Selenium 4.25 Released!
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We’re very happy to announce the release of Selenium 4.25 for Javascript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java and the Grid! Links to everything can be found on our downloads page.
Selenium 4.25.0 introduces several important changes and improvements across multiple programming languages and build systems. Below are the key highlights from this release.
General Updates
Chrome DevTools support is now: v129, v128, and v127 (Firefox still uses v85 for all versions)
Selenium has at least 4M active users in the last 30 days. 1.5M more than 4 months ago!
First implementation of BiDi (Bidirectional WebDriver Protocol) for .NET, providing advanced capabilities like inspecting browser contexts and receiving real-time events.
- We are looking for feedback on this feature, so please try it out and let us know what you think! Try
var bidi = await driver.AsBiDiAsync();
to get started.
- We are looking for feedback on this feature, so please try it out and let us know what you think! Try
Java
Escape cookie values when required for tests (#14486)
Warn about an upcoming change enforcing string quotes in TOML (#14491)
Python
Fixed type errors for
pointer_input.py
,wheel_input.py
, andfirefox/options.py
(#14476)Fixed failing BiDi tests (#14448)
Dropped support for Python 2.x in
firefox_profile.py
(#14489)
JavaScript
Fixed flaky network event tests for BiDi (#14512)
Closed CDP websocket connection on
driver.quit
(#14501)
.NET
BiDi API updates, including renaming methods and simplifying context handling (#14318)
Exposed BiDi associated references in browsing context (#14495)
Ruby
Allowed driver path to be set using environment variables (#14287)
Fixed the
add_cause
method not being able to process an array of hashes (#14433)
Rust
- Fixed errors in Selenium Manager when the browser path is incorrect (#14381)
- Reused driver mirror URLs to discover Firefox versions (#14493)
- See all changes
Docker Selenium
KEDA Scaler in Kubernetes:
- Enhanced KEDA scaler behavior, addressing:
- Added separate parameters for basic authentication (
username
,password
) for the Grid GraphQL endpoint (#2401). - Added support for
nodeMaxSessions
parameter to control maximum concurrent sessions per node, aligning with the node config--max-sessions
(#2402).
Note: The above KEDA scaler updates are available experimentally via our built images approach. Check out this for more details.
Selenium Grid Helm Chart: Updated to support the new KEDA scaler enhancements.
Contributors
Special shout-out to everyone who helped the Selenium Team get this release out!
Selenium
Swastik Baranwal
Agustin Pequeno
Angie Jones
Chris Gossett
Dominic Evans
Manuel Blanco
Navin Chandra
Sandeep Suryaprasad
Simon Benzer
Selenium Docs & Website
Agustin Pequeno
Pallavi
Simon Benzer
Docker Selenium
Markus Kopp
Selenium Team Members
Thanks as well to all the team members who contributed to this release:
David Burns
Boni García
Diego Molina
Sri Harsha
Nikolay Borisenko
Alex Rodionov
Puja Jagani
Simon Stewart
Titus Fortner
Viet Nguyen Duc
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Happy automating!