Sourced from @​wdio/dot-reporter's releases.

v8

💥 Breaking Change

• Drop Node.js v12, v13 and v14 Support
• Transition code base from CommonJS to ESM
  • This should not affect WebdriverIO users as you can use the testrunner, as well as webdriver, devtools and webdriverio NPM packages in a CJS environment
  • We still mark this as breaking as we can't gurantee that all (untested) functionality will behave the same due to all rewrites done to the code base
• Removal of @wdio/sync which we deprecated in v7
• WebdriverIO types are now accessible through @wdio/globals/types instead of webdriverio/async
• Removal of browser.config
  • Please use browser.options instead
  • This will stop support assigning custom properties to the wdio.conf.js which we disadvise you to do, instead either assign it as part of a custom capability, e.g. custom:options (note the : in it, read more on custom capabilities in the WebDriver spec) or via `@wdio/shared-store-service
• discontinued support for tsconfig-paths

🚀 New Feature

• New runner plugin called @wdio/browser-runner allows you to run unit and component tests in the browser
• Access WebdriverIO primitives through the new @wdio/globals package
• New Action API

🏠 Internal

• Update required Node.js version for development to v18.12.1
• Migrate unit tests from Jest to Vitest

💅 Polish

• Improvements on configuration wizard and create-wdio
  • It now detects whether your projects uses ESM or CJS and creates example files accordingly
  • It now finds the project root and sets up the project relative to it
  • Adds support for browser runner selection

📝 Documentation

• Little design tweaks to the hero section on the main page
• Added new section for component testing
• Added new API section for browser, element, mock objects, modules and environment variables

v7.27.0 (2022-11-23)

👓 Spec Compliancy

• wdio-protocols
  • #9177 Fix URLs for webauthn extension capabilities (@​ericparton)

🚀 New Feature

• wdio-browserstack-service
  • #9168 [v7] @​wdio/browserstack-service: Add session naming options (@​SCG82)

💅 Polish

• wdio-sauce-service
  • #9167 [v7] @​wdio/sauce-service: apply setJobName in beforeSuite (@​SCG82)

📝 Documentation

• wdio-cli
  • #9228 [v7] Add the Vitaq AI service to the list of services in the v7 WebdriverIO documentation (@​RossVertizan)

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v8.0.0 (2022-12-01)

💥 Breaking Change

• Drop Node.js v12, v13 and v14 Support
• Transition code base from CommonJS to ESM
  • This should not affect WebdriverIO users as you can use the testrunner, as well as webdriver, devtools and webdriverio NPM packages in a CJS environment
  • We still mark this as breaking as we can't gurantee that all (untested) functionality will behave the same due to all rewrites done to the code base
• Removal of @wdio/sync which we deprecated in v7
• WebdriverIO types are now accessible through @wdio/globals/types instead of webdriverio/async
• Removal of browser.config
  • Please use browser.options instead
  • This will stop support assigning custom properties to the wdio.conf.js which we disadvise you to do, instead either assign it as part of a custom capability, e.g. custom:options (note the : in it, read more on custom capabilities in the WebDriver spec) or via `@wdio/shared-store-service
• discontinued support for tsconfig-paths

🚀 New Feature

• New runner plugin called @wdio/browser-runner allows you to run unit and component tests in the browser
• Access WebdriverIO primitives through the new @wdio/globals package
• New Action API

🏠 Internal

• Update required Node.js version for development to v18.12.1
• Migrate unit tests from Jest to Vitest

💅 Polish

• Improvements on configuration wizard and create-wdio
  • It now detects whether your projects uses ESM or CJS and creates example files accordingly
  • It now finds the project root and sets up the project relative to it
  • Adds support for browser runner selection

📝 Documentation

• Little design tweaks to the hero section on the main page
• Added new section for component testing
• Added new API section for browser, element, mock objects, modules and environment variables

• a9b5954 v8.0.0
• edc272a remove @​wdio/cli as peerDep
• 0042dfb add directory to the repo field in package.json
• 4aab2ce update @​wdio/cli peer dep
• ef7dc13 update expect-webdriverio and initiate it in @​wdio/globals (#8698)
• 29d0131 enforce file extensions
• 8aa99a3 properly export modules
• 9d95f42 rewrite dot reporter to esm
• fdb6a8e make Node.js v16 a requirement
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