For the latest version of release notes, please see http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/NEWCHANGES

New Features (Both IE and Firefox)

• Browser.attach is now available.
• Browser.options and Browser.set_options are now available.
• Add support for definition lists, this adds these methods:
  • dd, dt, dl, dds, dts, dls. (Jarib)
• Hidden#visible? should always return false. (Jarib)
• New method execute_script.
• Add ElementCollections#size as alias of length. (Jarib)
• Some camelCase => snake_case renames (with aliasing). (Jarib)
  • Image#fileCreatedDate => file_created_date
  • Image#fileSize => file_size
  • Image#hasLoaded? => loaded?
  • SelectList#getAllContents => options
  • SelectList#getSelectedItems => selected_options
  • SelectList#clearSelection => clear
  • SelectList#includes? => include?
  • TextField#dragContentsTo => drag_contents_to
  • Radio/Checkbox#isSet? => set?
• Patch for winclicker fix. http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-279 (Derek Berner)
• Add support for using a Regexp as the third argument (value) when locating checkboxes/radio buttons. (Jarib)
• Add support for element. (Jarib)
• Add support and tests for element. (Jarib)
• SelectList#select now supports Numeric arguments. (Jarib)
• Additional inspect implementations for both IE and FF. (Jarib)
• Added ElementCollections#{first,last}. (Jarib)
• Fixes for running on Ruby 1.9. (Jarib)

Firefox Improvements

• SelectList#set is now defined for Firefox. Like with IE, it is an alias for SelectList#select. [271]
• Element collections are now enumerable. This allows methods such as @select@ and @map@ to be used with methods such as @divs@ and @links@.
• FireWatir.attach is now available, analogous to IE.attach.
• Some Javascript errors that were being ignored, now raise Ruby exceptions.
• Added event handler which resets the context of document
• Fix bug that occurred when new page was automatically loaded. (Angrez, 3ef8b6) when page gets loaded automatically (Angrez)
• Changed code to use document_var, body_var, window_var, browser_var instead of “document”, “body”, “window”, “browser” variables. (Angrez)
• Changed code to replace every quote (“) in xpath query with (\”) so that it doesn’t give error while executing the xpath query (Angrez)
• Fire onchange event for FireWatir file fields. Closes WTR-286. (Jarib)
• Fixes for running and closing Firefox on Mac OS X
• Added functionality to allow Watir::Browser.attach with no arguments to open a new firefox window rather than taking over the existing focused window (Rob Aldred)
• Also modified some setup functions to correctly handle closed browsers, browserless windows and others (Rob Aldred)
• Add test and implementation for Firefox#status http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-250 (Jarib)
• Two problems fixed with .click (jubishop)
• When chaining together element calls the @container becomes an HTMLElement, but there’s no container_var defined for HTMLElement
• When an <a tag has no href then element_type was returning nil.
• Fix bug in Firefox#document. change creating error class by eval in jssh socket to creating class with ruby.

IE Improvements

• Allow attach timeout to be accessed as an option. Thus:
  • IE.set_options :attach_timeout => 5.0
  • This was previously available as class method.
• Fix for Autoit auto-registration. (Bret)
• Fix for Autoit auto-registration. (Bret)
• Fix for IE6, 7 and 8 file downloads. (Željko Filipin & Jarmo Pertman)
• Replaced REXML with Nokogiri for xml parsing. (Aidy Lewis)
• Option now supports :label attribute http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-297
• Patch for IE.close causing WIN32OLE errors http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-304 (Tony)
• Watir::IE.inspect issue fixed: http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-180 (Jarib)
• Fix for Browser#execute_script on IE7. (Jarib)
• Removed ActiveSupport dependency. (Jari

Structure Improvements

• Lots of rework of the FireWatir code, including removing duplication and dead code, renaming variables, and simplifying code. Also a few performanceimprovements.
• Rename source file names for consistency.

Unit Tests

• Add tests demonstrating known bugs.
• Make the “window” tests run more reliably.
• Relocate unreliable tests.
• Tag tests that are known to fail on IE or Firefox.
• Fixed one test that was failing on non-English platforms. (Jarib)
• New Rake task (:test) runs all tests.
• Use ci_reporter to provide more detailed test results for watirbuild.com
• Use xls transform to format results.
• Add WatirSpec submodule + load it in Rakefile if available. (Jarib)