Selenium 4.21 Released!

Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.21 has been released!

We’re very happy to announce the release of Selenium 4.21.0 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: v123, v124, and v125 (Firefox still uses v85 for all versions)
  • Selenium has at least 2.4M active users in the last 30 days. 100k more than last month!
    • India and United States are the top countries with the most users.
    • Python is the most used language from the last 5 releases.
    • The most used operating system is Windows, with at least 1.9M users.
  • Extensibility points started to be implemented to simplify the integration between Selenium and Appium. Ruby is the first language to implement it.
  • Java and JavaScript keep adding more WebDriver BiDi features.
  • In Java, it is possible to set parameters for Selenium Manager via system properties.
  • Nightly packages are tested daily with the examples from the Selenium documentation.

Noteworthy changes per language

  • Java
    • Browser containers provisioned in Dynamic Grid will use the hostConfig
    • Set test name to video file name in Dynamic Grid
    • See all changes

  • JavaScript
    • Ensure selectVisibleByText method is same as other languages
    • See all changes


  • Python
    • Moving ignore_local_proxy_environment_variables to BaseOptions
    • See all changes


Contributors

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

Selenium

Viet Nguyen Duc

Viet Nguyen Duc

Joe Bandenburg

Joe Bandenburg

Oleksandr Kulychok

Oleksandr Kulychok

Sandeep Suryaprasad

Sandeep Suryaprasad

Selenium Docs & Website

Augustin Gottlieb Pequeno

Augustin Gottlieb Pequeno

Chamila Ambahera

Chamila Ambahera

Docker Selenium

Viet Nguyen Duc

Viet Nguyen Duc

Selenium Team Members

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

Puja Jagani

Puja Jagani

Diego Molina

Diego Molina

Boni García

Boni García

Sri Harsha

Sri Harsha

Nikolay Borisenko

Nikolay Borisenko

Alex Rodionov

Alex Rodionov

Simon Stewart

Simon Stewart

Titus Fortner

Titus Fortner

David Burns

David Burns

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Happy testing!

Last modified May 16, 2024: Post for Selenium 4.21 (8700833ca90)