Selenium 4.34 Released!

Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.34 has been released!

By Diego Molina @diemol | Sunday, June 29, 2025

🔦 Highlights

macOS Improvements: Added macOS-specific key support for both Ruby and Python.
Web Extension Support: BiDi implementations now support Chromium web extensions (Java, Python).
Deprecations: FTP proxy support deprecated across Java, Python, Ruby, and .NET.
Selenium Manager: Now supports Electron (Rust backend). Still needs implementation in the bindings.
BiDi Enhancements: Continued progress with historyUpdated, permissions, and storage modules (Java, .NET, Python).
Quality Improvements: Significant type annotation cleanup, test stability enhancements, and doc generation in Python.

✅ Implemented BiDi commands:
- browsingContext.historyUpdated
- webExtensions and extended BrowsingContextInfo
🛠 Refactored CommandPayload, removed deprecated classes:
- ContextAware
- CommandLine
- OsProcess
⚠️ Deprecated FtpProxy
➕ Environment variable support for driver paths with Selenium Manager
🔐 Improvements in VirtualAuthenticator

🔑 Added macOS-specific keys to Keys enum (OPTION, FN)
🧠 Extensive BiDi updates:
- WebExtensions
- Permissions
- Storage
- History updates (with timestamps)
🧼 Code quality:
- mypy/type hint cleanups
- API docs improvements (auto-generated)
- tox/ruff upgrades
💡 enable_webextensions() now documented with CDP note
❌ Deprecated: FTP proxy support
🌐 Better error reporting on HTTP failures, improved error handling in expected_conditions

🚫 Deprecated FTP proxy support
📚 BiDi enhancements:
- OnHistoryUpdated event
- AcceptInsecureCerts & Proxy in user context
- Implicit screenshot-to-bytes conversion
- Protected DTOs from inheritance
🧹 Cleanup:
- Namespace simplifications
- Removed StyleCop config

K8s: Distributor uses Greedy as slot selector strategy in autoscaling (#2875)
K8s: Fix video uploader secrets pass to Node single container (#2886)
Docker: Update dependencies version for CVEs fix
Docker: Enable SE_NODE_ENABLE_MANAGED_DOWNLOADS in Node config by default (#2869)
Docker: Session created in Node container can be deleted on UI by default (#2871)
Docker: Environment variable flag to upgrade latest version of Chrome and ChromeDriver in container (#2872)
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We thank all our contributors for their incredible efforts in making Selenium better with every release. ❤️

For a detailed look at all changes, check out the release notes.