It's been a while since the last development gem was uploaded. We now have a new watir gem - version 1.5.1.1136. Changes in this release:

• Fix for intermittent crashes occuring when using Watir with Ruby version > 1.8.2.
• Fix for http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-86
  This fix prevents the Watir-modified win32ole.so library (compiled against 1.8.2) from being used.
• Added Element#parent
• Add new methods Element#after? and Element#before?
• Added support for relative specifiers. E.g.:
  link = $ie.link(:class => 'addtocart', :after? => @headline)
• Removed NAVIGATION_CHECKER from Watir.rb, added to contrib. This fixes rdoc generation and stops the frame access exception being thrown in the default installation.

The latest gem has several changes and is available for download.

• Fix for IE7 on ie.exists? http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-123
• Rubyw is now used in winclicker to bypass command line windows.
• Autoit is registered before being used.
• Watir now checks for the right version of Ruby before loading our customized Win32ole library.
• ie.file_field has been fixed and unit test updated.
• rdoc generation has been fixed.
• page checker has been moved from the default behavior into contrib/page_checker.rb