Selenium 4.12.0 Released!

Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.12.0 has been released!

We’re very happy to announce the release of Selenium 4.12.0 for Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, and Javascript as well as the Grid. Links to everything can be found on our downloads page.

Highlights

  • Chrome DevTools support is now: v114, v115, and v116 (Firefox still uses v85 for all versions)
  • Quite a few fixes for Selenium Manager, and now with Firefox browser management! Read about all the new Selenium Manager features
  • .NET only explicitly targets netstandard2.0
  • Python no longer supports Python 3.7
  • Ruby no longer supports :capabilities arguments for local drivers (must use :options now)

Relevant improvements per language

  • Java
    • Several improvements in working with Selenium Manager
    • Allow deleting remote downloaded files from grid (#12501)
    • Removed deprecated UNEXPECTED_ALERT_BEHAVIOR, BROWSER_LOGFILE, createPointerDown, createPointerUp and JWP /file endpoint
    • Deprecated disableNativeEvents and Remote Response status field
    • See all changes




  • Ruby
    • Fix bug preventing good error messages in Selenium Manager when stdout empty
    • Fix bug with Firefox not loading net/http library by default (#12506)
    • See all changes

Contributors

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

Selenium

Nikolay Borisenko

Nikolay Borisenko

Sandeep Suryaprasad

Sandeep Suryaprasad

Scott Babcock

Scott Babcock

Selenium Docs & Website

Andrii Maliuta

Andrii Maliuta

Andrei Solntsev

Andrei Solntsev

Nikolay Borisenko

Nikolay Borisenko

Tahanima Chowdhury

Tahanima Chowdhury

Veerendra Jana

Veerendra Jana

Docker Selenium

Mario Segura

Mario Segura

Thanks as well to all the Selenium Team Members who contributed to this release:

David Burns

David Burns

Boni García

Boni García

Diego Molina

Diego Molina

Sri Harsha

Sri Harsha

Jonathan Lipps

Jonathan Lipps

Luke Hill

Luke Hill

Alex Rodionov

Alex Rodionov

Puja Jagani

Puja Jagani

Simon Stewart

Simon Stewart

Simon K

Simon K

Titus Fortner

Titus Fortner

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Happy testing!

Last modified September 1, 2023: blog post for Selenium 4.12 (#1464) (7333254af94)