retries N`, where `N` is
-  the number of retries, including 0.
-- add support for automating real Safari (and other built-in apps) in iOS7
-- remove support for using iwebview as a Safari replacement
-- when running mobile safari tests, automatically detect ios version
-- update i-w-d for compatibility with xcode 5.1 / ios 7.1
-
-#### Android
-- remove dependency on grep for real devices
-- add 19.0.0 to possible build paths
-- add tests for apk downloading and fix apk downloading issue
-- check for API level >= 17 for uiautomator and fail sooner if not
-- fix issue where calculating md5 of app would use too much memory, for large
-  apps
-- fix bug with checking whether app already existed on device
-
-#### Selendroid
-- give useful error message if user tries to run a uiautomator-based
-  "mobile: " command in selendroid
-- update selendroid
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.12.3 (from 0.12.2)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- reset command timeout during mobile: reset
-- fixes for strategy validation ('dynamic' and 'class name' are valid)
-- add --show-config flag to dump appium config and exit
-- add option to set newCommandTimeout to 0 or false to disable it entirely
-  rather than working around it by setting a high value
-- refactor server/main.js -- things were getting ugly
-- fix issue where ForceQuitUnresponsiveApps would try to run even on non-Mac
-  systems
-
-#### iOS
-- change default device for iOS 6 to "iPhone" (non-retina)
-- change Xcode 5.0.1 warning message to indicate an upgrade is possible now
-- add --default-device flag to allow instruments to launch the sim like it
-  used to
-- get rid of deprecated authorization strategy code
-- include ForceQuitUnresponsiveApps output in appium log
-- add --merciful (-m) flag to avoid running ForceQuitUnresponsiveApps. Show
-  Instruments a bit of mercy...or don't.
-
-#### Selendroid
-- upgrade Selendroid to 0.7.0
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.12.2 (from 0.12.1b)
-=======================================
-
-- None (npm fix release)
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.12.1b (from 0.12.1)
-=======================================
-
-- None (npm fix release)
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.12.1 (from 0.12.0)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- add appium doctor for checking system config issues that prevent appium
-  from working properly. Run with `node bin/appium-doctor.js`, or
-  `appium-doctor` if installed via NPM, or via the GUI in Appium.app
-- fail sooner if user passes in bad locator strategy
-- fix app extracting logic
-
-#### iOS
-- fix locale settings logic
-- fix 64-bit device string
-- fail with a nicer message if xcrun can't find instruments
-- allow iwebview tests to automate https sites
-- kill simulators before launching new ones
-- automatically force quit unresponsive instruments processes
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.12.0 (from 0.11.4)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- make sure there's no color in console when --log-no-colors is used
-- add more chinese docs
-- allow periods in xpath node names
-- update style guide
-- bring all NPM dependencies up to date
-
-#### iOS
-- mobile web: doc updates
-- mobile web: make sure window.close() works on real devices
-- mobile web: connect to most recent webview instead of first
-- allow uiauto to get path to node binary from `node_bin` key in .appiumconfig
-- fix automatic UDID detection
-- improve webviewapp to be a safari replacement; can now be used for mobile
-  web automation using `app: iwebview`
-- use `deviceName` cap to select specific iOS device
-- mobile web: automatically accept popup window alerts
-- give informative error message if ideviceinstaller isn't present
-- add a wait after flick calls so client doesn't regain control before flick
-  has finished
-
-#### Android
-- make sure chrome tests don't require package/activity
-- make sure we force-stop apps before starting them
-- fix issue with checking for package/activity for chrome
-- make sure to kill any running uiautomator processes before test
-- add `fastClear` desired cap, default true. If false, uses reinstall
-  instead of `pm clear` to reset an app
-- anytime we call `dumpsys windows` when checking for screen lock, dump output
-  to $APPIUM_HOME/.dumpsys.log so we can learn more about error cases
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.11.4 (from 0.11.3)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- add ruby scrollTo example
-
-#### iOS
-- fix dismissAlert / acceptAlert on ios7
-- make instruments logging quiet by default (put verbose=true in
-  ~/.instruments.conf to re-enable)
-- fix safarilauncher shutdown issue
-- add tests for setting slider values
-- set ios sim language using desired caps
-- add more error handling in instruments_client
-
-#### Android
-- fix issue with adb path and quote truncation
-- fail with a nice message if app activity/package are not sent in
-
-#### Selendroid
-- fix keyevent
-- add command timeout tests
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.11.3 (from 0.11.2)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- remove wiki
-- various doc updates
-- reset command timeout for proxied devices (incl selendroid)
-- translate docs to Chinese
-- make desired capabilities returned by /session/:id non-hard-coded
-
-#### iOS
-- add support for sim and devices for safari launcher
-- major refactor of ios startup cascade
-- fix tracetemplate detection logic
-- add ability to select code-signing identity for safari launcher
-- use securitydb for authorization on 10.9
-- expose 'syslog' logs through selenium log interface
-
-#### Android
-- various control flow/subprocess fixes
-- don't uninstall app when --no-reset is used
-
-#### Selendroid
-- update selendroid version
-
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.11.2 (from 0.11.1)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix bug where running `appium` after installing via npm would error out
-  because the logger was not initialized correctly
-- fix bug in reset.sh where setting --real-safari would cause android et al
-  not to build
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.11.1 (from 0.11.0)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- fix launch timeout bug
-- update travis CI to use newer version of node
-- remove .appiumconfig before running reset.sh
-- update reset.sh to build safarilauncher for real devices only when
-  passing in the --real-safari flag
-- made test.sh sh-compatible
-- update all example code to use correct desired capabilities
-- don't set content-length header for http POSTS with no body
-- add more desired caps to docs
-- expand on android setup for mac osx in docs
-- remove multiple device handling code--appium just does one device at a time
-  per server
-- handle command timeouts centrally rather than per-device
-- add --log-timestamp and --log-no-colors options to server
-
-#### iOS
-- fix sim control authorization on mavericks
-- copy instead of symlink xpath/status into uiauto for non-breaking npm install
-- fix cookie methods error case in mobile safari
-- fail with an error message if user is on xcode 5.0.1 since it comes with
-  a broken instruments binary
-
-#### Android
-- don't uninstall app on fast reset
-- fix crash that occurred when no devices were connected
-- fix unlock logic and change order of regex search
-- correctly handle responses for element{Displayed|Enabled|Selected}
-- refactor adb/android/uiautomator startup/shutdown logic to make
-  callback-based
-- kill uiautomator if the startup cascade for android fails, so it doesn't
-  zombify
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.11.0 (from 0.10.4)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- make tempdirs uniquely named
-- massive code reorganization
-- retry getting a session in testsuite to avoid flaky fails
-
-#### iOS
-- update ios alert handling
-- use safariLauncher without 20/30 secs timeout
-- allow .ipa extension for local apps
-
-#### Android
-- clean app using `pm clear` instead of clean.apk
-- massive refactor/rewrite of android/adb code
-- fix dependency download error
-- ensure all apks are signed
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.10.4 (from 0.10.3)
-=======================================
-
-#### iOS
-- add callback for remote debugger socket disconnect to avoid race conditions
-
-#### Android
-- allow _ in package name
-- add timeout for orientation change
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.10.3 (from 0.10.2)
-=======================================
-
-#### General
-- this is a bugfix release
-
-#### iOS
-- compile the i-w-d shim correctly for ios7
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.10.2 (from 0.10.1)
-=====================================
-
-#### General
-- update docs
-- README rewrite
-
-#### iOS
-- allow spaces in xcode path
-- completely reset and restart simulator between sessions
-- turn CA_DEBUG_TRANSACTIONS on
-- enable `authorize_ios` on Mavericks
-- fix bug making handling alerts take longer than necessary
-
-#### Android
-- update clean.apk
-- refactored setOrientation
-- fix screenshot method
-- implement pinch in / out
-- upgrade unlock.apk
-- use pm uninstall/install in reset
-
-#### Windows
-- lots of reset.bat improvements
-- make some more paths windows friendly
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.10.1 (from 0.10.0)
-=====================================
-
-#### Android
-- add hybrid app docs
-- fix unlock.apk for android 2.3
-- get unlock.apk into build/ so prebuilt packages can use it
-
-#### Selendroid
-- make unlock.apk work with selendroid
-- change remote url for selendroid submodule
-- update selendroid to 0.6.0
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.10.0 (from 0.9.1)
-=====================================
-
-#### General
-- update contributor style guide
-- add some troubleshooting tips to doc
-- update test.sh for a better testing flow
-
-#### iOS
-- autodetect tracetemplate rather than bundling with appium
-- choose version of instruments-without-delay based on xcode version
-- get rid of --ios-sdk flag in reset.sh since appium now autodetects
-
-#### Android
-- fix find elements by ID
-- update clean.apk
-- update touchevent for longpress
-- add unlock.apk which is a more robust device unlock solution
-- enable mobile chrome support on windows
-- better support for tapping invisible elements
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.9.1 (from 0.9.0)
-=====================================
-
-#### General
-- add desired caps doc
-- moveTo defaults to 0.5, 0.5
-- add some more node/yiewd examples
-- beefed up test.sh
-
-#### iOS
-- fix issue with finding ids
-- add --ios-sdk flag to reset.sh to choose between 6.1/7.0
-- various ios 7 compatibility fixes
-- significant refactor of ios session lifecycle code, fixing various issues
-- add automatic UDID detection
-- attempt to tap element's coordinates when typical method doesn't work
-- support more types of zip archives
-
-#### Android
-- restart adb up to 10 times instead of 2
-- fix --avd launching bug
-- fix swipe steps/duration logic (note: will affect test behavior)
-- support metastate for keyevent
-
-#### Phonegap
-- fix submodule issues
-
-_Historical Note_: This version of Appium was published by @jlipps in a moving
-vehicle on a drive from Krakow, Poland to Warsaw, Poland. Thanks, @bkobos, for
-the chaffeurship and wi-fi!
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.9.0 (from 0.8.5)
-=====================================
-
-#### General
-- update troubleshooting doc
-- fix app unzip issue
-- remove app/apk files from zip path before appium starts
-- fix location of UICatalog in reset.sh
-- fix reset.sh android device matching
-- update ruby examples
-- add chrome example in node
-- improve python example code
-- begin to migrate tests from wd to yiewd
-
-#### iOS
-- respond to the last command even if instruments crashes
-- don't attempt to reset real devices
-- update instruments-without-delay with ios7 support
-- add findById support (uses localization strings)
-- add mobile: getStrings
-- support setting value for sliders and switches with sendKeys()
-- add preliminary support for ios7 with a different tracetemplate
-- make mobile: localScreenshot more robust by fixing race condition
-- add phonegap example
-
-#### Android
-- don't require 'avd' to be set in order to install/uninstall to android
-- dynamic find can use classmap aliases
-- make it easy to run multiple android devices simultaneously
-- support for dragFrom / dragTo functions in API level 18
-- use resource-id for finding elements (findById)
-- make getSize available
-- make desired cap for compressedLayoutHierarchy
-- add new version of unsign.jar
-- fix stopCapture bug
-- remove some deprecated methods (xmlKeyContains, etc)
-- add mobile: getStrings
-- always return true for click() (uiautomator bug)
-- fix getAttribute to return strings instead of bool
-- fix tests for use with now-required 4.3 emulator
-- add phonegap example
-
-#### Selendroid
-- track selendroid dev branch instead of master
-- upgrade to selendroid 0.5.0
-
-#### Windows
-- update docs
-- some windows compat fixes
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.5 (from 0.8.4)
-=====================================
-
-#### GENERAL
-- reorder problematic async calls (issue #1000!)
-- misc refactoring
-
-#### Android
-- allow install/uninstall without device id
-- fix race condition in starting chromedriver
-
-#### Selendroid
-- update selendroid version
-- fix issue preventing errors from proxying correctly
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.4 (from 0.8.3)
-=====================================
-
-#### GENERAL
-- some documentation updates
-- give appium server a big http timeout so it doesn't drop connections
-
-#### Android
-- make sure chromedriver tries to restart adb if it fails the first time
-- add logcat retrieval for android and selendroid
-
-#### IOS
-- allow use of --ipa and --app flags together
-- try out a fix in mechanic.js for the (null) tap issues
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.3 (from 0.8.2)
-=====================================
-
-#### GENERAL
-- update various documentation (gestures, inspector tutorial, README)
-- allow dashes in bundle/package IDs
-- fix bad address startup error message
-- use native function.bind() throughout instead of a mix of scoped objects
-  and underscore.bind()
-
-#### Android
-- use UiAutomator for back() instead of keyevent
-- use UiAutomator for keyCode instead of adb shell
-- use UiAutomator for screenshot instead of adb shell
-
-### IOS
-- add some more mechanic aliases (keyboard, key)
-- add pinch/zoom gestures
-- add Java example for automating mobile safari
-- automatically accept location services dialogs if we can access them
-- accept text-based Info.plist files in addition to binary ones
-- use reset.sh to download UICatalog rather than node/grunt
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.2 (from 0.8.1)
-=====================================
-
-#### GENERAL
-- make sure build/ is deleted by reset.sh
-- re-publish without extraneous artifacts in build/
-
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.1 (from 0.8.0)
-=====================================
-
-### GENERAL
-- update java examples to show correct use of JavascriptExecutor
-- fix parser bug that prevented launching on windows
-- fix missing parameter generating exceptions in testsuite
-- fix more stdout maxBuffer errors
-- fix android tests to use new activity style
-- return timeout in set timeout commands
-
-### IOS
-- fix mobile safari alert-handling issues
-- attempt to capture and resolve location services popup using desired cap
-
-### ANDROID
-- require shortcut activities to start with ".", allowing fully-qualified
-  activities with packages different from the main appPackage
-- if appium fails to launch activity with ".", it will retry
-- allow downloaded apps to end in .apk as well as .zip
-- fix xpath parser error not allowing widget packages to be used
-- add longClick command
-- added JUnit and TestNG examples
-- support ChromiumTestShell as well as Google Chrome for Chrome tests
-
-### SELENDROID
-- fall back to `am start` if Selendroid doesn't successfully launch the app
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.0 (from 0.7.3)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- bump maxBuffer for various subprocesses
-- automatically re-register appium with grid if it disconnects
-- augment style guide
-- allow appium tests to read appium server port from $APPIUM_PORT
-
-### IOS
-- add support for locking device for X seconds
-- add support for backgrounding app for X seconds
-- make finding node/instruments_client more robust for instruments context
-- mobile methods for installing/uninstalling apps to device
-- add shortcut for UIACollectionCell and UIATableCell
-- ensure isEnabled returns a boolean value
-
-### ANDROID
-- add mobile: searchId method to search for string by ID
-- add mobile: resolveId method to resolve strings
-- fix activity detection to be more allowing of different strings
-- enable keystore for using different certs
-- fix issue when large messages are transferred from bootstrap
-- fix takesScreenshot capability
-- add long tap method
-- make screenshot work on windows
-- fix scrollTo support
-
-### CHROME
-- add support for automating Chrome on Android!
-
-### SELENDROID
-- update selendroid to 90aef5d
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.3 (from 0.7.2)
-=====================================
-### IOS
-- bugfix: authorize_ios needed #!
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.2 (from 0.7.1)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- make sure reset.sh checks for JAVA_HOME set for android/selendroid
-- add mobile: reset docs
-- alias POST /touch/click to POST /click
-
-### IOS
-- fix discrepancy between isDisplayed() and isVisible() and isEnabled()
-- use new Automation.tracetemplate
-- fixes for checking alerts in webviews
-- page source now gets all windows, not just main window
-- allow custom node path by setting NODE_BIN in a settings file
-- add authorize_ios binary to npm install so npm users can authorize their ios
-  sim
-
-### ANDROID
-- use path.resolve in a cross-platform way
-
-### SELENDROID
-- fix use of adb from within selendroid
-- keyevent support
-- fix app-wait-activity
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.1 (from 0.7.0)
-=====================================
-### SELENDROID
-- update to new version with new build instructions
-- make selendroid port configurable
-
-### WINDOWS
-- fix use of exec and spawn so external commands work
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.0 (from 0.6.1)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- allow new session requests to override current session; this can be disabled
-  with the --no-session-override flag
-- make sure reset.sh fails if android bootstrap can't build
-- make --no-reset do what it's supposed to do, and fix description in docs
-- check to make sure conflicting arguments aren't passed to the server before
-  launching
-- removed deprecated flags completely (hence the minor version bump)
-- bringing some error messages into line across platforms
-- fix some issues with grunt building functions
-
-### ANDROID
-- add find element by ID (parses strings.xml)
-- remove a sleep in bootstrap server that caused delays
-- make sure app is uninstalled when not using fast reset
-- make sure AndroidManifest.xml.apk is writable (for npm installed appium)
-- make sure device wakes up / unlocks before running test
-- add set geo location support
-- clean up and fix issues relating to mid-session bootstrap.jar restart
-- app-wait-activity now takes comma-separated list of valid activities
-
-### IOS
-- fix some tests
-- fix mobile: reset
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.6.1 (from 0.6.0)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- started work on mobile_methods.md doc
-- added hardcore mode to reset.sh that will refresh uicatalog inter alia
-- ios-webkit-debug-proxy docs
-- appium now registers correctly with selenium grid
-- better bundle/package detection
-
-### IOS
-- mobile: setLocation and POST /location for setting geolocation
-- updated tests to work with new uicatalog version
-- allow registering a websocket handler for alerts
-- escape sendKeys values so you can send '
-- fixed up tests a little bit
-
-### ANDROID
-- fix fast reset race condition
-- fix lack of AndroidManifest.xml.src in npm
-- allow registering a websocket handler for alerts
-- added method for getting location of element
-- fixed package name for webviews
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.6.0 (from 0.5.2)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- initial Windows appium support (Android-only)
-- reset.sh no longer fails silently if it errors
-- added reset.bat for windows
-- get status now returns actual appium version
-- make sure reset.sh uninstalls android test apps if emulator is running
-- include the git revision in the status object and in the logs at startup
-- misc bugfixes
-
-### IOS
-- ability to talk to mobile Safari on a real device over USB
-- added native back() method
-- sendKeys now only taps on field if it doesn't already have focus
-
-### ANDROID
-- find by name checks to see if it found the element
-- find by xpath no longer returns duplicate elements
-- add support for ADT 22
-- add "mobile: waitForPageLoad" that waits for indicators to clear
-- fix scrollTo
-
-### SELENDROID
-- build selendroid modded servers in /tmp for npm
-- fixed issue with running tests for multiple apps sequentially
-
-### ROBOT
-- initial support for robot automation (robot intercepts tap etc)
-
-### APPIUM.EXE
-- not strictly part of appium, but the Windows GUI has arrived in beta!
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5.2 (from 0.5.1)
-=====================================
-### IOS
-- fixed regression in mobile safari pre-launch
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5.1 (from 0.5.0)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- updates to python examples
-- refactored configuration code
-- initial work making Appium's node code windows-compatible
-- more lenient treatment of relationship between $HOME and system username
-
-### IOS
-- fixing webview not waiting for page loading on url nav issue
-- added node-idevice which streamlines installing .ipas on real devices
-- implement scrollTo
-- fixed bug in xpath code which returned last element first
-
-### ANDROID
-- add some docs for installing HAXM
-- add scroll_into_view for mobile: find
-- completed android element class map
-
-### SELENDROID
-- http timeout tweaks
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5.0 (from 0.4.1)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- significant change for command-line params for appium:
-    - --without-delay is now on by default. to turn it off, use
-      --native-instruments-lib if you don't want it
-    - --fast-reset is now on by default. to turn it off, use --full-reset
-    - --verbose is now on by default. to turn it off, use --quiet
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4.1 (from 0.4.0)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- added --dev flag to reset.sh to optionally include test apps / dev deps
-- added --verbose flag to reset.sh to optionally spew info (was default)
-- reset.sh now puts all binaries in /build so it can be packaged and reused by
-  npm et al
-
-### IOS
-- added more Java examples
-
-### SELENDROID
-- updated selendroid to 56581e27b45c3a4483d89701fc893ac37b172e46
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4.0 (from 0.3.1)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- more python examples including for android
-- node android code example
-- migrated wiki to appium/docs
-- added troubleshooting docs
-- added auto-tagging of repo on npm publish
-- add a config check to make sure reset.sh was run for a specific device
-  before allowing appium to try to start a session with that device
-
-### IOS
-- various efforts to fix/workaround the (null).tap() issue in UIAutomation
-- added shake()
-
-### ANDROID
-- partial match on content-desc
-- find aapt in SDK or path
-- better logging all around
-- ensure app apk exists and fail if not
-- added content-desc to all ApiDemos elements
-- added --avd flag for launching emulator if not running
-- added getName()
-- fix mobile: find
-
-### SELENDROID
-- updated selendroid to 0.4
-- don't re-build selendroid for each app, just re-insert manifest and build
-  selendroid in reset.sh instead
-
-### FIREFOXOS
-- Initial Firefox OS support landed!
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.3.1 (from 0.3.0)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- support for xpath indexes
-- support for xpath last()
-- docs specific to linux
-- fix name of npm binary-plist dependency
-
-### IOS
-- update instruments-without-delay (fix #432)
-- fix #437 (implicit wait didn't work after ios reset)
-- when searching for @text, fall back to @label and @value
-- allow @name to refer to @text, @label, and @value
-- have "textfield" searches return "secure" fields as well
-- add "collection" tag name
-- make sure to do a clean build before building sample apps
-
-### ANDROID
-- fix xpath wildcard issue
-- fix tag name selector
-- alias "window" tag name to "frame"
-- tweak flick timing
-- have swipe/flick return errors if we know they didn't execute
-- fix page source on real device
-- use aapt rename to handle manifest stuff
-- screenshot support
-- support for the clear() method
-
-### SELENDROID
-- fix proxy behavior
-- added example/test for selendroid webview
-- add WebViewDemo app with tasks for building it
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.3.0 (from 0.2.3)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- Running tests with grunt will now not crash on first test failure
-- Rewrote reset.sh to respect sudo and to run for individual platforms
-- Changed markdown rendering engine and logic for generating appium.io from
-  README.md
-
-### ANDROID
-- Add "mobile: find" method for complex find combinations
-- Check that clean.apk is signed
-- Orientation support
-- Update verify.jar to work on java 6
-- Massive refactoring of adb.js
-- Added Selendroid proxy support (!)
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.3 (from 0.2.2)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- removed bloated appium.io submodule, replaced with no-binary one
-- Fix plist resetting regression (#342)
-- Fix to ensure GET /sessions doesn't return false information
-
-### IOS
-- Allow instruments to find node binaries in MacPorts default location
-- Allow instruments to find node binaries from Appium.app
-- Rotate screenshots to match orientation of device
-- Fix python examples
-- Webview: add tests for implicit attributes
-- Made sure window handles are always strings
-- Reduced flakiness of swipe tests
-- Added a Sauce Connect example
-- C# example updates
-- Fixed a few minor regressions
-
-### ANDROID
-- Large refactoring of bootstrap code
-- Moved ApiDemos code into a submodule which is included and built for tests
-- Fix install command
-- Support for element-based swiping
-- Use selenium touch actions for flick()
-- Some error message improvements
-- Make sure we lint adb.js
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.2 (from 0.2.1)
-=====================================
-### IOS
-- safari: use js close() instead of clicking buttons to close windows
-- webview: make title() always return title for default context
-- webview: async javascript execute
-- webview: fix when webelements are returned to client
-- allow launching app via bundle id and not just app path
-- webview: get/set/delete cookie(s)
-- correctly rotate screenshot images if taken in landscape mode
-
-### ANDROID
-- add eclipse formatting file for bootstrap
-- stop when activity fails to show up
-- make content-desc search case-insensitive and partial
-- allow launching emulator according to device id
-- only sign app for clean apk once
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.1 (from 0.2.0)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- fix bug in npm dependencies (make swig a real dependency)
-
-### IOS
-- fixed scoping bug in alert handling
-- get rid of --warp flag, instruments-without-delay is better
-- safari: clear cookies/history/windows in between test runs
-
-CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.0 (from 0.1.3)
-=====================================
-### GENERAL
-- updates to reset.sh
-- host our own guinea pig html page for webview tests
-- updated java examples and docs
-
-### IOS
-- webview: isActive()
-- webview: submit()
-- webview: clear()
-- webview: selected()
-- webview: implicit waits
-- webview: location()
-- webview: getName()
-- webview: moveTo() and generalized click()
-- webview: getWindowSize()
-- webview: close()
-- webview: don't allow alerts to cause webview requests to hang forever
-- webview: find element(s) from element
-- webview: get alert text
-- webview: set prompt value
-- allow pre-launching local zips/apps/safari from cli
-- webview: allow execution in arbitrary frames
-- "mobile: leaveWebView" special command instead of frame(null)
-- webview: equalsElement()
-- webview: back() and forward()
-- webview: refresh()
-- "mobile: fireEvent" for webview
-- enable setting of device orientation through desired caps
-- fix to not allow native commands to execute if webview command in progress
-- bugfix in ios.js that left multiple remote debugger objs hanging around
-- bumped command timeout since webview commands don't reset it
-
-### ANDROID
-- fix in swipe where steps weren't converted to integers
-- "mobile: keyevent" for hitting arbitrary keys
-- native back()
-- xpath search by "*"
-- skip uninstall if --fast-reset set
-- better error handling if activity is not found
-- match other kinds of button than android.widget.Button with "button"
-- allow matching custom class name (partial class name matching)
-- relaunch on failure (or on screen cap)
-- begun work to get bootstrap in maven
-- flick() as an alias of sorts for swipe()
-
--- changes not tracked before v0.1.3 --