webdriverio

Name: webdriverio
Author: webdriverio

Frameworks & Libraries

webdriverio release notes.

Latest v9.30.0 · Jul 21, 2026by webdriverioWebsite webdriverio/webdriverio

Changelog

v9.30.0

Jul 21, 2026 · 8 days ago

v9.30.0 (2026-07-21)

:eyeglasses: Spec Compliancy

wdio-protocols, webdriver
- #15370 fix: update CDDL and regenerate to fix null litteral (@dprevost-LMI)

:bug: Bug Fix

webdriverio
- #15400 fix(webdriverio): stop unrelated shadow roots leaking into scoped element lookups (@mccmrunal)
wdio-browser-runner, wdio-utils
- #15399 fix(deps): bump geckodriver to 6.1.1 to fix geckoDriverVersion CLI leak (@mccmrunal)
wdio-allure-reporter
- #15390 PR: Bug Fix 🐛fix(allure-reporter): attach suite-level before/after all hook steps to every test (@mccmrunal)
wdio-browserstack-service
- #15376 fix(browserstack-service): report mocha hooks in the CLI/testhub flow [SDK-6809] (@pranay-v29)
- #15381 fix(browserstack-service): coerce stringified boolean accessibility options (@xxshubhamxx)
- #15382 fix(browserstack-service): finalize orphaned test runs on interrupted exit (SDK-4671) (@xxshubhamxx)
- #15383 fix(a11y): route WDIO CLI-flow App Automate sessions to app-accessibility (SDK-3813) (@xxshubhamxx)
- #15380 fix(browserstack-service): skip a11y scan for BiDi window/context commands (SDK-5047) (@xxshubhamxx)
- #15379 fix(wdio-browserstack-service): ship a11y Browser type augmentations (@harshit-browserstack)
wdio-protocols, webdriver
- #15370 fix: update CDDL and regenerate to fix null litteral (@dprevost-LMI)

:house: Internal

wdio-config
- #15398 fix(deps): patch minimatch instances missed by prior override (@mccmrunal)
Other
- #15396 Mrunal/vulnerabilities fixes (@mccmrunal)
wdio-browserstack-service, webdriver
- #15393 chore: Fixed vulnerabilities (@mccmrunal)

Committers: 6

David Prevost (@dprevost-LMI)
MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
Pranay Varma (@pranay-v29)
Shubham Garg (@xxshubhamxx)
Wim Selles (@wswebcreation)
@harshit-browserstack

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v8.48.3

Jul 1, 2026 · 28 days ago

v8.48.3 (2026-07-01)

:rocket: New Feature

wdio-browserstack-service
- #14785 [WDIO CLI V8] Targeted scans (@Pritishchugh22)

:nail_care: Polish

wdio-browserstack-service
- #15217 feat: enhance gRPC client with message size limits (@xxshubhamxx)
- #15146 fix: update exit signal for CLI process termination on Unix (@xxshubhamxx)
- #15200 V8 Username accesskey redaction from automation logs (@minavkaria-bs)

Committers: 11

Aakash Hotchandani (@AakashHotchandani)
Aditya Hirapara (@AdityaHirapara)
David Prevost (@dprevost-LMI)
Kamalpreet Kaur (@kamal-kaur04)
MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
Minav Karia (@minavkaria-bs)
Pritish Chugh (@Pritishchugh22)
Shubham Garg (@xxshubhamxx)
YASH JAIN (@osho-20)
@vipin-bs
bhargavi vaidya (@Bhargavi-BS)

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v8.48.2

Jul 1, 2026 · 28 days ago

v8.48.2 (2026-07-01)

:rocket: New Feature

wdio-browserstack-service
- #14785 [WDIO CLI V8] Targeted scans (@Pritishchugh22)

:nail_care: Polish

wdio-browserstack-service
- #15217 feat: enhance gRPC client with message size limits (@xxshubhamxx)
- #15146 fix: update exit signal for CLI process termination on Unix (@xxshubhamxx)
- #15200 V8 Username accesskey redaction from automation logs (@minavkaria-bs)

Committers: 11

Aakash Hotchandani (@AakashHotchandani)
Aditya Hirapara (@AdityaHirapara)
David Prevost (@dprevost-LMI)
Kamalpreet Kaur (@kamal-kaur04)
MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
Minav Karia (@minavkaria-bs)
Pritish Chugh (@Pritishchugh22)
Shubham Garg (@xxshubhamxx)
YASH JAIN (@osho-20)
@vipin-bs
bhargavi vaidya (@Bhargavi-BS)

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v8.48.1

Jul 1, 2026 · 28 days ago

v8.48.1 (2026-07-01)

:rocket: New Feature

wdio-browserstack-service
- #14785 [WDIO CLI V8] Targeted scans (@Pritishchugh22)

:nail_care: Polish

wdio-browserstack-service
- #15217 feat: enhance gRPC client with message size limits (@xxshubhamxx)
- #15146 fix: update exit signal for CLI process termination on Unix (@xxshubhamxx)
- #15200 V8 Username accesskey redaction from automation logs (@minavkaria-bs)

Committers: 11

Aakash Hotchandani (@AakashHotchandani)
Aditya Hirapara (@AdityaHirapara)
David Prevost (@dprevost-LMI)
Kamalpreet Kaur (@kamal-kaur04)
MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
Minav Karia (@minavkaria-bs)
Pritish Chugh (@Pritishchugh22)
Shubham Garg (@xxshubhamxx)
YASH JAIN (@osho-20)
@vipin-bs
bhargavi vaidya (@Bhargavi-BS)

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v9.29.1

Jun 26, 2026 · about 1 month ago

v9.29.1 (2026-06-26)

:rocket: New Feature

wdio-browserstack-service
- #15335 feat(browserstack-service): one-to-many Test-Case-ID tagging (setCust… (@anish353)

:bug: Bug Fix

wdio-logger
- #15354 fix: Force logger build by adjusting security doc on pattern masking (@dprevost-LMI)
webdriverio
- #15353 fix(webdriverio): skip isConnected check for non-shadow element scope in BiDi (@mccmrunal)

:memo: Documentation

wdio-logger
- #15354 fix: Force logger build by adjusting security doc on pattern masking (@dprevost-LMI)
Other
- #15341 docs(tracing): Add blog post for Tracing Mode in devtools service (@Winify)

Committers: 5

Anish Kumar Sinha (@anish353)
David Prevost (@dprevost-LMI)
MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
Shubham Garg (@xxshubhamxx)
Vince Graics (@Winify)

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v9.29.0

Jun 18, 2026 · about 1 month ago

v9.29.0 (2026-06-18)

:bug: Bug Fix

webdriverio
- #15293 fix: make waitForResponse wait for networkCollector's response (@dprevost-LMI)
wdio-utils
- #15305 fix(wdio-utils): use supported EdgeDriver CDN (@cyphercodes)

:nail_care: Polish

wdio-browserstack-service
- #15316 Fix/wdio reloadsession finishedmetadata (@shivamku-BS)

:house: Internal

#15320 ci: fix ubuntu e2e failures (@dprevost-LMI)

Committers: 6

David Prevost (@dprevost-LMI)
MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
Rayan Salhab (@cyphercodes)
Shivam Kumar (@shivamku-BS)
Vince Graics (@Winify)
Vishnu Vardhan (@vishnuv688)

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v9.28.0

Jun 10, 2026 · about 2 months ago

v9.28.0 (2026-06-10)

:bug: Bug Fix

#15291 fix: logger not cjs compliant (@dprevost-LMI)

:house: Internal

Other
- #15292 ci: Fix unzip hangs issue with node 24.16 (@dprevost-LMI)
wdio-browserstack-service, wdio-protocols, webdriver
- #15283 fix: main pipeline failures & browserStack config.accessibility & more (@dprevost-LMI)

Committers: 9

Aakash Hotchandani (@AakashHotchandani)
David Prevost (@dprevost-LMI)
JinHyuk Sung (@sjh9714)
Kamalpreet Kaur (@kamal-kaur04)
MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
Noritaka Kobayashi (@noritaka1166)
Vishnu Vardhan (@vishnuv688)
Wim Selles (@wswebcreation)
@harshit-browserstack

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v9.27.2

May 26, 2026 · 2 months ago

v9.27.2 (2026-05-26)

:rocket: New Feature

create-wdio, wdio-xvfb
- #15235 feat(create-wdio): migrate to @wdio/electron-service and add Tauri service (@goosewobbler)

:bug: Bug Fix

wdio-browserstack-service
- #15246 fix: resolve etxtbsy issue(file busy error) at spawn (@shivamku-BS)

:nail_care: Polish

wdio-browserstack-service, wdio-types
- #15232 Honouring the skipped status (@Bhargavi-BS)
wdio-browserstack-service
- #15215 fix(browserstack-service): omit unset accessibility config (@kbrooks)
- #15201 Update gRPC message limit in WDIO-v9 to 20 MB (@xxshubhamxx)

:memo: Documentation

#15255 Selenium devtools doc (@vishnuv688)

Committers: 11

Christian Bromann (@christian-bromann)
Kamalpreet Kaur (@kamal-kaur04)
Kyle Brooks (@kbrooks)
MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
Shivam Kumar (@shivamku-BS)
Shubham Garg (@xxshubhamxx)
Vishnu Vardhan (@vishnuv688)
Wim Selles (@wswebcreation)
YASH JAIN (@osho-20)
@goosewobbler
bhargavi vaidya (@Bhargavi-BS)

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v9.27.1

Apr 30, 2026 · 3 months ago

v9.27.1 (2026-04-30)

:eyeglasses: Spec Compliancy

wdio-protocols, wdio-types, webdriver, webdriverio
- #15158 fix: cddl generation (@dprevost-LMI)

:rocket: New Feature

wdio-protocols, wdio-types, webdriverio
- #15153 feat: Add bidi network data (@dprevost-LMI)

:bug: Bug Fix

wdio-types, wdio-utils
- #15204 fix(utils): skip desktop browser download when androidPackage is set (@mccmrunal)
wdio-local-runner, wdio-runner
- #15193 fix: call afterSession hook on session init failure and guard worker IPC against kill race (@mccmrunal)
webdriverio
- #15192 enhancement: prevent shadow root memory leak in SPA navigation (@lacell75)
- #15191 fix shadow element stale (@lacell75)
wdio-allure-reporter
- #15112 Fix Allure reporter historyId — use capability key instead of cid (@todti)
wdio-protocols, wdio-types, webdriverio
- #15153 feat: Add bidi network data (@dprevost-LMI)
wdio-runner
- #15186 fix: disableElementImplicitWait not working when defined too early (@dprevost-LMI)
wdio-protocols, wdio-types, webdriver, webdriverio
- #15158 fix: cddl generation (@dprevost-LMI)

:nail_care: Polish

wdio-browserstack-service
- #15206 V9 username accesskey redaction (@minavkaria-bs)
wdio-protocols, wdio-types, webdriver, webdriverio
- #15158 fix: cddl generation (@dprevost-LMI)

:memo: Documentation

wdio-protocols, wdio-types, webdriver, webdriverio
- #15158 fix: cddl generation (@dprevost-LMI)

:house: Internal

wdio-protocols, wdio-types, webdriver, webdriverio
- #15158 fix: cddl generation (@dprevost-LMI)
webdriverio
- #15173 ci: enable vitest typecheck tests (@dprevost-LMI)

Committers: 9

#QualityWithMillan (@eaccmk)
Alex (@todti)
David Prevost (@dprevost-LMI)
Fabien CELLIER (@lacell75)
MRUNAL CHAUDHARI (@mccmrunal)
Vishnu Vardhan (@vishnuv688)
YASH JAIN (@osho-20)
@Badisi
@minavkaria-bs

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v9.27.0

Mar 23, 2026 · 4 months ago

v9.27.0 (2026-03-23)

:bug: Bug Fix

wdio-appium-service
- #15155 fix(appium-service): fix startup failure caused by Appium stderr log output (@wswebcreation)
wdio-globals
- #15135 fix: TypeScript 7 compatibility (@mscrivo)
wdio-protocols, webdriverio
- #15159 fix(webdriverio): revert queryAppState protocol rename and remove mobile command wrapper (@wswebcreation)

Committers: 2

Michael Scrivo (@mscrivo)
Wim Selles (@wswebcreation)

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