v6.0.7 (2026-09-18)

This release is published under the Apache-2.0 License.

Bug Fixes

• webdriver: Normalize orientation value to uppercase in setter (#1308, 1162bab)

Continuous Integration

• Enhance ci env (#1303, e7acbb2)

Refactoring

• webdriver: Simplify direct connect capabilities check and logging (#1302, e23dc47)

Testing

• Add orientation getter and setter unit tests (#1307, 90c38d1)

• Add unit tests for orientation setter (#1289, ac77fcf)

• Fix flutter app asset download url in ci (#1289, ac77fcf)

• Fix timeouts in ios safari test (#1289, ac77fcf)

Detailed Changes: v6.0.6...v6.0.7

v6.0.6 (2026-09-12)

This release is published under the Apache-2.0 License.

Bug Fixes

• Preserve capability alternatives from option lists (#1296, aa4492e)

Continuous Integration

• deps: Bump actions/setup-java from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1 (#1301, d555d77)

Documentation

• Add 2026 year in copyright and actualization packageVersion (#1300, 392dd39)

Testing

• Cover W3C alternatives from option lists (#1296, aa4492e)

Detailed Changes: v6.0.5...v6.0.6

v6.0.5 (2026-09-10)

This release is published under the Apache-2.0 License.

Bug Fixes

• Preserve default locator strategy in WebDriver type hints (#1298, 0bbe39c)

Code Style

• Preserve existing source line endings (#1298, 0bbe39c)

Refactoring

• Import By under TYPE_CHECKING and drop type-hint test (#1298, 0bbe39c)

Testing

• Cover default and explicit WebDriver locator type hints (#1298, 0bbe39c)

Detailed Changes: v6.0.4...v6.0.5

v6.0.4 (2026-09-09)

This release is published under the Apache-2.0 License.

Bug Fixes

• Keep user client config when switching to direct connect endpoint (#1291, d47b730)

Continuous Integration

• deps: Bump gitpython from 3.1.58 to 3.1.59 (#1299, 2edf2d7)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.16.5 to 0.16.6 (#1292, f8997fd)

Detailed Changes: v6.0.3...v6.0.4

v6.0.3 (2026-09-09)

This release is published under the Apache-2.0 License.

Bug Fixes

• Bracket IPv6 hosts in service status URLs (#1295, a47ddd0)

• Validate IPv6 service hosts with ipaddress (#1295, a47ddd0)

Testing

• Cover IPv6 service status URL formatting (#1295, a47ddd0)

• Cover scoped and invalid IPv6 service hosts (#1295, a47ddd0)

Detailed Changes: v6.0.2...v6.0.3

v6.0.2 (2026-09-08)

This release is published under the Apache-2.0 License.

Bug Fixes

• Parse inline Appium service arguments (#1294, 2f3c83f)

Chores

• Check up to 5 sec (#1297, d931a8c)

Testing

• Cover inline service argument status URLs (#1294, 2f3c83f)

Detailed Changes: v6.0.1...v6.0.2

v6.0.1 (2026-09-08)

This release is published under the Apache-2.0 License.

Bug Fixes

• Use seconds for service listening polling timeout (#1293, c440732)

Chores

• Add PERF, FURB, SIM ruff rules (#1275, c36240e)

• Add UP ruff rules and delete old typings (#1278, 9622c1e)

• Up minimum selenium_version and doc it (#1273, a7f909c)

• deps: Bump gitpython from 3.1.57 to 3.1.58 (#1271, 7c11ab0)

Continuous Integration

• Enable auto release again (4f7e38d)

• Fix url for the flutter test app (#1281, 2d5edbe)

• deps: Bump actions/setup-java from 5.6.0 to 5.7.0 (#1272, 534fe7d)

• deps: Bump actions/setup-java from 5.7.0 to 6.0.0 (#1285, 54251be)

• deps: Bump selenium from 4.46.0 to 4.47.0 (#1277, a6dd793)

• deps: Bump selenium from 4.47.0 to 4.48.0 (#1287, cdaf108)

• deps-dev: Bump mypy from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 (#1280, 41b6158)

• deps-dev: Bump python-semantic-release from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2 (#1288, 6d775af)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.16.1 to 0.16.2 (#1276, abdb347)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.16.2 to 0.16.3 (#1279, 4cd8822)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.16.3 to 0.16.4 (#1284, 8f32c8b)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.16.4 to 0.16.5 (#1286, bca93b5)

• deps-dev: Bump types-python-dateutil (#1274, a974755)

Documentation

• Add breaking change note in the changelog (5096f41)

• Add usage examples for screen recording methods (#1290, 0fe6d91)

Testing

• Cover the service listening polling budget (#1293, c440732)

Detailed Changes: v6.0.0...v6.0.1

v6.0.0 (2026-08-08)

Breaking Changes

• Removed legacy Appium endpoint calls from commands which can be replaced with extensions
  • This should not affect anything for users who use newer Appium such as Appium v2/3 based drivers
  • References: #1258, #1233, #1258, #1224, #1220, #1225, #1267
• Removed CanRememberExtensionPresence used only for the legacy endpoint support #1269

Bug Fixes

• Return int bitmask from set_network_connection (#1258, 9097a5a)

Chores

• Add a blank line before version v5.2.7 in CHANGELOG.md (dc47ec4)

• Remove setup.py (#1218, 0f549c3)

• Unify ruff version in pyproject.toml and pre-commit-config.yaml (#1241, 16a3429)

• deps: Bump gitpython from 3.1.46 to 3.1.47 (#1222, a712427)

• deps: Bump gitpython from 3.1.54 to 3.1.57 (#1270, ad193d1)

• deps: Bump idna from 3.11 to 3.15 (#1229, f268e84)

• deps: Bump pygments from 2.19.2 to 2.20.0 (#1213, 064aeaf)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.11 to 0.15.12 (#1223, 15b94bd)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.12 to 0.15.13 (#1228, afbface)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.13 to 0.15.14 (#1231, e374b78)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.14 to 0.15.15 (#1232, 2a05afc)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.15 to 0.15.16 (#1234, 5389384)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.16 to 0.15.17 (#1235, 00325db)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.16.0 to 0.16.1 (#1268, a65dc2b)

Continuous Integration

• Disable auto release to release breaking changes in one release (9034ad6)

• deps: Bump actions/cache from 5 to 6 (#1240, e4e7a79)

• deps: Bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7 (#1237, c3c844f)

• deps: Bump actions/setup-java from 5 to 5.6.0 (#1265, e3cf4f5)

• deps: Bump actions/setup-node from 6 to 7 (#1250, 48201f7)

• deps: Bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7 (#1264, 247bfba)

• deps: Bump gitpython from 3.1.47 to 3.1.54 (#1262, 3b0ae42)

• deps: Bump requests from 2.32.5 to 2.33.0 (#1266, f119477)

• deps: Bump selenium from 4.40.0 to 4.46.0 (#1251, 37b5118)

• deps: Bump setuptools from 80.10.1 to 83.0.0 (#1263, f92311d)

• deps: Bump typing-extensions from 4.15.0 to 4.16.0 (#1242, ceb843a)

• deps: Bump urllib3 from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0 (#1257, e155a73)

• deps-dev: Bump mypy from 1.19.1 to 2.3.0 (#1253, 21f73eb)

• deps-dev: Bump pre-commit from 4.5.1 to 4.6.0 (#1252, 8480f9c)

• deps-dev: Bump pre-commit from 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 (#1259, 3439428)

• deps-dev: Bump pytest from 8.4.2 to 9.1.1 (#1255, 9e76329)

• deps-dev: Bump python-semantic-release from 10.5.3 to 10.6.1 (#1244, 0c14656)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.17 to 0.15.19 (#1238, b989a00)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.19 to 0.15.20 (#1239, ef6b6f2)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.20 to 0.15.21 (#1245, bafdbf7)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.21 to 0.15.22 (#1249, 136b1e4)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.22 to 0.16.0 (#1261, 7c741e6)

• deps-dev: Bump types-python-dateutil (#1254, c7c1240)

Documentation

• Drop appiumpro links as the top domain no longer maintained (34111e0)

• Move http -> https in Homepage url (#1256, f1d0f1c)

Features

• Drop CanRememberExtensionPresence (#1269, e33851f)

Refactoring

• Network extension to remove legacy command fallbacks (#1258, 9097a5a)

• Remove legacy command fallbacks in Applications extension (#1233, [4707ff7](4707ff...

v5.3.1 (2026-04-19)

This release is published under the Apache-2.0 License.

Bug Fixes

• Replace assert with ValueError for state validation (#1219, 2193837)

Chores

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.10 to 0.15.11 (#1217, 30dad44)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.7 to 0.15.8 (#1210, 7181b20)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.8 to 0.15.9 (#1214, 21fdecb)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.9 to 0.15.10 (#1216, 9016e94)

Detailed Changes: v5.3.0...v5.3.1

v5.3.0 (2026-03-28)

This release is published under the Apache-2.0 License.

Bug Fixes

• test: Simplify assertion for AndroidKeyMetastate in test_has_some_metastates (#1211, ad8c5c9)

Chores

• deps-dev: Bump pytest-cov from 7.0.0 to 7.1.0 (#1209, 8466c27)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.4 to 0.15.5 (#1205, 628a731)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.5 to 0.15.6 (#1207, 9b81d2a)

• deps-dev: Bump ruff from 0.15.6 to 0.15.7 (#1208, 339fff9)

Continuous Integration

• deps: Bump futureware-tech/simulator-action from 4 to 5 (#1206, a3c13dc)

Features

• Add AndroidKeyMetastate class for keyboard metastate constants (#1211, ad8c5c9)

• android: Add AndroidKeyMetastate class for keyboard metastate constants (#1211, ad8c5c9)

Detailed Changes: v5.2.7...v5.3.0