Selenium 4.12.0 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

• JavaScript
  • Fix how browsers and drivers are discovered (#12456)
  • See all changes

• .NET
  • Several big fixes for improving DevTools execution (#12486, #12614, #12592, #12591)
  • Bug fix for how driver location is specified in Service class (#12473)
  • See all changes

• Python
  • Support Selenium Manager in conda installs (#12536)
  • Several bug fixes in Typing suggestions (#12477, #12464)
  • allow setting http client certifications with REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE env (#11957)
  • Fix bugs for ElementScrollBehavior, sending keys with long strings and getting capabilities from options
  • 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

@nvborisenko

Sandeep Suryaprasad

@sandeepsuryaprasad

Scott Babcock

@sbabcoc

Selenium Docs & Website

Andrii Maliuta

@ahndmal

Andrei Solntsev

@asolntsev

Nikolay Borisenko

@nvborisenko

Pallavi

@pallavigitwork

Tahanima Chowdhury

@Tahanima

Veerendra Jana

@veerendrajana

Docker Selenium

Mario Segura

@SurelyMario

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

David Burns

@AutomatedTester

Boni García

@bonigarcia

Diego Molina

@diemol

Sri Harsha

@harsha509

@jimevans

Jonathan Lipps

@jlipps

@joerg1985

Luke Hill

@luke-hill

Alex Rodionov

@p0deje

Puja Jagani

@pujagani

Simon Stewart

@shs96c

Simon K

@symonk

Titus Fortner

@titusfortner

Stay tuned for updates by following SeleniumHQ!

Happy testing!

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