BrowserStack SDK release notes

🚀 New Features

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] Fix timeouts for JUnit5

🚀 New Features

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

💡 Enhancements

• Integrate Turboscale sessions with Observability reporting

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix platform name check for accessibility

🚀 New Features

• [Observability] 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
• [Observability] 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
• [Observability] Fix build timeouts for SIGINT

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Observability] 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
• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] Show build link on Console
• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] Trim VCS info to 64kb

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] 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

• [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

🐛 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 Observability. Avoid using v1.13.7 and v1.13.8 if using Observability 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

• [Observability] Debug logs for Observability 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

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] Rerun for JUnit 5 framework

🚀 New Features

• Support for `skipSessionStatus`

🚀 New Features

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Stacktrace for recent selenium versions

🚀 New Features

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] Fix App Automate Session linking with Observability

💡 Enhancements

• [Percy] Screenshot Stabilization

🚀 New Features

• Extending TurboScale support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Observability] `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 Observability

🐛 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 Observability 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
• [Observability] Map all TestNG hooks to a test in a suite

🐛 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

🚀 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 Observability 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

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] 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

• Observability 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 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

🚀 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

🚀 New Features

• [Percy] Auto Enable for App Percy

🐛 Bug Fixes

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Behave Observability fixes for feature hierarchy

🚀 New Features

• Initial Support for Behave Accessibility and Observability

💡 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

• [Observability] Make Observability 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
• [Observability] Fix duration issue with Pytest BDD

💡 Enhancements

• [Observability] Disable Observability by default for Pytest and Robot

💡 Enhancements

• [Observability] Enable Observability 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`
• [Observability] (App)Automate session linking when fixture scope is `session` for Pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Pytest exit code not getting set when executed `pytest.exit`
• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] (App)Automate session linking for Robot when browserstackAutomation is false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Signal handlers on Windows for Pytest

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] Steps reporting for Robot framework

🚀 New Features

• Support for `skipSessionStatus`

🚀 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

🐛 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

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] Reporting Browser Info for Pytest BDD

🚀 New Features

• [Observability] Pytest BDD support

💡 Enhancements

• [Observability] 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 Observability 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

💡 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 Observability 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

• [Observability] `Before` Hook Reporting fixes
• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] 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
• [Observability] 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
• [Observability] Build stop

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Observability] Fix Step getting timed out on CodeceptJS
• Fix error `Cannot read properties of undefined (reading observability)`

🐛 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

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] Fix for playwright sessions data not getting sent to Observability 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

• [Observability] Fix build timeouts for Mocha and Jest

💡 Enhancements

• Support module configuration for Playwright test repos

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Observability] Fix Automate session linking with tests
• Fixes for Codecept WebDriver for WebdriverIO v8+

🚀 New Features

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

💡 Enhancements

• [Observability] Enable Observability by default for Jest

🚀 New Features

• [Observability] Add support for CodeceptJS

💡 Enhancements

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] 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

• [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`

🐛 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

• Observability 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

• [Observability] Jest rerun fix

🚀 New Features

• [Observability] Jest support

🐛 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

🐛 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

• [Observability] 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

• [Observability] Import fix in Playwright module

💡 Enhancements

• [Accessibility] Improved logging related to result processing

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix jest exit code
• [Observability] 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

• Observability 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

• Fix framework detection

💡 Enhancements

• Improve SDK performance

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix fully qualified name when special operator is passed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Screenshot capture bug in Nunit

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix json structure in test names for TestFixtureSource

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix special char to escape for test filtering

💡 Enhancements

• Send browserstackSDK caps when browserstackAutomation is false

🚀 New Features

• [Observability] Initial Support for xUnit Selenium/Appium

💡 Enhancements

• Send browserstackSDK caps when browserstackAutomation is false

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for bstack:options

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix reporting of XUnit InlineData tests for Visual Studio

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Observability] Fix MSTest test reporting
• Fix Skipped tests reporting for TRX reports

🚀 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 appProfiling capability for non-w3c capabilities
• Fix Visual Studio reporting for parameterized Tests
• Fix 'dotnet setup' command for Silicon

💡 Enhancements

• Deprecate BROWSERSTACK_OBSERVABILITY_DEBUG and support BROWSERSTACK_SDK_LOGLEVEL env variable

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix useW3C False for Selenium version > 4.0.0

💡 Enhancements

• [Observability] Trim VCS info to 64kb

🚀 New Features

• Support Test Level Parallization (ParallelsPerPlatform) for Specflow and NUnit

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix CLI args breaking with whitespaces
• [Test Observability] Build tags support ~ CUSTOM_TAG_N

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix `'executor://nunit3testexecutor/': Second path fragment must not be a drive or UNC name`
• [Test Observability] Environment vairable not being honored for build name

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Run dotnet restore with configuration after package list

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for picking up configuration file

💡 Enhancements

• Fixed the logic for dependency resolution and config file
• Override user interactive while setting up dotnet sdk for apple silicon arch

💡 Enhancements

• Use full test name to run tests

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Observability] Fix setup issues
• [Accessibility] Fix XUnit save accessibility results

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix issue with Selenium version 4.18.0
• [Observability] Disable Observability for SpecFlow

💡 Enhancements

• [Observability] Enable Observability by default for NUnit
• Raise error message when run on ARM architecture
• Improve the logic for dependency resolution

💡 Enhancements

• Add Debug logging of Architecture Information

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [(App)Automate] Fix BrowserStack Hub URL

🚀 New Features

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolve CWD correctly when running test from dll

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix parallel access issue for log files

💡 Enhancements

• [Accessibility] Product stability improvements
• Support dontet 8

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation enhancements

🐛 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

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [AppAutomate] Proxy support for Appium

🚀 New Features

• [Observability] Initial Support for MSTest Selenium/Appium

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Unable to use with wildcard Selenium package reference

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix tests session name

🚀 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

🚀 New Features

• [Automate][AppAutomate] Initial Support for MSTest

💡 Enhancements

• Support `parallelsPerPlatform` for xUnit

🐛 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

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [AppAutomate] Platform missing issue with Dynamic Device Allocation

💡 Enhancements

• Added language version to instrumentation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Rebuild after test stop from Explorer
• `OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : The executeScript command returned an unexpected error.`
• 24hr format for buildIdentifier

💡 Enhancements

• Handle idle timeouts

💡 Enhancements

• Expose platform data method improvements

🚀 New Features

• Support for `skipSessionStatus`

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix SDK for french

💡 Enhancements

• Playwright proxy support

🚀 New Features

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Appium funnel data

🚀 New Features

• [Percy] NUnit, xUnit and SpecFlow support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix all warnings
• Fix driver dispose

🚀 New Features

• Extending Percy and AppPercy support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Base test patching
• Display console logs

🐛 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

🐛 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

💡 Enhancements

• [Observability] Detect additional CI Providers

🐛 Bug Fixes

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

💡 Enhancements

• Run CSharp project with .NET 7.0 target framework

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Observability] Show error to user and handle concurrency

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Test context for specflow features with Examples

🚀 New Features

• Extended Accessibility support for NUnit framework

🚀 New Features

• Add support for replacing env variable in yml file

🐛 Bug Fixes

• No tests running for test names with space in BDD

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Support Selenium@4.11.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Preserve data types of capabilities passed in browserstack.yml

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Appium capabilities drop at client binding

💡 Enhancements

• Allow case-insensitive Browserstack local options

🚀 New Features

• Support NUnit TeamCity Runner

🚀 New Features

• Extended C# SDK support for Playwright

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix SDK generated files cleanup

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix selenium v3

🚀 New Features

• BrowserStack report generation for CI env

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Hit breakpoints for test methods in Debug mode
• Fix for selenium 4.10.0 client binding

💡 Enhancements

• Translate W3C caps to non W3C

🚀 New Features

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

💡 Enhancements

• Browserstack local version bump

🚀 New Features

• Detect client side errors and accordingly mark session on browserstack as failed
• Dynamic hub allocation, optimise build run times

🚀 New Features

• Support for Visual Studio debugger

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Release build configuration

💡 Enhancements

• Increase http connection timeout to 15mins

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for appium command executor

💡 Enhancements

• Stability and local nudge improvements

🚀 New Features

• SpecFlow xUnit/NUnit support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix for latest visual studios

🚀 New Features

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix appium isKeyboardShown not implemented

💡 Enhancements

• Error handling
• Inherit test script command timeout

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation

💡 Enhancements

• Instrumentation
• Support for .net > 5.0

🚀 New Features

• Support for appium 5