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WebdriverIO JavaScript​

5.59.2 (Aug 21, 2025)​

Dependencies​

  • Dependency updates

5.59.1 (Aug 12, 2025)​

Dependencies​

  • Dependency updates

5.59.0 (Aug 5, 2025)​

Dependencies​

  • Dependency updates

5.58.3 (Jun 15, 2025)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Fix bugs related to exporting
  • Modify available browser versions
  • Improved error messaging relating to API key errors

5.58.2 (Apr 17, 2025)​

Features​

  • Allow passing height values for layout breakpoints

Bug Fixes​

  • Add checks for undefined regions in CheckSettings

5.58.1 (Apr 03, 2025)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Internal Improvements

5.58.0 (Mar 31, 2025)​

Features​

  • Add accessibility field to screenshot

5.57.1 (Mar 06, 2025)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Add environment variable alias

5.57.0 (Jan 30, 2025)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Resolved issue running SDK on Windows
  • Coded regions with dynamic match level can now be initialized with element references not only locators
  • Improved network performance
  • Improved branch detection on GitHub actions

5.56.3 (Jan 22, 2025)​

Features​

  • Coded regions are now supported in Native Mobile Library Android

5.56.2 (Jan 19, 2025)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Resolved issue with items not being masked in the log
  • Resolved performance issue with Ultrafast Grid

5.56.1 (Jan 13, 2025)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.56.0 (Dec 31, 2024)​

Features​

  • API keys, secret token, and dedicated cloud URLs can now be masked in the log using the argument maskLog: true
  • Resolved issue with coded regions in pages with cross origin frames
  • Added TypeScript definitions for WebdriverIO 9
  • Resolved issue with rectangle size not being passed correctly when setting viewport size
  • Resolved issue with non-integer coordinates in coded regions

5.55.0 (Dec 18, 2024)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Enhanced support for webdriver.io 9

5.54.12 (Oct 29, 2024)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.54.11 (Oct 21, 2024)​

Features​

  • Added supported Chrome emulation devices
  • Added support for dynamic match level. For further information, see Dynamic text match level
  • The SDK can now automatically retrieve the APPLITOOLS_BATCH_ID and APPLITOOLS_BATCH_BUILD_ID information from Git when running in SCM CI pipelines
  • You can now download side by side images with diffs highlighted

Bug Fixes​

  • Resolved issue with incomplete types of eyes.check
  • Ultrafast Grid is now able to process regions in screenshots taken with layoutBreakpoints even if they were detached and reattached to the DOM

5.54.9 (Sep 10, 2024)​

Features​

  • You can now add an environment variable to disable the secure tunnel strict TLS verification

Bug Fixes​

  • Resolved issue detecting browser version in certain websites
  • Improved performance when taking screenshots of scrollable websites

5.54.8 (Aug 13, 2024)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Resolved an issue where the wrong CSS file was included in the DOM when a link element did not have an href attribute
  • Fixed a failure that occurred with an error when the page DOM changed during resize while using layoutBreakpoints and element-based coded regions
  • Removed outdated, unsupported devices from the Ultrafast Grid supported devices list. For the current list of supported devices, see Ultrafast Grid Supported Devices

5.54.7 (July 24, 2024)​

Features​

  • Added API for Configuration class: setDisableNMLUrlCache to allow search for NML multiple times

Bug Fixes​

  • No longer attempts to run JavaScript on mobile apps
  • Log no longer includes full content of web resources

5.54.6 (Jun 26, 2024)​

Features​

  • Improved layout algorithm
  • Improved support for automation framework retries to avoid having duplicate tests

5.54.3 (May 7, 2024)​

Bug Fixes​

  • The layout algorithm now takes page information from input values

Features​

  • If git is not available, the SDK now takes APPLITOOLS_GIT_LATEST_COMMIT_TIMESTAMP and APPLITOOLS_GIT_LATEST_COMMIT_SHA environment variables to set the latest git commit information.
  • Custom domains for the Eyes server URL are now supported.

5.54.2 (May 1, 2024)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Resolved issue with Ultrafast Grid rendering URLs that contained certain Unicode characters.
  • The SDK now detects if Native Mobile Library has been injected only once per driver.
  • Resolved issue with the matchTimeout configuration not being applied correctly.

5.54.1 (Apr 22, 2024)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.54.0 (Apr 22, 2024)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.53.0 (Apr 15, 2024)​

Features​

  • Improved heuristic to detect the latest commit SHA and timestamp to improve conflict management

Bug Fixes​

  • Resolved issue with region coordinates not calculated correctly
  • Enhanced support for tunnel solution in Execution Cloud

5.52.1 (Apr 1, 2024)​

Bug Fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.52.0 (Mar 31, 2024)​

Features​

  • Added support for taking webview full page screenshot with Native Mobile Library
  • Added the option to include a merge timestamp using the gitMergeBaseTimestamp configuration method
  • Added support for parallel push and PR flows, using the APPLITOOLS_BATCH_BUILD_ID environment variable
  • The Eyes server now automatically aborts abandoned tests

Bug Fixes​

  • Avoid using deprecated webdriver commands
  • Improved stability when deploying Eyes updates

5.50.11 (Feb 29, 2024)​

Bug fixes​

  • The Eyes server URL can now include a path, for example https://eyes.mycompany.com/eyes
  • Fixed issue executing DOM-Capture script
  • Resolved issue with port collision when running tests with Execution Cloud

5.50.10 (Feb 18, 2024)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.50.9 (Feb 13, 2024)​

Bug fixes​

  • Resolved issue with CDP commands in Chromium
  • An error is now generated when there is a non-Unicode character
  • Fixed an issue when using systemScreenshot with multi device configuration

5.50.8 (Feb 6, 2024)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.50.7 (Jan 30, 2024)​

Features​

  • Added support for configuring proxy settings using APPLITOOLS_PROXY_URL environment variable

5.50.6 (Jan 16, 2024)​

Bug fixes​

  • Resolved issue with service not working with older versions of WebDriverIO
  • Fixed issue parsing media when using Ultrafast Grid
  • Fixed issue when using useSystemScreenshot together with Native Mobile Library
  • Changed the default value of useSystemScreenshot to true

5.50.5 (Jan 2, 2024)​

Features​

  • When using visual locators, results of locate method are now ordered based on location on the screen starting from top left.

Bug fixes​

  • Improved error handling while taking a DOM snapshot
  • Fixed handling of tests with multiple steps using Applitools Native Mobile Library
  • Custom OS name passed through configuration is now passed to the session correctly

5.50.4 (Dec 19, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Screenshots are now scaled properly in iOS devices with Appium 2
  • Fixed infinite loop that may appear during attribute extraction
  • Resolved performance issue with multiple runners within the same process

5.50.3 (Dec 18, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Fixed issue when page didn't reload for one of the breakpoints if the initial viewport size matches it

5.50.2 (Dec 12, 2023)​

Features​

  • Applitools Windows binaries are now signed
  • Improvements to Applitools Native Mobile Library
  • Improved DOM snapshot elements extraction in Ultrafast Grid

Bug fixes​

  • Added support for LazyLoad when reloading the page using layoutBreakpoints

5.50.1 (Dec 5, 2023)​

Features​

  • Added getResults method

Bug fixes​

  • Improved concurrency support

5.50.0 (Nov 21, 2023)​

Features​

  • Added enableEyesLogs configuration to the eyes service
  • Added useExecutionCloud configuration to the eyes service
  • A notification now appears if there is a newer version of the SDK

Bug fixes​

  • Preserve css declarations order in dom-snapshot
  • devtool commands are now supported in all Chromium browsers
  • Test results are now generated even if there is an unexpected error in some of the tests
  • Long running tasks no longer time out

5.49.4 (Nov 7, 2023)​

Features​

  • Added warning when driver used with capabilities that may conflict with Applitools native mobile library

Bug fixes​

  • Handled duplicated style properties in inline style tags in UFG tests
  • UFG requests that respond with a 503 error are now automatically retried
  • Fixed issue that caused DOM snapshots to be taken for different viewport sizes when layout breakpoints were explicitly turned off
  • Fixed issue when w3c properties were added to legacy capabilities object in Eyes.setMobileCapabilities method

5.49.3 (Oct 30, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Safe selectors are now generated as close as possible to taking DOM snapshot

5.49.2 (Oct 25, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.49.1 (Oct 19, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Fixed serverUrl configuration propagation

5.49.0 (Oct 17, 2023)​

Features​

  • New devices added to IosDeviceName enum

Bug fixes​

  • SDK no longer uses an ascii text decoder
  • Webview screenshots can now be taken with css stitching

General changes​

  • Removed jsdom dependency

5.48.0 (Sep 29, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Improved the expiration time of the tunnel in Execution Cloud

5.47.0 (Sep 25, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.46.1 (Sep 12, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • dom-snapshot now supports xml pages and parents inside css URLs

5.46.0 (Sep 11, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Added support for coded regions with layoutBreakpoints reload

5.45.5 (Sep 04, 2023)​

Features​

  • Added support for fallback in req

5.45.4 (Aug 30, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.45.3 (Aug 18, 2023)​

Features​

  • Replace and close tunnels by tunnel id

Bug fixes​

  • Optimized driver usage on close

5.45.2 (Aug 10, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Propagated stitch mode to applitools Mobile lib

5.45.1 (Aug 08, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.45.0 (Aug 08, 2023)​

Features​

  • Improved log event on eyes.open

5.44.19 (Aug 08, 2023)​

Features​

  • Custom headers are now supported for resource fetching

5.44.18 (Aug 03, 2023)​

Features​

  • Added stuck request retries to all requests to UFG and Eyes

Bug fixes​

  • Log Event settings are now populated with with env vars
  • Extract device orientation from a browser for web executions
  • Improved orientation extraction for iOS devices
  • Improved fetch error experience when fetching from tunnel

5.44.17 (Jul 07, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Fixed rendering issue with Chrome >113 and css white-space property
  • Consider response headers and status codes which are returned from the Execution Cloud resource handler

5.44.16 (Jul 21, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Fixed workspace dependencies

5.44.15 (Jul 21, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.44.14 (Jul 18, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.44.13 (Jul 13, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Prevent Execution Cloud tunnel binaries from overriding itself
  • Fixed an issue when an inability to freeze a gif image caused sdk crush
  • Fixed issue when sdk crushed due to invalid resource URL in UFG mode

5.44.12 (Jul 10, 2023)​

Features​

  • Added the ability to skip deserialized dom snapshot

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.44.11 (Jul 05, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.44.10 (Jul 05, 2023)​

Features​

  • Added support for DNS caching
  • Added support of regional execution cloud servers
  • Added binaries and made them available in jfrog

Bug fixes​

  • Fixed issue with getResults log appearing in console when file handler is configured
  • Fixed auto tunnel cleanup after unexpected end of the process

5.44.9 (Jun 29, 2023)​

Features​

  • Added a new mode for taking native app screenshots

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.44.8 (Jun 28, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.44.7 (Jun 28, 2023)​

Features​

  • Added a new mode for taking native app screenshots

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

5.44.6 (Jun 28, 2023)​

Features​

  • Handled abandoned tunnels for Execution Cloud

Bug fixes​

  • Removed content type when request does not contain any body

5.44.5 (Jun 21, 2023)​

Bug fixes​

  • Internal improvements

Features​

  • Added overload for locate method, to call it with custom target