#Version 3.40.0 Release date: unreleased

Dropped support for Ruby 2.7, 3.0+ is now required
Dropped support for Selenium < 4.8

Version 3.39.2

Release date: 2023-06-10

Fixed

Fix Selenium version comparison [aki77]

Version 3.39.1

Release date: 2023-05-12

Fixed

Fix usage of Selenium logger

Version 3.39.0

Release date: 2023-04-02

Added

Support :target filter option on :link selector [Yudai Takada]
Experimental Rack 3 support
Text normalization performance improvements [Brandon Weaver]

Fixed

MS Edge button click [Brian J. Bayer]
Options/Capabilities choosing based on Selenium versions
Support for base versions [Matijs van Zuijlen]
ExpectedError not defined in Selenium 4+
Filter block forwarding to a number of matchers [Christophe Bliard]

Changed

Dropped support for rack 1.x

Version 3.38.0

Release date: 2022-11-03

Changed

Capybara.w3c_click_offset now defaults to true. If you need click offsets to be from the elements top left corner set it to false in your config

Added

Support Selenium 4.3 changes to click offset calculations
click, double_click, right_click can now be called on the session to click the currently scoped element (or document)
Session#within now passes the scoped element to the block
Support rack-test 2+
Retry interval is now configurable [Masahiro NOMOTO]
Support Puma 6 - Issue #2590
Selenium: DetachedShadowRootError is treated as an invalid element error [Perryn Fowler]
Selenium: When inspected shadow roots will have a tag name of "ShadowRoot"
evaluate_async_script added to Session::DSL_METHODS [Henry Blyth]

Fixed

Use higher precision clock in Capybara::Helpers::Timer if available
rack-test driver behavior with \r\n - Issue #2547 [Stefan Hoffmann]
Updated for deprecation of positional parameters in Selenium::WebDriver::ActionBuilder#pause
Explicitly set cause on server raised errors
Options no longer duplicated in have_xxx invalid option error message [Yudai Takada]
Animation disabler is now threadsafe [Daniel Sheppard]
Server connection count tracking [Oleksandr K.]
Ensure scopes are reset when session is [Henry Blyth]

Version 3.37.1

Release date: 2022-05-09

Fixed

Regression in rack-test visit - Issue #2548

Version 3.37.0

Release date: 2022-05-07

Changed

Ruby 2.7.0+ is now required

Added

[Beta] CSP nonces inserted into animation disabler additions - Issue #2542
Support <base> element in rack-test driver - ISsue #2544
[Beta] Element#shadow_root support. Requires selenium-webdriver 4.1+. Only currently supported with Chrome when using the selenium driver. Note: only CSS can be used to find elements from the shadow root. Therefore you won't be able to use most Capybara helper methods (fill_in, click_link, find_field, etc) directly from the shadow root since those locators are built using XPath. If you first locate a descendant from the shadow root using CSS then you should be able to use all the Capybara methods from there.
Regexp now supported for exact_text finder option

Fixed

Fragments in referer headers in rack-test driver - Issue #2525
Selenium v4.1 deprecation notice

Version 3.36.0

Release date: 2021-10-24

Changed

Ruby 2.6.0+ is now required
Minimum selenium-webdriver supported is now 3.142.7

Added

Support for selenium-webdriver 4.x
allow_label_click accepts click options to be used when clicking an associated label
Deprecated allow_gumbo= in favor of use_html5_parsing= to enable use of Nokogiri::HTML5 when available
Session#active_element returns the element with focus - Not supported by the RackTest driver [Sean Doyle]
Support focused: filter for finding interactive elements - Not supported by the RackTest driver [Sean Doyle]

Fixed

Sibling and ancestor queries now work with Simple::Node - Issue #2452
rack_test correctly ignores readonly attribute on specific input element types
Node#all_text always returns a string - Issue #2477
have_any_of_selectors negated match - Issue #2473
Document#scroll_to fixed for standards behavior - pass quirks: true if you need the older behavior [Eric Anderson]
Use capture on attach file event listener for better React compatibility [Jeff Way]
Animation disabler produces valid HTML [Javi Martin]

Removed

References to non-w3c mode in drivers/tests. Non-w3c mode is obsolete and no one should be using it anymore. Capybara hasn't been testing/supporting it in a while

Version 3.35.3

Release date: 2021-01-29

Fixed

Just a release to have the correct dates in the History.md in released gem

Version 3.35.2

Release date: 2021-01-29

Fixed

Selenium deprecation suppressor with Selenium 3.x

Version 3.35.1

Release date: 2021-01-26

Fixed

Default chrome driver registrations use chrome - Issue #2442 [Yuriy Alekseyev]
'Capybara.test_id' usage with the :button selector - Issue #2443

Version 3.35.0

Release date: 2021-01-25

Added

Support Regexp matching for individual class names in :class filter passed an Array
Animation disabler now supports JQuery animation disabling when JQuery loaded from body [Chien-Wei Huang]

Fixed

:button selector type use with enable_aria_role [Sean Doyle]
elements don't associate with aria-role buttons
Ignore Selenium::WebDriver::Error::InvalidSessionIdError when quitting driver [Robin Daugherty]
Firefox: Don't click input when sending keys if already focused
Miscellaneous issues with selenium-webdriver 4.0.0.alphas
Nil return error in node details optimizations
Animation disabler now inserts XHTML compliant content [Dale Morgan]

Version 3.34.0

Release date: 2020-11-26

Added

Ability to fill in with emoji when using Chrome with selenium driver (Firefox already worked)
Current path assertions/expectations accept optional filter block
Animation disabler now specifies scroll-behavior: auto; [Nathan Broadbent]
:button selector can now find elements by label text [Sean Doyle]
Session#send_keys to send keys to the current element with focus in drivers that support the concept of a current element [Sean Doyle]

Changed

Text query validates the type parameter to prevent undefined behavior

Fixed

racktest driver better handles fragments and redirection to urls that include fragments
Don't error when attempting to get XPath location of a shadow element
Missing readonly? added to Node::Simple
Selenium version detection when loaded via alternate method [Joel Hawksley]
Connection count issue if REQUEST_URI value changed by app [Blake Williams]
Maintain URI fragment when redirecting in rack-test driver
Text query error message [Wojciech Wnętrzak]
Checking a checkbox/radio button with allow_label_click now works if there are multiple labels (Issue #2421)
drop with Pathname (Issue #2424)[Máximo Mussini]

Version 3.33.0

Release date: 2020-06-21

Added

Block passed to within_session now receives the new and old session
Support for aria-role button when enabled [Seiei Miyagi]
Support for aria-role link when enabled
Support for validation_message filter with :field and :fillable_field selectors
Deprecation warnings show source location [Koichi ITO]

Changed

Ruby 2.5.0+ is now required
Deprecated direct manipulation of the driver and server registries

Fixed

Ruby 2.7 warning in minitest assert_text [Eileen M. Uchitelle]

Version 3.32.2

Release date: 2020-05-16

Fixed

Don't use lazy enumerator with JRuby due to leaking threads
Ruby 2.7 deprecation warning when registering Webrick [Jon Zeppieri]
have_text description [Juan Pablo Rinaldi]

Version 3.32.1

Release date: 2020-04-05

Fixed

Rapid set now respects field maxlength (Issue #2332)
Only patch pause into legacy actions in Selenium < 4 (Issue #2334)

Version 3.32.0

Release date: 2020-03-29

Added

Support delay setting on click with Selenium
Implement rapid set for values longer than 30 characters in text fields with Selenium

Fixed

Result#[] and negative max on ranges (Issue #2302/2303) [Jeremy Evans]
RackTest form submission rewrites query string when using GET method
Ruby 2.7 deprecation warnings in RSpec matcher proxies

Version 3.31.0

Release date: 2020-01-26

Added

Support setting range inputs with the selenium driver [Andrew White]
Support setting range inputs with the rack driver
Support drop modifier keys in drag & drop [Elliot Crosby-McCullough]
enabled_options and disabled options filters for select selector
Support beginless ranges
Optionally allow all results to be reloaded when stable - Beta feature - may be removed in future version if problems occur

Fixed

Fix Ruby 2.7 deprecation notices around keyword arguments. I have tried to do this without any breaking changes, but due to the nature of the 2.7 changes and some selector types accepting Hashes as locators there are a lot of edge cases. If you find any broken cases please report them and I'll see if they're fixable.
Clicking on details/summary element behavior in rack_test driver_

Version 3.30.0

Release date: 2019-12-24

Added

Display pending requests when they don't complete in time [Juan Carlos Medina]
:order option in selector queries - set to :reverse to for reverse document order results
Support regexp for :name and :placeholder options in selectors that import filters from _field filter set

Fixed

Issue around automatic port assignment - Issue #2245
Label selector when label has no id - Issue #2260
Preserve clientX/clientY in Selenium HTML5 drag emulation [Nicolò G.]
table selector using :with_cols option if last specified column matched but others didn't - Issue #2287
Some tests updated for Ruby 2.7 behavior change around keyword args

Version 3.29.0

Release date: 2019-09-02

Added

Allow clicking on file input when using the block version of attach_file with Chrome and Firefox
Spatial filters (left_of, right_of, above, below, near)
rack_test driver now supports clicking on details elements to open/close them

Fixed

rack_test driver correctly determines visibility for open details elements descendants

Changed

Results will now be lazily evaluated when using JRuby >= 9.2.8.0

Version 3.28.0

Release date: 2019-08-03

Added

Allow forcing HTML5 or legacy dragging via the :html5 option to drag_to when using Selenium with Chrome or Firefox
Autodetection of drag type interprets not seeing the mousedown event as legacy.
HTML5 form validation :valid node filter added to :field and :fillable_field selectors
When using Capybara registered :puma server - patches Puma 4.0.x to fix SSL connection behavior. Removes default queue_requests setting - Issue #2227

Version 3.27.0

Release date: 2019-07-28

Added

Allow to use chromedriver/geckodriver native is_element_displayed endpoint via Selenium driver native_displayed option for performance reasons. Disabled by default due to endpoints currently not handling <details> element descendants visibility correctly.

Fixed

Ignore negative lookahead/lookbehind regex when performing initial XPath text matching
Reloading of elements found via ancestor and sibling
Only default puma settings to queue_requests: false when using SSL
Visibility of descendants of <details> elements is correctly determined when using rack_test and the selenium driver with Capybara optimized atoms
local/session storage clearance in Chrome when clearing only one of them - Issue #2233

Version 3.26.0

Release date: 2019-07-15

Added

w3c_click_offset configuration option applies to right_click and double_click as well as click
Warning when passing nil to the text/content assertions/expectations
Session#server_url returns the base url the AUT is being run at (when controlled by Capybara)
option selector type accepts an integer as locator

Fixed

Default puma server registration now specifies queue_requests: false - Issue #2227
Workaround issue with FF 68 and hanging during reset if a system modal is visible
Don't expand file path if it's already absolute - Issue #2228

Version 3.25.0

Release date: 2019-06-27

Added

Animation disabler also disables before and after pseudoelements - Issue #2221 [Daniel Heath]
w3c_click_offset configuration option to determine whether click offsets are calculated from element center or top left corner

Fixed

Work around issue with chromedriver 76/77 in W3C mode losing mouse state during legacy drag. Only fixed if both source and target are simultaneously inside the viewport - Issue #2223
Negative ancestor expectations/predicates were incorrectly checking siblings rather than ancestors

Version 3.24.0

Release date: 2019-06-13

Added

Log access when using the Selenium driver with Chrome 75 in W3C mode has been reenabled.

Changed

Selenium driver now selects all current content and then sends keys rather than clearing field by JS and then sending keys when setting values to text inputs in order to more closely simulate user behavior

Fixed

Relative paths passed to attach_file will be assumed to be relative to the current working directory when using the Selenium driver

Version 3.23.0

Release date: 2019-06-10

Added

Improved error message when using Chrome in W3C mode and attempting to access logs
Support driver specific options for Element#drag_to
Support setting <input type="color"> elements with the selenium driver

Fixed

Tightened conditions when in expression text option matching will be used
Improved Selenium drivers HTML5 drag and drop emulation compatibility with SortableJS library (and others)

Version 3.22.0

Release date: 2019-05-29

Added

ancestor/sibling assertions and matchers added
Documentation Updates and Fixes - Many thanks again to Masafumi Koba! [Masafumi Koba]
Added :with alias for :option filter on :checkbox and :radio_button selectors

Changed

Selenium driver with Chrome >= 73 now resets cookies and local/session storage after navigating to 'about:blank' when possible to minimize potential race condition

Version 3.21.0

Release date: 2019-05-24

Added

Element#drop - Chrome and Firefox, via the selenium driver, support dropping files/data on elements
Default CSS used for attach_file make_visible: true now includes auto for height and width to handle more ways of hiding the file input element
Documentation Updates and Fixes - Many thanks to Masafumi Koba! [Masafumi Koba]

Changed

Deprecate support for CSS locator being a Symbol

Version 3.20.2

Release date: 2019-05-19

Fixed

Move uglifier from runtime to development dependency [miyucy]

Version 3.20.1

Release date: 2019-05-17

Fixed

RackTest driver considers <template> elements to be non-visible and ignores the contents

Version 3.20.0

Release date: 2019-05-14

Added

Node#obscured? to check viewport presence and element overlap
:obscured system filter to check whether elements are obscured in finders, assertions, and expectations
:label selector :for option can be a regexp
Significantly smaller isDisplayed/getAttribute atoms for selenium driver. If these produce issues you can disable their use by setting an environment variable named 'DISABLE_CAPYBARA_SELENIUM_OPTIMIZATIONS' (Please also report any issues).
href: false option with find_link/click_link/:link selector ignores href presence/absence

Fixed

Workaround Safari issue with send_keys not correctly using top level modifiers
Workaround Safari not retrying click due to incorrect error type
Fix Safari attach_file block mode when clicking elements associated to the file input
Workaround Safari issue with repeated hover

Version 3.19.1

Release date: 2019-05-11

Fixed

Fix access to specializations when Selenium::Driver is subclassed [James Mead]

Version 3.19.0

Release date: 2019-05-09

Added

Syntactic sugar #once, #twice, #thrice, #exactly, #at_least, #at_most, and #times added to have_selector, have_css, have_xpath, and have_text RSpec matchers
Support for multiple expression types in Selector definitions
Reduced wirecalls for common actions in Selenium driver

Fixed

Workaround Chrome 75 appending files to multiple file inputs
Suppressed retry when detecting http vs https server connection

Version 3.18.0

Release date: 2019-04-22

Added

XPath Selector query optimized to make use of Regexp :text option in initial element find

Fixed

Workaround issue where Chrome/chromedriver 74 can return the wrong error type when a click is intercepted

Version 3.17.0

Release date: 2019-04-18

Added

Initial support for selenium-webdriver 4.0.0.alpha1
:button selector will now also match on name attribute

Fixed

Suppress warnings generated by using selenium-webdriver 3.141.5926
Mask Appium issue with finder visibility optimizations (non-optimal)

Version 3.16.2

Release date: 2019-04-10

Fixed

Fix Session#quit resetting of memoized document

Version 3.16.1

Release date: 2019-03-30

Fixed

Fix potential 'uninitialized constant' error when using the :selenium_chrome driver [jeffclemens-ab]

Version 3.16

Release date: 2019-03-28

Changed

Ruby 2.4.0+ is now required
Selenium driver now defaults to using a persistent http client connection

Added

:wait option in predicates now accepts true to selectively override when Capybara.predicates_wait == false

Version 3.15

Release date: 2019-03-19

Added

attach_file now supports a block mode on JS capable drivers to more accurately test user behavior when file inputs are hidden (beta)
:table selector now supports with_rows, 'rows', with_cols, and 'cols' filters

Fixed

Fix link selector when Capybara.test_id is set - Issue #2166 [bingjyang]

Version 3.14

Release date: 2019-02-25

Added

rack_test driver now supports reloading elements when the document changes - Issue #2157
Selenium driver HTML5 drag-drop emulation now emits multiple move events so drag direction is determinable [Erkki Eilonen, Thomas Walpole]
Capybara.server_errors now defaults to [Exception] - Issue #2160 [Edgars Beigarts]

Fixed

Workaround hover issue with FF 65 - Issue #2156
Workaround chromedriver issue when setting blank strings to react controlled text fields
Workaround chromedriver issue with popup windows not loading content - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=2650&q=load&sort=-id&colspec=ID%20Status%20Pri%20Owner%20Summary

Version 3.13.2

Release date: 2019-01-24

Fixed

Remove extraneous output

Version 3.13.1

Release date: 2019-01-24

Fixed

Only use Selenium visibility optimization when JS atom is available - Issue #2151

Version 3.13.0

Release date: 2019-01-23

Added

Session#quit added
#scroll_to added to allow scrolling page/elements to specified locations
Speed optimizations around multiple element location and path generation when using the Selenium driver
Support for locator type checking in custom selectors
Allow configuration of gumbo use - defaults to off
assert_style/has_style/have_style deprecated in favor of assert_matches_style/matches_styles?/match_style
:style filter added to selectors

Version 3.12.0

Release date: 2018-11-28

Added

Support Ruby 2.6 endless range in Result#[] and query :between option
Pre-registered headless firefox driver :selenium_headless [Andrew Havens]
Selenium driver now defaults to clearing sessionStorage and localStorage. To disable pass clear_local_storage: false and/or clear_session_storage: false when creating Capybara::Selenium::Driver instance in your driver registration

Fixed

Raise error if only :x or :y are passed as an offset to click methods

Removed

Support for RSpec < 3.5

Version 3.11.1

Release date: 2018-11-16

Fixed

Fixed :link_or_button XPath generation when it has had an expression filter added

Version 3.11.0

Release date: 2018-11-14

Added

Ability for node filters to set detailed error messages
Capybara::HTML Will use nokogumbo for HTML parsing if installed
Selector#locator_filter added to allow for dynamic locator in selectors

Fixed

Node filters are evaluated in the context of the Selector they are used in to ensure the correct options are used

Version 3.10.1

Release date: 2018-11-03

Fixed

Fix aria-label and test_id matching for link_or_button selector type - Issue #2125
Fixed crash in element path creation for matcher failure messages - Issue #2120

Version 3.10.0

Release date: 2018-10-23

Added

:class filter can now check for class names starting with !
Selector xpath/css expression definitions will get filter names from block parameters if not explicitly provided
any_of_selectors assertions and matchers to complement all_of_selectors and none_of_selectors

Fixed

Selector css expression definition declared filters now work again
Cleaned up warnings [Yuji Yaginuma]
Workaround installation of rspec matcher proxies under jruby by reverting to the old solution not using prepend, so jruby bugs are not hit - Issue #2115

Version 3.9.0

Release date: 2018-10-03

Added

Selenium with Chrome removes all cookies at session reset instead of just cookies from current domain if possible
Support for Regexp for system :id and :class filters where possible
using_session now accepts a session object as well as the name of the session for users who manually manage sessions
The :field selector will now find type = "hidden" fields if the type: "hidden" filter option is provided

Version 3.8.2

Release date: 2018-09-26

Fixed

Fixed negated class selector option - Issue #2103

Version 3.8.1

Release date: 2018-09-22

Fixed

Filling in of date fields with a string when using selenium chrome regression [Micah Geisel]

Version 3.8.0

Release date: 2018-09-20

Added

Workaround geckodriver 0.22 issue with undefined pause durations
:element selector ignores XML namespaces

Fixed

Added Errno::ECONNRESET to the errors which will allows https server detection

Version 3.7.2

Release date: 2018-09-12

Fixed

Fix MatchQuery based matchers when used on a root element found using any type of parent/ancestor query - Issue #2097
Fix Chrome/FF HTML5 drag simulation for elements (a, img) which default to draggable - Issue #2098

Version 3.7.1

Release date: 2018-09-05

Fixed

Restored ability to pass symbol as the CSS selector when calling has_css?/have_css/etc - Issue #2093

Version 3.7.0

Release date: 2018-09-02

Added

Capybara.disable_animation can be set to a CSS selector to identify which elements will have animation disabled [Michael Glass]
Capybara.default_normalize_ws option which sets whether or not text predicates and matchers (has_text?, has_content?, assert_text, etc) use normalize_ws option by default. Defaults to false. [Stegalin Ivan]
Selector based predicates, matchers, and finders now support the :normalize_ws option for the :text/:exact_text filters. Defaults to the Capybara.default_normalize_wssetting above.
Element choose/check/uncheck/attach_file/fill_in can now operate on the element they're called on or a descendant if no locator is passed.

Fixed

All CSS styles applied by the Element#attach_file :make_visible option will now have !important priority set to ensure they override any other specified style.
Firefox file inputs are only manually cleared when necessary.

Version 3.6.0

Release date: 2018-08-14

Added

Workaround geckodriver/firefox send_keys issues as much as possible using the Selenium actions API
Workaround lack of HTML5 native drag and drop events when using Selenium driver with Chrome and FF >= 62
Capybara.predicates_wait option which sets whether or not Capybaras matcher predicate methods (has_css?, has_selector?, has_text?, etc.) default to using waiting/retrying behavior (defaults to true)

Version 3.5.1

Release date: 2018-08-03

Fixed

Fixed misspelled method name refute_matches_elector => refute_matches_selector

Version 3.5.0

Release date: 2018-08-01

Added

text predicates and matchers (has_text?, has_content?, assert_text, etc) now support a normalize_ws option

Fixed

attach_file with Selenium and local Firefox 62+ now correctly generates only one change event when attaching multiple files

Version 3.4.2

Release date: 2018-07-24

Fixed

match_xxx selectors and matches_xxx? predicates work correctly with elements found using a sibling selector - Issue #2073

Version 3.4.1

Release date: 2018-07-20

Fixed

Session#evaluate_script now strips the script in Session rather than only in the Selenium driver

Version 3.4.0

Release date: 2018-07-19

Fixed

Make selenium driver :backspace clear strategy work even if caret location is in middle of field content [Champier Cyril]
Selenium issue with fieldset nested in disabled fieldset not being considered disabled
Session#evaluate_script and Element#evaluate_script now strip leading/trailing whitespace from scripts [Ian Lesperance]

Added

Work around Selenium lack of support for file_detector with remote geckodriver
#within_frame locator is optional when only one frame exists
Capybara.test_id option that allows for matching the Capybara provided selector types on an arbitrary attribute (defaults to nil), set to your test id attribute ('data-test-id, etc) if using test id attributes in your project

Version 3.3.1

Release date: 2018-06-27

Fixed

selenium-webdriver version check [ahorek]
Selenium driver correctly responds to disabled? for fieldset elements - Issue #2059 [Thomas Walpole]

Version 3.3.0

Release date: 2018-06-25

Added

RackTest driver now handles 307/308 redirects
execute_async_script can now be called on elements to run the JS in the context of the element
:download filter option on `:link' selector
Window#fullscreen
Element#style and associated matchers

Changed

Minimum "supported" selenium-webdriver is raised to 3.5.0 (but you really should be using newer than that)

Fixes

Selenium driver with Firefox workaround for clicking on table row - mozilla/geckodriver#1228
:class and :id filters applied to CSS based selectors now correctly handle the CSS comma
Selenium driver handles namespaces when generating an elements #path - Issue #2048

Version 3.2.1

Release date: 2018-06-04

Fixes

Only split CSS selectors when :class or :id options are given. Restores 3.1.1 functionality for now but the underlying issue will require a larger fix, hopefully coming soon. - Issue #2044 [Thomas Walpole]

Version 3.2.0

Release date: 2018-06-01

Changed

Ruby 2.3.0+ is now required
ElementNotFound errors raised in selector filters are interpreted as non-matches

Added

New global configuration default_set_options used in Capybara::Node::Element#set as default options hash [Champier Cyril]
execute_script and evaluate_script can now be called on elements to run the JS in the context of the element [Thomas Walpole]
Filters in custom selectors now support a matcher Regexp to handle multiple filter options [Thomas Walpole]
:element selector type which will match on any attribute (other than the reserved names) passed as a filter option [Thomas Walpole]
:class filter option now supports preceding class names with ! to indicate not having that class [Thomas Walpole]
:class and :id filter options now accept XPath::Expression objects to allow for more flexibility in matching [Thomas Walpole]
Capybara.disable_animation setting which triggers loading of a middleware that attempts to disable animations in pages. This is very much a beta feature and may change/disappear in the future. [Thomas Walpole]

Version 3.1.1

Release date: 2018-05-25

Fixes

Ensure keystrokes are sent when setting time/date fields to a string with the Selenium driver [Thomas Walpole]

Version 3.1.0

Release date: 2018-05-10

Added

Support for using select with text inputs associated with a datalist element
type filter on :button selector
Support for server operating in https mode
Selenium driver now uses JS to fill_in/set date and time fields when passed date or time objects [Aleksei Gusev, Thomas Walpole]

Version 3.0.3

Release date: 2018-04-30

Fixes

Issue in check where the locator string could not be omitted
Selenium browser type detection when using remote [Ian Ker-Seymer]
Potential hang when waiting for requests to complete [Chris Zetter]

Version 3.0.2

Release date: 2018-04-13

Fixes

Fix expression filter descriptions in some selector failure messages
Fix compounding of negated matchers - Issue #2010

Version 3.0.1

Release date: 2018-04-06

Changed

Restored ability for Capybara.server= to accept a proc which was accidentally removed in 3.0.0

Version 3.0.0

Release date: 2018-04-05

Changed

Selenium driver only closes extra windows for browsers where that is known to work (Firefox, Chrome)
"threadsafe" mode is no longer considered beta

Fixes

Multiple file attach_file with Firefox
Use Puma::Server directly rather than Rack::Handler::Puma so signal handlers don't prevent test quitting

Version 3.0.0.rc2

Release date: 2018-03-23

Changed

Visible text whitespace is no longer fully normalized in favor of being more in line with the WebDriver spec for visible text
Drivers are expected to close extra windows when resetting the session
Selenium driver supports Date/Time when filling in date/time/datetime-local inputs
current_url returns the url for the top level browsing context
title returns the title for the top level browsing context

Added

Driver#frame_url returns the url for the current frame
Driver#frame_title returns the title for the current frame

Version 3.0.0.rc1

Release date: 2018-03-02

Added

Support for libraries wrapping Capybara elements and providing a #to_capybara_node method

Changed

first now raises ElementNotFound, by default, instead of returning nil when no matches are found - Issue #1507
'all' now waits for at least one matching element by default. Pass wait: false if you want the previous behavior where an empty result would be returned immediately if no matching elements exist yet.
ArgumentError raised if extra parameters passed to selector queries

Removed

Ruby < 2.2.2 support
Capybara.exact_options no longer exists. Just use exact: true on relevant actions/finders if necessary.
All previously deprecated methods removed
RSpec 2.x support
selenium-webdriver 2.x support
Nokogiri < 1.8 support
field_labeled alias for find_field

Version 2.18.0

Release date: 2018-02-12

Fixed

Firefox/geckodriver setting of contenteditable childs contents
Ignore Selenium::WebDriver::Error::SessionNotCreatedError when quitting driver [Tim Connor]

Removed

Headless chrome modal JS injection that is no longer needed for Chrome 64+/chromedriver 2.35+

Version 2.17.0

Release date: 2018-01-02

Added

have_all_of_selectors, have_none_of_selectors RSpec matchers for parity with minitest assertions [Thomas Walpole]

Fixed

Allow xpath 3.x gem [Thomas Walpole]
Issue when drivers returned nil for current_path and a matcher was used with a Regexp [Thomas Walpole]
Error message when visible element not found, but non-visible was [Andy Klimczak]

Version 2.16.1

Release date: 2017-11-20

Fixed

Fix rack_test driver for rack_test 0.7.1/0.8.0 [Thomas Walpole]
accept_prompt response text can contain quotes when using selenium with headless chrome [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.16.0

Release date: 2017-11-13

Added

Attempt to move element into view when selenium doesn't correctly do it - See PR #1917 [Thomas Walpole]
current_path matchers will now autodetect path vs url based on string to be matched. Deprecates :only_path in favor of :ignore_query option [Thomas Walpole]
Session#evaluate_async_script [Thomas Walpole]

Fixed

Default prompt value when using headless Chrome works correctly [Thomas Walpole]
Support new modal error returned by selenium-webdriver 3.7 for W3C drivers [Thomas Walpole]
Calling respond_to? on the object passed to Capybara.configure block - Issue #1935

Version 2.15.4

Release date: 2017-10-07

Fixed

Visiting an absolute URL shouldn't overwrite the port when no server or always_include_port=false - Issue #1921

Version 2.15.3

Release date: 2017-10-03

Fixed

Visiting '/' when Capybara.app_host has a trailing '/' - Issue #1918 [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.15.2

Release date: 2017-10-02

Fixed

Include within scope description in element not found/ambiguous errors [Thomas Walpole]
Raise error when no activation block is passed to modal methods if using headless chrome [Thomas Walpole]
Don't retry element access when inspecting [Ivan Neverov]
Don't override a specified port (even if it is default port) in visited url [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.15.1

Release date: 2017-08-04

Fixed

attach_file with no extension/MIME type when using the :rack_test driver [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.15.0

Release date: 2017-08-04

Added

sibling and ancestor finders added [Thomas Walpole]
Added ability to pass options to registered servers when setting
Added basic built-in driver registrations :selenium_chrome and :selenium_chrome_headless [Thomas Walpole]
Add and_then to Capybara RSpec matchers which behaves like the previous and compounder. [Thomas Walpole]
Compound RSpec expectations with Capybara matchers now run both matchers inside a retry loop rather than waiting for one to pass/fail before checking the second. Will make #or more performant and confirm both conditions are true "simultaneously" for and. [Thomas Walpole] If you still want the
Default filter values are now included in error descriptions [Thomas Walpole]
Add Session#refresh [Thomas Walpole]
Loosened restrictions on where Session#within_window can be called from [Thomas Walpole]
Switched from mime-types dependency to mini_mime [Jason Frey]

Version 2.14.4

Release date: 2017-06-27

Fixed

Fix retrieval of session_options for HaveSelector matcher descriptions - Issue #1883

Version 2.14.3

Release date: 2017-06-15

Fixed

Minitest assertions now raise the correct error type - Issue #1879 [Thomas Walpole]
Improve flexibility of detecting Chrome headless mode [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.14.2

Release date: 2017-06-09

Fixed

Workaround for system modals when using headless Chrome now works if the page changes

Version 2.14.1

Release date: 2017-06-07

Fixed

Catch correct error when unexpected system modals are discovered in latest selenium [Thomas Walpole]
Update default puma server registration to encourage it to run in single mode [Thomas Walpole]
Suppress invalid element errors raised while lazily evaluating the results of all [Thomas Walpole]
Added missing with_selected option to the :select selector to match options/with_options options - Issue #1865 [Bartosz Nowak]
Workaround broken system modals when using selenium with headless Chrome

Version 2.14.0

Release date: 2017-05-01

Added

"threadsafe" mode that allows per-session configuration
:type filter added to the :fillable_field selector
Proxy methods when using RSpec for all/within that call either the Capybara::DSL or RSpec matchers depending on arguments passed
Support for the new errors in selenium-webdriver 3.4

Fixed

Element#inspect doesn't raise an error on obsolete elements
Setting a contenteditable element with Selenium and Chrome 59
Workaround a hang while setting the window size when using geckodriver 0.16 and Firefox 53
Clicking on url with a blank href goes to the current url when using the RackTest driver

Version 2.13.0

Release date: 2017-03-16

Added

Selenium driver supports returning element(s) from evaluate_script [Thomas Walpole]
rack_test driver supports click on checkboxes and radio buttons to change their states [Thomas Walpole]
Support RSpec equivalent assertions and expectations for MiniTest [Thomas Walpole]

Fixed

Editing of content editable children with selenium

Version 2.12.1

Release date: 2017-02-16

Fixed

Disable lazy Capybara::Results evaluation for JRuby due to ongoing issues

Version 2.12.0

Release date: 2017-01-22

Added

Session#switch_to_frame for manually handling frame switching - Issue #1365 [Thomas Walpole]
Session#within_frame now accepts a selector type (defaults to :frame) and locator [Thomas Walpole]
Session#execute_script and Session#evaluate_script now accept optional arguments that will be passed to the JS function. This may not be supported by all drivers, and the types of arguments that may be passed is limited. If drivers opt to support this feature they should support passing page elements. [Thomas Walpole]
:exact option for text and title matchers - Issue #1256 [Thomas Walpole]
:exact_text option for selector finders/minders - Issue #1256 [Thomas Walpole]
Capybara.exact_text setting that affects the text matchers and :text options passed to selector finders/matchers. Issue #1256 [Thomas Walpole]
:make_visible option for #attach_file that allows for convenient changing of the CSS style of a file input element before attaching the file to it. Requires driver support for passing page elements to Session#execute_script [Thomas Walpole]
assert_all_selectors/assert_none_of_selectors assertions added
:link selector (used by find_link/click_link) now supports finding hyperlink placeholders (no href attribute) when href: nil option is specified [Thomas Walpole]
within_element as an alias of within due to RSpec collision

Fixed

Fields inside a disabled fieldset are now correctly considered disabled - Issue #1816 [Thomas Walpole]
Lazy Capybara::Results evaluation enabled for JRuby 9.1.6.0+
A driver returning nil for #current_url won't raise an exception when calling #current_path [Dylan Reichstadt]
Support Ruby 2.4.0 unified Integer [Koichi ITO]
RackTest driver no longer modifies the text content of textarea elements in order to behave more like a real browser [Thomas Walpole]
TextQuery (assert_text/have_text/etc) now ignores errors when trying to generate more helpful errors messages so the original error isn't hidden [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.11.0

Release date: 2016-12-05

Added

Options for clearing session/local storage on reset added to the Selenium driver
Window size changes wait for the size to stabilize
Defined return value for most actions
Ignore specific error when quitting selenium driver instance - Issue #1773 [Dylan Reichstadt, Thomas Walpole]
Warn on selenium unknown errors rather than raising when quitting driver [Adam Pohorecki, Thomas Walpole]
Capybara::Result#each now returns an Enumerator when called without a block - Issue #1777 [Thomas Walpole]

Fixed

Selenium driver with Chrome should support multiple file upload [Thomas Walpole]
Fix visible: :hidden with :text option behavior [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.10.2

Release date: 2016-11-30

Fixed

App exceptions with multiple parameter initializers now re-raised correctly - Issue #1785 [Michael Lutsiuk]
Use Addressable::URI when parsing current_path since it's more lenient of technically invalid URLs - Issue #1801 [Marcos Duque, Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.10.1

Release date: 2016-10-08

Fixed

App errors are now correctly raised with the explanatory cause in JRuby [Thomas Walpole]
Capybara::Result optimization disabled in JRuby due to issue with lazy enumerator evaluation [Thomas Walpole] See: jruby/jruby#4212

Version 2.10.0

Release date: 2016-10-05

Added

Select <button> elements with descendant images with alt attributes matching the locator [Ian Lesperance]
Locator string is optional in selector based matchers [Thomas Walpole]
Selectors can specify their default visible setting [Thomas Walpole]
Selector based finders and matchers can be passed a block to filter the results within the retry behavior [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.9.2

Release date: 2016-09-29

Fixed

:label built-in selector finds nested label/control by control id if the label has no 'for' attribute [Thomas Walpole]
Warning issued if an unknown selector type is specified [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.9.1

Release date: 2016-09-23

Fixed

allow_label_click option did not work in some cases with Poltergeist - Issue #1762 [Thomas Walpole]
matches_selector? should have access to all of a selectors options except the count options [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.9.0

Release date: 2016-09-19

Fixed

Issue with rack-test driver and obsolete mime-types when using #attach_file - Issue #1756 [Thomas Walpole]

Added

:class option to many of the built-in selectors [Thomas Walpole]
Removed need to specify value when creating :boolean filter type in custom selectors [Thomas Walpole]
Filters can now be implemented through the XPath/CSS expressions in custom selectors [Thomas Walpole]
Element#matches_xpath? and Element#matches_css? [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.8.1

Release date: 2016-08-25

Fixed

Fixed error message from have_text when text is not found but contains regex special characters [Ryunosuke Sato]
Warn when :exact option is passed that has no effect [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.8.0

Release date: 2016-08-16

Fixed

Issue with modals present when closing the page using selenium - Issue #1696 [Jonas Nicklas, Thomas Walpole]
Server errors raised in test code have the cause set to an explanatory exception in rubies that support Exception#cause rather than a confusing ExpectationNotMet - Issue #1719 [Thomas Walpole]
background/given/given! RSpec aliases will work if RSpec config.shared_context_metadata_behavior == :apply_to_host_groups [Thomas Walpole]
Fixed setting of unexpectedAlertError now that Selenium will be freezing the Capabilities::DEFAULTS [Thomas Walpole]

Added

'check', 'uncheck', and 'choose' can now optionally click the associated label if the checkbox/radio button is not visible [Thomas Walpole]
Raise error if Capybara.app_host/default_host are specified incorrectly [Thomas Walpole]
Capybara::Selector::FilterSet allows for sharing filter definitions between selectors [Thomas Walpole]
Remove need to pass nil locator in most node actions when locator is not needed [Thomas Walpole]
New frames API for drivers - Issue #1365 [Thomas Walpole]
Deprecated Element#parent in favor of Element#query_scope to better indicate what it is [Thomas Walpole]
Improved error messages for have_text matcher [Alex Chaffee, Thomas Walpole]
The :with option for the field selector now accepts a regular expression for matching the field value [Uwe Kubosch]
Support matching on aria-label attribute when finding fields/links/buttons - Issue #1528 [Thomas Walpole]
Optimize Capybara::Result to only apply fields as necessary in common use-case of .all[idx] [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.7.1

Release date: 2016-05-01

Fixed

Issue where within_Frame would fail with Selenium if the frame is removed from within itself [Thomas Walpole]
Reset sessions in reverse order so sessions with active servers are reset last - Issue #1692 [Jonas Nicklas, Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.7.0

Release date: 2016-04-07

Fixed

Element#visible?/checked?/disabled?/selected? Now return boolean as expected when using the rack_test driver [Thomas Walpole]
The rack_test driver now considers <input type="hidden"> elements as non-visible [Thomas Walpole]
A nil locator passed to the built-in html type selectors now behaves consistently, and finds elements of the expected types [Thomas Walpole]
Capybara::Server now searches for available ports on the same interface it binds to [Aaron Stone]
Selenium Driver handles system modals that appear when page is unloading [Thomas Walpole]
Warning output if unused parameters are passed to a selector query [Thomas Walpole]

Added

Capybara now waits for requests to Capybaras server to complete while resetting the session [John Hawthorn, Thomas Walpole]
Capybara.reuse_server option to allow disabling of sharing server instance between sessions [Thomas Walpole]
:multiple filter added to relevant selectors [Thomas Walpole]
Provided server registrations for :webrick and :puma. Capybara.server = :puma for testing with Rails 5 [Thomas Walpole]
Deprecate passing a block to Capybara::server user Capybara::register_server instead [Thomas Walpole]
:option selector supports :selected and :disabled filters [Thomas Walpole]
Element#matches_selector? and associated matchers (match_selector, match_css, etc) for comparing an element to a selector [Thomas Walpole]
Deprecated Driver#browser_initialized? - Driver#reset! is required to be synchronous [Jonas Nicklas, Thomas Walpole]
Deprecated Capybara.save_and_open_page_path in favor of Capybara.save_path with slightly different behavior when using relative paths with save_page/save_screenshot [Thomas Walpole]
:label selector [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.6.2

Release date: 2016-01-27

Fixed

support for more than just addressable 2.4.0 [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.6.1

Release date: 2016-01-27

Fixed

Add missing require for addressable [Jorge Bejar]

Version 2.6.0

Release date: 2016-01-17

Fixed

Fixed path escaping issue with current_path matchers [Thomas Walpole, Luke Rollans] (Issue #1611)
Fixed circular require [David Rodríguez]
Capybara::RackTest::Form no longer overrides Object#method [David Rodriguez]
options and with_options filter for :select selector have more intuitive visibility behavior [Nathan]
Test for nested modal API method support [Thomas Walpole]

Added

Capybara.modify_selector [Thomas Walpole]
xfeature and ffeature aliases added when using RSpec [Filip Bartuzi]
Selenium driver supports a :clear option to #set to handle different strategies for clearing a field [Thomas Walpole]
Support the use of rack 2.0 with the rack_test driver [Travis Grathwell, Thomas Walpole]
Disabled option for default selectors now supports true, false, or :all [Jillian Rosile, Thomas Walpole]
Modal API methods now default wait time to Capybara.default_max_wait_time [Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.5.0

Release date: 2015-08-25

Fixed

Error message now raised correctly when invalid options passed to 'have_text'/'have_content' [Thomas Walpole]
Rack-test driver correctly gets document title when elements on the page have nested title elements (SVG) [Thomas Walpole]
'save_page' no longer errors when using Capybara.asset_host if the page has no <head> element [Travis Grathwell]
rack-test driver will ignore clicks on links with href starting with '#' or 'javascript:'

Added

has_current_path? and associated asserts/matchers added [Thomas Walpole]
Implement Node#path in selenium driver [Soutaro Matsumoto]
'using_session' is now nestable [Thomas Walpole]
'switch_to_window' will now use waiting behavior for a matching window to appear [Thomas Walpole]
Warning when attempting to select a disabled option
Capybara matchers are now available in RSpec view specs by default [Joshua Clayton]
'have_link' and 'click_link' now accept Regexp for href matching [Yaniv Savir]
'find_all' as an alias of 'all' due to collision with RSpec
Capybara.wait_on_first_by_default setting (default is false) If set to true 'first' will use Capybaras waiting behavior to wait for at least one element to appear by default
Capybara waiting behavior uses the monotonic clock if supported to ease restrictions on freezing time in tests [Dmitry Maksyoma, Thomas Walpole]
Capybara.server_errors setting that allows to configure what type of errors will be raised from the server thread [Thomas Walpole]
Node#send_keys to allow for sending keypresses directly to elements [Thomas Walpole]
'formmethod' attribute support in RackTest driver [Emilia Andrzejewska]
Clear field using backspaces in Selenium driver by using :fill_options => { :clear => :backspace } [Joe Lencioni]

Deprecated

Capybara.default_wait_time deprecated in favor of Capybara.default_max_wait_time to more clearly explain its purpose [Paul Pettengill]

Version 2.4.4

Release date: 2014-10-13

Fixed

Test for visit behavior updated [Phil Baker]
Removed concurrency prevention in favor of a note in the README - due to load order issues

Version 2.4.3

Release date: 2014-09-21

Fixed

Update concurrency prevention to match Rails 4.2 behavior

Version 2.4.2

Release date: 2014-09-20

Fixed

Prevent concurrency issue when testing Rails app with default test environment [Thomas Walpole]
Tags for windows API tests fixed [Dmitry Vorotilin]
Documentation Fixes [Andrey Botalov]
Always convert visit url to string, fixes issue with visit when always_include_port was enabled [Jake Goulding]
Check correct rspec version before including ::RSpec::Matchers::Composable in Capybara RSpec matchers [Thomas Walpole, Justin Ko]

Version 2.4.1

Release date: 2014-07-03

Added

'assert_text', 'assert_no_text', 'assert_title', 'assert_no_title' methods added [Andrey Botalov]
have_title matcher now supports :wait option [Andrey Botalov]
More descriptive have_text error messages [Andrey Botalov]
New modal API ('accept_alert', 'accept_confirm', 'dismiss_confirm', 'accept_prompt', 'dismiss_prompt') - [Mike Pack, Thomas Walpole]
Warning when attempting to set contents of a readonly element
Suport for and/or compounding of Capybara's RSpec matchers for RSpec 3 [Thomas Walpole]
:fill_options option for 'fill_in' method that propagates to 'set' to allow for driver specific modification of how fields are filled in [Gabriel Sobrinho, Thomas Walpole]
Improved selector/filter description in failure messages [Thomas Walpole]

Fixed

HaveText error message now shows the text checked all the time
RackTest driver no longer attempts to follow an anchor tag without an href attribute
Warnings under RSpec 3
Handle URI schemes like about: correctly [Andrey Botalov]
RSpecs expose_dsl_globally option is now followed [Myron Marston, Thomas Walpole]

Version 2.3.0

Release date: 2014-06-02

Added

New window management API [Andrey Botalov]
Speed improvement for visible text detection in RackTest [Thomas Walpole] Thanks to Phillipe Creux for instigating this
RSpec 3 compatability
'save_and_open_screenshot' functionality [Greg Lazarev]
Server errors raised on visit and synchronize [Jonas Nicklas]

Fixed

CSSHandlers now derives from BasicObject so globally included functions (concat, etc) shouldn't cause issues [Thomas Walpole]
touched reset after session is reset [lesliepc16]

Version 2.2.1

Release date: 2014-01-06

Fixed

Reverted a change in 2.2.0 which navigates to an empty file on reset. Capybara, now visits about:blank like it did before. [Jonas Nicklas]

Version 2.2.0

Release date: 2013-11-21

Added

Add go_back and go_forward methods. [Vasiliy Ermolovich]
Support RSpec 3 [Thomas Holmes]
has_button?, has_checked_field? and has_unchecked_field? accept options, like other matchers. [Carol Nichols]
The assert_selector and has_text? methods now support the :wait option [Vasiliy Ermolovich]
RackTest's visible? method now checks for the HTML5 hidden attribute.
Results from #all now delegate the sample method. [Phil Lee]
The set method now works for contenteditable attributes under Selenium. [Jon Rowe]
radio buttons and check boxes can be filtered by option value, useful when selecting by name [Jonas Nicklas]
feature blocks can be nested within other feature blocks in RSpec tests [Travis Gaff]

Fixed

Fixed race conditions causing stale element errors when filtering by text. [Jonas Nicklas]
Resetting the page is now synchronous and navigates to an empty HTML file, instead of about:blank, fixing hanging issues in JRuby. [Jonas Nicklas]
Fixed cookies not being set when path is blank under RackTest [Thomas Walpole]
Clearing fields now correctly causes change events [Jonas Nicklas]
Navigating to an absolute URI without trailing slash now works as expected under RackTest [Jonas Nicklas]
Checkboxes without assigned value default to on under RackTest [Nigel Sheridan-Smith]
Clicks on buttons with no form associated with them are ignored in RackTest instead of raising an obscure exception. [Thomas Walpole]
execute_script is now a session method [Andrey Botalov]
Nesting within_window and within_frame inside within resets the scope so that they behave like a user would expect [Thomas Walpole]
Improve handling of newlines in textareas [Thomas Walpole]
Capybara::Result delegates its inspect method, so as not to confuse users [Sam Rawlins]
save_page always returns a full path, fixes problems with Launchy [Jonas Nicklas]
Selenium driver's quit method does nothing when browser hasn't been loaded [randoum]
Capybara's WEBRick server now propertly respects the server_host option [Dmitry Vorotilin]
gemspec now includes license information [Jonas Nicklas]

Version 2.1.0

Release date: 2013-04-09

Changed

Hard version requirement on Ruby >= 1.9.3. Capybara will no longer install on 1.8.7. [Felix Schäfer]
Capybara no longer depends on the selenium-webdriver gem. Add it to your Gemfile if you wish to use the Selenium driver. [Jonas Nicklas]
Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements defaults to true. [Jonas Nicklas]
In case of multiple matches smart matching is used by default. Set Capybara.match = :one to revert to old behaviour. [Jonas Nicklas].
Options in select boxes use smart matching and no longer need to match exactly. Set Capybara.exact_options = false to revert to old behaviour. [Jonas Nicklas].
Visibility of text depends on Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements instead of always returning only visible text. Set Capybara.visible_text_only = true to revert to old behaviour. [Jonas Nicklas]
Cucumber cleans up session after scenario instead. This is consistent with RSpec and makes more sense, since we raise server errors in reset!. [Jonas Nicklas]

Added

All actions (click_link, fill_in, etc...) and finders now take an options hash, which is passed through to find. [Jonas Nicklas]
CSS selectors are sent straight through to driver instead of being converted to XPath first. Enables the use of some pseudo selectors, such as invalid in some drivers. [Thomas Walpole]
Capybara.asset_host option, which inserts a base tag into the page on save_and_open_page, eases debugging with the Rails asset pipeline. [Steve Hull]
exact option, can specify whether to match substrings or entire text. [Jonas Nicklas]
match option, can specify behaviour in case of multiple matches. [Jonas Nicklas]
wait option, can specify how long to wait for a given action/finder. [Jonas Nicklas]
Config option which disables bubbling of errors raised inside server. [Jonas Nicklas]
text now takes a parameter which makes it possible to return either all text or only visible text. The default depends on Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements. Capybara.visible_text_only option is available for compatibility. [Jonas Nicklas]
has_content? and has_text? now take the same count options as has_selector? [Andrey Botalov]
current_scope is now public API, returns the current element when within is used. [Martijn Walraven]
find("input").disabled? returns true if a node is disabled. [Ben Lovell]
Find disabled fields and buttons with :disabled => false. [Jonas Nicklas]
find("input").hover moves the mouse to the element in supported drivers. [Thomas Walpole]
RackTest driver now support form attribute on form elements. [Thomas Walpole]
page.title returns the page title. [Terry Progetto]
has_title? matcher to assert on page title. [Jonas Nicklas]
The gem is now signed with a certicficate. The public key is available in the repo. [Jonas Nicklas]
:select and :textarea are valid options for the :type filter on find_field and has_field?. [Yann Plancqueel]

Fixed

Fixed race conditions when synchronizing across multiple nodes [Jonas Nicklas]
Fixed race conditions in deeply nested selectors [Jonas Nicklas]
Fix issue with within_frame, where selecting multiple nested frames didn't work as intended. [Thomas Walpole]
RackTest no longer fills in readonly textareas. [Thomas Walpole]
Don't use autoload to load files, require them directly instead. [Jonas Nicklas]
Rescue weird exceptions when booting server [John Wilger]
Non strings are now properly cast when using the maxlength attribute [Jonas Nicklas]

Version 2.0.3

Release date: 2013-03-26

Check against Rails version fixed to work with Rails' master branch now returning a Gem::Version [Jonas Nicklas]
Use posix character class for whitespace replace, solves various encoding problems on Ruby 2.0.0 and JRuby. [Ben Cates]

Version 2.0.2

Release date: 2012-12-31

Changed

Capybara no longer uses thin as a server if it is available, due to thread safety issues. Now Capybara always defaults to WEBrick. [Jonas Nicklas]

Fixed

Suppress several warnings [Kouhei Sutou]
Fix default host becoming nil [Brian Cardarella]
Fix regression in 2.0.1 which caused node comparisons with non node objects to throw an exception [Kouhei Sotou]
A few changes to the specs, only relevant to driver authors [Jonas Nicklas]
Encoding error under JRuby [Piotr Krawiec]
Ruby 2 encoding fix [Murahashi Sanemat Kenichi]
Catch correct exception on server timeout [Jonathan del Strother]

Version 2.0.1

Release date: 2012-12-21

Changed

Move the RackTest driver override with the :respect_data_method option enabled from capybara/rspec to capybara/rails, so that it is enabled in Rails projects that don't use RSpec. [Carlos Antonio da Silva]
source is now an alias for html. RackTest no longer returns modifications to html. This basically codifies the behaviour which we've had for a while anyway, and should have minimal impact for end users. For driver authors, it means that they only have to implement html, and not source. [Jonas Nicklas]

Fixed

Visiting relative URLs when app_host is set and no server is running works as expected. [Jonas Nicklas]
fill_in works properly under Selenium again when the caret is not at the end of the field before the method is called. [Douwe Maan, Jonas Nicklas, Jari Bakken]
attach_file can once again be given a Pathname [Jake Goulding]

Version 2.0.0

Release date: 2012-11-05

Changed

Dropped official support for Ruby 1.8.x. [Jonas Nicklas]
respect_data_method default to false for the RackTest driver in non-rails applications. That means that Capybara no longer picks up data-method="post" et. al. from links by default when you haven't required capybara/rails [Jonas Nicklas]
find now raises an error if more than one element was found. Since find is used by most actions, like click_link under the surface, this means that all actions need to unambiguous in the future. [Jonas Nicklas]
All methods which find or manipulate fields or buttons now ignore them when they are disabled. [Jonas Nicklas]
Can no longer find elements by id via find(:foo), use find("#foo") or find_by_id("foo") instead. [Jonas Nicklas]
Element#text on RackTest now only returns visible text and normalizes (strips) whitespace, as with Selenium [Mark Dodwell, Jo Liss]
has_content? now checks the text value returned by Element#text, as opposed to querying the DOM. Which means it does not match hidden text. [Ryan Montgomery, Mark Dodwell, Jo Liss]
#394: #body now returns the unmodified source (like #source), not the current state of the DOM (like #html), by popular request [Jonas Nicklas]
Node#all no longer returns an array, but rather an enumerable Capybara::Result [Jonas Nicklas]
The arguments to select and unselect needs to be the exact text of an option in a select box, substrings are no longer allowed [Jonas Nicklas]
The options option to has_select? must match the exact set of options. Use with_options for the old behaviour. [Gonzalo Rodriguez]
The selected option to has_select? must match all selected options for multiple selects. [Gonzalo Rodriguez]
Various internals for running driver specs, this should only affect driver authors [Jonas Nicklas]
Rename Driver#body to Driver#html (relevant only for driver authors) [Jo Liss]

Removed

No longer possible to specify failure_message for custom selectors. [Jonas Nicklas]
#589: Capybara.server_boot_timeout has been removed in favor of a higher (60-second) hard-coded timeout [Jo Liss]
Capybara.prefer_visible_elements has been removed, as it is no longer needed with the changed find semantics [Jonas Nicklas]
Node#wait_until and Session#wait_until have been removed. See Node#synchronize for an alternative [Jonas Nicklas]
Capybara.timeout has been removed [Jonas Nicklas]
The :resynchronize option has been removed from the Selenium driver [Jonas Nicklas]
The rows option to has_table? has been removed without replacement. [Jonas Nicklas]

Added

Much improved error message [Jonas Nicklas]
Errors from inside the session for apps running in a server are raised when session is reset [James Tucker, Jonas Nicklas]
A ton of new selectors built in out of the box, like field, link, button, etc... [Adam McCrea, Jonas Nicklas]
has_text? has been added as an alias for has_content? [Jonas Nicklas]
Add Capybara.server_host option (default: 127.0.0.1) [David Balatero]
Add :type option for page.has_field? [Gonzalo Rodríguez]
Custom matchers can now be specified in CSS in addition to XPath [Jonas Nicklas]
Node#synchronize method to rerun a block of code if certain errors are raised [Jonas Nicklas]
Capybara.always_include_port config option always includes the server port in URLs when using visit. Facilitates testing different domain names. [Douwe Maan]
Redirect limit for RackTest driver is configurable [Josh Lane]
Server port can be manually specified during initialization of server. [Jonas Nicklas, John Wilger]
has_content? and has_text? can be given a regular expression [Vasiliy Ermolovich]
Multiple files can be uploaded with attach_file [Jarl Friis]

Fixed

Nodes found via all are no longer reloaded. This fixes weird quirks where nodes would seemingly randomly replace themselves with other nodes [Jonas Nicklas]
Session is only reset if it has been modified, dramatically improves performance if only part of the test suite runs Capybara. [Jonas Nicklas]
Test suite now passes on Ruby 1.8 [Jo Liss]
#565: require 'capybara/dsl' is no longer necessary [Jo Liss]
Rack::Test now respects ports when changing hosts [Jo Liss]
#603: Rack::Test now preserves the original referer URL when following a redirect [Rob van Dijk]
Rack::Test now does not send a referer when calling visit multiple times [Jo Liss]
Exceptions during server boot now propagate to main thread [James Tucker]
RSpec integration now cleans up before the test instead of after [Darwin]
If respect_data_method is true, the data-method attribute can be capitalized [Marco Antonio]
Rack app boot timing out raises an error as opposed to just logging to STDOUT [Adrian Irving-Beer]
#source returns an empty string instead of nil if no pages have been visited [Jonas Nicklas]
Ignore first leading newline in textareas in RackTest [Vitalii Khustochka]
within_frame returns the value of the given block [Alistair Hutchison]
Running Node.set on text fields will not trigger more than one change event [Andrew Kasper]
Throw an error when an option is given to a finder method, like all or has_selector? which Capybara doesn't understand [Jonas Nicklas]
Two references to the node now register as equal when comparing them with == [Jonas Nicklas]
has_text (has_content) now accepts non-string arguments, like numbers. [Jo Liss]
has_text and text now correctly normalize Unicode whitespace, such as  . [Jo Liss]
RackTest allows protocol relative URLs [Jonas Nicklas]
Arguments are cast to string where necessary, so that e.g. click_link(:foo) works as expected. [Jonas Nicklas]
:count => 0 now works as expected [Jarl Friis]
Fixed race conditions on negative assertions when removing nodes [Jonas Nicklas]

Version 1.1.4

Release date: 2012-11-28

Fixed

Fix more race conditions on negative assertions. [Jonas Nicklas]

Version 1.1.3

Release date: 2012-10-30

Fixed:

RackTest driver ignores leading newline in textareas, this is consistent with the spec and how browsers behave. [Vitalii Khustochka]
Nodes found via all and first are never reloaded. This fixes issues where a node would sometimes magically turn into a completely different node. [Jonas Nicklas]
Fix race conditions on negative assertions. This fixes issues where removing an element and asserting on its non existence could cause StaleElementReferenceError and similar to be thrown. [Jonas Nicklas]
Options are no longer lost when reloading elements. This fixes issues where reloading an element would cause a non-matching element to be found, because options to find were ignored. [Jonas Nicklas]

Version 1.1.2

Release date: 2011-11-15

Fixed

#541: Make attach_file work with selenium-webdriver >=2.12 [Jonas Nicklas]

Version 1.1.0

Release date: 2011-09-02

Fixed

Sensible inspect for Capybara::Session [Jo Liss]
Fix headers and host on redirect [Matt Colyer, Jonas Nicklas, Kim Burgestrand]
using_driver now restores the old driver instead of reverting to the default [Carol Nichols]
Errors when following links relative to the root path under rack-test [Jonas Nicklas, Kim Burgestrand]
Make sure exit codes are propagated properly [Edgar Beigarts]

Changed

resynchronization is off by default under Selenium

Added

Elements are automatically reloaded (including parents) during wait [Jonas Nicklas]
Rescue driver specific element errors, such as the dreaded ObsoleteElementError and retry [Jonas Nicklas]
Raise an error if something has frozen time [Jonas Nicklas]
Allow within to take a node instead of a selector [Peter Williams]
Using wait_time_time to change wait time for a block of code [Jonas Nicklas, Kim Burgestrand]
Option for rack-test driver to disable data-method hack [Jonas Nicklas, Kim Burgestrand]

Version 1.0.1

Release date: 2011-08-12

Fixed

Dependend on selenium-webdriver ~>2.0 and fix deprecations [Thomas Walpole, Jo Liss]
Depend on Launch 2.0 [Jeremy Hinegardner]
Rack-Test ignores fill in on fields with maxlength=""

Version 1.0.0

Release date: 2011-06-14

Added

Added DSL for acceptance tests, inspired by Luismi Cavallé's Steak [Luismi Cavalle and Jonas Nicklas]
Selenium driver automatically waits for AJAX requests to finish [mgiambalvo, Nicklas Ramhöj and Jonas Nicklas]
Support for switching between multiple named sessions [Tristan Dunn]
failure_message can be specified for Selectors [Jonas Nicklas]
RSpec matchers [David Chelimsky and Jonas Nicklas]
Added save_page to save tempfile without opening in browser [Jeff Kreeftmeijer]
Cucumber now switches automatically to a registered driver if the tag matches the name [Jonas Nicklas]
Added Session#text [Jonas Nicklas and Scott Cytacki]
Added Session#html as an alias for Session#body [Jo Liss]
Added Session#current_host method [Jonas Nicklas]
Buttons can now be clicked by title [Javier Martin]
:headers option for RackTest driver to set custom HTTP headers [Jonas Nicklas]

Removed

Culerity and Celerity drivers have been removed and split into separate gems [Gabriel Sobrinho]

Deprecated

include Capybara has been deprecated in favour of include Capybara::DSL [Jonas Nicklas]

Changed

Rack test driver class has been renamed from Capybara::Driver::RackTest to Capybara::RackTest::Driver [Jonas Nicklas]
Selenium driver class has been renamed from Capybara::Driver::Selenium to Capybara::Selenium::Driver [Jonas Nicklas]
Capybara now prefers visible elements over hidden elements, disable by setting Capybara.prefer_visible_elements = false [Jonas Nicklas and Nicklas Ramhöj]
For RSpec, :type => :request is now supported (and preferred over :acceptance) [Jo Liss]
Selenium driver tried to wait for AJAX requests to finish before proceeding [Jonas Nicklas and Nicklas Ramhöj]
Session no longer uses method missing, uses explicit delegates instead [Jonas Nicklas]

Fixed

The Rack::Test driver now respects maxlength on text fields [Guilherme Carvalho]
Allow for more than one save_and_open_page call per second [Jo Liss]
Automatically convert options to :count, :minimum, :maximum, etc. to integers [Keith Marcum]
Rack::Test driver honours maxlength on input fields [Guilherme Carvalho]
Rack::Test now works as expected with domains and subdomains [Jonas Nicklas]
Session is reset more thoroughly between tests. [Jonas Nicklas]
Raise error when uploading non-existent file [Jonas Nicklas]
Rack response body should respond to #each [Piotr Sarnacki]
Deprecation warnings with selenium webdriver 0.2.0 [Aaron Gibraltar]
Selenium Chrome no longer YELLS tagname [Carl Jackson & David W. Frank]
Capybara no longer strips encoding before sending to Rack [Jonas Nicklas]
Improve handling of relative URLs [John Barton]
Readd and fix build_rack_mock_session [Jonas Nicklas, Jon Leighton]

Version 0.4.1

Release date: 2011-01-21

Added

New click_on alias for click_link_or_button, shorter yet unambiguous. [Jonas Nicklas]
Finders now accept :visible => false which will find all elements regardless of Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements [Jonas Nicklas]
Configure how the server is started via Capybara.server { |app, port| ... }. [John Firebough]
Added :between, :maximum and :minimum options to has_selector and friends [James B. Byrne]
New Capybara.string util function which allows matchers on arbitrary strings, mostly for helper and view specs [David Chelimsky and Jonas Nicklas]
Server boot timeout is now configurable, via Capybara.server_boot_timeout [Adam Cigánek]
Built in support for RSpec [Jonas Nicklas]
Capybara.using_driver to switch to a different driver temporarily [Jeff Kreeftmeijer]
Added Session#first which is somewhat speedier than Session#all, use it internally for speed boost [John Firebaugh]

Changed

Session#within now accepts the same arguments as other finders, like Session#all and Session#find [Jonas Nicklas]

Removed

All deprecations from 0.4.0 have been removed. [Jonas Nicklas]

Fixed

Don't mangle URLs in save_and_open_page when using self-closing tags [Adam Spiers]
Catch correct error when server boot times out [Jonas Nicklas]
Celerity driver now properly passes through options, making it configurable [Jonas Nicklas]
Better implementation of attributes in C[ue]lerity, should fix issues with attributes with strange names [Jonas Nicklas]
Session#find no longer swallows errors [Jonas Nicklas]
Fix problems with multiple file inputs [Philip Arndt]
Submit multipart forms as multipart under rack-test even if they contain no files [Ryan Kinderman]
Matchers like has_select? and has_checked_field? now work with dynamically changed values [John Firebaugh]
Preserve order of rack params [Joel Chippindale]
RackTest#reset! is more thorough [Joel Chippindale]

Version 0.4.0

Release date: 2010-10-22

Changed

The Selector API was changed slightly, use Capybara.add_selector, see README

Fixed

Celerity driver is registered properly
has_selector? and has_no_selector? added to DSL
Multiple selects return correct values under C[cu]lerity
Naked query strings are handled correctly by rack-test

Version 0.4.0.rc

Release date: 2010-10-12

Changed

within and find/locate now follow the XPath spec in that //foo finds all nodes in the document, instead of only for the context node. See this post for details: http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-capybara/browse_thread/thread/b129067979df21b3
within now executes within the first found instance of the selector, not in all of them
find now waits for AJAX requests and raises an exception when the element is not found (same as locate used to do)
The default selector is now CSS, not XPath

Deprecated

Session#click has been renamed click_link_or_button and the old click has been deprecated
Node#node has been renamed native
Node#locate is deprecated in favor of Node#find, which now behaves identically
Session#drag is deprecated, please use Node#drag_to(other_node) instead

Added

Pretty much everything is properly documented now
It's now possible to call all session methods on nodes, like find('#foo').fill_in(...)
Custom selectors can be added with Capybara::Selector.add
The :id selector is added by default, use it lile find(:id, 'foo') or find(:foo)
Added Node#has_selector? so any kind of selector can be queried.
Added Capybara.configure for less wordy configuration
Added within_window to switch between different windows (currently Selenium only)
Capybara.server_port to provide a fixed port if wanted (defaults to automatic selection)

Fixed

CSS selectors with multiple selectors, such as "h1, h2" now work correctly
Port is automatically assigned instead of guessing
Strip encodings in rack-test, no more warnings!
RackTest no longer submits disabled fields
Servers no longer output annoying debug information when started
TCP port selection is left to Ruby to decide, no more port guessing
Select boxes now return option value instead of text if present
The default has been changed from localhost to 127.0.0.1, should fix some obscure selenium bugs
RackTest now supports complex field names, such as foo[bar][][baz]

Version 0.3.9

Release date: 2010-07-03

Added

status_code which returns the HTTP status code of the last response (no Selenium!)
Capybara.save_and_open_page to store tempfiles
RackTest and Culerity drivers now clean up after themselves properly

Fixed

When no rack app is set and the app is called, a more descriptive error is raised
select now works with optgroups
Don't submit image buttons unless they were clicked under rack-test
Support custom field types under Selenium
Support input fields without a type, treat them as though they were text fields
Redirect now throws an error after 5 redirects, as per RFC
Selenium now properly raises an error when Node#trigger is called
Node#value now returns the correct value for textareas under rack-test

Version 0.3.8

Release date: 2010-05-12

Added

Within_frame method to execute a block of code within a particular iframe (Selenium only!)

Fixed

Single quotes are properly escaped with select under rack-test and Selenium.
The :text option for searches now escapes regexp special characters when a string is given.
Selenium now correctly checks already checked checkboxes (same with uncheck)
Timing issue which caused Selenium to hang under certain circumstances.
Selenium now resolves attributes even if they are given as a Symbol

Version 0.3.7

Release date: 2010-04-09

This is a drop in compatible maintenance release. It's mostly important for driver authors.

Added

RackTest scans for data-method which rails3 uses to change the request method

Fixed

Don't hang when starting server on Windoze

Changed

The driver and session specs are now located inside lib! Driver authors can simply require them.

Version 0.3.6

Release date: 2010-03-22

This is a maintenance release with minor bug fixes, should be drop in compatible.

Added

It's now possible to load in external drivers

Fixed

has_content? ignores whitespace
Trigger events when choosing radios and checking checkboxes under Selenium
Make Capybara.app totally optional when running without server
Changed fallback host so it matches the one set up by Rails' integration tests

Version 0.3.5

Release date: 2010-02-26

This is a mostly backwards compatible release, it does break the API in some minor places, which should hopefully not affect too many users, please read the release notes carefully!

Breaking

Relative searching in a node (e.g. find('//p').all('//a')) will now follow XPath standard this means that if you want to find descendant nodes only, you'll need to prefix a dot!
visit now accepts fully qualified URLs for drivers that support it.
Capybara will always try to run a rack server, unless you set Capybara.run_sever = false

Changed

thin is preferred over mongrel and webrick, since it is Ruby 1.9 compatible
click_button and click will find , clicking them does nothing in RackTest

Added

Much improved error messages in a multitude of places
More semantic page querying with has_link?, has_button?, etc...
Option to ignore hidden elements when querying and interacting with the page
Support for multiple selects

Fixed

find_by_id is no longer broken
clicking links where the image's alt attribute contains the text is now possible
within_fieldset and within_table work when the default selector is CSS
boolean attributes work the same across drivers (return true/false)

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