Selenium 4.17 Released!

We’re very happy to announce the release of Selenium 4.17.0 for Javascript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java and the Grid! Links to everything can be found on our downloads page.

Highlights

• Chrome DevTools support is now: v119, v120, and v121 (Firefox still uses v85 for all versions)
• Selenium Manager records usage set environment variable SE_AVOID_STATS to "true" to avoid sending information.
• Chrome headless changed the name of the browser to reflect that it is not actually chrome; Selenium now handles this seamlessly, but you should still switch to --headless=new (see: Headless is going away)

Noteworthy changes per language

• Java
  • Remove deprecated event listener classes; update to EventFiringDecorator and WebDriverListener classes
  • Allow disabling Grid UI
  • Deprecated FirefoxBinary class and legacy Error Codes
  • Deprecated HTML5 features for offline storage, location, and network connection
  • No longer accepting session requests with desiredCapabilities keyword
  • See all changes

• JavaScript
  • Remove deprecated headless methods and associated references
  • Implemented remote file downloading
  • See all changes

• .NET
  • Improvements to the new logging implementation
  • Removed previously deprecated code
  • See all changes

• Python
  • Updated WPEWebKit support
  • Removed previously deprecated code
  • Deprecated FirefoxBinary and several outdated FirefoxProfile methods
  • See all changes

• Ruby
  • Logger defaults output to stderr instead of stdout
  • See all changes

• Rust
  • Use latest browser from cache when browser path is not discovered
  • Throw a descriptive message when error parsing JSON from response
  • See all changes

Contributors

Special shout-out to everyone who helped the Selenium Team get this release out!

Selenium

@Earlopain

@EdwinVanVliet

Andrei Solntsev

@asolntsev

James Braza

@jamesbraza

Lauro Moura

@lauromoura

@middlingphys

@take0x

Valery Yatsynovich

@valfirst

Viet Nguyen Duc

@VietND96

Henrik Skupin

@whimboo

Selenium Docs & Website

Oscar Devora

@RevealOscar

Yevgeniy Shunevych

@YevgeniyShunevych

Docker Selenium

Auto81

@Auto81

@Earlopain

Amar Deep Singh

@amardeep2006

Viet Nguyen Duc

@VietND96

Selenium Team Members

Thanks as well to all the team members who contributed to this release:

David Burns

@AutomatedTester

Boni García

@bonigarcia

Diego Molina

@diemol

Sri Harsha

@harsha509

@joerg1985

Nikolay Borisenko

@nvborisenko

Alex Rodionov

@p0deje

Puja Jagani

@pujagani

Titus Fortner

@titusfortner

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Happy testing!

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