BrowserStack SDK release notes

🚀 New Features

• App Accessibility now runs a scan for each Jetpack Compose interaction in Espresso tests, so Compose-only tests report issues per action instead of a single end-of-test scan.
• Fixed excessive device log output during Espresso runs, which could produce tens of megabytes of logs for a short test.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed automatic test reruns on JUnit 5 being reported as a single test. Each rerun attempt is now reported separately, and a test that fails and then passes on rerun is correctly marked as flaky.
• Fixed proxy authentication failing with `407 Proxy Authentication Required` when the proxy

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed test results not being reported for Cucumber TestNG tests run directly through Cucumber (for example from an IDE Cucumber run configuration) — tests and their Automate sessions now appear in Test Reporting & Analytics.
• Fixed Cucumber `@AfterAll` hooks being reported as never finishing, which left builds showing an item permanently in progress.

🚀 New Features

• Cucumber with JUnit 5 now runs on the BrowserStack CLI flow, with Automate, Test Reporting & Analytics, Accessibility and Percy reporting supported.
• Fixed Accessibility scans not being performed for Cucumber JUnit 5 tests.
• Fixed Percy `testcase` capture mode not taking snapshots for Cucumber JUnit 5 tests.

🚀 New Features

• Accessibility scans and Test Observability results now work for JUnit4 + Serenity + Selenium projects (previously the accessibility report was empty and tests were not reported for this framework).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Java/TestNG: a browser session opened in a setup hook (`@BeforeClass`/`@BeforeTest`) is now linked to that hook in Test Observability instead of showing up unlinked, and a hook session no test uses is cleanly finalized at teardown instead of lingering until an idle timeout.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed JUnit 5 test results being linked to the previous test's browser or device session in Test Observability, which showed the wrong video and session logs next to a test.
• Affects suites that create their driver per test (in `@BeforeEach` or a base-class setup); the last test's session also appeared against no test at all. Results now link to the session the test actually drove.
• Fixed TestNG test runs using retry-on-failure being reported as timed out even when they passed; retried attempts are now linked so superseded runs are closed instead of left open. (Takes effect together with the paired CLI update.)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Appium/App Automate sessions failing to start on Windows with `DriverConfigurationError: Could not instantiate class io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver` when the test classpath is long enough for the SDK to shorten it.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Test Observability reporting for Java: source file paths are now reported for JUnit 5/6 lifecycle hooks (`@BeforeAll`/`@AfterAll`/`@BeforeEach`/`@AfterEach`), and skipped TestNG tests now report a start time.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Cucumber-TestNG test runs timing out when a static `@BeforeAll` / `@AfterAll` hook is used — the hook now completes and the build finalizes normally instead of hanging until the build timeout.
• Fixed Appium driver sessions failing to start behind authenticated HTTP proxies: the proxy credentials from `browserstack.yml` are now applied to the driver's HTTP client, not just the SDK's internal connections.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed some test results not linking to their browser session in Test Observability on parallel TestNG runs (sessions could appear unlinked and test-level results under-reported).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed CI builds hanging indefinitely (until the pipeline timeout) when the BrowserStack CLI stops responding. Every SDK→CLI call is now time-bounded; the SDK fails fast with a clear error and lets the test run continue. The wait is configurable via `BROWSERSTACK_CLI_RPC_DEADLINE_SECONDS` (default 300 s, accepted `60..900` or `0` to disable). Build finalization at shutdown has its own bound, configurable via `BROWSERSTACK_CLI_STOP_RPC_DEADLINE_SECONDS` (default 60 s) — note the main deadline variable does **not** raise the shutdown-path wait.
• Fixed an error (`Error in getting CLI caps … ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException`) when a Maven/surefire system property is set to an empty value. Separately, an empty-valued BrowserStack property supplied as a plain `-D` system property (the non-surefire path) no longer overrides configuration either — that case predates this fix. Empty values no longer abort configuration loading, no longer override `browserstack.yml`/environment configuration, and are not forwarded to the BrowserStack CLI.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Espresso App Automate builds timing out when accessibility/observability is enabled, caused by on-device SDK console logging blocking the test thread.

💡 Enhancements

• Espresso App Accessibility scans triggered inside test hooks are now attributed to the hook (via `hook_run_uuid`), not only the wrapping test.

🚀 New Features

• App Accessibility now scans commands run inside test hooks (setup/teardown), not just the test body — so accessibility issues on screens reached during setup are no longer missed.
• Each in-hook scan is attributed to the hook that produced it, so the dashboard can show which setup or teardown step a finding came from.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the original BrowserStack session being quit when a second WebDriver is created within the same junit5 test (e.g. a separate driver provider).
• Fixed occasional duplicate empty ("ghost") builds appearing on the dashboard when the CLI binary was slow or failed to connect at test startup.
• Fixed CI jobs hanging after test completion when the BrowserStack CLI crashed mid-run (Windows/Azure DevOps behind corporate proxies).
• Percy now starts from a valid cached or pre-seeded binary when the binary download is blocked by the network.

💡 Enhancements

• No customer-facing behavior change. Internal compatibility update to keep the SDK aligned with the binary's new session config format.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Interrupted test runs (Ctrl-C or CI cancellation) are now reported with their termination reason on the build record.

🚀 New Features

• Custom metadata is now supported for Espresso tests: `BrowserStack.setCustomTag("key", "value")` calls made in `@Before`/`@After` hooks or test bodies now appear on the test in Test Reporting & Analytics, including multi-value (comma-separated) and repeated-key merge behavior.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Espresso/JUnit test runs timing out on App Automate when JUnit/Espresso was also present on the main application's classpath.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility/automation runs producing no BrowserStack build when an older SnakeYAML version is present on the project classpath (previously surfaced as "Malformed browserstack.yml").
• Fixed the framework version shown on Test Observability for Cucumber-TestNG runs (a version range like "7.20.1 - 7.8.0" is now the actual Cucumber version).
• Fixed an issue where an empty Selenium/Appium version could be reported for sessions whose version detection failed.
• Fixed noisy `StatusLogger` / `ClassCastException` log4j messages printed on the console (regression since 1.62.2) when your project uses log4j.
• Fixed Automate sessions not linking to their test in `Test Reporting and Analytics` during parallel TestNG runs when the WebDriver is created on a worker thread spawned by the test thread (thread pool, CompletableFuture, or a custom parallel runner).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed `CreateProcess error=206` on Windows when running large-classpath suites (e.g. Serenity) with the SDK.
• Fixed Serenity + Cucumber test results not appearing in Test Observability on Windows (sessions showed but tests did not).
• Fixed `@Disabled` JUnit 5 tests not appearing on the Test Reporting & Analytics dashboard. Skipped tests are now correctly reported as `skipped` in the TRA.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility scans not running for Java Playwright Chrome sessions, and sessions on non-supported browsers (e.g. Edge) no longer fail when accessibility is enabled.

🚀 New Features

• Accessibility Automation now detects when the extension is disabled via `chromeOptions` (`--disable-extensions` / `incognito`) so such runs are reported accurately instead of appearing as failed scans.

🚀 New Features

• Enabled the CLI binary for Gauge (Gradle), restoring Percy/PPP, enhanced Accessibility, AppPercy, and Observability features for Gauge test runs.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed app uploads not routing to the region-specific endpoint for accounts with regional data residency (GRR) enabled.

💡 Enhancements

• Fixed duplicate accessibility save-results scans at the end of TestNG App Accessibility tests.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Custom log directory: `BROWSERSTACK_LOG_DIR` (or YAML `logDir:` / CLI `-Dbrowserstack.logDir`) is now reliably propagated to the spawned binary so its `sdk-cli.log` lands alongside the SDK's own logs.
• Fixed an edge-case `NullPointerException` during binary spawn when the logger factory initializer failed.
• SDK no longer fails to initialize in Docker / Jenkins when `~/.browserstack` is not writable — falls back to `$BROWSERSTACK_LOG_DIR/.browserstack` and then the project directory.

💡 Enhancements

• Improved gRPC error reporting: when the SDK can't reach or talk to its background helper, customers now see a categorized, actionable message in the terminal and logs (e.g., "Could not reach the BrowserStack helper process …") instead of a raw gRPC stack trace. Underlying detail remains available in DEBUG logs for support.

🚀 New Features

• Playwright cucumber-junit5 support added.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Accessibility: accept the legacy platform capability as an alias for platformName when detecting Android-Chrome mobile a11y sessions (Mocha/Direct + Selenium WebDriver-patch paths), so platform: android triggers the mobile scan.

💡 Enhancements

• Addressed security vulnerabilities
• Reduced the Selenium hub connection read-timeout from 15 minutes to 8 minutes.

💡 Enhancements

• Addressed security vulnerabilities

🚀 New Features

• Accessibility: Targeted (explicit) scans for native App Accessibility on Appium

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Internal Instrumentation enhancements
• Fixed an issue in Test Observability where TestNG tests lacking explicit method-level annotations caused missing test data, 'Unknown' results, and build timeouts.

🚀 New Features

• Playwright android support added
• Multi testcase id tagging support added

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Test Observability Tests tab incorrectly displayed No Tests Found for cucumber-testng runs on Cucumber 6.x by adding a fallback mechanism to safely extract BDD metadata
• Fixed a bug where test runs launched via IDEs or custom runners didn't appear on the new Automate dashboard.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix JUnit (4/5) Load Testing runs reporting empty/pending test results

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix appium driver failure

💡 Enhancements

• Security fixes

🚀 New Features

• Added playwright iOS support

💡 Enhancements

• Instrument driver initialization failures

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix testhub handoff and session synthesizer for LTS

💡 Enhancements

• Log enhancements

🚀 New Features

• Added Load Testing Service (LTS) support for JUnit 4 and JUnit 5 — framework detection, pod-iteration session tagging, TestHub build linking, and loadTesting origin classification

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session marking + O11Y for Java Vanilla App Automate sessions for latest appium

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes for running SDK for JUnit5 Playwright on Automate

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes for Espresso App Automate sessions getting stuck in case of Accessibility true.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a warning displayed in TRA dashboard when app key was paased inside driver capabilities

💡 Enhancements

• Security Improvements

💡 Enhancements

• Fixed a security issue for Appiun Client

🚀 New Features

• Added support for passing SSL proxy certificates in the browserstack.yaml file

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation archive now includes JVM arguments and the resolved build-tool dependency tree (mvn / gradle) to speed up support triage. Disable via disableAutoCaptureLogs: true.

💡 Enhancements

• testOrchestrationOptions for cucumber-testng in cli flow

💡 Enhancements

• Internal Instrumentation Enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed safari version support error

🚀 New Features

• Added [Alpha] Support for running Accessibility scans on Android mobile devices for Chrome browser

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed binary file busy error at execution(spawn)

💡 Enhancements

• Added Accessibility Build link.

💡 Enhancements

• Screenshot Capture and Upload Improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Attachments uploaded inside @Before*/@After* hooks not captured for TestNG+Playwright CLI sessions

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix SeleniumPatchUtils list-capability merge to emit valid JSON instead of HashMap.toString().
• Improve credential redaction in log files

💡 Enhancements

• [Espresso] Kotlin dependency handling improvements

🚀 New Features

• Added accessibility (a11y) support for Safari

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix thread naming sequence for platform resolution

💡 Enhancements

• [Cucumber-TestNG] Performance Improvements
• Updated grpc payload limit to 20 MB

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Gradle Daemon cache fix

💡 Enhancements

• Enforce safe OkHttp/Okio versions via dependencyManagement to fix CVEs

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Test attachments and screenshot capture for playwright testng
• Fix: Reset driver accessibility flags to ensure clean TestNG runs
• Fix: Log observability build link for browserstackAutomation false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix failures caused by double quotes in Git commit messages.
• Fix: Made session id thread safe
• use positional constructor references for SafariDriver patching to support Selenium 4.40.0+
• Fix missing device details in TestNG AFTER hooks

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Prevented Espresso app accessibility scan from running on the mobile home page (triggered during app close).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Securtiy Issue Redacted Data from logs.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed percy screenshot not captured in Serenity framework
• Fixed test code not visible JUnit-5 <= 5.2.0 on Test Reporting & Analytics dashboard

💡 Enhancements

• Improved selenium webdriver capabilities handling for browser options

🚀 New Features

• Fixes for App A11y product in older SDK flows

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Bump com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp from 4.9.2 to 4.12.0

💡 Enhancements

• Internal Instrumentation Enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix networkLogsOptions capability handling

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix hub allocation logic to reduce round trip

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix additional test events for Courgette

💡 Enhancements

• Fixed a security issue for jackson dependency

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed platformDetails not being appended to the testName in surefire XML reports in unique scenarios
• Fixed session status marking issue for cucumber-testng

🚀 New Features

• Added support for Test Reporting and Analytics & Accessibility for Courgette

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes for CBT and scopes issues in JUnit 5

💡 Enhancements

• Internal Instrumentation enhancements

💡 Enhancements

• Improved logging for SDK and autocapture logs

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Session breaking for non chrome browsers while keeping a11y true

💡 Enhancements

• Added scopes collection logic, CBT & Log events for BeforeAll hook

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes for Espresso with Local sessions.

💡 Enhancements

• Enhanced logging for Espresso sessions.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Session failure due to NullPointerException when Logger initialization fails

💡 Enhancements

• Performance Improvements for Cucumber-TestNG

🚀 New Features

• Added support for TestNG + Playwright

💡 Enhancements

• Performance Improvements for Junit4/TestNG

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session name and status marking for junit5

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Selenium 4.40.0 compatibility issues
• Made file path optional for Test Reporting and Analytics in vanilla java and replace file name with test name.

💡 Enhancements

• Internal Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with self Heal module loading in unintended cases

💡 Enhancements

• Added support for processing child nested suites in TestNG XML suites for Test Orchestration

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed premature SDK binary download when `httpProxy` or `httpsProxy` is configured in browserstack.yml

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed unwanted Test Reporting and Analytics API calls when build start returned false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed delayed Interactive Debugging for driver initialization other than `new RemoteWebDriver(...)`

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Exception fix for log upload

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fixed incorrect Test Reporting when running tests in parallel in TestNG based test suites

💡 Enhancements

• Changed Percy Binary validation check post download

🚀 New Features

• Added support for Accessibility for Cucumber-TestNG + Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with PPP in cucumber junit4 and junit4

🚀 New Features

• Added support for App Accessibility & Accessibility for Java generic

💡 Enhancements

• Added lts in product map

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed `NullPointerException` when printing `null` values to System.out

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed delayed `interactiveDebugging` visibility on CAD Dashboard

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue affecting the first run of the Accessibility Scan to ensure accurate results

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Set parallel execution properties when parallelsPerPlatform is configured, regardless of platformIndex value, to enable matrix execution with Gradle plugin.

💡 Enhancements

• Enhanced Selenium Version detection logic for classpath without `selenium-java` jar

🚀 New Features

• Added support for Test Reporting & Analytics for Cucumber-TestNG + Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Accessibility and Test Reporting & Analytics for builds run with `java -jar` command

🚀 New Features

• Added support for Test Reporting & Analytics for Java generic

💡 Enhancements

• Security versions improvements

💡 Enhancements

• Improve logging for SDK

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed SDK interfering with non-SDK builds in TestNG based test suites

🚀 New Features

• Added Automate support for Cucumber-TestNG & Playwright combination.

💡 Enhancements

• Internal Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Bump com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp from 3.14.9 to 4.9.2

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes for the issues occurring during non-SDK runs

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Tests not getting reported for Espresso-JUnit4
• [Test Orchestration] Fix for git diff calculation in Smart Test Selection GitHub App based approach

💡 Enhancements

• Performance improvements for Cucumber-TestNG

💡 Enhancements

• Internal improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Orchestration] Added logging for missing feature branches and validation for empty GitHub URLs in Smart Test Selection

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for issues caused by multiple test frameworks in dependencies.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes in driver quit logic.

🚀 New Features

• V1 of a client troubleshooting aid for commonly faced issues.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Cucumber-TestNG] Fix include/exclude tags parameter for Accessibility

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for user's test repository getting deleted with JDK 25
• Fixed issue where feature file paths containing spaces caused TRA and A11y report failure

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Accessibility script timeout not working for TestNG

💡 Enhancements

• Improved logging for SDK

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes to capture cucumber events for single-threaded runs
• [Test Orchestration] Fixed package element support for test discovery in TestNG XML configurations
• [TestNG] Fixed accessibility not working with legacy setups
• Fixes for Appium command failures in Appium versions above 8.4.0

🚀 New Features

• [Test Orchestration] Added Github App Integration support for Smart Test Selection in TestNG

💡 Enhancements

• Security versions improvements.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Added a fix to support Playwright version 1.53.0 and above

💡 Enhancements

• Added instrumentation for performance enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Junit-4] Added a fix for support of TRA.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Junit-5] Added a fix for support of TRA and Session name and status marking through cli.

💡 Enhancements

• Improved logging for SDK.

💡 Enhancements

• Added instrumentation for performance enhancements

💡 Enhancements

• Internal logging improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TestNG] Added fix for App accessibility assertion functions

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TestNG] Added a fix to support package-based test discovery in XML suites

🚀 New Features

• [Testng] Added Accessibility script Timeout support.

💡 Enhancements

• Improved error handling and logging for selenium utility methods

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Testng] Added a fix for support of accessibility on non-browserstack infra for latest selenium version

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Flakiness in Platform selection on Automate

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Automation context, Test Reporting and Analytics with parallelsPerPlatform > 1 for TestNG

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: updated buildIdentifier being set as null

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for duplicate customMetaData issue.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for Shortened command jar IntelliJ

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix BrowserStackLogger exception

🚀 New Features

• [Test Orchestration] Support Smart Test Selection for TestNG

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TestNG] Added a fix for custom browserstack log directory

🚀 New Features

• Support added for change in product name:- Observability -> Test Reporting and Analytics

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Improved conditional test Orchestration support.

💡 Enhancements

• Improved projectName validation and sanitization.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Upload Attachment at Test level was incorrectly limited to ScreenshotEvents

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Interactive Debugging Issue

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: dependency conflicts

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Handle special characters in percy project name

🚀 New Features

• [Load Testing]: Added support to initiate Load Testing tests via SDK through CLI.

🚀 New Features

• [Cucumber TestNG] Added support for custom browserstack log directory > CLI Arg - `browserstack.logDir`, Env Variable - `BROWSERSTACK_LOG_DIR`, browserstack.yml - `logDir`

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a security issue for Apache Compress

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a security issue for jackson dependency

💡 Enhancements

• Added percentage threshold support for failfast

🚀 New Features

• Added support for CentralAuth in TestNG
• Added GRR support for TestNG

🚀 New Features

• Added Support for App Automate in Gauge

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues for Test Reporting and Analytics in Gauge

🚀 New Features

• Added Support for App Accessibility , Accessibility for Cucumber v1 Junit4

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed - Cannot invoke java.util.Map.getOrDefault(Object, Object)
• Fixed - TestNg multiple tests in same class not named properly
• Fixed - With browserstackAutomation: false capabilities starting from browserstack like browserstack.deviceId were not getting honoured
• Fixed - Custom Metadata not reflected in Test Reporting and Analytics dashboard

🚀 New Features

• Added Support for Percy Screenshot Retries

🚀 New Features

• Added Support for Test Reporting and Analytics for Gauge

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with Gauge for Automate and Accessibility

💡 Enhancements

• [TurboScale] Default local for cloud-hosted grids set to false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Driver quit handled in browserstackAutomation: false.

💡 Enhancements

• Supporting Test Reporting and Analytics options.

💡 Enhancements

• [Accessibility]: Added support for Non-BStack Infra for TestNG

💡 Enhancements

• Added support for new orchestration strategies

💡 Enhancements

• Improved logging for junit

🚀 New Features

• Implemented caching to avoid redundant app uploads

💡 Enhancements

• Internal CLI Enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed interactive session with App Automate session

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed percy downloading issue

🚀 New Features

• Added support for auto-enable accessibility

🚀 New Features

• Introduced support for Mobile App Accessibility testing for JUnit.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes for cucumber-testng app-a11y

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Percy version compatibility

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Improved error logging

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Session Name marking

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes for non-bstack accessibility with turboscale.
• Implemented ETag-based binary download optimisation to prevent redundant Percy binary downloads when no updates are available.

🚀 New Features

• Added support for non-browserStack infra accessibility.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Turboscale sessions running on chromium browser even when user passes other browserName for PlayWright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix platform version

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes to support BeforeClass/AfterClass hooks with ppp>1

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🚀 New Features

• Added auto enable percy support for automate

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the connection leak warnings

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Initial Support for Cucumber v4 for Junit-4
• [Accessibility] Initial Support for Cucumber v4 for Junit-4

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix dependency conflict for org.bouncycastle

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Test Reporting & Analytics reruns
• Fixed session name marking in Automate and Percy
• Fixed error logs for not using browserstackLocal
• Fixed PercyCaptureMode to be auto by default if percy is set to true

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix sessionName marking with google.TestParameterInjector for JUnit4

💡 Enhancements

• Improve debugging logs for Percy

💡 Enhancements

• Update Nexus version

💡 Enhancements

• Add feature performance instrumentation
• Make Test Reporting & Analytics by default true

💡 Enhancements

• Version bump `browserstack-java-sdk` dependency [1.0.9,2.0.0)

🚀 New Features

• Introduced support for Mobile App Accessibility testing.

🚀 New Features

• Supported cucumber v1 for junit-4

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Automate Sessions breaking sometimes when user passes turboscale:false

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Removed warning logs for TestNg when using abortBuildOnFailure feature

💡 Enhancements

• Supporting test orchestration features enablement from CLI and ENV variables

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for handling test paths for windows for runPreviouslyFailedFirst feature
• Fix for static driver patch

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🚀 New Features

• [Test Orchestration] Support runPreviouslyFailedFirst for TestNG

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Hub URL override when URL passed as `null` while initializing driver

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility] Initial Support for PlayWright - JUnit 5

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Percy] Instrumentation fixes

💡 Enhancements

• Added logging

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Initial Support for PlayWright - JUnit 5

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility] Initial support for serenity
• [Test Orchestration] Support for abort build on failure for JUnit5

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix framework detection for gradle in Windows

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix hooks timeout

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix proxy for Selenium 4.0.0-4.13.x

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Use correct datatype for integer values

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Use correct datatype for integer values

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix timeouts for JUnit5

🚀 New Features

• [Test Orchestration] Support for retry tests on failure for TestNG and JUnit5

💡 Enhancements

• Integrate Turboscale sessions with Test Reporting & Analytics

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix platform name check for accessibility

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Initial Support for Espresso

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Don't disable static driver functionality for empty constructor as no driver is spawned in it

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Corrected the detection of browserstack.yml in Eclipse IDE

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements
• Static driver handling for SDK disabled drivers

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility] Initial Support for Cucumber - JUnit 4 and Cucumber - JUnit 5
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Initial Support for Cucumber - JUnit 4

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix disabling SDK for multiple drivers in single test

🚀 New Features

• Support sdkDriverHandling capability for Selenium versions < 4.8.2

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Appium commands for Appium versions < 3.4.0
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix build timeouts for SIGINT

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Product stability improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Support parameterized test for Junit-4

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for marking test status for failed tests for Serenity-Cucumber

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility] Initial Support for Junit-4, Junit-5 and Cucumber-Junit5
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Initial Support for Junit-4

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Hub URL when using Selenium + Appium

🚀 New Features

• Added support for sdkDriverHandling caps

💡 Enhancements

• Send browserstackSDK caps when browserstackAutomation is false

🚀 New Features

• Gradle M Parallellism Support

💡 Enhancements

• Increase Request Timeouts to 80s
• Instrumentation/logging enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Show build link on Console
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix global hook timeout for Cucumber-TestNG
• [Accessibility] Fix GetResults marking sessions failed

💡 Enhancements

• Remove TestNG Jar from bundled SDK

🚀 New Features

• SDK parameterisation: The SDK now includes parameterization capabilities, allowing you to selectively enable or disable specific features based on your needs. You can toggle or disable SDK’s features for parallelisation, cross-browser testing, session name and status marking and BrowserStack local testing. Read more about it [here](https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate/selenium/sdk-params)

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Trim VCS info to 64kb

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix stacktrace for JUnit5
• Support for Proxies requiring Basic Authentication in Selenium 4.0.0-4.14.0
• Fix null pointer exception while uploading app for App Automate

💡 Enhancements

• Improve logging for Accessibility
• Improve events finish metadata

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation for graceful kills of builds
• Prevent conflict of SDK dependencies with user dependencies

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility] Add accessibility support for RemoteWebDriverBuilder class for automation false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Percy] Cleanup unzip operation on failure, re-download binary to binarypath location
• Support Percy and Accessibility with browserstackAutomation set as false
• Skip modifying user's suite if platforms is not set for TestNG

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Handle error for data providers in TestNG
• Fix no such field error for 'message' in TestNG v6.14.3

💡 Enhancements

• Relocate `guava` packages to avoid dependency issues

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Add testname deserialization flag

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Selenium dependency issue when using Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessiblity] Handle initialization of driver after the test started

💡 Enhancements

• Remove individual request instrumentation.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix issue with reportportal

💡 Enhancements

• Relocate `logback` and `sla4j` packages to avoid dependency issues

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix incorrect file path issue with Java 17
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix issues with sending data to Test Reporting & Analytics

💡 Enhancements

• Reduce know exceptions and improve logging for better debugging issues

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix naming issue while uploading logs

💡 Enhancements

• Log exceptions from Patches

💡 Enhancements

• Add verbose logging

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Add `enableSim` and `simOptions` BrowserStack capabilities

💡 Enhancements

• [Accessibility] Product stability improvements
• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed execution behavior in respect to Test Reporting & Analytics. Avoid using v1.13.7 and v1.13.8 if using Test Reporting & Analytics product.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved dependency conflicts due to version mismatch for org.apache.commons.io and com.fasterxml.jackson

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Percy] Percy commands to run if platforms are not passed in browserstack.yml

💡 Enhancements

• Performance instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Percy] Support percy when `browserstackAutomation: false`

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Debug logs for Test Reporting & Analytics performance issues

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessibility] Gauge fixes

💡 Enhancements

• Performance instrumentation

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility] Initial Support for Gauge with automation false
• Initial support for auto framework detection.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessibility] Test end event not getting sent for TestNG-Cucumber

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] After method getting timeout when `alwaysRun` param is not true (in case of before hook failure) in TestNG
• `logback-classic` version update

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix automate sessions for java-client > v8.1.1

🐛 Bug Fixes

• RemoteWebDriver not found exception for Playwright

🚀 New Features

• Expose platform data with methods from SDK

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Rerun for JUnit 5 framework

🚀 New Features

• Support for `skipSessionStatus`

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Initial changes for JUnit 5 framework
• Support multiple cucumber reports of same type

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Stacktrace for recent selenium versions

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Serenity 4.x support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Incorrect sessionName capability in serenity

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix tests running locally on Windows

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for cwd path with space

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Support Cucumber global hooks for Accessibility, Percy & Test Context on Automate / App-Automate

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility] Extend support for Cucumber-TestNG

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Error stacktrace related to 'safariOptions' for selenium versions >= 4.8.2
• [Percy] Fix appium builds for iOS

🚀 New Features

• Extending Percy and AppPercy support for Cucumber TestNG

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Cucumber reporting for Windows

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Duplicate entries inside Cucumber JSON report

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Multiple Cucumber JSON reports getting generated

🚀 New Features

• [Turboscale] Support for Playwright sessions

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix internal Logback logger conflicts with global context

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix App Automate Session linking with Test Reporting & Analytics

💡 Enhancements

• [Percy] Screenshot Stabilization

🚀 New Features

• Extending TurboScale support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] `log4testng` logger reporting

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix staticWebdDriver for appium < v8

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Test context for cucumber with exception at Before/After hooks

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix exceptions raised for skipped tests for Test Reporting & Analytics

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Improve session status for test failures

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix test context for driver initialised inside test

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Driver alive check before marking session name

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Gradle selenium dependency conflict fix

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Added driver alive check before marking session

🚀 New Features

• Add Junit 4 & 5 Reporting Support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Authorization required

🚀 New Features

• Support for Cucumber 4.x

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Handle Test Reporting & Analytics build stop processing for multiple xml runs

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Debug Mode not working in IntelliJ IDEA

🚀 New Features

• Extended Accessibility support for TestNG framework

🚀 New Features

• Support for BROWSERSTACK_APP_ID environment variable

🚀 New Features

• Support PAC proxy file for Selenium v4.x

🚀 New Features

• Auto Proxy detection using PAC File

🐛 Bug Fixes

• CustomHighlighter stacktrace on console

💡 Enhancements

• Minor refactoring and enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Selenium Jar detection failing when running with IDE on Windows

🚀 New Features

• Generate CI Report with BrowserStack SDK

🚀 New Features

• Handling Method and Class Level parallelisation with parallelsPerPlatform key

💡 Enhancements

• Patch ClientConfig when Selenium version is not detected
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Map all TestNG hooks to a test in a suite

🐛 Bug Fixes

• NoSuchMethodError setPrivateFieldValue in Appium client

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Detect Remote Address
• Minor improvements in detecting client side errors and accordingly mark session on browserstack as failed

🚀 New Features

• Detect client side errors and accordingly mark session on browserstack as failed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Selenium version detection

💡 Enhancements

• Case insensitive command line args for maven

🐛 Bug Fixes

• browserstack.config system argument not working with Gradle

🚀 New Features

• Flag to skip picking sessionName from test context

💡 Enhancements

• BrowserStack Local binding version bump to v1.9.0

🚀 New Features

• Optimize build run times when running on BrowserStack

💡 Enhancements

• Change parallelsPerPlatform behavior when not passing platforms array

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Appium Sessions or some commands failing with Gradle

💡 Enhancements

• Enable staticWebDriver functionality by default

💡 Enhancements

• Add proxy details in App upload API
• BrowserStack SDK toggle environment variable for Eclipse IDE Plugin

🚀 New Features

• Support for TestNG class level parallelisation when specifies in testng.xml at suite level

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Proxy config related failures when not adding username and password in the value

🚀 New Features

• Extended Test Reporting & Analytics support for Cucumber framework

💡 Enhancements

• Stability improvements related to hub connection

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Session failures when triggering using IDE with cucumber plugin

💡 Enhancements

• Throw exception in case BrowserStack Local initialization fails
• Local nudge improvements

🚀 New Features

• Static Webdriver support, `staticWebDriver` in yml to enable

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix project name coming from cli args and environment variable in non-W3C mode

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Bump log4j v1 to v2

🚀 New Features

• Add cli arguments, order of precedence = cli args > env variables > yml file

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Add framework check for TestNG Listeners' Activation

🚀 New Features

• Support for File Upload in Selenium
• Support for Allure Reporter TestNG amd Cucumber JVM

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Honor buildName from yml config in Jenkins Plugin

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Set methodSelectors for xmlTest in TestNG
• Appium dependency detection

🚀 New Features

• Support for Playwright Java
• Add build link in the javaagent logs

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Merge yml config with script's existing capabilities in App Automate

🚀 New Features

• Custom config file using the -DbrowserstackConfigFile cli argument and BROWSERSTACK_CONFIG_FILE environment variable
• Add build link in the javaagent logs

🐛 Bug Fixes

💡 Enhancements

• Nudge to set local true when trying to acces a local url without local turned on

🚀 New Features

• Support for Chrome DevTools

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Test Reporting & Analytics bug fixes

🚀 New Features

• Support for Test Context marking for JUnit4 and JUnit5

🚀 New Features

• Support for Test Context marking for cucumber info.cukes package

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Sessions getting idleTimeouts with ChromeDriver after selenium-java v4.7.2

💡 Enhancements

• Support case insensitive caps in yml configuration file

💡 Enhancements

• Handle ArrayList as value in yml config

🚀 New Features

• Extended TestNG framework support for Test Reporting & Analytics
• Support for App upload for Generic SDK Frameworks (JUnit, Serenity, JBehave, Cucumber CLI)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Avoid parallelisation in case Javaagent ArgLine is not passed

💡 Enhancements

• Increase timeout for App Upload
• Honour buildName from environment variable over buildName + buildIdentifier in yml

🚀 New Features

• Support for advanced parallelisation in JUnit5 and JUnit4
• Support for advanced parallelisation and Test Context marking in Cucumber-JUnit5 and Cucumber-JUnit4
• Introduced buildIdentifier capability to better organise builds on dashboard
• Support for browserOptions inside yml configuration file

🐛 Bug Fixes

• ChromeDriver exe error when spawning ChromeDriver without parameters in user script

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Python/pytest browser load tests always running headless — the "Run in Headless Mode" setting on your load test is now honored.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed App-Automate / behave builds occasionally being marked as **timed out** even after all tests finished, when a transient network error occurred while the SDK was sending its final test-reporting events.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed BrowserStack sessions not being linked to their reported test when running a plain Python script (no pytest/behave/robot) — the session now appears correctly against the test on the dashboard, for both web and mobile.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Test logs captured for Test Observability are now gated to INFO and above by default; set `SDK_CLI_LOGS_MIN_LEVEL=DEBUG` to capture DEBUG logs.

🚀 New Features

• App Accessibility scans triggered inside test hooks are now attributed to the hook (via `hook_run_uuid`), not only the wrapping test.
• Robot Framework `Suite Setup` commands are now scanned for App Accessibility (previously skipped entirely).

💡 Enhancements

• Improved compatibility with the latest BrowserStack binary; API endpoints continue to resolve correctly across binary versions.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Robot Framework tests using the Browser library failing to start ("Could not connect to the playwright process") when run through the SDK with newer `robotframework-browser` / `playwright-core` versions.
• Test Reporting & Analytics now shows a test for plain vanilla-python (`python-generic`) runs: a passing run reports a passed test per platform and a failing run reports a failed test, instead of the build showing zero tests. The BrowserStack sessions are now named and marked pass/fail for these runs too.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed `pytest` runs failing at the end (non-zero exit) on pytest 9.1.x even when all tests passed.
• Fixed the latest SDK failing to install on Python 3.7, which could also cause a pinned `selenium` version to be silently upgraded.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a `maximum recursion depth exceeded` crash that could occur on Robot Framework test runs when an internal log upload failed.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Percy on Automate screenshots not being captured when running tests with pytest.

🚀 New Features

• Added reporting-level include/exclude for the vanilla-Python SDK. Set `testManagementOptions.includeInReport` / `excludeFromReport` in `browserstack.yml` (or `BROWSERSTACK_INCLUDE_IN_REPORT` / `BROWSERSTACK_EXCLUDE_FROM_REPORT`), or call `TestClient.set_report_results(False)` per test, to run a full flow but report results only for the cases you're validating. Execution is unaffected.
• Added support for Playwright's async API (`playwright.async_api`), including `pytest-playwright-asyncio` fixtures and plain `asyncio` scripts — sessions, naming, status and Test Observability now work for async Playwright tests with no code changes.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Appium+Python builds (via `browserstack-sdk python your_script.py`) not appearing on the new BrowserStack dashboard. Observability now defaults on for the `python-generic` runtime, unifying the App-Automate build with the SDK build.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed app uploads not routing to the region-specific endpoint for accounts with regional data residency (GRR) enabled.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility autoenabled flow creating duplicate builds and breaking Robot Framework/Behave scanning script provisioning.
• Fixed pytest and pytest_bdd builds remaining stuck in "In Progress" state after test execution completes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the Python SDK crashing at startup with `ImportError: Bad git executable.` on environments without git installed. git is no longer required to run the SDK.
• Fixed URLs passed to Behave (`-D key=https://…`) or pytest (e.g. `--base-url=https://…`) being corrupted (a `//` collapsed to `/`) when running through `browserstack-sdk`, which for Behave caused `LocationValueError: No host specified`.
• Added custom log directory support: `BROWSERSTACK_LOG_DIR` (env var, `browserstack.logDir` CLI arg, or `logDir:` in `browserstack.yml`). Resolved value is propagated to the binary so its `sdk-cli.log` and `sdk-cli-debug.log` land in the same directory as the SDK's own logs. The `bstack-logs.tar.gz` archive is also complete in this case.
• SDK no longer fails to initialize in Docker / Jenkins when `~/.browserstack` is not writable — falls back to `$BROWSERSTACK_LOG_DIR/.browserstack` and then the project directory.

💡 Enhancements

• Improved gRPC error reporting: when the SDK can't reach or talk to its background helper, customers now see a categorized, actionable message in the terminal and logs (e.g., "Could not reach the BrowserStack helper process …") instead of a raw gRPC stack trace. Underlying detail remains available in DEBUG logs for support.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash (`KeyError: 'setup_method'`) when running pytest tests that use `setup_method`/`teardown_method` lifecycle hooks with the BrowserStack SDK.

🚀 New Features

• Added skipAppOverride support — set skipAppOverride: true in browserstack.yml to run an App Automate session while managing the app yourself. The SDK classifies the session as App Automate but does not upload the app or inject app capabilities; supply the app via a driver capability or the BROWSERSTACK_APP_ID environment variable. Works across pytest, Robot, Behave and unittest.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session breaking when the driver is initialized inside the test body in pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a failing test-event upload from stopping the rest of a build's events being sent, and made build-stop reliable (sent once) across all exit paths.
• report BEFORE_EACH hooks to prevent build timeout
• Fixed pytest tests skipped during fixture setup leaving the BEFORE_EACH hook stuck at `status=timeout` on the Test Reporting & Analytics dashboard for 1 hour.
• Internal handler exceptions in `handle_o11y_test_event` now surface as logged stack traces instead of being silently swallowed.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session mismatch in TRA and Automate dashboard

💡 Enhancements

• Version bump

🚀 New Features

• Added multi testcase id tagging support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Excluded getpass.getuser from obfuscation and hardened the Windows username fallback.

💡 Enhancements

• Updated the README to note that PyPI support is deprecated.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Upgrade protobuf dependency

🚀 New Features

• Added playwright iOS support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• support python -m module in vanilla runs

🐛 Bug Fixes

• whitelist grpc.FutureTimeoutError in obfuscator config

💡 Enhancements

• Instrument driver initialization failures

🐛 Bug Fixes

• report setup-errored tests as failed instead of leaving them Unknown

💡 Enhancements

• Obfuscation fixes

🚀 New Features

• Added proxyCaCertificate support for SSL-inspecting corporate proxies (Zscaler/Netskope/Forcepoint)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed missing video recordings in the TRA Tests view for pytest + selenium tests that initialize the WebDriver inside the test body.

💡 Enhancements

• Logging enhancements

🚀 New Features

• Added Load Testing Service (LTS) support across Python frameworks (pytest, behave, robot, vanilla-python/unittest) — pod-iteration session tagging, TestHub build linking, and loadTesting origin classification

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Propagate Behave failure data to test_run payload

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Pytest-PW O11y session linking issue with browserstackAutomation: false
• Fixed accessibility reporting for pytest + Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed `set_custom_tag` and `upload_attachment` failing when called from inside class-scoped pytest fixtures

💡 Enhancements

• Surface a11y unsupported-Chrome warning for Robot/Pabot

🚀 New Features

• Added support for Playwright Robot Android

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Playwright v1.59 compatibility (TypeError on new launch kwargs) and restored per-step annotate and accurate session status for Behave (Playwright)
• Fixed incorrect framework reporting in analytics when the SDK is invoked from another browserstack-sdk process

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed CLI arguments being dropped or breaking test execution when passed to browserstack-sdk

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed pytest tests skipped during setup not being reported to Test Reporting dashboard

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed binary file busy error at execution(spawn)

🚀 New Features

• Performance and reliability improvements for Behave (Playwright) Test Reporting and Analytics and Accessibility

💡 Enhancements

• Internal Instrumentation enhancements

🚀 New Features

• A11y safari support for selenium supported testing framework

💡 Enhancements

• Added Accessibility Build link.

🚀 New Features

• Make URL optional and allow CLI/env-only source entries for smart selection

💡 Enhancements

• Added Redaction of sensitive keys in automation logs.

🚀 New Features

• Added IDE-native plugin support for PyCharm

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Pytest-PW-BDD] Added fix for uploading screenshots for non-browserstack infrastructure sessions in Test Reporting and Analytics

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Added CustomTagManager.reset_test_level_custom_metadata to avoid mutating references already stored in earlier test instances

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed percentage-based maxFailures threshold handling in Test Orchestration.

🚀 New Features

• Added Observability, Accessibility and AppAccessibility support for vanilla python

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed BrowserStack Local connection failures during parallel Robot Framework (pabot) executions.

🚀 New Features

• Added Test Orchestration (Test Selection) Support For behave

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed TRA session linking for higher selenium versions.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed detection of legacy headless Chrome in Accessibility scans

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Warning message not being printed on Behave Accessibility lower chrome version
• Fixed sessions breaking for Pytest Playwright when Accessibility is enabled

🚀 New Features

• Added Accessibility support for Robot-Playwright (Browser Library)

🚀 New Features

• Added Accessibility support for Behave(Playwright)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed intermittent Percy screenshot failures in newer Selenium and Appium versions

🚀 New Features

• Added TRA automate support for Behave(Playwright)

🚀 New Features

• Internal Instrumentation enhancements

🚀 New Features

• Added TRA support for Robot-Playwright (Browser Library)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed TRA screenshot capture for pytest framework for non browserstack infra.
• Fixed: Compatibility with pabot v5.2.0+ by switching to list-based command execution to support shell=False.
• Fixed pytest-bdd accessibility result upload failures caused by a teardown IndexError introduced in v1.24.3

🚀 New Features

• Added Automate and AppAutomate support for vanilla python

💡 Enhancements

• Dependency version updates for Python 3.12 and 3.13

🚀 New Features

• Added automate support for Robot-Playwright (Browser Library)

🚀 New Features

• The Python SDK now natively supports load-testing for Selenium (Python and pytest) test suites.

🚀 New Features

• Added support for multiple driver instances in pytest.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix grpcio version conflict with Robot Playwright
• Fix Pytest performance issues for Unit Tests

💡 Enhancements

• Improved performance of SDK initialization and cleanup processes

🚀 New Features

• Added support for Behave 1.3.x

💡 Enhancements

• Updated `grpcio` version to 1.75.1 for python version 3.14.x

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix behave test reporting in case of multiple tags

💡 Enhancements

• Logging improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessibility] Fix perform scan for Browser version `latest-n`

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed report merging logic to correctly handle custom Pabot results output directories passed using `--outputdir`

💡 Enhancements

• Added warning message for `pytest-parallel` incompatibility with BrowserStack SDK, recommending uninstallation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed `browserstack.config` cli arg breaking in Pabot 5.x

💡 Enhancements

• Minor improvements to the feature used for sending logs to Test Reporting and Analytics.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved interactive debugging issues with Test Reporting and Analytics

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved compatibility issues when running the SDK with Python 3.14
• Fixed Interactive debugging not working on CAD Dashboard

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Orchestration] Improve Pytest Test Discovery and Collection Logic

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Playwright sessions breaking when using same browser context and different page

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Orchestration] Fix Smart Test Selection multi-repo path parsing and CLI flow handling in Pytest

💡 Enhancements

• Added instrumentation for performance enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Robot] Fix for supporting Cross Browser Testing on pabot 5 and Multiple Tests in a single suite

🚀 New Features

• Add parameter of hubRegion for setting custom hub url for all frameworks except Pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Robot] Fixed Cross-Browser parallelism breaking with Pabot version 5.x

🚀 New Features

• [Test Orchestration] Adding Github App Integration for Smart Test Selection in Pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Pytest-Playwright] Fixed skipSessionName and skipSessionStatus flags
• [Test Orchestration] Fixed Pytest test file execution

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Smart Test Selection git diff logic

💡 Enhancements

• Internal instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed pabot version 5.0.0 support

💡 Enhancements

• Fixed the issue around adding CLI parameters with whitespaces.

💡 Enhancements

• Fixed Robot Pabot version 5.0.0

💡 Enhancements

• Disabled Smart Selection data collection for frameworks where it is not applicable

🚀 New Features

• Support added for change in product name:- Observability -> Test Reporting and Analytics

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Fix: handle missing args variable to prevent runtime error

💡 Enhancements

• Improved projectName validation and sanitization.

💡 Enhancements

• Pushing modified files to the Orchestration server to support Smart Selection data collection

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed: error not being caught when given wrong device-OS combination

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Pytest-BDD] Fixed print statements not being displayed in TRA dashboard

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Auto-enable accessibility fixes for Robot framework

💡 Enhancements

• Updated LogCreated sending.

💡 Enhancements

• Security Update.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Sdk getting stuck for pabot.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Obfuscation issue causing driver startup failure.

🚀 New Features

• Added App Accessibility Automation Support for Pytest

💡 Enhancements

• Fetch API urls from server for Geo Region Restriction (GRR) support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed config file path with spaces not being picked up
• Fixed app-accessibility not working on Robot

🚀 New Features

• [Test Orchestration] Added support for Selection Strategies (rerunPreviouslyFailed, runPreviouslyFailedFirst and skipFlakyandFailed) in Pytest

🚀 New Features

• Instrumentation added to enable Geo Region Restriction (GRR) support

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Orchestration] Added support for abortBuildOnFailure in Pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session name marking in driver quit before teardown in pytest(ATS flow)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed webdriver close handling in pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed proxy not being honoured in selenium driver initialisation
• Fixed patch error logs in console in selenium version where client_config is not present

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Correct platform details now being sent to Observability for DDA, local and other sessions
• Fixed Percy binary download issue

💡 Enhancements

• Improvised SDK builds by using environment markers for dependencies

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility]: Added initial support for Non-BStack Infra

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Orchestration] Added support for retryTestsOnFailure in Pytest, Robot and Behave

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed support for `skipSessionStatus` and `skipSessionName` flags in yaml file to control marking of session name and status

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Improved Automate build link generation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Local chrome spawning for pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed skipSessionName pytest-bdd

💡 Enhancements

• Added support for auto-enable accessibility

💡 Enhancements

• Fix Robot Pabot version 4.2.0

💡 Enhancements

• Added Support for class level pytest markers

💡 Enhancements

• Upload Attachments and CustomTags Support

💡 Enhancements

• App Accessibility Robot Support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix current platform details for vanilla
• Fix Accessibility not working when driver initialized in test

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix SDKTestSuccessful event
• Fix Behave error log lines in terminal

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Accessibility command wrapping

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Type Error Fix

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix Unknown build issue for sessions longer than 2h
• [Automate] Fix session details for Robot framework version 7.2

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix a backend instrumentation event

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix duplicate performscan for pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• reverted 1.23.2

💡 Enhancements

• Key metrics implementation and default o11y true for behave

💡 Enhancements

• Key metrics implementation and default o11y true for behave

💡 Enhancements

• Added ENV variable to set when using both pytest and pytest-bdd

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• python-robot sessions remaining unmarked with sdk version 1.22.7
• appium-python tests not working with Appium-Python-Client==4.3.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix O11y video logs interchanging among tests

🚀 New Features

• Added support for TurboScale in Python SDK

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix setup/teardown hook overwrite issue

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Instrumentation fixes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Behave Bug fixes
• [Percy] Instrumentation fixes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix driver setup when quit externally in Pytest

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Support Generic Hooks in Behave

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix `uploadMedia` capability breaking with error of duplicated value

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Behave Test Reporting & Analytics fixes for feature hierarchy

🚀 New Features

• Initial Support for Behave Accessibility and Test Reporting & Analytics

💡 Enhancements

• Graceful kill of build for Pytest

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Send browserstackSDK caps when browserstackAutomation is false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Skipping local identifier generation when skipBinaryInitialisation is enabled

💡 Enhancements

• [Accessibility] Enabling accessibility when platforms object is absent

🚀 New Features

• SDK parameterisation: The SDK now includes parameterization capabilities, allowing you to selectively enable or disable specific features based on your needs. You can toggle or disable SDK’s features for parallelisation, cross-browser testing, session name and status marking and BrowserStack local testing. Read more about it [here](https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate/selenium/sdk-params)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix cross platform testing for Robot

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcnow()

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation for graceful kills of builds
• Trim VCS info to 64kb

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix context.execute_steps for Behave

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Avoid duplicate localIdentifier flag in robot

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Make Test Reporting & Analytics true by default for Pytest, Robot, and Pabot

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix exit status of behave tests.

💡 Enhancements

• Fix hooks patch failing with pytest 8.1.1
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix duration issue with Pytest BDD

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Disable Test Reporting & Analytics by default for Pytest and Robot

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Enable Test Reporting & Analytics by default for Pytest and Robot

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Percy] Fix Percy CLI installation issue

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix import issues with Python 3.12

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Pytest exit code not getting set when executed `pytest.exit`
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] (App)Automate session linking when fixture scope is `session` for Pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Pytest exit code not getting set when executed `pytest.exit`
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] multiple builds spawning which gets timed out for Robot

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Appium caps getting passed in `bstack:options` instead of root

💡 Enhancements

• [Accessibility] Product stability improvements

🚀 New Features

• Support dotenv config

🐛 Bug Fixes

• `disableIdLocatorAutocompletion` not working when passed in browserstack.yml

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix robot when browserstackAutomation is false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed sdk for robot version 7

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessibility] Fixed driver initialization in Test cases

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] (App)Automate session linking for Robot when browserstackAutomation is false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Signal handlers on Windows for Pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Test timeouts for versions <= 7.2

💡 Enhancements

• Reduce idle timeouts for Pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix get_current_platform method expose

🚀 New Features

• Expose platform data with methods from SDK
• Supports percy pytest

🚀 New Features

• Support for Percy Robot

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix session status for Qweb specical case

💡 Enhancements

• Driver close handling on close

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Steps reporting for Robot framework

🚀 New Features

• Support for `skipSessionStatus`

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Initial changes for Robot framework

🐛 Bug Fixes

• BrowserStack Dashboard to show session as 'unmarked' if Pytest test is skipped at fixture level

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Pytest non-zero exit code on failing tests
• Accessibility Robot platform data

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility] Support for robot framework
• Expose platform data methods from SDK
• `customVariables` key in browserstack.yml

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Accessibility metadata on dashboard

💡 Enhancements

• Add funnel data for all frameworks

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Pytest support on Linux and Windows

🚀 New Features

• Proxy support for Playwright
• [Accessibility] support for Pytest

🚀 New Features

• Python SDK support for App Percy

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Supports browserstackLocal default to false

💡 Enhancements

• BrowserStack Dashboard to show session as 'unmarked' if test is skipped

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Reporting Browser Info for Pytest BDD

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Pytest BDD support

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Detect additional CI Providers

🐛 Bug Fixes

• pytest test context improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• `--last-failed` pytest flag not working with SDK

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix parallelism for pytest

🚀 New Features

• Extending Test Reporting & Analytics support for pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Change stderr to stdout stream for logging

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix skipSessionName pytest-bdd

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Playwright pytest not running on multiple platforms

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Test Context not being marked when driver not present in `context.browser`
• Some Behave hooks not getting called with SDK

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix DDA for platformVersion

🚀 New Features

• Fix parallelisation and test context in pytest

🚀 New Features

• Add support for replacing env variable in yml file

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Error when passing custom config file to robot sessions
• Error when passing custom args to python scripts run with the SDK

🚀 New Features

• Run python scripts with debugger (browserstack-sdk python -m pdb test.py)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Pytest test context

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Robot with AppiumLibrary

🚀 New Features

• Support for Pytest BDD

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Appium bug fix

🚀 New Features

• Support for BROWSERSTACK_APP_ID as environment variable

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Ignore empty env variables

🚀 New Features

• Auto Proxy detection using PAC File

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Errors in vanilla python parallelisation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Errors in some cases for robot report generation

🚀 New Features

• Generate browserstack reports for sessions run from CI

💡 Enhancements

• Better report generation for pabot when using --testLevelSplit flag

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Errors in some cases for pytest-session marking logic

💡 Enhancements

• Annotations and improvements to session status marking for Robot tests

🐛 Bug Fixes

• SDK errors on Selenium version 4.10.0

🚀 New Features

• Flag to skip picking sessionName from test context for all frameworks

💡 Enhancements

• Bump browserstack-local dependency version
• Improvements for playwright pytest sessions

🚀 New Features

• Flag to skip picking sessionName from test context for pytest

💡 Enhancements

• Minor pytest-playwright fixes and improvements

🚀 New Features

• Dynamic hub allocation, optimise build run times

💡 Enhancements

• Non-zero exit status in case of config errors

🚀 New Features

• Detect client side errors and accordingly mark session on browserstack as failed

💡 Enhancements

• Stability and local nudge improvements, avoid idleTimeouts

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Pytest cli output, print correct build and driver details

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix errors on Pabot version 2.15.0

🚀 New Features

• Show nudge to alert when sessions error out due to local being turned off

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Local binary bug with playwright python
• Error in some cases when browserStackLocal key is absent from yml file

🚀 New Features

• Add cli arguments, order of precedence = cli args > env variables > yml file

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix errors on Pabot version 2.6.0 and below

🚀 New Features

• Initial playwright support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix errors on Pabot version 2.13.0
• Fix issue with some older selenium client binding versions

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Client to Browserstack Hub proxy issues
• Pytest/Behave runner for Windows
• Custom config file for robot tests

💡 Enhancements

• Appium support improvements, recommended to use this version and above for AppAutomate sessions

🚀 New Features

• Custom config file using the --browserstackConfigFile cli argument
• Display link to build on dashboard in the cli output
• browserstack-sdk setup command to generate the config file

💡 Enhancements

• Nudge to set local true when trying to acces a local url without local turned on

🚀 New Features

• Behave integration with SDK
• browserstack-sdk setup command to generate the config file

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Merging of capabilities and options from JsonWP to W3C and vice-versa
• Handling of minor edge cases in options merging

💡 Enhancements

• Prefer capability in platforms array over same capability at root level

🚀 New Features

• Pytest integration with SDK
• browserstack-sdk setup command to generate the config file

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Merging options (from script and yml) for App-Automate sessions

💡 Enhancements

• Support case insensitive caps in yml configuration file

🚀 New Features

• Introduced buildIdentifier to better organise builds on dashboard
• Support for browserOptions inside yml configuration file

💡 Enhancements

• Added hostname to caps to identify where the test was triggered from

🚀 New Features

• Initial App Automate support, upload app through SDK

🚀 New Features

• Robot/Pabot tests integration with SDK
• Python tests integration with SDK
• Parallelisation and Session Context

🚀 New Features

• Added accessibility (a11y) support for Edge in the Mocha framework.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the BrowserStack session being missing from your test report when a single Mocha test opens more than one browser session.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Cucumber.js builds being reported as timed out when a single scenario tripped a reporter formatting error — the scenario's result is now recorded correctly and the build is no longer falsely marked timed out.
• Fixed Accessibility reports not being generated for Playwright tests that create their own browser context instead of using the built-in `page`/`context` fixtures.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Mocha builds being reported as timed out when a setup hook (e.g. `before`/`beforeEach`) fails at session start — such runs now report correctly instead of as a false timeout.
• Fixed `--start-maximized` (and `--start-fullscreen`, `--kiosk`, `--window-size`) having no effect

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Updated the `ws` dependency in an internal test fixture to `8.21.0` to remediate a denial-of-service advisory (CVE-2026-48779). No impact on the shipped SDK.

💡 Enhancements

• N/A — internal test-fixture dependency bump; no customer-facing behavior change.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility results being lost for Playwright tests that open a page and close it mid-test.

🚀 New Features

• Added support for running Detox tests on BrowserStack App Automate, including parallel platforms, per-session naming/status, and test-context options.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed test runs hanging indefinitely after a failing test when using the SDK with plain Node (non-framework) tests.
• Fixed plain-Node test sessions being cut short and reported as timed out on the Automate dashboard instead of showing their real status and duration.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed `skipSessionName` and `skipSessionStatus` being ignored for vanilla Node (plain Node.js scripts) runs.
• Added a warning when `useW3C: false` is set with selenium-webdriver 4 or newer, where the JSON-wire protocol is no longer available.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility reports not being generated for Playwright + Cucumber-JS tests when the browser/page was torn down immediately after the test.
• Fixed Cucumber-JS hooks showing without a name in Test Reporting & Analytics.
• Stopped internal BrowserStack setup hooks from appearing as test hooks in your Cucumber-JS reports.
• Fixed Playwright tests not running when the SDK is started from outside the project (for example via `npx`/`yarn dlx`), or when dependencies are hoisted to a monorepo root while tests live in a subfolder.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility reports not being generated for Playwright Test sessions that close the browser context or page inside a test teardown hook (`afterEach`/`afterAll`).
• Fixed Automate sessions not being linked to test results on the Test Reporting and Analytics dashboard for Cucumber-JS runs using Selenium.
• Fixed Playwright test results intermittently not appearing in Test Observability (a build timing out or tests showing as "unknown"/missing), caused by non-unique test-run identifiers when the SDK ran under another SDK or without an Observability build id.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed product attribution missing on test results when tests are run without the BrowserStack CLI — non-CLI runs now report the same products as CLI runs.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Improved reliability of build completion — fixed a rare case where a build could be marked as timed out and its logs not uploaded, even though the tests had finished.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session linking issues on the Test Reporting and Analytics dashboard.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility issue for cucumber playwright
• Fixed Playwright test results not being reported to Test Observability when a `--reporter` flag is passed on the command line (which previously caused the build to time out with no test-level results).

🚀 New Features

• Plain Node.js scripts that do not use a test framework can now report to Test Observability and run Accessibility scans through the BrowserStack SDK.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Playwright tests intermittently being reported without results (a build timing out with "unknown" test results) caused by a race that assigned two different ids to the same test.
• Fixed BrowserStack Accessibility Automation reports occasionally not being saved (scan ran, but no report was generated) when running through the CLI flow, caused by a reporter store-directory error in worker processes.
• Fixed builds occasionally being left un-finalized (timed-out) when the SDK helper failed to stop the build cleanly.
• bump tmp 0.2.6 -> 0.2.7 for CVE-2026-49982

💡 Enhancements

• The SDK now reads BrowserStack service endpoints from the binary's new session-data payload, with automatic fallback to the previous format for compatibility.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Playwright tests on iOS devices crashing with `UnhandledError: Cannot find object to "loadstate": frame` at end of test.
• Fixed SDK logs and test-run telemetry not being uploaded when a run is interrupted (Ctrl-C or CI job cancellation); interrupted runs now exit with the conventional kill exit code.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed CodeceptJS runs occasionally hanging after tests finished instead of exiting.
• Fixed test logs and steps not being reported to Test Reporting & Analytics for Playwright tests when a test failed or a `beforeAll`/`afterAll` hook timed out.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash (`Cannot find object to "loadstate"`) when running Playwright tests on iOS devices.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed intermittent Cucumber-JS builds being marked as timed out in Test Observability even after the run finished and the stop event was sent.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Playwright tests running on BrowserStack Automate being incorrectly counted as external executions in Test Reporting & Analytics (which could exceed the org's external test-execution limit and hide builds from the dashboard). Sessions established via Playwright-native `connectOptions` are now correctly attributed to BrowserStack.
• Fixed Playwright sessions intermittently showing browser "Unknown" with empty capabilities in Test Reporting & Analytics when browser details could not be read from the driver connection.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed `error 14 UNAVAILABLE: ECONNRESET` from `StartBinSession` when running cucumber-js with Playwright on Windows caused by a redundant CLI bootstrap spawning a second binary while the first held `BrowserStackLocal.exe` open.
• Fixed a phantom "Unknown" test row appearing on TestHub when a Playwright `test('', ...)` block has an empty title. The reporter now emits a deterministic per-uuid fallback label so empty-title tests render cleanly and retries collapse to a single row.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility scans not running for local (non-BrowserStack) sessions when the driver is built with `.setChromeOptions()` (CucumberJS and similar setups).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a spurious "BrowserstackHealing.init method timed out" error breaking test runs when a proxy is configured.
• Fixed module resolution for npm-workspaces projects, and improved the error reported when the Cucumber CLI fails to load (e.g. Node version incompatibilities).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed app uploads not routing to the region-specific endpoint for accounts with regional data residency (GRR) enabled.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility reports not being generated for Jest runs on local browsers (non-BrowserStack infrastructure).
• Fixed accessibility sessions not appearing on the dashboard for `useW3C: false` sessions.
• User-supplied Chrome options (including `--headless=new`) are now always preserved when accessibility is enabled.
• Fixed CodeceptJS + Playwright test sessions not appearing in Test Reporting (only the build itself was showing up).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed builds run from CI providers with long build IDs (e.g. AWS CodeBuild) not appearing on the new Test Reporting & Analytics dashboard.
• Fixed the `browserstack load` (Load Testing) CLI reporting a misleading "Authentication incomplete" message for unrelated failures — network, proxy/SSL, download, disk-space, and configuration errors now report the actual cause and how to resolve it.
• The Load Testing CLI now fails fast with a clear message on unsupported Node.js versions (set `BROWSERSTACK_SKIP_NODE_CHECK=true` to bypass).
• SDK no longer fails to initialize in Docker / Jenkins when `~/.browserstack` is not writable — falls back to `$BROWSERSTACK_LOG_DIR/.browserstack` and then the project directory.

💡 Enhancements

• Improved gRPC error reporting: when the SDK can't reach or talk to its background helper, customers now see a categorized, actionable message in the terminal and logs (e.g., "Could not reach the BrowserStack helper process …") instead of a raw gRPC stack trace. Underlying detail remains available in DEBUG logs for support.

🚀 New Features

• Added support for linking an automation build to a BrowserStack Test Management (TCM) Test Plan via `testManagementOptions.testPlanId` (config), the `BROWSERSTACK_TEST_PLAN_ID` environment variable, or the `--browserstack.testManagementOptions.testPlanId` CLI argument.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Accessibility: accept the legacy platform capability as an alias for platformName when detecting Android-Chrome mobile a11y sessions (Mocha/Direct + Selenium WebDriver-patch paths), so platform: android triggers the mobile scan.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Jest test runs being reported with a result at test start; under parallel/at-scale runs this could let a failed test surface as passed (with its failure stacktrace still attached) in Test Observability.
• Fixed undefined 'wsEndpoint' type error.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when enabling accessibility without specifying accessibilityOptions, ensuring the build URL prints correctly to the terminal.
• Fixed Playwright `video`/`trace` recording causing test runs to fail/hang on BrowserStack; screenshots and dashboard video are unaffected.
• Added a warning when the Playwright HTML reporter is set to auto-open, since its report server can delay process exit and leave reporting incomplete.
• `ignoreHTTPSErrors` now works with self-signed/invalid certificates when Accessibility is enabled.

💡 Enhancements

• Improved Exception handling and gracefully handling SIGINT/SIGTERM triggers.

🚀 New Features

• Added support for `skipAppOverride` — run an App Automate session with your own pre-uploaded app; the SDK skips app upload and app-capability injection.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Jest tests reporting a single spec file as two separate entries on the Test Observability dashboard (hooks and test steps are now grouped under one file).

🚀 New Features

• Added support for playwright 1.60.0

💡 Enhancements

• Improved accessibility automation handling for the Mocha testing framework

🚀 New Features

• Testcafe support for Automate, TRA and Accessibility
• Jasmine framework support (Selenium): The BrowserStack Node SDK now supports Jasmine with Selenium WebDriver
• Added (Alpha) Support for A11y scans on Mobile Browser for Playwright Framework

🐛 Bug Fixes

• resolve browser_version into O11Y event for Playwright + Cucumber-JS
• resolve vc_filepath for git worktree checkouts

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed duplicate test-case entries in Test Observability for Playwright sessions run with browserstackAutomation:false, where the browser/platform details were intermittently not captured.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the issue of unknown tests being shown for playwright sessions.

💡 Enhancements

• Security updates: Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities.

🚀 New Features

• Added support for AI-powered Smart Test Selection in Playwright
• Added parent_text to Playwright test step metadata for improved step-level aggregation in Load Testing TRA

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Windows EBUSY error for Browserstack Local.

💡 Enhancements

• Security updates: Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the incorrect video length shown in the test view for playwright tests.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing SyntaxError: The sdk:test-start performance mark has not been set console logs during CodeceptJS test runs.
• Fixed an issue where transient iOS connection failures in Playwright led to missing device names and unlinked sessions by implementing a connection retry mechanism.

💡 Enhancements

• Instrument driver initialization failures

🚀 New Features

• Added support for AI-powered Smart Test Selection in test orchestration

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed empty accessibility results summary in Playwright + Cucumber-JS that caused errors when reading issue counts
• Surfaced the real BrowserStack connection error in Playwright instead of silently falling back to a local browser launch on BrowserStack infra
• Fixed Jest test file attribution so tests registered via helper functions are reported under the correct spec file in Test Observability
• Fixed accessibility capabilities not being injected for browserstackAutomation:false sessions on the BrowserStack hub

🚀 New Features

• Added proxyCaCertificate support for SSL-inspecting corporate proxies (Zscaler/Netskope/Forcepoint)

💡 Enhancements

• Updated dependency to address binary download failure on node 26

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session marking and build status in Playwright + Cucumber-JS with Playwright >= 1.60

💡 Enhancements

• Logging enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed BEFORE_ALL / AFTER_ALL hooks missing in multi-platform Jest and Codecept runs
• Fixed Jest parametrized (it.each) tests shown under a non-existent file in Test Observability
• Fixed additional ghost session creation intermittently in Mocha

💡 Enhancements

• Security updates: Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Jest browserstackSessionName not propagating to driver for Percy auto-capture

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes multiple w3c values are visible on the automate when useW3C is false

💡 Enhancements

• Internal Instrumentation Improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed missing session details in skipped sessions for LCA<>TRA builds.

💡 Enhancements

• Suppress phantom Jest emits for filter-rejected tests during rerun

🚀 New Features

• Added support for Newman test framework

💡 Enhancements

• Security Fixes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed CLI arguments being dropped or breaking test execution in Playwright and Mocha

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Security updates: Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities.

🚀 New Features

• Emulator Support for Web LCNC builds in TRA

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Display CBT data in TRA for Web LCNC builds
• drop :line suffix from Playwright test_location

💡 Enhancements

• floor setDefaultTimeout at BSTACK_DELTA (15 min) for cucumberJS to preserve SDK HTTP timeout
• Added security patches

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Malformed URL Issue for PlayWright Mobile Sessions

💡 Enhancements

• Internal Instrumentation Improvements

🚀 New Features

• Added step-level insights for Playwright tests — test steps now flow via test metadata for richer reporting

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation archive for Playwright now includes `global.setup` / `global.teardown` source files and a redacted `pw:channel` debug log for enhanced debugging

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session linking for playwright in TRA

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Security updates: Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Security updates: Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities.
• Security updates: basic-ftp has FTP Command Injection via CRLF

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed logLevel configured in browserstack.yml is now correctly honoured when running Cucumber with Playwright (cucumber-pw).
• Improved SDK_AUTO_CAPTURE event now accurately reports failure reasons for sendLogs

🚀 New Features

• Added [Alpha] Support for running Accessibility scans on Android mobile devices for Chrome browser

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Security updates: Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities.
• Fixed skipped tests not being reported on Test Reporting & Analytics dashboard for Playwright
• Fixed SDK hang when invalid credentials are provided
• Fixed codeceptjs `parallelsPerPlatform` spawning platforms^2 workers
• Fixed binary file busy error at execution(spawn)

💡 Enhancements

• Added Accessibility Build link.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Internal bug fixes and improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed credential redaction in logs
• [Security] Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities.
• Fixed EnvVar Issues

💡 Enhancements

• Performance improvements and internal instrumentation for jest

🚀 New Features

• Added accessibility (a11y) support for Safari in the Mocha framework.
• [Security] Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities.

🚀 New Features

• Puppeteer framework support for Automate, Test Reporting & Analytics and Accessibility

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed PlatformIndex issue for Playwright, Jest and Cucumber

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed security issue: Prototype Pollution via parse() in NodeJS flatted
• Fixed security issue: Picomatch has a ReDoS vulnerability via extglob quantifiers
• Fixed security issue: minimatch ReDoS: nested *() extglobs generate catastrophically backtracking regular expressions
• Fixed security issue: lodash vulnerable to Code Injection via `_.template` imports key names
• Added retry logic for connectOverCDP

🐛 Bug Fixes

• added chromium and webkit channel support in getBrowserNameFromChannel

🚀 New Features

• Added Accessibility support for the Playwright connect method

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed security issue: Prototype Pollution via parse() in NodeJS flatted
• Fixed security issue:minimatch has a ReDoS via repeated wildcards with non-matching literal in pattern

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed build creation on Accessibility dashboard for Non-BrowserStack Infra with mobile devices

🚀 New Features

• Added the support for jest-runner-groups

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed detection of legacy headless Chrome flags in Accessibility scanner
• Fixed Accessibility options to exclude tags
• Bumped Dependency of browserstack-local

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session stability issues in Cucumber and Codecept Playwright with Accessibility enabled
• Polyfill Web Stream (TransformStream) API for Jest 27 compatibility with Playwright.

🚀 New Features

• Added support for targeted accessibility scans and scope passing in Mocha + Selenium (via autoScanning, startA11yScanning, and stopA11yScanning), and extended scope support to Playwright.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed empty platform details for non-browserstack infra Playwright tests in a11y dashboard

💡 Enhancements

• Dependency updates for security vulnerabilities

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Jest not working for v30 and above

💡 Enhancements

• Dependency updates for security vulnerabilities

💡 Enhancements

• Added injection of CBT Events for test runs happening in load test infra

🚀 New Features

• Added support for targeted accessibility scans in Playwright via autoScanning, startA11yScanning, and stopA11yScanning.

💡 Enhancements

• Added internal instrumentation
• Internal dependency version update

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed sessions timing out or closing abruptly for Jest + Playwright tests.

💡 Enhancements

• [Security] Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities

💡 Enhancements

• Removed the inflight package due to security concerns.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed errors associated with tests running using browserstackAutomation:false
• Fixed accessibility scanner scripts not loading for BrowserStack infrastructure path in Playwright

💡 Enhancements

• Internal improvements to Load Testing product

💡 Enhancements

• [Security] Updated dependencies to address vulnerabilities

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fixed TRA Dashboard linking of tests in Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fixed tests error reason issue in Playwright tests

💡 Enhancements

• Security updates

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fixed Test reporting issue in Playwright Cucumber tests

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Security Issue
• Fixed Chrome headless mode not working for local tests

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed unwanted Test Reporting and Analytics API calls when build start returned false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility builds not getting created for auto enabled accessibility users
• Fixes additional bugs with Yarn Plug'n'Play Playwright integration

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Prevent printing info level logs when logLevel is set to error

🚀 New Features

• Add preliminary support for Yarn Plug'n'Play

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fixed Test run data not being sent in Playwright tests

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for honouring `connectOptions` from browserstack.yml or root level Playwright config
• Fix for the parsing of formatter argument with Cucumber v12

🚀 New Features

• Accessibility support for Jest as the TestRunner with Playwright as the Automation framework

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session marking in screenshot: 'only-on-failure' case
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fixed Steps duration reported incorrectly in Playwright tests

💡 Enhancements

• Removed recordVideo for android device since it's not supported

💡 Enhancements

• Fix for picking correct browser name in codecept-playwright
• Fix for custom BrowserStack SDK config param with CLI arg `--browserstack.config` and Environment variable `BROWSERSTACK_CONFIG_FILE`

💡 Enhancements

• Added lts in product map

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed `serialization failure: Failure: Type not convertible to Uint8Array` with `browserstackAutomation: false`

🚀 New Features

• TRA support for Jest as the TestRunner with Playwright as the Automation framework

💡 Enhancements

• security version updates

💡 Enhancements

• Minor Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for binary file busy errors

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed non-browserstack accessibility sessions not getting triggered in Playwright.

💡 Enhancements

• Added v2 of client troubleshooting aid for commonly faced issues.

🚀 New Features

• Added client troubleshooting aid for commonly faced issues.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed retryTestsOnFailure orchestration option for Jest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Retry Logic for Node Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes for Playwright Session Status Marking.

💡 Enhancements

• Added instrumentation for performance enhancements

🚀 New Features

• Automate support for Jest as the TestRunner with Playwright as the Automation framework

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed node process not exiting when percy is true
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fixed longer onTestEnd SDK hook execution causing test timeouts on New Dashboard

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fixed session timeout issue for Playwright non-browserstack session

💡 Enhancements

• Enhanced Credential Security for NodeJS SDK

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Support for --grep in CodeceptJS

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect page detection for scans in CodeceptJS-Playwright with Accessibility

💡 Enhancements

• Security enhancement

🚀 New Features

• Added support for Test Reporting & Analytics and Accessibility in CucumberJS with Playwright.

🚀 New Features

• Added GRR support for Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Improved logging

🚀 New Features

• Added Accessibility script Timeout support for Playwright and Mocha.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Improved logging

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Test Retry issue with Playwright.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Test Reporting & Analytics logs for Playwright with browserstackAutomation false.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility support for codeceptJS with webdriverIO-v7
• Added support for NO_PROXY

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed running Android test for playwright when accessibility is set

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with Playwright projects being empty

💡 Enhancements

• Improve logging instrumentation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed playwright retries issue

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessibility] Fix defaultBrowserType for Playwright Non BrowserStack Infra

🚀 New Features

• Automate support for CucumberJs as the TestRunner with Playwright as the Automation framework

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Test Reporting and Analytics session linking fix.

🚀 New Features

• Support added for change in product name:- Observability -> Test Reporting and Analytics

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Error status marking for automate.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Playwright Accessibility user exposed functions
• Fix: Using tempDir when permissions not available in .browserstack

💡 Enhancements

• Improved projectName validation and sanitization.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Capabilities setting twice with non-bstack flow in Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Upload trace zip method being called twice

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Unhandled rejections not being caught in takeScreenshot method

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Setting the session status name

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Type error coming in path.join method
• Fix: Reading browserstack credentials from env variables in load testing

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed wrong permissions being set to .browserstack dir
• Increased test timeouts for Cucumber-Js, Jest, Mocha

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility] Added support for Non-BrowserStack Infra - Playwright (Local Run)

🚀 New Features

• [Load testing] Added support for load testing in the SDK

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Playwright] Fixed sessions being marked as External Grid when running on BrowserStack

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Playwright] Fixed support of cli arguments as config parameters

🚀 New Features

• Adding linked_build_uuid for rerun support
• [Accessibility] Added support for Non-BrowseStack Infra (Mocha, Jest, CucumberJS)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Observability] Fixed an issue due to which a few failed tests were being marked as Unknown

🚀 New Features

• [Test Orchestration] Added support for selection strategies (rerunPreviouslyFailed, runPreviouslyFailedFirst and skipFlakyandFailed) in Jest framework
• Internal URL Updates

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [NodeJS][CodeceptJS] Fixed: With latest version of codeceptjs the session fails to start

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fixed missing videos and capabilities for Playwright sessions

💡 Enhancements

• Added instrumentation for performance enhancement

💡 Enhancements

• [Automate] Support `performance` capability for Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a Percy bug for Node

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Revert: Added instrumentation for performance enhancement

💡 Enhancements

• [TurboScale] Default local for cloud-hosted grids set to false

🚀 New Features

• [TurboScale] Added support for cluster kubernetes auto upgrade flag in the create grid command

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🚀 New Features

• Support playwright tests in iOS for Automate

🚀 New Features

• Add testOrchestrationOptions in SDK config for mocha and jest

💡 Enhancements

• Add testDir as function in `playwrightConfigOptions` in browserstack.yml

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue of Screenshot not getting added in Playwright report.

🚀 New Features

• Added Support for Custom BrowserStack Log Directory, CLI Arg - `browserstack.logDir`, Env Variable - `BROWSERSTACK_LOG_DIR`, browserstack.yml - `logDir`

🚀 New Features

• Added support for auto-enable accessibility

💡 Enhancements

• security updates

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Fix for GCP grid creation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed testDir issue in playwright-bdd

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed support for headerParams in CodeCeptJS

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed NoSuchSessionError with cucumber-nodeagent

🐛 Bug Fixes

• spawned environment variables

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for undefined path variable

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Command wrapping and accessibility save results

🚀 New Features

• Percy CLI Auto Upgrade

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the testhub UUID being sent for percy

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix codecept config not being picked up
• Fix for showing correct device details on Test Reporting & Analytics dashboard when regex is being used

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix framework getting detected as `codeceptjs-cucumber` for CodeCeptJS TDD
• Fix `setup` not working when passed in `playwrightConfigOptions` in browserstack.yml

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with running sessions on latest versions of cucumberjs

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessibility] Fixed the handling of undefined testFramework

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessibility] Fixed the testFramework name sent by SDK

💡 Enhancements

• Improved error logging for Test Reporting & Analytics requests
• Fixed logging of Test Reporting & Analytics link in SDK logs

💡 Enhancements

• Updated dependencies

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Read turboScale flag from string value in yaml

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Test Reporting & Analytics support for Jest framework on Windows OS

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [PlayWright] Fix Test Reporting & Analytics Session Status
• Fixed PercyCaptureMode to be auto by default if percy is set to true

💡 Enhancements

• Add feature performance instrumentation
• [Turboscale] Update Classic Load Balancer to the Network Load Balancer for grid creation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Turboscale] Fix Test Reporting & Analytics Integration

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fixes to support pnpm

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix to support pnpm for codeceptjs, cucumberjs, playwright and mocha

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Percy not working for mocha and jest
• A11Y session is not getting triggered with jest
• All Logs details are not coming for the Mocha in o11y

🐛 Bug Fixes

• added ES6 import syntax support for codecept configs

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Playwright] Fix requests patching for playwright specific requests
• Fix global fixtures for Mocha

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Pick SDK specific environment variables from .env file

💡 Enhancements

• chore(deps): bump jsonpath-plus and @kubernetes/client-node
• chore(deps-dev): bump path-to-regexp from 1.8.0 to 1.9.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Playwright] Fix computed tags and external reporter

💡 Enhancements

• Support new tag syntax for PW

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed bugs in Browserstack selfHeal for node frameworks

💡 Enhancements

• Fixed Jest vulnerability issue

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Handle git config discovery in windows when the directory does not contain .git

💡 Enhancements

• Integrate Turboscale sessions with Test Reporting & Analytics reporting

💡 Enhancements

• [TurboScale] Add flag to skip insecure cert verification

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix undefined config for vanilla node js
• [Playwright] Fix setup and teardown in config

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Increase timeout to prevent events from getting dropped

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] `Before` Hook Reporting fixes
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Test Timeouts when running features in parallel

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Error handling in init flow

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] GCP Cluster Creation fix when subnets are null

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Patches unhandled console methods

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fixes CBT info for Android Device

🚀 New Features

• Added support for selfHeal on non-browserstack infra for mocha, jest ,and cucumber.js

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Playwright] Fix for session running on Android devices

💡 Enhancements

• Support Mocha v10+
• [Codecept] Improved logging related to test fail events
• Enabling cluster creation from cli for HST

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Playwright] Fix wsEndpoint for tests
• Fix funnel instrumentation for Automation false

🚀 New Features

• [Accessibility] Initial Support for CucumberJS
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Initial Support for CucumberJS

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Playwright] Fix fetching platformCaps from config attribute

💡 Enhancements

• Send browserstackSDK caps when browserstackAutomation is false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Playwright] Handle type module for playwright typescript suite

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Handling `undefined` value of `parallelsPerPlatform` for Vanilla JS tests
• Enabling Accessibility without platforms being present in the browserstack.yml
• Not generating local identifier if `skipBinaryInitialisation` is true in `browserStackLocalOptions`

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Build stop

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix Step getting timed out on CodeceptJS
• Fix error `Cannot read properties of undefined (reading Test Reporting & Analytics)`

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Handle cluster absence scenario for grid deletion

🚀 New Features

• SDK parameterisation: The SDK now includes parameterization capabilities, allowing you to selectively enable or disable specific features based on your needs. You can toggle or disable SDK’s features for parallelisation, cross-browser testing, session name and status marking and BrowserStack local testing. Read more about it [here](https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate/selenium/sdk-params)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessibility] Fix for Chrome versions < 94

💡 Enhancements

• Logging for Playwright

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Trim VCS info to 64kb
• Improve events finish metadata

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Remove gke version

🚀 New Features

• [Playwright] Support of testDir in Setup and Teardown
• [Playwright] Add support for version 1.44

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Playwright] retries hang the execution of Android devices

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Support profile via arguments in CodeceptJS

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation for graceful kills of builds

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Support for Cucumber v10
• Fix for networkLogsOptions in Playwright
• [TurboScale] Update desired size for aws windows nodeGroup
• [TurboScale] Grid deletion for failed grid

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix for playwright sessions data not getting sent to Test Reporting & Analytics for playwright version 1.42.1
• Fix for capturing the page screenshot as a Buffer and set it as an Allure Reports attachment

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Fix for using pre existing subnet while creating cluster in AWS

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Fix for using pre existing subnet while creating cluster in AWS

🚀 New Features

• [TurboScale] Azure integration with node SDK

💡 Enhancements

• Support for Playwright 1.32.2

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix build timeouts for Mocha and Jest

💡 Enhancements

• Support module configuration for Playwright test repos

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix Automate session linking with tests
• Fixes for Codecept WebDriver for WebdriverIO v8+

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Add support for CodeceptJS BDD
• [Accessibility] Add support for CodeceptJS

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Enable Test Reporting & Analytics by default for Jest

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Add support for CodeceptJS

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Support starting build from nested frameworks

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Playwright ABRUPT_CLOSE for Android devices
• Global `playwright-core` module getting resolved when installed globally also

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] BROWSERSTACK_RERUN not working for Playwright

🚀 New Features

• [Automate] Support for CodeCeptJS framework for Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Add `enableSim` and `simOptions` BrowserStack capabilities
• [Accessibility] Incorrect platform details for multiple platforms for Playwright

💡 Enhancements

• [Accessibility] Product stability improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix Git linking, Test hierarchy in nested `describe` blocks for Jest
• Error `did you forget to call forBrowser()?` when fetching default capabilities from `webdriver.Capabilities`

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Performance Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Fixing Hub Pod Eviction due to autoscaling

💡 Enhancements

• [TurboScale] Upgrading Python Runtime for AWS Lambda

🚀 New Features

• Add cjs support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Automate] Fix empty `testMatch` in Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessibility] Fixes for build stop calls

💡 Enhancements

• Added support for playwright config options

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Accessibility] fix for 1.40 playwright version

💡 Enhancements

• GCP Windows changes for ATS CLI
• Added Rolebinding before deployment
• Start/Stop the Grid Hub Pod
• Remove `requestretry` vulnerability fix

💡 Enhancements

• [TurboScale] Support Windows Nodes in AWS
• [TurboScale] Instrument CLI data to Galactus
• Remove `mocha-multi-reporters` dependency
• Added support for reading environment variables from .env files
• Added support custom Jest environments and configs

💡 Enhancements

• Added nodeSelector for Turboscale hub deployment

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Playwright proxy issue
• buildIdentifier integer issue

💡 Enhancements

• Use `got` library to remove vulnerabilities

🚀 New Features

• Add Turboscale Agent

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Percy for Windows

💡 Enhancements

• Bump `k8s/node-client` to remove vulnerabilities

🐛 Bug Fixes

• BROWSERSTACK_LOCAL environment variable
• Merge playwright use context for android devices

🐛 Bug Fixes

• `customVariables` fix for Playwright

💡 Enhancements

• Performance instrumentation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix config read for Playwright on Windows

🚀 New Features

• Set platform caps for Playwright session
• Add support for passing custom function in reporters for playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Test Reporting & Analytics event obfuscation

🚀 New Features

• Support for `skipSessionStatus`

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Playwright Android support for 1.38.1

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Turboscale] Fix GCP cluster with same name in multiple zones

🚀 New Features

• Expose platform data with methods from SDK
• `customVariables` key in browserstack.yml

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Playwright] Android for `testObservability: false`

💡 Enhancements

• Added instrumentation

🚀 New Features

• [Percy] Mocha support
• [Playwright] Emulation support
• [Playwright] Android support

💡 Enhancements

• [Playwright] Add name as `browser_name@browser_version:os os_version@browserstack` to project info

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Jest rerun fix

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Jest support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix test context marking for Playwright version >= 1.38.0
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix BrowserStack Session linking for Playwright
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix GlobalSetup options not working for Playwright
• Support workspace modules in Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix `command failed : npm ls`

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix module import errors with Playwright

🚀 New Features

• [Turboscale] Support for Playwright sessions
• [Accessibility] Jest support added

💡 Enhancements

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Detect additional CI Providers

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix IDLE_TIMEOUTs with Accessibility for Mocha

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Fix GCP auth error

🚀 New Features

• Extending Percy and AppPercy support
• [Accessibility] Fix start error for non chrome browsers

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [TurboScale] Fix md5 import error

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Revert: Extending Percy and AppPercy support

🚀 New Features

• Extending TurboScale support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Accessibility test case fixes

💡 Enhancements

• Add azure identity for HST

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix accessibilityOptions for playwright
• Handle empty git repos for o11y

🐛 Bug Fixes

• xunit reporter support
• Fix import error for playwright v1.38.*

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Node v20 support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix exception in case there is no commit for the project

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix --browserstack.config cmd line arg

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix browserstack command line args for Playwright

🚀 New Features

• Add support for replacing env variable in yml file

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix gitlinks not working on windows machine

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Playwright bug fix

💡 Enhancements

• Improvement to playwright runs using SDK.

🚀 New Features

• Support for Playwright Test Runner

🚀 New Features

• Support for BROWSERSTACK_APP_ID as environment variable

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Import fix in Playwright module

💡 Enhancements

• [Accessibility] Improved logging related to result processing

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix jest exit code
• [Test Reporting & Analytics] Fix detection of cloud provider

🚀 New Features

• Pac proxy support
• Accessibility support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for cucumber@9.2.0
• Fix vanilla nodejs

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Playwright user config parsing

💡 Enhancements

• HST security patch

💡 Enhancements

• Require improvements

🚀 New Features

• HST CLI support

🚀 New Features

• BrowserStack report generation for CI env

🚀 New Features

• Test Reporting & Analytics support for Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix path for jest

🚀 New Features

• App automate support for node SDK

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix capability handling in non-W3C mode

🚀 New Features

• Flag to skip picking sessionName from test context

💡 Enhancements

• Browserstack local version bump

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix `require` arg for Mocha

🚀 New Features

• Dynamic hub allocation, optimise build run times

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix multiple SDK events

💡 Enhancements

• Support WebDriver initialisation outside test hooks

💡 Enhancements

• Stability improvements and avoid idleTimeouts

💡 Enhancements

• Debug logs for Cucumber
• Nudge Local improvement

💡 Enhancements

• Increase http connection timeout to 15mins

🚀 New Features

• Support CodeCeptJS

💡 Enhancements

• Nudge to set local true when trying to acces a local url without local turned on

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Cucumber reporter

💡 Enhancements

• Parallelisation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Cucumber reporter

💡 Enhancements

• Parallelisation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Test-reporting failures are now reported instead of passing silently: a run that fails to upload test events says so, states the consequence, and names the setting that disabled reporting.
• `logLevel: debug` in `browserstack.yml` now reaches the test-reporting component.
• The test-reporting log is now written to the project's `log` folder in all cases, so it is included when logs are collected for support.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Internal CI hardening only; no customer-facing behavior change.
• Fixed the SDK's internal instrumentation not reporting whether Test Observability was enabled for a run.
• Fixed App Accessibility reports not being generated when `testOrchestrationOptions` is present in `browserstack.yml`. Previously the BrowserStack CLI binary was skipped whenever that block existed — even with retries set to `enabled: false` — and because App Accessibility scans run through the binary, no scan ran and no report was produced while the build still passed.

🚀 New Features

• Added support for breakpoint debugging of SDK-integrated C# tests in VS Code (C# Dev Kit), across NUnit, xUnit, MSTest, and Reqnroll.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the Tests tab in Test Reporting & Analytics showing only the stack frame for a failed NUnit test; the full assertion message is now shown.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Updated in this PR: the 1.46.1 `csharp.yml` entry said "Captured only when `BROWSERSTACK_FILE_WRITE_LOGS=true`", which is no longer true — it now reads "Captured on every run — no configuration needed."

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed test file paths missing from Test Reporting & Analytics when your repository uses git worktree configuration (`extensions.worktreeconfig`).
• Fixed builds not being reported when running from a repository with no commits yet.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the C# SDK adding a large build-time overhead by recompiling test assemblies on every `dotnet build`; incremental builds are now honored.

💡 Enhancements

• Auto-captured SDK logs now record how each driver was created — the driver type, whether a session id was resolved, thread details, which creation attempt it was, and the test code that created it — along with whether that session was then linked to the running test. This lets BrowserStack investigate Test Observability session-linking reports from your uploaded logs instead of asking you to reproduce the issue. Captured only when `BROWSERSTACK_FILE_WRITE_LOGS=true`; default runs are unaffected.

💡 Enhancements

• Accessibility Automation now detects when the extension is disabled via `chromeOptions` (`--disable-extensions` / `incognito`) so such runs are reported accurately instead of appearing as failed scans.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Playwright tests failing to start with `Protocol error (Browser.getVersion): undefined` when `accessibility: true` was set on an account whose plan does not include Accessibility Automation. The SDK now logs why accessibility could not be enabled and continues running your tests without it.
• Fixed NUnit tests skipped via `Assert.Ignore()` being reported as Unknown instead of Skipped.

💡 Enhancements

• The SDK now reads Automate/App Automate REST endpoints from the binary's updated session configuration format, falling back to the previous format for backward compatibility. No change to test behavior.

🚀 New Features

• Added support for `skipAppOverride` in `browserstack.yml`. Set `skipAppOverride: true` to run an App Automate session while supplying the app yourself (via your driver capabilities or `BROWSERSTACK_APP_ID`) — the SDK will not upload or inject the app.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed test runs missing platform details in Test Observability when using Reqnroll with NUnit.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a build failure (`CS0246 'AppiumCapabilities'`) that prevented C# tests from compiling when using `Appium.WebDriver` 3.x.
• Fixed test runs silently falling back to non-BrowserStack execution on .NET 10 (MTP runner) when the SDK could not set up its log file, which surfaced as an "Authorization required" / empty-URI WebDriver error. Runs now stay orchestrated, and any genuine fall-through is reported clearly on the console.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed SDK performance metrics not being recorded — per-phase SDK timings (driver setup/teardown, cleanup) are now captured and reported.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed auto-rerun (retry) attempts not being grouped on Test Observability / Test Reporting & Analytics for frameworks on the Direct HTTP flow (Reqnroll, xUnit, MSTest) — retried tests appeared as a single "First Run" with mixed results instead of linked retry attempts.

🚀 New Features

• Playwright android support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Accessibility Automation now logs a clear warning when the Chrome browser version is below the supported minimum.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the local automation log not being written for the SDK's automation-log-based test observability signals.
• Fixed `buildTag` set in `browserstack.yml` not appearing in the Observability dashboard's tag filter (Direct/HTTP flow: xUnit, MSTest, Reqnroll).
• Fixed missing commits_since_last_tag and last_tag values in version control metadata for C# framework

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Reqnroll test runs missing started events (and platform details) in Test Observability / Test Reporting & Analytics when running without the CLI.

🚀 New Features

• Xunit Playwright support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed per-command accessibility scans not running for Reqnroll+xUnit web accessibility tests when the backend returned an empty command list.
• Fixed session breaking with Reqnroll + NUnit latest version by guarding TestContext.Result reads (NUnit 4.x) with safe defaults.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Added `BROWSERSTACK_LOG_DIR` support (env var, `browserstack.logDir` CLI arg, or `logDir:` in `browserstack.yml`). Resolved value is propagated to the binary and child test runners so all log files land in one customer-controlled directory. The legacy `BROWSERSTACK_AUTOMATION_LOG_DIR` continues to work as a fallback.
• SDK no longer fails to initialize in Docker / Jenkins when `~/.browserstack` is not writable — falls back to `$BROWSERSTACK_LOG_DIR/.browserstack` and then the project directory.

💡 Enhancements

• Improved gRPC error reporting: when the SDK can't reach or talk to its background helper, customers now see a categorized, actionable message in the terminal and logs (e.g., "Could not reach the BrowserStack helper process …") instead of a raw gRPC stack trace. Underlying detail remains available in DEBUG logs for support.

🚀 New Features

• Added one-to-many (multi-TC) custom-tag support
• Added playwright iOS support

💡 Enhancements

• Reduce hub command timeout 15m to 8m

🚀 New Features

• Added support for vanilla .NET applications with Test Reporting & Analytics, Automate, and Accessibility.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• support xUnit v3 on the VSTest runner
• Fixed TestObservability/TRA builds not being generated for app-automate runs configured with browserstackAutomation: false (e.g. Reqnroll)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where MSTest 4.x (Microsoft Testing Platform) tests on .NET 8 and .NET 10 failed to create or report sessions to BrowserStack.

🚀 New Features

• Added support for TestPlanId
• Added support for Reqnroll Mstest Playwright
• Added support for Reqnroll Mstest App Accessibility

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Guarded VSTEST_HOST_DEBUG behind Visual Studio detection
• mit per-command a11y scans for Reqnroll+MSTest direct flow

🚀 New Features

• Add Xunit support on Microsoft Testing Platform (MTP)
• Added proxyCaCertificate support for SSL-inspecting corporate proxies (Zscaler/Netskope/Forcepoint)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Window.Maximize() breaking sessions on mobile devices
• Fixed parallelsPerPlatform > 1 breaking the overall sessions ensuring functionality is intact in NUnit

🚀 New Features

• Add MSTest support on Microsoft Testing Platform (MTP)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed session marking breaking on latest appium version for xUnit

💡 Enhancements

• Instrument driver initialization failures

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Surface invalid-credentials (401/Unauthorized) errors for MSTest, xUnit, and Reqnroll-xUnit when invalid BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME/BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY are set

💡 Enhancements

• Improved binary and direct flow logging in usage.log, surfacing binary CLI errors and warnings, with fallback logging for the direct flow
• Added hub allocation latency instrumentation for Automate sessions

🚀 New Features

• Add NUnit support on Microsoft Testing Platform (MTP)

🚀 New Features

• Support xUnit v3
• Support Selenium.WebDriver >= v4.44
• Guard OBSERVABILITY_VERSION JObject.Parse against missing env var

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Emit test_run events for NUnit+Playwright on dotnet test

🐛 Bug Fixes

• ENV vars over YML for BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME / BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY
• Fix buildIdentifier resolution when BROWSERSTACK_BUILD_NAME is set via env

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Emit flat caps when automationFramework=playwright
• Fixed --browserstack.config CLI arg and BROWSERSTACK_CONFIG_FILE env var being ignored in Binary Flow.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Bug Fixes for ReqnRoll MSTest.
• Fixed bugs for Nunit Acessibility for driver creation inside the test.

🚀 New Features

• Accurate test code resolution for NUnit AI Analysis across overloaded, nested, and partial classes via PDB-based source extraction

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Dotnet 10 BrowserStack Adapter patching

💡 Enhancements

• Internal Instrumentation Improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed binary file busy error at execution(spawn)

🚀 New Features

• testOrchestrationOptions for NUnit in cli flow

💡 Enhancements

• Improve added Accessibility Build link for the session.
• Internal instrumentation enhancements

💡 Enhancements

• Improve Selenium driver handling for latest selenium version

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolve framework detection failure in skip-build adapter flow

🚀 New Features

• Added A11y support on safari browser

💡 Enhancements

• Added Redaction of Username and Access key from automation logs

🚀 New Features

• Added Test Reporting and Analytics, Accessibility Support for Reqnroll-PW for XUnit

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix issues for commiter name and date not showing for CI runs

🚀 New Features

• Added support for dotnet v10

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix issues caused by obfuscation on macOS.

💡 Enhancements

• Added debugger logs

💡 Enhancements

• Support for TestAdapter in Unix for MSTest and xUnit test frameworks for Test Explorer

🚀 New Features

• Support for TestAdapter in Unix for MSTest and xUnit test frameworks for Terminal

🚀 New Features

• Adds TRA and A11y Support for NUnit Playwright

💡 Enhancements

• Added instrumentation for performance enhancement, specifically for dotnet 6

🚀 New Features

• Added support for Accessibility with Reqnroll-NUnit for Playwright tests

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed useW3C: false compatibility issue with A11y

💡 Enhancements

• Fixes MSTest-Playwright CBT Session info issue for A11y sessions

🚀 New Features

• Added TRA Support for Reqnroll-Nunit with Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes to support TestCaseSource attribute in Nunit

💡 Enhancements

• Internal Instrumentation enhancements

💡 Enhancements

• Improved the initialization logic

💡 Enhancements

• Improved internal performance instrumentation

🚀 New Features

• [Test Reporting And Analytics] Added support for API Tests reporting without Selenium package

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with void methods in Playwright tests
• Fixed the logic for downloading the global-agent module for Playwright tests

💡 Enhancements

• Improved internal performance instrumentation