v9.22.0 (2025-12-24)

🚀 New Feature

• wdio-appium-service
  • #14932 feat:add start appium inspector from the cli (@wswebcreation)
  • #14939 Adding ability to pass in custom timeout for appium start (@samuelfreiberg)

🐛 Bug Fix

• wdio-utils
  • #14918 fix(wdio-utils): propagate framework timeouts to shim to avoid premat… (@mccmrunal)
  • #14896 fix: add unique user-data-dir for Chrome workers on Windows (#14729) (@mccmrunal)
• webdriverio
  • #14901 fix(attach): flatten options to top-level for waitFor commands (#14715) (@mccmrunal)
  • #14909 fix: use type-specific action IDs to comply with W3C WebDriver spec (… (@mccmrunal)
  • #14910 Fix isElementDisplayed and isElementClickable on Perfecto Mobile Devices (@nheiser)
  • #14933 fix: handle multiple webviews with same package when first is empty (… (@mccmrunal)
  • #14937 Fix/ getCSSProperty implicit wait on stale element (@ivanovicu)
  • #14944 fix(webdriverio): fix wildcard support in browser.mock (@mccmrunal)
• wdio-allure-reporter
  • #14907 fix(@wdio/allure-reporter): include cid in historyId for multi-capabi… (@mccmrunal)
• wdio-cli
  • #14904 fixes double config file loading issue and tsx file timing load issue (@mccmrunal)
  • #14917 fix(cli): correct isParallelMultiremote check for empty capabilities (@mccmrunal)
• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #14923 fix(wdio-browserstack-service): resolve BiDi syntax error (#14922) (@mccmrunal)
  • #14950 Fix/browserstack cli file contention 14943 (@mccmrunal)
  • #14931 fix: Logs leaking creds (@Tanmay-Bstack)
• wdio-appium-service
  • #14952 fixed test cases for PR #14932 (@mccmrunal)

💅 Polish

• wdio-appium-service
  • #14932 feat:add start appium inspector from the cli (@wswebcreation)

📝 Documentation

• #14938 docs: add TestPlanIt Reporter to 3rd-party reporters list (@therealbrad)
• #14916 Add smartUI doc (@harsha509)

🏠 Internal

• Other
  • #14925 chore: update GitHub Actions macOS runner from 13 to 15 (@mccmrunal)
• webdriverio
  • #14900 added mocking for fs/promises (@mccmrunal)

Committers: 9

• Brad DerManouelian (@therealbrad)
• MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
• Samuel Freiberg (@samuelfreiberg)
• Sri Harsha (@harsha509)
• Uros Ivanovic (@ivanovicu)
• Vishnu Vardhan (@vishnuv688)
• Wim Selles (@wswebcreation)
• @Tanmay-Bstack
• @nheiser

No updates!

v9.21.0 (2025-11-29)

🚀 New Feature

• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #14796 [v9] Implement BrowserStack CLI support in browserstack service (@Pritishchugh22)

🐛 Bug Fix

• wdio-cucumber-framework
  • #14856 fix(@wdio/cucumber-framework): fix HookFunctionExtension hook return types (@christian-bromann)
• webdriverio
  • #14793 fix(webdriverio): get absolute paths using native path.resolve (@macarie)
  • #14886 fix: detect stale elements in BiDi mode for getCSSProperty (#14885) (@mccmrunal)
  • #14832 fix(webdriverio): fix getHTML return-type (@gavvvr)
  • #14817 fix(webdriverio): Fix request mock with hostname only not working (@Dziurdzikowski)
  • #14836 fix: update waitForExist function to maintain elementIds for shadow e… (@b-kirby)
  • #14872 fix(webdriverio): correct withinViewport check logic for isDisplayed … (@mccmrunal)
• wdio-junit-reporter
  • #14881 fix(wdio-junit-reporter): add property support for Cucumber tests (@mccmrunal)
• wdio-cli, wdio-config, webdriver
  • #14880 fix(wdio-cli): respect maxInstancesPerCapability for dynamic capabili… (@mccmrunal)
• wdio-appium-service
  • #14877 fix(appium-service): ignore warnings and debugger messages in launcher (@mccmrunal)
• wdio-allure-reporter, wdio-browserstack-service, wdio-config, wdio-runner, webdriver, webdriverio
  • #14862 refactor: remove unused import (@noritaka1166)
• webdriver
  • #14799 fix(webdriver): pass all options to fetch (@omjadas)
• create-wdio
  • #14875 fix(create-wdio): add missing ts dependencies (@mccmrunal)

💅 Polish

• wdio-allure-reporter
  • #14888 allure-reporter: add mode and excluded properties for parameters (@todti)
• wdio-browser-runner, wdio-utils, webdriver
  • #14879 fix(@wdio/utils): update driver packages for @wdio/utils (@mccmrunal)

📝 Documentation

• #14889 docs(wdio-camera-service): Add wdio-camera-service to 3rd-party services list (@Winify)
• #14813 Replacing of Twitter with 𝕏 (@fpereira1)

🏠 Internal

• #14861 chore: fix typos in e2e (@noritaka1166)

Committers: 12

• Adi Dziurdzikowski (@Dziurdzikowski)
• Alex (@todti)
• Christian Bromann (@christian-bromann)
• Filype (@fpereira1)
• Kirill Gavrilov (@gavvvr)
• MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
• Noritaka Kobayashi (@noritaka1166)
• Pritish Chugh (@Pritishchugh22)
• Raul Macarie (@macarie)
• Vince Graics (@Winify)
• @b-kirby
• @omjadas

v8.48.0 (2025-11-29)

🐛 Bug Fix

• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #14844 Adding extra key for app accessibility feature to use centralHeader for authentication (@pri-gadhiya)

Committers: 1

• Priyanka Gadhiya (@pri-gadhiya)

v9.20.1 (2025-11-18)

🐛 Bug Fix

• wdio-browserstack-service, wdio-cli, wdio-config, wdio-sauce-service, wdio-shared-store-service, webdriverio
  • #14802 🐛⏪️ revert: "tsConfigPath in wdio.conf (#14664)" (@sh41)
• webdriverio
  • #14843 Add semicolon to fix browser.execute on Perfecto (@nheiser)
• webdriver
  • #14756 fix(webdriver): invoke terminate on all unsuccessful websocket candidates (@pokdeep)
• wdio-webdriver-mock-service, webdriverio
  • #14853 Fix: Prevent stale CSS property reads in WebDriver Bidi mode (@ivanovicu)
• wdio-cli
  • #14846 fix wdio repl when run with multiremote capabilities (@zhirzh)

📝 Documentation

• webdriverio
  • #14834 docs: add page for waitForResponse mock method (@icholy)
• Other
  • #14825 fix: update React logo and alt text for accessibility (@ritwickrajmakhal)
  • #14821 Fix 3rd-party reporters links (@gavvvr)
  • #14790 README update to use https (@fpereira1)

Committers: 10

• Filype (@fpereira1)
• Ilia Choly (@icholy)
• Kirill Gavrilov (@gavvvr)
• Pokdeep Sandhu (@pokdeep)
• RITWICK RAJ MAKHAL (@ritwickrajmakhal)
• Shirsh Zibbu (@zhirzh)
• Steve Hall (@sh41)
• Uros Ivanovic (@ivanovicu)
• Will Brock (@WillBrock)
• @nheiser

No updates!

v9.20.0 (2025-09-27)

🚀 New Feature

• wdio-allure-reporter
  • #14719 Update wdio-allure-reporter for Allure 3 (@todti)

🐛 Bug Fix

• webdriver
  • #14760 fix(webdriver): Fix no retrying requests when unexpected token on responses occurs (like on HTML responses) (@Nyaran)
• wdio-cucumber-framework
  • #14763 feat(cucumber): Fix skipping tests with skip tag using complex regular expressions (@Nyaran)
• wdio-allure-reporter
  • #14723 fix(@wdio/allure-reporter): Encode HTML entities (@sventschui)
• webdriverio
  • #14714 fix(attach-params): user options should override detectBackend (@NaamuKim)
• wdio-utils
  • #14750 feat(utils): Fix reduce function to use the initial value parameter (@Nyaran)

💅 Polish

• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #14783 Exhaustive logging for better capability flow debug (@pranay-v29)
  • #14781 SDK-4104 Updated the build url format for azure pipelines (@pranay-v29)
• wdio-cli, wdio-config
  • #14664 tsConfigPath in wdio.conf (@sh41)
• webdriverio
  • #14744 fix: polish waitForClickable (@wswebcreation)
  • #14745 fix: polish isStable commands (@wswebcreation)
• wdio-browserstack-service, wdio-local-runner
  • #14734 Support added for change in product name:- Observability -> Test Reporting and Analytics v9 (@Tanmay-Bstack)

📝 Documentation

• Other
  • #14786 Updated refs due to changes in the example-recipes repo (@fpereira1)
  • #14787 Update docs on selector to warn that aria/ selectors can be slow (@fpereira1)
  • #14776 corrected typo in the index page (@alphabetkrish)
• wdio-junit-reporter
  • #14735 docs(@wdio/junit-reporter): update readme (@eglitise)

🏠 Internal

• #14748 chore(.nvmrc) upgrade node version to fix continuous release (@NaamuKim)

Committers: 15

• Alex (@todti)
• David Prevost (@dprevost-LMI)
• Edgars Eglītis (@eglitise)
• Erkan Erol (@erkanerol)
• Filype (@fpereira1)
• Luis Zurro (@Nyaran)
• Luke (@NaamuKim)
• Nathan Zhao (@phantomwolf)
• Pranay Varma (@pranay-v29)
• Steve Hall (@sh41)
• Sven (@sventschui)
• Ulises Gascón (@UlisesGascon)
• Wim Selles (@wswebcreation)
• @Tanmay-Bstack
• @alphabetkrish

v8.47.0 (2025-09-09)

🚀 New Feature

• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #14711 Support added for change in product name:- Observability -> Test Reporting and Analytics v8 (@Tanmay-Bstack)

Committers: 2

• Aditya Hirapara (@AdityaHirapara)
• @Tanmay-Bstack

v9.19.2 (2025-08-24)

🐛 Bug Fix

• wdio-junit-reporter
  • #14706 fix(junit-reporter): improve error handling and skipped test reportin… (@nair-sumesh)
• webdriverio
  • #14717 fix(webdriverio): escape scripts in addInitScript (@birtles)
• wdio-local-runner, wdio-types, wdio-xvfb
  • #14700 fix(wdio-xvfb): autoXvfb should disable xvfb completely (@goosewobbler)

💅 Polish

• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #14704 Add chaining of multiple layers of overwritten command definitions (@amaanbs)

Committers: 4

• Amaan Hakim (@amaanbs)
• Brian Birtles (@birtles)
• @goosewobbler
• @nair-sumesh

v9.19.1 (2025-08-12)

💅 Polish

• wdio-local-runner, wdio-types, wdio-xvfb
  • #14696 feat(wdio-xvfb): add xvfbAutoInstall option (@goosewobbler)

Committers: 1

• @goosewobbler