To install drivers, you must instead use the new Appium extension CLI. Simply installing Appium 2.0 (e.g., by npm install -g will install the Appium server only, but no drivers. When you installed Appium 1.x, all available drivers would be installed at the same time as the main Appium server. Following are breaking changes to how Appium is installed, how drivers and various features are managed, and protocol support: Installing drivers during setup Instead, Appium 2.0 reenvisions Appium as a platform where drivers (code projects that introduce support for automation of a given platform) and plugins (code projects that allow for overriding, altering, extending, or adding behaviors to Appium) can be easily created and shared. The changes in Appium 2.0 are not primarily related to changes in automation behaviors for specific platforms. Based on the current release schedule, it is likely that Appium 1.22.x will be the last in the set of Appium 1.x releases. From that point forward, no features, platform support, or patches will be added to Appium 1.x. Once the 6 months of transition have passed, Appium team will publish new versions of the core drivers that will only be guaranteed to be compatible with Appium 2.x.

For the first 6 months of Appium 2.x’s life, the core drivers will be supported on both Appium 1.x and 2.x. Feature updates and bug fixes to core drivers (XCUITest, UiAutomator2, Espresso).They will make the following kinds of updates for 6 months following the release of Appium 2.0 (until March 15, 2022): You can begin the process of ensuring your test suites, or any other software built on Appium, is compatible with Appium 2.0.Īppium team announced that after the release of Appium 2.0, they will not be making any feature additions to the Appium 1.x server. As of May 2020, Appium 2.0 has been in beta release and is ready for use and testing.

Appium 1.x has been around for quite a while and now is the time to move project development forward and to provide an even better automation experience with Appium version 2.x. Appium team going to move to Appium server 2.x.

Change appium server version