0.85.0

microsoft/markitdown0.85.0Sep 17, 2026by takahirom

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AI Summary

This release introduces 'Replay Paces on Focus,' improving the accuracy of replayed steps. Instead of sleeping for a fixed interval, replayed steps now wait for the device's focused element to match the recorded target, resulting in faster and more reliable playback.

Key Highlights

  • Implemented 'Replay Paces on Focus' for more accurate replay behavior
  • Steps with no target now wait for the focused element to match the recorded target
  • Performance improvement: Reduced replay time significantly in test scenarios (e.g., 154s to 75s)
  • Backward compatibility maintained for traces recorded before this release

New Features

  • Replay Paces on Focus feature

Full Release Notes

A replayed step with a recorded target waits for that target. A bare key press has none — which is most of a run driven by a D-pad, as on Android TV — so replay slept out the interval the recording happened to have.

## Replay Paces on Focus (#448)

A replayed step with a recorded target waits for that target. A bare key press had none, so replay slept out the interval the recording happened to have. Those steps now wait until the device's focused element matches the one recorded for the step:

```
Replay wait: focus android.view.ViewGroup at [107,520,277,617] found after 142ms before capturing step 1
```

The recorded gap stays the ceiling, so a step that never reaches its recorded focus waits as long as it did before. On one emulator and one scenario of 12 replayed steps, the same traces took 154s before and 75s after.

When focus cannot tell the screen before the action from the screen after it — same position recorded twice, no predecessor, initializers, or a previous task that fell back — the wait first has to observe a screen that is not the recorded focus. Traces recorded before this release pace exactly as they did.

## What's Changed
* Wait for the recorded focus on replayed steps with no target by @takahirom in https://github.com/takahirom/arbigent/pull/448


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/takahirom/arbigent/compare/0.84.0...0.85.0

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