BrowserStack SDK release notes

🐛 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

• 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

🚀 New Features

• [Percy] Mocha support
• [Playwright] `playwrightConfigOptions` for custom project configs
• [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

• 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

🚀 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

• 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