diff --git a/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/selenium-4-35-released.md b/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/selenium-4-35-released.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..61fa2919575f --- /dev/null +++ b/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/selenium-4-35-released.md @@ -0,0 +1,220 @@ +--- +title: "Selenium 4.35 Released!" +linkTitle: "Selenium 4.35 Released!" +date: 2025-08-12 +tags: [ "selenium" ] +categories: [ "releases" ] +author: Diego Molina [@diemol](https://www.diemol.com) +images: + - "/images/blog/2025/selenium_4.35.jpg" +description: > + Today we're happy to announce that Selenium 4.35 has been released! +--- + +We’re excited to announce the release of **Selenium 4.35** for Javascript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java +and the Grid! πŸŽ‰ + +Links to all assets can be found on our [downloads page][downloads]. + + +--- + +## πŸ”¦ Highlights + +- **Chrome DevTools support** is now: v139, v138, and v137. +- **BiDi Improvements Across Bindings**: Expanded BiDi support including emulation, input, script execution, and user context enhancements. +- **Java Cleanup and JSpecify Annotations**: Deprecated APIs removed and comprehensive `@Nullable` annotations added for better type safety. +- **Grid Performance Enhancements**: Improved logging, reduced redundancy, race condition fixes, and migration from Guava to Caffeine. +- **Better Proxy and Network Handling**: Support for `SameSite=default`, IPv6 improvements, and fixes for proxy authentication and WebView2. +- **Logging Improvements**: Driver logs in .NET are more structured and can output to console or file with timestamps. + +--- + +## πŸ§ͺ Language-specific Updates + +### Java + +- πŸ”§ Added support for: + - BiDi emulation module + - `SameSite=default` for cookies + - Shadow DOM element normalization +- 🧹 Major cleanup of deprecated classes: + - `LocationContext`, `WebStorage`, `FirefoxBinary`, `SessionStorage`, `AppCacheStatus`, and more +- βœ… Enhanced test coverage: `--connect-existing` WebSocket check +- πŸ“ Added JSpecify `@Nullable` annotations across all driver services and locator classes +- 🧼 Memory/resource improvements: + - Released `HttpClient` resources + - Removed unused internal classes + +### Python + +- 🧠 BiDi enhancements: + - Implemented input and emulation modules + - Added `pin`, `unpin`, and `execute` for scripts + - Supported `accept_insecure_certs`, `proxy`, and `unhandled_prompt_behavior` in user context +- πŸ”§ Improved handling for: + - Proxy authentication with special characters + - WebView2 + CDP/BiDi compatibility + - Vendor prefix fix for Edge +- πŸ“¦ Loosened dependency for `urllib3`, and included IPv6 support for `free_port()` +- πŸ“š API documentation improvements, including nightly builds and license notices + +### .NET + +- πŸ’‘ Logging Enhancements: + - Timestamps for Chromium-based browser logs + - GeckoDriver log file support + - Default log level now `WARN` + - Console output support for all drivers +- 🧠 BiDi enhancements: + - Exposed internal methods and new result types + - User context supports `UnhandledPromptBehavior`, `proxy`, `accept_insecure_certs` + - Tree and Emulation modules added +- 🧹 Cleanup: + - Removed long-deprecated members + - Reduced internal tracing noise +- πŸ”„ Native packaging for Selenium Manager +- 🌐 IPv6 support for port allocation + +### JavaScript + +- πŸ§ͺ BiDi: + - Stability fix for flaky cookie network test + - Skip FedCM tests until Chrome 140 +- ⚠️ Added `SameSite=default` cookie support +- πŸ”„ Dependency updates (`typescript`, `@emotion/styled`) + +### Ruby + +- πŸ”’ Guarded support for Firefox Beta +- 🚫 Removed deprecated local/session storage APIs +- πŸ†— Allowed use of `rubyzip` v3 +- βœ‚οΈ Excluded Rakefile from line-length linter +- ⚠️ Added support for `SameSite=default` + +### Rust (Selenium Manager) + +- πŸ§ͺ Updated base URL for Edge WebDriver +- ⬆️ Dependency upgrades (`zip`, `rstest`, `which`, Bazel lock files) +- πŸ”§ Improved architecture normalization for Plausible analytics + +### Grid + +- πŸ” Performance and logging improvements: + - Reduced duplicate logs + - Improved node health checks + - Better session map handling and retry queue management +- 🧰 Switched from Guava’s CacheBuilder to Caffeine +- πŸ§ͺ New UI sorting option by URI + + +### 🐳 Docker Selenium + +- K8s: Add config for over-provision ratio in autoscaling deployment of Nodes ([#2930](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2930)) +- Docker: Distributor uses Greedy as the slot selector strategy default in Hub-Node and Standalone mode ([#2915](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2915)) +- Docker: Update Google Noto font family to support better language character displays ([#2914](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2914)) +- [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/releases) + + +
+ +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](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/tag/selenium-4.35.0). + +
+ +## Contributors + +**Special shout-out to everyone who helped the Selenium Team get this release out!** + +### [Selenium](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium) + +
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- Nuget latest release is 4.35.0 Released on Aug 12, 2025. + Nuget latest release is 4.35.0 Released on August 12, 2025.