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What's Changed

• Add rect() as alias for getRect() command. by @dikwickley in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4128
• Fix waitUntil not working with async/await. by @chikara1608 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4123
• Fix bug that aborts test when waitUntil throws error. #4157 by @chikara1608 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4161

New Contributors

• @chikara1608 made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4123

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.5.0...v3.6.0

What's Changed

• Add actionable error message for TimeoutError in hooks. by @dikwickley in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4053
• Add missing isSelected command to new Element API. by @dikwickley in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4038
• Added missing isEnabled command in new Element API by @subhajit20 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4041
• Refactor commands in README. by @konavivekramakrishna in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4076
• Hide password values from raw HTTP logs. by @dikwickley in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4066
• Fix JSDoc example for getText command. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4043
• Added missing isVisible command in new Element API by @subhajit20 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4039
• Added isDisplayed() as alias to isVisible() by @uditrajput03 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4107
• fixed takeScreenshot example by @dikwickley in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4121
• allow parallel envs with cucumber by @AutomatedTester in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4095

New Contributors

• @dikwickley made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4053
• @subhajit20 made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4041
• @konavivekramakrishna made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4076
• @uditrajput03 made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/4107

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.4.1...v3.5.0

What's Changed

• Warn about two describe()s in a single testsuite. by @garg3133 in #4011
• Fix error while exiting Nightwatch using Ctrl+C. by @garg3133 in #4013
• deps: Update piscina dependency to v4.3.1. by @garg3133 in #4020
• Send POST_SESSION_EVENT with capabilities on session creation. by @garg3133 in #4024
• Add appium reset command by @AutomatedTester in #4019
• Disable HTML reporter in Cucumber. by @garg3133 in #4025

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.4.0...v3.4.1

What's Changed

Fixed and improvements:

• Fixed #3998 – cannot set custom session status for retried test when using Browserstack, by Priyansh Garg in #3999
• Fixed #3990 – CDP connection not getting reset across sessions when using Selenium, by Priyansh Garg in #3994
• Fixed #3989 – Unable to fetch elements with reference to a ShadowRoot, by Priyansh Garg in #3992
• Fixed #4003 – Replace per-method packages with the main lodash package, by Priyansh Garg in #4005
• Fixed #4007 – add parallel_process_delay in worker threads by @gravityvi in #4007
• Fixed test hooks giving TypeScript error with NightwatchBrowser, by Priyansh Garg in #4004
• Added extended types for waitFor commands, by Priyansh Garg in #3986

Dependency updates:

• Upgraded Selenium to 4.16 by David Burns in #4008. This upgrade brings improved stability, new features, and bug fixes, enhancing the overall testing capabilities with Nightwatch.
• Updated nightwatch-axe-verbose dependency to enhance accessibility testing features, including improved axe-core integration and support for advanced configurations. by Priyansh Garg in #3993

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What's Changed

• Fix types for Nightwatch settings/config file. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3876
• Update dependencies. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3985

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.3.7...v3.3.8

• Added – support for defining a custom return function for custom command fe9a01

What's Changed

• Fixed process stalling for 4 mins after test run in Node v20+. by @garg3133 in #3976
• Fixed #3639 waitFor commands not retrying for stale elements. by @garg3133 in #3978

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.3.4...v3.3.5

What's Changed

• Fixed #3966 – shadow root not working on Firefox. by @garg3133
• Fixed #3959 – TS tests not working in ESM project. by @garg3133

What's Changed

• add check for browserstack turboscale urls by @nikhlagrwl in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3970

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.3.2...v3.3.3

What's Changed

• add support for browserstack turboscale urls by @nikhlagrwl in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3969

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v2.6.22...v2.6.23

What's Changed

• enable parallelism on any selenium host by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3956
• improved the support for defining custom reporters via plugins

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.3.1...v3.3.2

What's Changed

Fixes

• Update the description of abortOnFailure for waitForElementVisible.js by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3934
• remove upper bound for number of worker threads by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3930
• remove postInstall step by @AutomatedTester in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3953
• enable worker threads for mobile while using cloud services by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3954

Dependencies

• Update Selenium to 4.14 by @AutomatedTester in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3944
• chore: update dependencies by @AutomatedTester in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3943

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.2.1...v3.3.0

What's Changed

• CVE 2023 43646 by @AutomatedTester in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3925

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.2.0...v3.2.1

What's Changed

• New Features

  • add wait until present command by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3897
  • event setup for nightwatch hooks by @harshit-bs in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3706

• Fixes

  • Use correct settings parameter for trace by @swrdfish in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3890
  • Allow WebElement as a possible selector in type declarations. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3896
  • run mocha on child process workers by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3904
  • add GitHub Actions in the list of supporting colors by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3914
  • remove color param from mocha cli runner tests by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3919
  • consider always match from desired capabilities by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3907 (#3431)
  • Pass settings object to global hooks while called from programatic api by @swrdfish in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3850 (#3849)

• Dependency Updates

  • bump to selenium 4.13 by @AutomatedTester in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3920

• TypeScript Improvements

  • Migrate utils modules to TS. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3869
  • Refactor utils modules before migrating to TS. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3870
  • Migrate lib/http files to TS. by @yashPratp983 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3886

• Build Improvements

  • Fix eslint rules by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3891
  • Change file names for execute commands. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3898

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.1.3...v3.2.0

What's Changed

• Lifecycle event hooks support for v2 by @harshit-bs in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3817

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v2.6.21...v2.6.22

What's Changed

• Fix waitUntil paramenter ordering; update waitUntil documentation; 3839
• Fixed build script and dev script for running tests on windows. 3866
• Fix flaky disable_typescript config test. https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3865
• Fix .registerBasicAuth() not working in Edge browser Fixes #3848 https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3857
• fix es6 module import by https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3858
• Update a few eslint rules around spacing. https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3864
• FAdd tag_filter type to NightwatchOptions interface. #3825 https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3830
• chore: bump mocha 9.2.2 => 10.2.0 https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3860
• Add more events for analytics https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3856
• Move log related commands to .logs namespaces. https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3796
• Update Selenium to 4.11 https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3882
• Deprecate colors.js module in favour of chalk.js https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3852

New Contributors

• @DenysLins made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3857
• @ert78gb made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3858
• @Ykumar1415 made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3830

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.1.2...v3.1.3

• Fix for failing TS tests after upgrading to v3. (#3845) 96e1b346
• update lodash.merge dependency in client (#3836) 222c6035

https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.1.0...v3.1.2

We’re super excited to announce the release of Nightwatch v3. It that has been built around these three pillars:

• Developer Experience: The entire experience from getting started, to writing and debugging tests, has been redesigned for speed, stability, and consistent non-flaky results.

• Mobile first: Test your web or native, iOS and Android, mobile applications on simulators, real mobile devices or a cloud grid like BrowserStack.

• One test automation framework: Run all types of tests from unit, component, and E2E to API, visual, and accessibility with a single framework.

What's Changed

New Features

• Add support for namespaced aliases. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3794
• Move execute and executeAsync to document ns. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3807
• Move network-related commands to .network namespace. by @yashPratp983 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3797

Fixes

TypeScript Fixes

• Fix types for namespaces on page-objects. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3778
• Add types for Firefox namespace commands by @Priyanka0613 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3780
• Add types support in Nightwatch examples, test, and types/tests directories. by @yashPratp983 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3803
• Build Nightwatch using TypeScript. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3774

Dependency Updates

• update dependency nightwatch-axe-verbose to ^2.2.2 by @justafish in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3793
• Update jsdom to v21.1.2 and npm audit fix. by @itsspriyansh in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3811
• Uninstall Coveralls by @itsspriyansh in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3816
• updated semver to v7.5.2 by @itsspriyansh in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3829

Cucumber

• Fixes/3781 fix cucumber step definition config by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3782
• allow esm imports (#3805) by @thermsdorff in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3806

General

• Fix takeScreenshot command not returning anything. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3769
• Feature/disable process listener for programattic api by @swrdfish in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3800
• Add missing documentation by @swrdfish in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3826
• Updated Error Message for Browser Compatibility Information. by @yashPratp983 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3809
• programatic-api: add methods to call global hooks, add a cleanup method by @swrdfish in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3822
• add error handling for worker threads by @gravityvi in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3828
• Page-object commands should return the same page-object. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3779
• Fix elements and commands property issue with POM. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3788
• Fix sync tests getting skipped in parallel mode. by @garg3133 in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3791
• Fixed the issue regarding error if a folder defined in src_folders is empty when using tags by @itsspriyansh in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3824
• Fix #3625 - Changed to recursive merge on caps by @vinodreddy-bs in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3831

New Contributors

• @yashPratp983 made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3803
• @justafish made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3793
• @itsspriyansh made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3811
• @thermsdorff made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3806
• @vinodreddy-bs made their first contribution in https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/pull/3831

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/compare/v3.0.1...v3.1.0