CHANGELOG.md

5.1.10 (2026-04-10)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump typescript from 5.9.3 to 6.0.2 (#349) (3a0e06e)

5.1.9 (2026-02-16)

Bug Fixes

• format (#348) (98ba5b1)

5.1.8 (2026-01-28)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump @appium/eslint-config-appium-ts from 2.0.5 to 3.0.0 (#347) (ea0328f)

5.1.7 (2026-01-27)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps: bump asyncbox from 4.1.1 to 6.0.1 (#346) (46388de)

5.1.6 (2026-01-23)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Migrate index to typescript (#345) (69aa1e3)

5.1.5 (2025-12-22)

Miscellaneous Chores

• bump teen_process (#342) (83c7620)

5.1.4 (2025-12-18)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps: bump asyncbox from 3.0.0 to 4.0.1 (#341) (adcdd44)

5.1.3 (2025-12-12)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps: remove source-map-support (#340) (4517403)

5.1.2 (2025-12-11)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump @types/node from 24.10.3 to 25.0.0 (#339) (1625f98)

5.1.1 (2025-11-29)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps: bump actions/checkout from 2 to 6 (#336) (11513ed)
• deps: bump actions/setup-node from 3 to 6 (#335) (e9be4e6)

5.1.0 (2025-11-29)

Features

• Migrate driver and helpers to typescript (#334) (eb3918d)

5.0.8 (2025-11-15)

Miscellaneous Chores

• publish via trusted publisher (#331) (e4085cf)

5.0.7 (2025-10-17)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump semantic-release from 24.2.9 to 25.0.0 (#330) (c713862)

5.0.6 (2025-10-10)

Bug Fixes

• utils imports (#329) (aa7efa2)

5.0.5 (2025-10-10)

Bug Fixes

• Use PowerShell to trigger UAC prompts (#328) (4fe467d)

5.0.4 (2025-10-09)

Bug Fixes

• use real path (#327) (2d5fddb)

5.0.3 (2025-10-08)

Bug Fixes

• Use msiexec to install WAD (#326) (7a55ac1)

5.0.2 (2025-10-03)

Bug Fixes

• Shellexec args escaping on Windows (#325) (e7244ea)

5.0.1 (2025-08-23)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump chai from 5.3.2 to 6.0.0 (#322) (4535dca)

5.0.0 (2025-08-17)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Required Node.js version has been bumped to ^20.19.0 || ^22.12.0 || >=24.0.0
• Required npm version has been bumped to >=10
• Required Appium server version has been bumped to >=3.0.0-rc.2

Features

• Update server compatibility (#321) (f06b849)

4.4.7 (2025-08-17)

Miscellaneous Chores

• drop rimraf deps from dev deps as no references (#319) (8b72481)

4.4.6 (2025-08-17)

Bug Fixes

• fix type error (#320) (dadaf07)

4.4.5 (2025-07-26)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Raise more user-friendly error if WAD server connection fails (#317) (ee93bf0)

4.4.4 (2025-06-13)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump sinon from 20.0.0 to 21.0.0 (#312) (57b5ae5)

4.4.3 (2025-06-10)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump @types/node from 22.15.31 to 24.0.0 (#311) (c9de9dd)

4.4.2 (2025-05-21)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits (#310) (5c02ea8)

4.4.1 (2025-04-25)

Bug Fixes

• Type import (b7e8a23)

4.4.0 (2025-04-25)

Features

• Support log commands (#309) (b96b4b5)

4.3.1 (2025-04-09)

Bug Fixes

• Remove trailing slash from proxyOpts for custom server URL (#308) (824a52b)

4.3.0 (2025-04-07)

Features

• Implement wadUrl capability (#306) (d5b9971)

4.2.3 (2025-03-25)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump sinon from 19.0.5 to 20.0.0 (#304) (b5fb040)

4.2.2 (2025-03-06)

Bug Fixes

• executeMethodMap of startRecordingScreen (#303) (3fc1e96)

4.2.1 (2025-03-05)

Bug Fixes

• Clearing the recent recorded video if start new one. (#302) (d8c8b87)

4.2.0 (2025-03-02)

Features

• Support context api (#299) (ca08f0e)

4.1.5 (2025-02-26)

Bug Fixes

• Session deletion proxy (d78808f)

4.1.4 (2025-02-24)

Bug Fixes

• Update windowsSetClipboard method mapping (#298) (3b944fd)

4.1.3 (2025-02-22)

Bug Fixes

• Pass reqBasePath as part of WinAppDriverOptions (#296) (0b18c55)

4.1.2 (2025-02-21)

Bug Fixes

• Accept reqBasePath proxy option (#295) (a390a37)

4.1.1 (2025-02-09)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Remove obsolete eslint config (#294) (325cd5d)

4.1.0 (2025-02-09)

Features

• Make mouse coordinates DPI-aware (#293) (dc32a77)

4.0.1 (2025-02-04)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Avoid throwing generic error for an unknown execute script name (#291) (1fe3482)

4.0.0 (2025-02-01)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• The following method arguments have been modified:

• startRecordingScreen
• stopRecordingScreen
• windowsDeleteFile
• windowsDeleteFolder
• windowsClick
• windowsScroll
• windowsClickAndDrag
• windowsHover
• windowsKeys
• windowsSetClipboard
• windowsGetClipboard

Features

• Add support of executeMethodMap (#290) (a3c0849)

3.1.4 (2025-01-06)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump @appium/eslint-config-appium-ts from 0.3.3 to 1.0.1 (#287) (8a5b88e)

3.1.3 (2024-12-12)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Replace occurrences of the deprecated errorAndThrow API (#286) (0f81db7)

3.1.2 (2024-12-03)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump mocha from 10.8.2 to 11.0.1 (#285) (20d2390)

3.1.1 (2024-12-01)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Update deprecated method name (#284) (645e9e5)

3.1.0 (2024-11-15)

Features

• Allow specifying the /forcequit argument for WAD (#282) (a9dda08)

3.0.2 (2024-09-25)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Remove unused dev dependencies (2cc4a19)

3.0.1 (2024-09-18)

Bug Fixes

• Include all built files (99f4b3d)

3.0.0 (2024-09-16)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• WAD is does not get installed automatically anymore upon driver install

From now on the driver install won't include the automatic server deployment. Instead it is expected that WAD server is installed via the driver script: appium driver run windows install-wad <optional_wad_version>.

Features

• Move WAD server installation into a driver script (#277) (23ab085)

2.12.32 (2024-09-13)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump sinon from 18.0.1 to 19.0.1 (#276) (689aa56)

2.12.31 (2024-08-17)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump webdriverio from 8.40.3 to 9.0.1 (#273) (34f6bc4)

2.12.30 (2024-08-09)

Bug Fixes

• Add workaround for setting the window position (#271) (6720df5)

2.12.29 (2024-08-02)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Replace fancy-log dependency with appium logger (#270) (afc40ce)

2.12.28 (2024-07-29)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump @types/node from 20.14.13 to 22.0.0 (#269) (c4ac1b8)

2.12.27 (2024-07-17)

Miscellaneous Chores

• types: export constraints and opts types (50cbe48)

2.12.26 (2024-07-09)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Remove extra import (1d02693)

2.12.25 (2024-07-09)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump chai and chai-as-promised (#264) (a01b2fb)

2.12.24 (2024-06-04)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump semantic-release from 23.1.1 to 24.0.0 and conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits to 8.0.0 (#262) (92063ad)

2.12.23 (2024-05-16)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Update dev dependencies (8704c78)

2.12.22 (2024-05-16)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump sinon from 17.0.2 to 18.0.0 (#260) (87cb1b1)

2.12.21 (2024-04-09)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Remove extra imports (ef032c2)

2.12.20 (2024-04-09)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump @typescript-eslint/parser from 6.21.0 to 7.6.0 (#256) (f84a5e5)

2.12.19 (2024-04-05)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Bump dependencies (#254) (35a061d)

2.12.18 (2024-03-07)

Miscellaneous Chores

• bump typescript (76885bc)

2.12.17 (2024-02-18)

Bug Fixes

• Perform click action when necessary (#240) (8c7288f)

2.12.16 (2024-01-16)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump semantic-release from 22.0.12 to 23.0.0 (#236) (3c43aae)

2.12.15 (2023-12-11)

Bug Fixes

• Tune windows: scroll API (#231) (fc469c4)

2.12.14 (2023-12-02)

Miscellaneous Chores

• update publish.js.yml (#228) (14167dc)

2.12.13 (2023-11-21)

Bug Fixes

• Update the default interval in clickAndDrag (#226) (d9f2957)

2.12.12 (2023-11-08)

Miscellaneous Chores

• use omit to prune dev and peer (#225) (9abe66f)

2.12.11 (2023-11-06)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump @types/sinon from 10.0.20 to 17.0.0 (#224) (3ab75cc)

2.12.10 (2023-11-01)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps: bump asyncbox from 2.9.4 to 3.0.0 (#223) (b866e5e)

2.12.9 (2023-10-25)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin from 5.62.0 to 6.9.0 (#222) (fd9227b)

2.12.8 (2023-10-24)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump sinon from 16.1.3 to 17.0.0 (#221) (340fd6c)

2.12.7 (2023-10-23)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump semantic-release from 21.1.2 to 22.0.5 (#209) (a367b40)

2.12.6 (2023-10-19)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Use latest teen_process types (86060ab)

2.12.5 (2023-10-19)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump @types/teen_process from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 (#218) (73a4346)
• deps-dev: bump eslint-config-prettier from 8.10.0 to 9.0.0 (#216) (9f41200)
• deps-dev: bump lint-staged from 14.0.1 to 15.0.2 (#217) (0191562)
• Use latest types version (4b733ba)

2.12.4 (2023-09-24)

Bug Fixes

• release package (#208) (bfa0713)

2.12.3 (2023-09-14)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump @types/teen_process from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1 (#202) (9548c12)
• deps-dev: bump sinon from 15.2.0 to 16.0.0 (#203) (84bcf01)

2.12.2 (2023-08-28)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits (#196) (f9873df)

2.12.1 (2023-08-25)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump semantic-release from 20.1.3 to 21.1.0 (#195) (61b931b)

2.12.0 (2023-08-20)

Features

• Add extensions to get and set Windows clipboard (#192) (8a1791d)

2.11.0 (2023-08-19)

Features

• Allow to elevate system privileges in runtime (#191) (95e0acb)

2.10.1 (2023-08-16)

Bug Fixes

• Properly pass this context to getScreenSize helper (#189) (341c2e4)

2.10.0 (2023-08-15)

Features

• Switch babel to typescript (#188) (c1f6cf2)

2.9.3 (2023-08-14)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump lint-staged from 13.3.0 to 14.0.0 (#187) (2323707)

2.9.2 (2023-07-13)

Bug Fixes

• Coordinates type (f1bc8cd)

2.9.1 (2023-07-13)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Optimize screen size calculation for mouse gestures emulation (#181) (14dad04)

2.9.0 (2023-07-05)

Features

• Migrate native code from ffi-napi to koffi (#179) (e653503)

2.8.0 (2023-07-04)

Features

• Add support for hover gesture (#178) (58c0d14)

2.7.3 (2023-06-07)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits (#173) (cb0230c)

2.7.2 (2023-04-10)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump rimraf from 4.4.1 to 5.0.0 (#170) (89fc293)

2.7.1 (2023-03-04)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Move napi-based modules to optional dependencies (#167) (fe38687)

2.7.0 (2023-02-19)

Features

• Add an extension to press arbitrary keys (#166) (8418f1e)

2.6.0 (2023-02-18)

Features

• Add an extension to perform drag and drop gesture (#165) (31abaf5)

2.5.0 (2023-02-17)

Features

• Add an extension to perform mouse wheel scroll (#164) (979d796)

2.4.0 (2023-02-16)

Features

• Add an extension to perform mouse clicks (#163) (6809872)

2.3.5 (2023-01-18)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump rimraf from 3.0.2 to 4.1.1 (#161) (0b8db44)

2.3.4 (2023-01-17)

Miscellaneous Chores

• deps-dev: bump semantic-release from 19.0.5 to 20.0.2 (#151) (990d6c6)

2.3.3 (2023-01-12)

Miscellaneous Chores

• update release rc (#157) (effb73f)

2.3.2 (2023-01-12)