If you rely at all on the speed that Windmill runs tests, then this is your last guaranteed change free release.

However, we have done a lot of work to make this a great release:

Features:

• JQuery Selector Support
• Stability updates for Windows
• Moving all the deps into the Windmill tree, for easier installation
• Show controller method, for hi-lighting the DOM in your tests
• Improving the logic for JS Test reinjection between page loads
• Visual improvements
• Controller method for manually overriding dialogs
• Updating Firebug for Firefox 3.5 support

Bugs:

• Assertions and waits no longer scroll the page
• Fixing bugs with loading user extensions
• Wait for page load no longer fails tests, as your following action will do that if needed
• Increasing Firefox script timeout for large typing scripts
• Running Windmill on Windows Vista
• AssertText issues
• Rich Text Editor support

And many more!

As always come talk to us if you have issues in #windmill on freenode.

The IRC channel is a great place to come chat with us if you are having any issues or questions. Again if you are new to Windmill its #windmill on FreeNode.

It’s a very exciting time for the project, stay tuned.

New Features, since 0.8.0

• Command line option for changing service port
• Django Support
• Forwarding Conditionals
• Addition of firebug lite support in IDE and Testing Application
• Fully functional wxWindmill contrib application
• Enhanced ’smart’ recorder
• Auto element scroll into view to more closely simulate users
• Improved IDE user interface
• Improved frame recursive element look ups for IE

In addition to all the bug fixes, which you can see for yourself in trac.

We are really excited to see the exponential growth and exposure the project has been getting over the past couple weeks, thanks everyone!

Windmill Team

Features include:

• Addition of firebug lite support in IDE and Testing Application
• Fully functional wxWindmill contrib application
• Enhanced ’smart’ recorder
• Auto element scroll into view to more closely simulate users

Bug Fixes include:

• http://trac.getwindmill.com/ticket/135
• Windmill defaulting to timeout for starting service loop
• Many others, view the timeline

We feel 0.8.2 is a very stable and useable release so we are going to begin our effort to get the word out about the project. To aid in this effort we now have a Windmill Twitter Feed to keep you up to date on new releases, events, blog announcements etc.

To start using wxWindmill, please refer to the wxWindmill Wiki Page

Update!
sudo easy_install -U windmill

Release 0.8.0 is a milestone signifying that we have met the majority of our goals that we had set over a year ago, and are now moving our focus to refining features and taking on the important challenges to become the best tool out there for cross browser test automation.

Here is a list of new features:

• Addition of long awaited OOTB drag and drop functionality in the IDE
• Addition of animated mouse cursor movement, and mouse move simulation
• IDE user experience improvements mostly effecting IE, and event firing.
• Significantly improved unit tests

It is also important to note that we have just submitted our proposal to join the Apache Incubator, championed by Ted Leung. You can view the proposal yourself at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WindmillProposal. We are excited about the possibilities here and will keep you updated on progress.

You can upgrade using:

easy_install -U windmill

The 0.4.5 is a big release, we’ve gotten a lot of bug fixes and features in the releases since 0.3.

Here is a list of new features (the bugfixes are too numerous to list):

• Moved Firefox launching to the mozrunner library (features of mozrunner are extension installation and granular pref setting among others)
• IDE enhancements for IE 6/7, settings, load speed and user experience
• Full XPath support in IE 6/7
• Much improved logic for sleeping, and waiting on lower bandwidth connections
• Enhancement to the DOM lookup functionality, and addition of locators
• Enhanced playback experience
• Support logic to enable differing document.domains
• Improved testing against social network inner applications
• Better support for testing iframes
• Enhanced controller functionality
• Enhanced control loop, better throttling for call to service

You can upgrade using

easy_install -U windmill

Please, everyone;

easy_install -U windmill

Some of the changes are;

• Supporting Firefox 3 and Safari 3.1.1
• Fixed the communication loop from taking over your CPU.
• Visual tweaks to make the IDE more usable in IE.
• Major visual updates to the IDE, resizing, dialogs etc.
• XPath functionality additions.
• Updates in the back end for customization and continuous integration.
• Any many many more.

We shipped 5 bug fix releases this week, putting us at a current release of 0.3.5, available in the cheeseshop.

Please, everyone;

easy_install -U windmill

Some of the changes are;

• wxUI fixes for new load and run methods.
• Various fixes in load_test.
• New option to load single json file bypassing dependency framework.
• Command line option for extensions directory.
• Fixes in the “type” command. We now simulate keypress actions for each character, allowing closer simulation of a real user and fixing some more advanced use cases.
• Better firebug debugging available.
• Huge fixes to js framework.
• Fix in “runserver” so that it doesn’t immediately exit if you don’t pass it tests
• More IDE debug options, throwing errors instead of just logging them in certain cases.
• Fleegix.js debugging is turned on by default.
• Added Back, Forward, and Refresh simulation to windmill API
• Added mouseover and mouseout to windmill API, contribution by Robert Leftwich

These changes meant we deprecated almost all the old test running command line and shell options. Now there is a more unified function that takes a directory or file in Python or JSON format. The test running documentation has been updated for the newest version of windmill and should get you one your way. It also spends some time talking about windmills setup/teardown and dependency system built using functest.

There is also a fair amount of IDE bugfixes and improvements:

• Recording interaction with checkboxes
• Clearing up any confusing about available options associated with actions
• Changing the alert overiding functionality to be applied to a session
• Notification and state reporting fixes
• Playback and Stop Playback state fixes
• New functionality for flexible JSID’s, appending and prepending
• Convenience variables for cleaner test writing
• Safari 3 specific window load logic
• New assert functions including asserts.assertJS
• “Hitting enter” bug in actions forms
• Allow XPath override for recording

Fixes Include:

• The option to use XPATH as your locator all the time
• The global play button becomes a stop button when using action specific play buttons
• A Safari 3 specific checkbox fix
• Automatically turning off the recorder when enabling the explorers to avoid confusion
• Making the assert explorer work as expected with SPAN tags
• The IDE now preserves locator information when changing the method
• Making xpath work out of the box, recorder and the explorers