What’s new in Selenium: Breaking down the 4.22.0 release

Selenium 4.22.0 was released on June 21st, 2024, coinciding with the online Selenium Conference 2024. This release includes bug fixes and new features for Java, Javascript, Python, and Ruby bindings. Bug fixes include revived Javascript API docs, refined typing for WebDriver BiDi events related to user prompts, resolved end-of-file errors during .zip file downloads, fixed session creation for WebKitGTK driver, and more. New features include convenience methods to enable WebDriver BiDi in the Options class, setting capability se:videoName, synchronous support for lower-level DevTools/CDP API, high-level BiDi logging APIs, and more. Enhancements include improved debugging in Grid, resolved potential memory leaks, enhanced code navigation in IDEs like RubyMine, and more. Deprecations include Firefox planning to eventually deprecate its ChromeDevTools Protocol support.