Selenium 4.22 Released!
Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.22 has been released!
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We’re very happy to announce the release of Selenium 4.22.0 for Javascript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java and the Grid! Links to everything can be found on our downloads page.
Highlights
- Selenium has at least 2.6 active users in the last 30 days. 200k more than last month!
- All information we collect is publicly available.
- The numbers only represent users who have Selenium Manager enabled and are using Selenium v4.17 or greater.
- Python, Chrome and Windows all see the majority of use.
- Chrome DevTools support is now: v124, v125, and v126 (Firefox still uses v85 for all versions)
- The first implementations of the new BiDi API have rolled out in Ruby, Python and JavaScript
Noteworthy changes per language
- Java
- Enabling BiDi can now be accomplished by calling
enableBiDi()
on an Options class instance. - Video file name in Dynamic Grid can be set with
se:videoName
capability. - See all changes
- Enabling BiDi can now be accomplished by calling
- JavaScript
- BiDi API for console logging and JavaScript errors has been implemented.
- Additional BiDi implementations.
- See all changes
- .NET
- The .NET bindings have started to roll out asynchronous methods.
- The synchronous methods will still be supported, but they will call the async methods “under the hood.”
- This release adds asynchronous methods to the Navigation class.
- See all changes
- The .NET bindings have started to roll out asynchronous methods.
- Python
- This release implements a new way of working with Chrome Devtools Protocol
- The previous implementation requires async/await pattern, so it was not backwards compatible.
- The new implementation is backwards compatible and executes async code in separate threads.
- Updated the webkitgtk and wpewebkit driver implementations.
- Enabling BiDi can now be accomplished by setting the
enable_bidi()
property of an Options class instance toTrue
. - BiDi API for console logging and JavaScript errors has been implemented.
- See all changes
- This release implements a new way of working with Chrome Devtools Protocol
- Ruby
- Implemented a toggle for BiDi and Classic implementations.
- BiDi API for console logging and JavaScript errors has been implemented.
- See all changes
- Rust
- Added the ability to stream logging information to stdout instead of after execution complete.
- Improved binary location on Windows with native Rust methods.
- See all changes
Contributors
Special shout-out to everyone who helped the Selenium Team get this release out!
Selenium
Andrei
Viet Nguyen Duc
Agustin Pequeno
Alex
Alexander Millin
Scott Babcock
Vladislav Velichko
James Yuzawa
Selenium Docs & Website
ian zhang
Agustin Pequeno
Pallavi
Sang Nguyen
Docker Selenium
Viet Nguyen Duc
Selenium Team Members
Thanks as well to all the team members who contributed to this release:
David Burns
Boni García
Diego Molina
Sri Harsha
Alex Rodionov
Puja Jagani
Simon Stewart
Titus Fortner
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Happy automating!