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Changelog for various releases of the BrowserStack SDK.

Version 1.13.17 (2024-03-29)

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Add testname deserialization flag
Version 1.13.16 (2024-03-27)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix Selenium dependency issue when using Playwright
Version 1.13.15 (2024-03-19)

🐛 Bug Fixes

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

💡 Enhancements

  • Remove individual request instrumentatin.
Version 1.13.14 (2024-03-15)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix issue with reportportal

💡 Enhancements

  • Relocate `logback` and `sla4j` packages to avoid dependency issues
Version 1.13.13 (2024-03-14)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Fix incorrect file path issue with Java 17
  • [Observability] Fix issues with sending data to Observability

💡 Enhancements

  • Reduce know exceptions and improve logging for better debugging issues
Version 1.13.12 (2024-03-08)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix naming issue while uploading logs

💡 Enhancements

  • Log exceptions from Patches
Version 1.13.11 (2024-02-29)

💡 Enhancements

  • Add verbose logging
Version 1.13.10 (2024-02-26)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Add `enableSim` and `simOptions` BrowserStack capabilities

💡 Enhancements

  • [Accessibility] Product stability improvements
  • Instrumentation enhancements
Version 1.13.9 (2024-02-23)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed execution behavior in respect to Observability. Avoid using v1.13.7 and v1.13.8 if using Observability product.
Version 1.13.8 (2024-02-23)
Version 1.13.7 (2024-02-22)
Version 1.13.6 (2024-02-19)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Resolved dependency conflicts due to version mismatch for org.apache.commons.io and com.fasterxml.jackson
Version 1.13.5 (2024-02-14)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Percy] Percy commands to run if platforms are not passed in browserstack.yml
Version 1.13.4 (2024-02-09)

💡 Enhancements

  • Performance instrumentation enhancements
Version 1.13.3 (2024-02-07)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Percy] Support percy when `browserstackAutomation: false`
Version 1.13.2 (2024-02-01)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Debug logs for Observability performance issues
Version 1.13.1 (2024-01-18)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Accessibility] Gauge fixes

💡 Enhancements

  • Performance instrumentation
Version 1.13.0 (2024-01-11)

🚀 New Features

  • [Accessibility] Initial Support for Gauge with automation false
  • Initial support for auto framework detection.
Version 1.12.8 (2024-01-10)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Accessibility] Test end event not getting sent for TestNG-Cucumber
Version 1.12.7 (2024-01-08)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] After method getting timeout when `alwaysRun` param is not true (in case of before hook failure) in TestNG
  • `logback-classic` version update
Version 1.12.6 (2023-12-28)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix automate sessions for java-client > v8.1.1
Version 1.12.5 (2023-12-21)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • RemoteWebDriver not found exception for Playwright
Version 1.12.4 (2023-12-14)

🚀 New Features

  • Expose platform data with methods from SDK
Version 1.12.3 (2023-12-07)

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Rerun for JUnit 5 framework
Version 1.12.2 (2023-11-30)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for `skipSessionStatus`
Version 1.12.1 (2023-11-24)

🚀 New Features

  • [Observability] Initial changes for JUnit 5 framework
  • Support multiple cucumber reports of same type

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Stacktrace for recent selenium versions
Version 1.12.0 (2023-11-22)

🚀 New Features

  • [Observability] Serenity 4.x support

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Incorrect sessionName capability in serenity
Version 1.11.12 (2023-11-17)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix tests running locally on Windows
Version 1.11.11 (2023-11-10)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix for cwd path with space
Version 1.11.10 (2023-11-09)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Support Cucumber global hooks for Accessibility, Percy & Test Context on Automate / App-Automate
Version 1.11.9 (2023-11-02)

🚀 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
Version 1.11.8 (2023-10-30)

🚀 New Features

  • Extending Percy and AppPercy support for Cucumber TestNG

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix Cucumber reporting for Windows
Version 1.11.7 (2023-10-26)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Duplicate entries inside Cucumber JSON report
Version 1.11.6 (2023-10-23)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Multiple Cucumber JSON reports getting generated
Version 1.11.5 (2023-10-19)

🚀 New Features

  • [Turboscale] Support for Playwright sessions
Version 1.11.4 (2023-10-18)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix internal Logback logger conflicts with global context
Version 1.11.3 (2023-10-13)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Fix App Automate Session linking with Observability

💡 Enhancements

  • [Percy] Screenshot Stabilization
Version 1.11.2 (2023-10-06)

🚀 New Features

  • Extending TurboScale support

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] `log4testng` logger reporting
Version 1.11.1 (2023-09-21)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix staticWebdDriver for appium < v8
Version 1.11.0 (2023-09-21)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Test context for cucumber with exception at Before/After hooks
Version 1.10.8 (2023-09-14)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix exceptions raised for skipped tests for Test Observability
Version 1.10.7 (2023-09-07)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Improve session status for test failures
Version 1.10.6 (2023-09-05)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix test context for driver initialised inside test
Version 1.10.5 (2023-08-31)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Driver alive check before marking session name
Version 1.10.4 (2023-08-24)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Gradle selenium dependency conflict fix
Version 1.10.3 (2023-08-22)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Added driver alive check before marking session
Version 1.10.2 (2023-08-17)

🚀 New Features

  • Add Junit 4 & 5 Reporting Support
Version 1.10.1 (2023-08-14)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix Authorization required
Version 1.10.0 (2023-08-10)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for Cucumber 4.x
Version 1.9.2 (2023-08-04)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Handle Test Observability build stop processing for multiple xml runs
Version 1.9.1 (2023-07-26)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Debug Mode not working in IntelliJ IDEA
Version 1.9.0 (2023-07-24)

🚀 New Features

  • Extended Accessibility support for TestNG framework
Version 1.8.6 (2023-07-21)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for BROWSERSTACK_APP_ID environment variable
Version 1.8.5 (2023-07-12)

🚀 New Features

  • Support PAC proxy file for Selenium v4.x
Version 1.8.4 (2023-07-07)

🚀 New Features

  • Auto Proxy detection using PAC File

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • CustomHighlighter stacktrace on console

💡 Enhancements

  • Minor refactoring and enhancements
Version 1.8.3 (2023-07-04)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Selenium Jar detection failing when running with IDE on Windows
Version 1.8.2 (2023-06-30)

🚀 New Features

  • Generate CI Report with BrowserStack SDK
Version 1.8.1 (2023-06-27)

🚀 New Features

  • Handling Method and Class Level parallelisation with parallelsPerPlatform key

💡 Enhancements

  • Patch ClientConfig when Selenium version is not detected
  • [Observability] Map all TestNG hooks to a test in a suite
Version 1.8.0 (2023-06-23)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • NoSuchMethodError setPrivateFieldValue in Appium client

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Detect Remote Address
  • Minor improvements in detecting client side errors and accordingly mark session on browserstack as failed
Version 1.7.4 (2023-06-20)

🚀 New Features

  • Detect client side errors and accordingly mark session on browserstack as failed
Version 1.7.3 (2023-06-15)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Selenium version detection

💡 Enhancements

  • Case insensitive command line args for maven
Version 1.7.2 (2023-06-13)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • browserstack.config system argument not working with Gradle
Version 1.7.1 (2023-06-09)

🚀 New Features

  • Flag to skip picking sessionName from test context

💡 Enhancements

  • BrowserStack Local binding version bump to v1.9.0
Version 1.7.0 (2023-06-07)

🚀 New Features

  • Optimize build run times when running on BrowserStack

💡 Enhancements

  • Change parallelsPerPlatform behavior when not passing platforms array
Version 1.6.0 (2023-06-01)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Appium Sessions or some commands failing with Gradle

💡 Enhancements

  • Enable staticWebDriver functionality by default
Version 1.5.2 (2023-05-18)

💡 Enhancements

  • Add proxy details in App upload API
  • BrowserStack SDK toggle environment variable for Eclipse IDE Plugin
Version 1.5.1 (2023-05-11)

🚀 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
Version 1.5.0 (2023-05-05)

🚀 New Features

  • Extended Observability support for Cucumber framework
Version 1.4.1 (2023-04-20)

💡 Enhancements

  • Stability improvements related to hub connection
Version 1.4.0 (2023-04-13)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Session failures when triggering using IDE with cucumber plugin

💡 Enhancements

  • Throw exception in case BrowserStack Local initialization fails
  • Local nudge improvements
Version 1.3.0 (2023-03-28)

🚀 New Features

  • Static Webdriver support, `staticWebDriver` in yml to enable
Version 1.2.5 (2023-03-27)

🐛 Bug Fixes

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

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Bump log4j v1 to v2
Version 1.2.4 (2023-03-14)

🚀 New Features

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Add framework check for TestNG Listeners' Activation
Version 1.2.3 (2023-03-08)

🚀 New Features

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

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Honor buildName from yml config in Jenkins Plugin
Version 1.2.1 (2023-02-20)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Set methodSelectors for xmlTest in TestNG
  • Appium dependency detection
Version 1.2.0 (2023-02-14)

🚀 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
Version 1.1.8 (2023-01-25)

🚀 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
Version 1.1.7 (2023-01-12)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for Chrome DevTools

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Observability bug fixes
Version 1.1.6 (2022-12-30)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for Test Context marking for JUnit4 and JUnit5
Version 1.1.5 (2022-12-22)

🚀 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
Version 1.1.4 (2022-12-14)

💡 Enhancements

  • Handle ArrayList as value in yml config
Version 1.1.3 (2022-12-07)

🚀 New Features

  • Extended TestNG framework support for Observability
  • 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
Version 1.1.2 (2022-12-02)

🚀 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
Version 1.19.23 (2024-03-28)

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Disable Observability by default for Pytest and Robot
Version 1.19.22 (2024-03-28)

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Enable Observability by default for Pytest and Robot
Version 1.19.20 (2024-03-22)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Percy] Fix Percy CLI installation issue
Version 1.19.18 (2024-03-07)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix import issues with Python 3.12
Version 1.19.17 (2024-03-05)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix Pytest exit code not getting set when executed `pytest.exit`
  • [Observability] (App)Automate session linking when fixture scope is `session` for Pytest
Version 1.19.15 (2024-02-29)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix Pytest exit code not getting set when executed `pytest.exit`
  • [Observability] multiple builds spawning which gets timed out for Robot
Version 1.19.14 (2024-02-22)

🐛 Bug Fixes

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

💡 Enhancements

  • [Accessibility] Product stability improvements
Version 1.19.13 (2024-02-16)

🚀 New Features

  • Support dotenv config

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • `disableIdLocatorAutocompletion` not working when passed in browserstack.yml
Version 1.19.11 (2024-02-02)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix robot when browserstackAutomation is false
Version 1.19.10 (2024-01-25)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed sdk for robot version 7
Version 1.19.9 (2024-01-18)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Accessibility] Fixed driver initialization in Test cases
Version 1.19.8 (2024-01-08)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] (App)Automate session linking for Robot when browserstackAutomation is false
Version 1.19.7 (2024-01-03)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Signal handlers on Windows for Pytest
Version 1.19.6 (2024-01-03)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Test timeouts for versions <= 7.2
Version 1.19.5 (2023-12-28)

💡 Enhancements

  • Reduce idle timeouts for Pytest
Version 1.19.4 (2023-12-15)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix get_current_platform method expose
Version 1.19.3 (2023-12-14)

🚀 New Features

  • Expose platform data with methods from SDK
  • Supports percy pytest
Version 1.19.1 (2023-12-12)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for Percy Robot

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix session status for Qweb specical case

💡 Enhancements

  • Driver close handling on close
Version 1.19.0 (2023-12-07)

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Steps reporting for Robot framework
Version 1.18.9 (2023-11-30)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for `skipSessionStatus`
Version 1.18.8 (2023-11-28)

🚀 New Features

  • [Observability] Initial changes for Robot framework

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • BrowserStack Dashboard to show session as 'unmarked' if Pytest test is skipped at fixture level
Version 1.18.7 (2023-11-24)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Pytest non-zero exit code on failing tests
  • Accessibility Robot platform data
Version 1.18.6 (2023-11-23)

🚀 New Features

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Accessibility metadata on dashboard
Version 1.18.4 (2023-11-16)

💡 Enhancements

  • Add funnel data for all frameworks
Version 1.18.3 (2023-11-15)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Pytest support on Linux and Windows
Version 1.18.2 (2023-11-09)

🚀 New Features

  • Proxy support for Playwright
  • [Accessibility] support for Pytest
Version 1.18.0 (2023-11-02)

🚀 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
Version 1.17.5 (2023-10-26)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Reporting Browser Info for Pytest BDD
Version 1.17.4 (2023-10-19)

🚀 New Features

  • [Observability] Pytest BDD support

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Detect additional CI Providers
Version 1.17.2 (2023-10-11)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • pytest test context improvements
Version 1.17.1 (2023-10-05)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • `--last-failed` pytest flag not working with SDK
Version 1.17.0 (2023-10-04)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix parallelism for pytest
Version 1.16.1 (2023-09-29)

🚀 New Features

  • Extending Test Observability support for pytest
Version 1.15.6 (2023-09-28)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Change stderr to stdout stream for logging
Version 1.15.5 (2023-09-26)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix skipSessionName pytest-bdd
Version 1.15.4 (2023-09-21)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Playwright pytest not running on multiple platforms
Version 1.15.3 (2023-09-14)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Test Context not being marked when driver not present in `context.browser`
  • Some Behave hooks not getting called with SDK
Version 1.15.2 (2023-09-04)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix DDA for platformVersion
Version 1.15.1 (2023-08-31)

🚀 New Features

  • Fix parallelisation and test context in pytest
Version 1.15.0 (2023-08-24)

🚀 New Features

  • Add support for replacing env variable in yml file
Version 1.14.5 (2023-08-18)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Error when passing custom config file to robot sessions
  • Error when passing custom args to python scripts run with the SDK
Version 1.14.4 (2023-08-17)

🚀 New Features

  • Run python scripts with debugger (browserstack-sdk python -m pdb test.py)
Version 1.14.3 (2023-08-16)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix Pytest test context
Version 1.14.2 (2023-08-10)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix Robot with AppiumLibrary
Version 1.14.0 (2023-08-04)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for Pytest BDD

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Appium bug fix
Version 1.13.1 (2023-07-24)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for BROWSERSTACK_APP_ID as environment variable

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Ignore empty env variables
Version 1.13.0 (2023-07-20)

🚀 New Features

  • Auto Proxy detection using PAC File
Version 1.12.0 (2023-07-18)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Errors in vanilla python parallelisation
Version 1.11.3 (2023-07-04)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Errors in some cases for robot report generation
Version 1.11.0 (2023-07-03)

🚀 New Features

  • Generate browserstack reports for sessions run from CI
Version 1.10.5 (2023-06-29)

💡 Enhancements

  • Better report generation for pabot when using --testLevelSplit flag
Version 1.10.4 (2023-06-23)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Errors in some cases for pytest-session marking logic
Version 1.10.3 (2023-06-20)

💡 Enhancements

  • Annotations and improvements to session status marking for Robot tests
Version 1.10.2 (2023-06-15)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • SDK errors on Selenium version 4.10.0
Version 1.10.1 (2023-06-09)

🚀 New Features

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

💡 Enhancements

  • Bump browserstack-local dependency version
  • Improvements for playwright pytest sessions
Version 1.10.0 (2023-06-08)

🚀 New Features

  • Flag to skip picking sessionName from test context for pytest

💡 Enhancements

  • Minor pytest-playwright fixes and improvements
Version 1.9.2 (2023-06-02)

🚀 New Features

  • Dynamic hub allocation, optimise build run times

💡 Enhancements

  • Non-zero exit status in case of config errors
Version 1.8.1 (2023-05-24)

🚀 New Features

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

💡 Enhancements

  • Stability and local nudge improvements, avoid idleTimeouts
Version 1.7.4 (2023-04-26)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Pytest cli output, print correct build and driver details
Version 1.7.1 (2023-04-18)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix errors on Pabot version 2.15.0
Version 1.7.0 (2023-04-13)

🚀 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
Version 1.6.0 (2023-03-14)

🚀 New Features

  • Add cli arguments, order of precedence = cli args > env variables > yml file
Version 1.5.2 (2023-02-28)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix errors on Pabot version 2.6.0 and below
Version 1.5.1 (2023-02-21)

🚀 New Features

  • Initial playwright support

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix errors on Pabot version 2.13.0
  • Fix issue with some older selenium client binding versions
Version 1.4.2 (2023-02-09)

🐛 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
Version 1.4.0 (2023-01-25)

🚀 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
Version 1.3.2 (2023-01-09)

🚀 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
Version 1.2.0 (2022-12-14)

🚀 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
Version 1.1.1 (2022-12-01)

🚀 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
Version 1.1.0 (2022-11-24)

🚀 New Features

  • Initial App Automate support, upload app through SDK
Version 1.0.8 (2022-11-16)

🚀 New Features

  • Robot/Pabot tests integration with SDK
  • Python tests integration with SDK
  • Parallelisation and Session Context
Version 1.32.2 (2024-03-26)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Fix build timeouts for Mocha and Jest

💡 Enhancements

  • Support module configuration for Playwright test repos
Version 1.32.1 (2024-03-21)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Fix Automate session linking with tests
  • Fixes for Codecept WebDriver for WebdriverIO v8+
Version 1.32.0 (2024-03-15)

🚀 New Features

  • [Observability] Add support for CodeceptJS BDD
  • [Accessibility] Add support for CodeceptJS

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Enable Observability by default for Jest
Version 1.31.25 (2024-03-08)

🚀 New Features

  • [Observability] Add support for CodeceptJS

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Support starting build from nested frameworks
Version 1.31.24 (2024-03-04)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Playwright ABRUPT_CLOSE for Android devices
  • Global `playwright-core` module getting resolved when installed globally also
Version 1.31.23 (2024-02-26)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] BROWSERSTACK_RERUN not working for Playwright
Version 1.31.22 (2024-02-22)

🚀 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
Version 1.31.21 (2024-02-21)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] 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`
Version 1.31.20 (2024-02-14)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Performance Instrumentation enhancements
Version 1.31.19 (2024-02-13)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [TurboScale] Fixing Hub Pod Eviction due to autoscaling

💡 Enhancements

  • [TurboScale] Upgrading Python Runtime for AWS Lambda
Version 1.31.18 (2024-02-09)

🚀 New Features

  • Add cjs support

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Automate] Fix empty `testMatch` in Playwright
Version 1.31.17 (2024-02-02)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Accessibility] Fixes for build stop calls
Version 1.31.16 (2024-02-01)

💡 Enhancements

  • Added support for playwright config options
Version 1.31.15 (2024-01-25)

🐛 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
Version 1.31.14 (2024-01-18)

💡 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
Version 1.31.13 (2024-01-11)

💡 Enhancements

  • Added nodeSelector for Turboscale hub deployment
Version 1.31.12 (2024-01-10)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Playwright proxy issue
  • buildIdentifier integer issue

💡 Enhancements

  • Use `got` library to remove vulnerabilities
Version 1.31.11 (2024-01-04)

🚀 New Features

  • Add Turboscale Agent

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Percy for Windows
Version 1.31.10 (2023-12-28)

💡 Enhancements

  • Bump `k8s/node-client` to remove vulnerabilities
Version 1.31.9 (2023-12-27)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • BROWSERSTACK_LOCAL environment variable
  • Merge playwright use context for android devices
Version 1.31.8 (2023-12-21)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • `customVariables` fix for Playwright

💡 Enhancements

  • Performance instrumentation
Version 1.31.7 (2023-12-15)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix config read for Playwright on Windows
Version 1.31.6 (2023-12-14)

🚀 New Features

  • Set platform caps for Playwright session
  • Add support for passing custom function in reporters for playwright
Version 1.31.5 (2023-12-05)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Observability event obfuscation
Version 1.31.4 (2023-11-30)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for `skipSessionStatus`

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix Playwright Android support for 1.38.1
Version 1.31.3 (2023-11-23)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Turboscale] Fix GCP cluster with same name in multiple zones
Version 1.31.2 (2023-11-16)

🚀 New Features

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Playwright] Android for `testObservability: false`

💡 Enhancements

  • Added instrumentation
Version 1.31.0 (2023-11-09)

🚀 New Features

  • [Percy] Mocha support
  • [Playwright] Emulation support
  • [Playwright] Android support
Version 1.30.2 (2023-11-07)

💡 Enhancements

  • [Playwright] Add name as `browser_name@browser_version:os os_version@browserstack` to project info
Version 1.30.1 (2023-11-07)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Jest rerun fix
Version 1.30.0 (2023-11-02)

🚀 New Features

  • [Observability] Jest support
Version 1.29.3 (2023-10-26)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix test context marking for Playwright version >= 1.38.0
  • [Observability] Fix BrowserStack Session linking for Playwright
  • [Observability] Fix GlobalSetup options not working for Playwright
  • Support workspace modules in Playwright
Version 1.29.2 (2023-10-23)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix `command failed : npm ls`
Version 1.29.1 (2023-10-23)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix module import errors with Playwright
Version 1.29.0 (2023-10-16)

🚀 New Features

  • [Turboscale] Support for Playwright sessions
  • [Accessibility] Jest support added
Version 1.28.6 (2023-10-16)

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Detect additional CI Providers
Version 1.28.5 (2023-10-13)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix IDLE_TIMEOUTs with Accessibility for Mocha
Version 1.28.4 (2023-10-12)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [TurboScale] Fix GCP auth error
Version 1.28.3 (2023-10-09)

🚀 New Features

  • Extending Percy and AppPercy support
  • [Accessibility] Fix start error for non chrome browsers
Version 1.28.2 (2023-10-06)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [TurboScale] Fix md5 import error
Version 1.28.1 (2023-10-06)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Revert: Extending Percy and AppPercy support
Version 1.28.0 (2023-10-05)

🚀 New Features

  • Extending TurboScale support
Version 1.27.2 (2023-09-29)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Accessibility test case fixes

💡 Enhancements

  • Add azure identity for HST
Version 1.27.1 (2023-09-28)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix accessibilityOptions for playwright
  • Handle empty git repos for o11y
Version 1.27.0 (2023-09-21)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • xunit reporter support
  • Fix import error for playwright v1.38.*
Version 1.26.5 (2023-09-21)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Node v20 support
Version 1.26.4 (2023-09-14)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix exception in case there is no commit for the project
Version 1.26.3 (2023-09-07)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix --browserstack.config cmd line arg
Version 1.26.2 (2023-09-04)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix browserstack command line args for Playwright
Version 1.26.0 (2023-08-24)

🚀 New Features

  • Add support for replacing env variable in yml file

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix gitlinks not working on windows machine
Version 1.25.4 (2023-08-08)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Playwright bug fix
Version 1.25.1 (2023-07-27)

💡 Enhancements

  • Improvement to playwright runs using SDK.
Version 1.25.0 (2023-07-27)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for Playwright Test Runner
Version 1.24.2 (2023-07-24)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for BROWSERSTACK_APP_ID as environment variable

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Import fix in Playwright module

💡 Enhancements

  • [Accessibility] Improved logging related to result processing
Version 1.24.1 (2023-07-18)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix jest exit code
  • [Observability] Fix detection of cloud provider
Version 1.24.0 (2023-07-14)

🚀 New Features

  • Pac proxy support
  • Accessibility support
Version 1.23.4 (2023-07-13)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix for cucumber@9.2.0
  • Fix vanilla nodejs
Version 1.23.3 (2023-07-12)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Playwright user config parsing

💡 Enhancements

  • HST security patch
Version 1.23.2 (2023-07-07)

💡 Enhancements

  • Require improvements
Version 1.23.0 (2023-07-06)

🚀 New Features

  • HST CLI support
Version 1.22.0 (2023-06-30)

🚀 New Features

  • BrowserStack report generation for CI env
Version 1.21.1 (2023-06-27)

🚀 New Features

  • Observability support for Playwright
Version 1.20.1 (2023-06-23)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix path for jest
Version 1.20.0 (2023-06-20)

🚀 New Features

  • App automate support for node SDK
Version 1.18.0 (2023-06-13)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix capability handling in non-W3C mode
Version 1.17.0 (2023-06-09)

🚀 New Features

  • Flag to skip picking sessionName from test context

💡 Enhancements

  • Browserstack local version bump
Version 1.16.1 (2023-06-07)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix `require` arg for Mocha
Version 1.16.0 (2023-06-02)

🚀 New Features

  • Dynamic hub allocation, optimise build run times
Version 1.15.1 (2023-05-12)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix multiple SDK events

💡 Enhancements

  • Support WebDriver initialisation outside test hooks
Version 1.15.0 (2023-05-10)

💡 Enhancements

  • Stability improvements and avoid idleTimeouts
Version 1.14.0 (2023-05-05)

💡 Enhancements

  • Debug logs for Cucumber
  • Nudge Local improvement
Version 1.12.0 (2023-04-20)

💡 Enhancements

  • Increase http connection timeout to 15mins
Version 1.11.0 (2023-04-13)

🚀 New Features

  • Support CodeCeptJS

💡 Enhancements

  • Nudge to set local true when trying to acces a local url without local turned on
Version 1.10.1 (2023-04-10)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Cucumber reporter

💡 Enhancements

  • Parallelisation
Version 1.9.0 (2023-04-06)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Cucumber reporter

💡 Enhancements

  • Parallelisation
Version 1.13.4 (2024-03-29)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix issue with Selenium version 4.18.0
  • [Observability] Disable Observability for SpecFlow
Version 1.13.3 (2024-03-28)

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Enable Observability by default for NUnit
  • Raise error message when run on ARM architecture
  • Improve the logic for dependency resolution
Version 1.13.2 (2024-03-26)

💡 Enhancements

  • Add Debug logging of Architecture Information
Version 1.13.1 (2024-03-22)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [(App)Automate] Fix BrowserStack Hub URL
Version 1.13.0 (2024-03-21)

🚀 New Features

  • [Accessibility] Support Playwright in MSTest
  • [Observability] Support Playwright in MSTest

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Resolve CWD correctly when running test from dll
Version 1.12.3 (2024-03-12)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix parallel access issue for log files
Version 1.12.2 (2024-03-07)

💡 Enhancements

  • [Accessibility] Product stability improvements
  • Support dontet 8
Version 1.12.1 (2024-03-04)

💡 Enhancements

  • Instrumentation enhancements
Version 1.12.0 (2024-02-28)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Prevent build failures caused by browserstack-sdk tool
  • No tests found during browserstack-sdk tool failures
  • Add `enableSim` and `simOptions` BrowserStack capabilities

💡 Enhancements

  • Auto installation of compatible browserstack-sdk tool
Version 1.11.1 (2024-02-13)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [AppAutomate] Proxy support for Appium
Version 1.11.0 (2024-02-09)

🚀 New Features

  • [Observability] Initial Support for MSTest Selenium/Appium

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Unable to use with wildcard Selenium package reference
Version 1.10.1 (2024-02-01)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix tests session name
Version 1.10.0 (2024-01-29)

🚀 New Features

  • [Automate] Initial Support for MSTest Playwright
  • [Accessibility] Initial Support for MSTest Selenium

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Session status getting marked twice for a session
  • Vanilla Csharp issues
Version 1.9.0 (2024-01-19)

🚀 New Features

  • [Automate][AppAutomate] Initial Support for MSTest

💡 Enhancements

  • Support `parallelsPerPlatform` for xUnit
Version 1.8.8 (2024-01-16)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Marking of Session status and missing `platformVersion`
  • [AppAutomate] Platform missing issue with Dynamic Device Allocation

💡 Enhancements

  • Support app key at platform level
  • Added support for dotnet 8
  • Graceful shutdown in case of unhandled exit of TestAdapter process
Version 1.8.7 (2024-01-11)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [AppAutomate] Platform missing issue with Dynamic Device Allocation

💡 Enhancements

  • Added language version to instrumentation
Version 1.8.6 (2023-12-20)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Rebuild after test stop from Explorer
  • `OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : The executeScript command returned an unexpected error.`
  • 24hr format for buildIdentifier
Version 1.8.5 (2023-12-14)

💡 Enhancements

  • Handle idle timeouts
Version 1.8.4 (2023-12-08)

💡 Enhancements

  • Expose platform data method improvements
Version 1.8.3 (2023-11-30)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for `skipSessionStatus`

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix SDK for french

💡 Enhancements

  • Playwright proxy support
Version 1.8.2 (2023-11-24)

🚀 New Features

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Appium funnel data
Version 1.8.0 (2023-11-09)

🚀 New Features

  • [Percy] NUnit, xUnit and SpecFlow support
Version 1.7.1 (2023-11-06)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix all warnings
  • Fix driver dispose
Version 1.7.0 (2023-11-02)

🚀 New Features

  • Extending Percy and AppPercy support
Version 1.6.6 (2023-11-01)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Base test patching
  • Display console logs
Version 1.6.5 (2023-10-31)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix filter test functionality
  • `${BUILD_NUMBER}` not working in case CI environment
  • `browserstackAutomation key not in [bstack:options] schema` error when passing `BROWSERSTACK_AUTOMATION` environment variable
Version 1.6.4 (2023-10-23)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • `browserstackAutomation` key not getting honoured from `browserstack.yml` file
  • `buildIdentifier` option `${BUILD_NUMBER}` not evaluated
  • No tests founf when passing `--filter` in the CLI command
Version 1.6.3 (2023-10-19)

💡 Enhancements

  • [Observability] Detect additional CI Providers
Version 1.6.2 (2023-10-16)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Unable to read `.runsettings` file with BrowserStack SDK

💡 Enhancements

  • Run CSharp project with .NET 7.0 target framework
Version 1.6.1 (2023-09-29)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • [Observability] Show error to user and handle concurrency
Version 1.5.1 (2023-09-18)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Test context for specflow features with Examples
Version 1.5.0 (2023-09-14)

🚀 New Features

  • Extended Accessibility support for NUnit framework
Version 1.4.0 (2023-08-24)

🚀 New Features

  • Add support for replacing env variable in yml file

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • No tests running for test names with space in BDD
Version 1.3.5 (2023-08-16)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Support Selenium@4.11.0
Version 1.3.4 (2023-08-08)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Preserve data types of capabilities passed in browserstack.yml
Version 1.3.3 (2023-08-04)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix Appium capabilities drop at client binding
Version 1.3.2 (2023-08-02)

💡 Enhancements

  • Allow case-insensitive Browserstack local options
Version 1.3.1 (2023-07-27)

🚀 New Features

  • Support NUnit TeamCity Runner
Version 1.3.0 (2023-07-24)

🚀 New Features

  • Extended C# SDK support for Playwright
Version 1.2.3 (2023-07-13)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix SDK generated files cleanup
Version 1.2.1 (2023-07-04)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix selenium v3
Version 1.2.0 (2023-07-03)

🚀 New Features

  • BrowserStack report generation for CI env
Version 1.1.2 (2023-06-16)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Hit breakpoints for test methods in Debug mode
  • Fix for selenium 4.10.0 client binding
Version 1.1.1 (2023-06-15)

💡 Enhancements

  • Translate W3C caps to non W3C
Version 1.1.0 (2023-06-12)

🚀 New Features

  • Flag to skip picking sessionName from test context
  • Dynamic hub allocation, optimise build run times

💡 Enhancements

  • Browserstack local version bump
Version 1.0.3 (2023-05-05)

🚀 New Features

  • Detect client side errors and accordingly mark session on browserstack as failed
  • Dynamic hub allocation, optimise build run times
Version 1.0.2 (2023-04-27)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for Visual Studio debugger

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Release build configuration

💡 Enhancements

  • Increase http connection timeout to 15mins
Version 0.4.0 (2023-04-13)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix for appium command executor

💡 Enhancements

  • Stability and local nudge improvements
Version 0.3.1 (2023-03-27)

🚀 New Features

  • SpecFlow xUnit/NUnit support

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix for latest visual studios
Version 0.3.0 (2023-03-14)

🚀 New Features

  • Add cli arguments, order of precedence = cli args > env variables > yml file
Version 0.2.1 (2023-03-08)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix appium isKeyboardShown not implemented

💡 Enhancements

  • Error handling
  • Inherit test script command timeout
Version 0.2.0 (2023-03-01)

💡 Enhancements

  • Instrumentation
Version 0.2.0 (2023-03-01)

💡 Enhancements

  • Instrumentation
  • Support for .net > 5.0
Version 0.1.0 (2023-02-23)

🚀 New Features

  • Support for appium 5

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