Watir 1.6.5 is released

[Charley Baker]

Hi all,

  We've done a lot of work for bug fixes and integration with Firefox to make it more conformant to the Watir unit tests. There has been a burgeoning of contributions for this release as compared to previous releases, part of that due to our move to github, and another part due to cleaning up and adding Firefox as a first class cititzen. It's been a lot of fun to work on this release and there are many people who've helped us out.

This release is a lot of bugfixes, and integration and should be a drop in replacement if you're using 1.6.2 currently, and highly recommended as an upgrade.

For more information on specific changes, please take a look at the change file: /watir/NEWCHANGES, I've put most of them in that file.

Please post on the list with any problems or difficulties in installing the latest gems.

Cheers,

Charley

[Bret Pettichord]

Thanks for getting this out Charley.

This release represents about a year of work on bug releases and
incremental improvements to Watir's support for both Firefox and IE. For
complete details, see
http://github.com/bret/watir/blob/master/watir/NEWCHANGES

I'm really glad that Charley agreed to take the lead in getting this
release out the door. Big thanks also go to Jari Bakken, who provided
numerous fixes. Other contributors to this release include Angrez Singh,
Derek Berner, Rob Alred, Željko Filipin, Jarmo Pertman, Aidy Lewis, Alan
Baird and many others. (If you made contributions to this release, but
did not get credited, please let me or Charley know and we'll update the
release notes right away.)

Bret

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[Zhimin]

Thanks for your work.

Regards,
Zhimin

[George]

Thanks, Charley!

[Ning Cao]

Thanks for the hard work!

[Charley Baker]

Thanks guys, there's been a lot of work on this release. I think the most we've seen so far.

Cheers,

Charley

[Jarmo Pertman]

Good news. It seems that there will come a time I have to upgrade also
Watir at my workplace (along with RSpec). Hopefully it will work like
a charm :-)

On Nov 12, 12:51 am, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks guys, there's been a lot of work on this release. I think the most
> we've seen so far.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charley
>

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ning Cao <n...@adready.com> wrote:
> >  Thanks for the hard work!
>

> > *From:* watir-...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> > watir-...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Charley Baker
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:20 PM
> > *To:* watir-...@googlegroups.com
> > *Subject:* [wtr-general] Watir 1.6.5 is released

[Željko Filipin]

Charley,

I have just updated Watir to 1.6.5 and ran all my tests. No problems at all. :)

Željko
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