I know it has been a long time without a release, but Watir 6.17 is now available on RubyGems! Mostly just a maintenance update, but Ruby 2.5 or greater now required and all of the warnings and noise from recent Selenium versions should be silenced. Mostly I’m pleased that in addition to code from the 3 main contributors, we received code submissions from four additional authors: Lakshya Kapoor, Matthew Mazaika, Olle Jonsson & Joe Schulte. Thank you for your work!

To install:

gem install watir

or in your Gemfile:

gem "watir", "~> 6.17"

Convenience Methods

1. Element#right_click now accepts modifiers for key presses just like Element#click
2. FileField#upload exists was added (same functionality as FileField#set)
3. Logger#selenium= allows setting selenium log level directly
4. Browser now accepts a :service parameter with a Selenium Service instance value

Deprecations and Removals

1. Element#scroll_into_view is deprecated in favor of the new Element#scroll functionality
2. Selenium noise from latest version is quieted

Bug Fixes

1. Locator code now respects case sensitivity and insensitivity based on w3c html specification
2. Each browser instance gets its own timer to allow threading
3. There was a location issue when an iframe was nested under another element
4. Locating with Regular Expressions used to only match direct child text nodes, now it matches any descendent

See the Changelog for the complete history of updates.