Selenium 4.29 Released!

We’re very happy to announce the release of Selenium 4.29 for Javascript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java and the Grid! Links to everything can be found on our downloads page.

🚀 Major Highlights

• Final removal of Firefox CDP support across all language bindings.
• New WebDriver BiDi capabilities: Implementation of setCacheBehavior and getClientWindows commands.
• Grid UI Fixes: Live session view now works as expected.
• PrintOptions enhancements: Support for predefined and custom paper sizes.
• Nullability annotations continue to improve type safety in .NET.
• BiDi improvements: Network response handlers and optimizations.
• Enhancements to logging options in Java.

🔹 Language-Specific Changes

Java

• Implemented setCacheBehavior for WebDriver BiDi. (#15130)
• Enhanced PageSize class to support predefined and custom paper sizes. (#15052)
• Ensured purging dead nodes service interval is configurable. (#15175)
• Improved handling of Selenium logging options. (#15197)
• Added support for getClientWindows in WebDriver BiDi. (#14869)

Python

• Fixed installation issues for source distributions. (#15128)
• Updated PrintOptions to support different page sizes. (#15064)
• Documented cygwin path usage in send_keys(). (#15275)
• Fixed return type and docstrings for get_downloadable_files(). (#15292)

JavaScript

• Implemented setCacheBehavior for WebDriver BiDi. (#15136)
• Fixed dependencies for novnc v1.5.0. (#15005)
• Added support for getClientWindows in WebDriver BiDi. (#15248)

Ruby

• Removed Java date dependency. (#15122)
• Added WebDriver BiDi network response handler. (#14900)
• Implemented WebDriver BiDi setCacheBehavior command. (#15114)

.NET

• Improved BiDi exception handling when it is not enabled. (#15163)
• Added nullability annotations across multiple modules, including Command, DriverService, FirefoxProfile, Manage(), SafariOptions, and Navigate().
• Updated WebAuth credential handling. (#15201)
• Simplified creation of network types. (#15267)
• Improved logging stability. (#15257)

Docker Selenium

• Publish Node/Standalone images with the latest Grid core version and browser backward versions
• Update container environment to JDK21 (#2642)
• Node base with share system certificate support (#2653)
• Node container is able to restart and retry to register when register-period exceeded (#2662)
• Selenium Grid scaler in KEDA feature preview
  • Add trigger param to set custom capabilities for matching specific Nodes (KEDA#6536)
  • Add trigger param for Node enables managed downloads capability (KEDA#6570)
• Helm config: Set K8s node IP to all components via env var KUBERNETES_NODE_HOST_IP in template (#2668)
• See all changes

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.

Contributors

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

Selenium

Swastik Baranwal

@Delta456

Alex Popov

@iampopovich

Navin Chandra

@navin772

Romain Tartière

@smortex

Vinaysimha Varma Yadavali

@yvsvarma

Selenium Docs & Website

Andrey Vorobev

@AndreyJVM

Swastik Baranwal

@Delta456

ian zhang

@alaahong

Ujjwal Kumar Singh

@automatealchemist

Benjamin Rosemann

@b2m

Pallavi

@pallavigitwork

Docker Selenium

Peter Upfold

@PeterUpfold

Sten Arthur Laane

@StenAL

Amar Deep Singh

@amardeep2006

Oskar Budziosz

@calendir

@joshfng

Ritesh Khadgaray

@ritzk

Selenium Team Members

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

Augustin Gottlieb

@aguspe

David Burns

@AutomatedTester

Boni García

@bonigarcia

Corey Goldberg

@cgoldberg

Diego Molina

@diemol

Sri Harsha

@harsha509

@joerg1985

Nikolay Borisenko

@nvborisenko

Alex Rodionov

@p0deje

Puja Jagani

@pujagani

Michael Render

@RenderMichael

Simon Benzer

@shbenzer

Simon Stewart

@shs96c

Titus Fortner

@titusfortner

Viet Nguyen Duc

@VietND96

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