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title: "Selenium 4.35 Released!"
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linkTitle: "Selenium 4.35 Released!"
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date: 2025-08-12
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tags: [ "selenium" ]
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categories: [ "releases" ]
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author: Diego Molina [@diemol](https://www.diemol.com)
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description: >
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Today we're happy to announce that Selenium 4.35 has been released!
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We’re excited to announce the release of **Selenium 4.35** for Javascript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java
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and the Grid! 🎉
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Links to all assets can be found on our [downloads page][downloads].
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---
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## 🔦 Highlights
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- **Chrome DevTools support** is now: v139, v138, and v137.
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- **BiDi Improvements Across Bindings**: Expanded BiDi support including emulation, input, script execution, and user context enhancements.
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- **Java Cleanup and JSpecify Annotations**: Deprecated APIs removed and comprehensive `@Nullable` annotations added for better type safety.
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- **Grid Performance Enhancements**: Improved logging, reduced redundancy, race condition fixes, and migration from Guava to Caffeine.
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- **Better Proxy and Network Handling**: Support for `SameSite=default`, IPv6 improvements, and fixes for proxy authentication and WebView2.
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- **Logging Improvements**: Driver logs in .NET are more structured and can output to console or file with timestamps.
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---
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## 🧪 Language-specific Updates
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### Java
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- 🔧 Added support for:
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- BiDi emulation module
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- `SameSite=default` for cookies
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- Shadow DOM element normalization
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- 🧹 Major cleanup of deprecated classes:
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- `LocationContext`, `WebStorage`, `FirefoxBinary`, `SessionStorage`, `AppCacheStatus`, and more
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- ✅ Enhanced test coverage: `--connect-existing` WebSocket check
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- 📝 Added JSpecify `@Nullable` annotations across all driver services and locator classes
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- 🧼 Memory/resource improvements:
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- Released `HttpClient` resources
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- Removed unused internal classes
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### Python
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- 🧠 BiDi enhancements:
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- Implemented input and emulation modules
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- Added `pin`, `unpin`, and `execute` for scripts
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- Supported `accept_insecure_certs`, `proxy`, and `unhandled_prompt_behavior` in user context
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- 🔧 Improved handling for:
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- Proxy authentication with special characters
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- WebView2 + CDP/BiDi compatibility
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- Vendor prefix fix for Edge
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- 📦 Loosened dependency for `urllib3`, and included IPv6 support for `free_port()`
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- 📚 API documentation improvements, including nightly builds and license notices
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### .NET
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- 💡 Logging Enhancements:
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- Timestamps for Chromium-based browser logs
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- GeckoDriver log file support
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- Default log level now `WARN`
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- Console output support for all drivers
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- 🧠 BiDi enhancements:
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- Exposed internal methods and new result types
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- User context supports `UnhandledPromptBehavior`, `proxy`, `accept_insecure_certs`
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- Tree and Emulation modules added
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- 🧹 Cleanup:
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- Removed long-deprecated members
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- Reduced internal tracing noise
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- 🔄 Native packaging for Selenium Manager
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- 🌐 IPv6 support for port allocation
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### JavaScript
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- 🧪 BiDi:
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- Stability fix for flaky cookie network test
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- Skip FedCM tests until Chrome 140
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- ⚠️ Added `SameSite=default` cookie support
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- 🔄 Dependency updates (`typescript`, `@emotion/styled`)
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### Ruby
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- 🔒 Guarded support for Firefox Beta
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- 🚫 Removed deprecated local/session storage APIs
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- 🆗 Allowed use of `rubyzip` v3
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- ✂️ Excluded Rakefile from line-length linter
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- ⚠️ Added support for `SameSite=default`
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### Rust (Selenium Manager)
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- 🧪 Updated base URL for Edge WebDriver
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- ⬆️ Dependency upgrades (`zip`, `rstest`, `which`, Bazel lock files)
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- 🔧 Improved architecture normalization for Plausible analytics
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### Grid
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- 🔁 Performance and logging improvements:
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- Reduced duplicate logs
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- Improved node health checks
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- Better session map handling and retry queue management
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- 🧰 Switched from Guava’s CacheBuilder to Caffeine
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- 🧪 New UI sorting option by URI
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### 🐳 Docker Selenium
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- K8s: Distributor uses Greedy as slot selector strategy in autoscaling ([#2875](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2875))
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- K8s: Fix video uploader secrets pass to Node single container ([#2886](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2886))
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- Docker: Update dependencies version for CVEs fix
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- Docker: Enable `SE_NODE_ENABLE_MANAGED_DOWNLOADS` in Node config by default ([#2869](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2869))
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- Docker: Session created in Node container can be deleted on UI by default ([#2871](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2871))
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- Docker: Environment variable flag to upgrade latest version of Chrome and ChromeDriver in container ([#2872](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2872))
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- [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/releases)
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<br>
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We thank all our contributors for their incredible efforts in making Selenium better with every
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release. ❤️
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For a detailed look at all changes, check out
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the [release notes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/tag/selenium-4.35.0).
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<br>
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## Contributors
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**Special shout-out to everyone who helped the Selenium Team get this release out!**
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### [Selenium](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium)
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### [Selenium Docs & Website](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/seleniumhq.github.io)
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### [Docker Selenium](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium)
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### [Selenium Team Members][team]
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**Thanks as well to all the team members who contributed to this release:**
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Stay tuned for updates by following SeleniumHQ on:
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- [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@[email protected])
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- [BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/seleniumconf.bsky.social)
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Happy automating!
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[downloads]: /downloads
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[bindings]: /downloads#bindings
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[team]: /project/structure
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[BiDi]: https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi

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