Building Selenium
How does the Selenium team build Selenium itself, and why did we chose the tools we chose?
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Java 8 support in Selenium
On September 30, 2023, Java 11 will be the minimum version supported by Selenium.
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Selenium 4.10.0 Released!
Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.10.0 has been released!
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Selenium 4.9.0 Released!
Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.9.0 has been released!
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Headless is Going Away!
Now that we got your attention, headless is not actually going away, just the convenience method to set it in Selenium
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Selenium 4.8.0 Released!
Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.8.0 has been released!
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Year End Review 2022
Looking back at our achievements from 2022
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Selenium 4.7.0 Released!
Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.7.0 has been released!
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Introducing Selenium Manager
Get a working environment to run Selenium out of the box with a new beta feature!
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Selenium 4.6.0 Released!
Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.6.0 has been released!
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Selenium 4.5.0 Released!
Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.5.0 has been released!
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Using Java 11+ HTTP Client in Selenium 4.5.0 and beyond
We’re happy to share that starting from Selenium 4.5.0, a Java 11+ HttpClient is supported
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Scaling a Kubernetes Selenium Grid with KEDA
Scaling Selenium Grid in a Kubernetes cluster with the help of KEDA
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Selenium 4.4.0 Released!
Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium 4.4.0 has been released!
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Test Automation Summit Berlin
An event to improve contributions to and collaboration among open source WebDriver based projects
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Improving & refining our Docs translations
We are refining our docs content with help from the community!
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A Tour of 4: New Commands
There’s more to Selenium 4 than just the server
Announcing Selenium 4
Selenium 4.0.0 is released! Get it while it’s hot!
A Tour of 4: Authentication
Introducing how Selenium 4 handles authentication
Selenium 4 Release Candidate 2
The second (and last!) release candidate of Selenium 4 is here!
Selenium 4 Release Candidate
We’re very happy to announce the first release candidate of Selenium 4.
All Selenium downloads are now available on GitHub releases
We are happy to announce all Selenium are available on GitHub releases.
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Selenium downloads will move to GitHub releases
We are moving all Selenium binaries from Google Storage to GitHub releases.
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The Selenium website has a new look!
We’re very happy to announce the new look for the Selenium website!
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IRC channels are moving to Libera.chat
Moving to Libera.Chat
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Observability in Selenium 4
Diagnosing problems when the Selenium server isn’t working has never been easy.
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Selenium 4 Beta 1 Released
We’re very happy to announce the release of the first beta of Selenium 4.
New Tricks in Selenium 4
Selenium Grid: a mechanism that allows you to distribute your tests across a fleet of machines.
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New Tricks in Selenium 4
Today, we’ll cover some details about the new tricks and capabilities that Selenium 4 offers.
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What’s Coming in Selenium 4: Why The Major Version Bump?
Let’s start talking about Selenium 4 and what’s coming. One thing I think I should clear up is “why the major version number bump?”
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What’s Coming in Selenium 4: How Can I Contribute?
As the lead of the Selenium project, I wanted to kick off a new blog series leading up to the release of Selenium 4.
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SeleniumConf Virtual 2020 Recap
Quick recap of the recent Selenium Conference held virtually
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Selenium 4.0 Alpha 6 is out!
We are very pleased to announce the release of Selenium 4.0 Alpha 6
SeleniumConf London 2019 Videos and Pictures
SeleniumConf London 2019 videos and pictures are available now!
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Selenium IDE Is Dead, Long Live Selenium IDE!
Selenium IDE is now the Legacy IDE, a new Selenium IDE is coming!
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Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE
The bad news: from Firefox 55 onwards, Selenium IDE will no longer work.
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Selenium 3.0: Out Now!
We are very pleased to announce the release of Selenium 3.0.
Selenium 3 is Coming
Selenium 3 is coming!
Announcing Selenium 3.0-beta1
At SeleniumConf in 2013, we announced that a new major version of Selenium would be released “by Christmas”.
Fall Selenium Conf, Save the Date & Call for Speakers!
We’re excited to announce that we’ve finally determined where and when Selenium Conf will be happening this Fall.
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Selenium Conf India 2016 Update
Selenium Conf India is happening this June 24-26 in Bangalore, India.
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Selenium Conf India — Save The Date!
In our last update we mentioned there will be 2 Selenium Confs in 2016 — one in India, another somewhere else (TBD).
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Selenium Conf 2016
Interested in learning what’s in store for Se Conf 2016?
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Selenium Conf 2015 Update
Selenium 2015 is just around the corner (September 8-10).
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Selenium Conf 2015 Details
The Selenium Conf 2015 website is live!
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Selenium Conf 2015 – Save The Date
Selenium Conf is coming to Portland, Oregon this year!
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Announcing Selenium Conf ’14: Bangalore, India
It makes me enormously happy and proud to announce that the Selenium Conference 2014 will be held in Bangalore on the 4-6 September.
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Android and iOS Support
TL;DR: We’re retiring Selenium’s own AndroidDriver and iPhoneDriver in favour of any of Selendroid, iosdriver and Appium.
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Mobile WebDriver
Although the WebDriver APIs started life as just a mechanism for automating web browsers, over the past few years it has been extended to also work on mobile devices.
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The Road to Selenium 3
Selenium 2 was released in July 2011…
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Curious to know how we picked speakers for the 2013 SeConf? Read on…
This is a guest post by Marcus Merrell, one of the organizers of the 2013 Selenium Conference.
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Selenium Conf 2013: Call for Papers and Early Bird Tickets
This year’s Selenium Conference is slated for June 10 – 12 in beautiful Boston, Massachusetts.
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Announcing Selenium 2.26: the “It’s Really Real” Release
It’s been a long time since we announced a new Selenium release on this blog…
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Announcing Selenium 2.22
It’s been a while since the last Selenium release, but I’m happy to announce that Selenium 2.22 is now available for download.
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Selenium Conf: Community
In this series of blog posts we’ve introduced…
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Selenium Conf: Speakers
I may be biased, but I think Selenium Conf ’12 is going to be great.
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Selenium Conf Keynotes: Liz Keogh
The tickets for Selenium Conf ’12 are still on sale for about another week, so there’s still time for you to buy your tickets.
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Selenium Conference 2012
Good news, everybody! Selenium Conf ’12 is getting closer!
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Support for Ancient Browsers
The first code checked into the Selenium project’s public repository was in November, 2004.
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A Note About the Cybervillains SSL Certificate
If you’re using Selenium RC to test websites hosted on a secure site (accessed using a URL starting with HTTPS), we strongly recommend that you upgrade to Selenium 2.19. This is because the Cybervillains certificate in previous versions will expire soon, and has been replaced in 2.19 with an updated one. Our thanks to Patrick […]
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Announcing Selenium 2.19: the Prancing Unicorn release
You might be pleased to hear that Selenium 2.19 has been released (download it from here!).
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Selenium 2.16 Released: Welcome to 2012!
It’s been a while since we last blogged about a Selenium release.
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Announcing Selenium Conf ’12
The community around Selenium is the thing that really makes the Selenium project special.
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Selenium 2.9 Released
We’re pleased to announce the release of Selenium 2.9.
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Selenium 2.8 Released
In keeping with our (roughly) weekly releases, Selenium 2.8 was released today (and on Maven too), with a huge list of bug-fixes!
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Selenium 2.6 Released
If you’ve been watching this blog carefully you’ll have noticed that the last release announcement we made was for 2.3…
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Selenium 2.3 Released
Continuing our new tradition of weekly releases, we’re very pleased to announce the release of Selenium 2.3.
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Selenium 2.2 Released
The feedback from the last release was heard loud and clear: little and often it is!
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Selenium 2.1 Released
Now that Selenium 2 has been released, one of the goals of the project is to provide regular updates to our users and the community.
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Selenium 2.0: Out Now!
We are very, very pleased to announce the release of Selenium 2.0.
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Selenium IDE 1.0.12 – now with Firefox 5 support
Last week we quietly released Selenium IDE 1.0.12 on the website.
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Selenium 2.0rc3: The “Next One’s The Big One” Release
When we pushed the 2.0rc1 live, we really hoped that the next release would be 2.0 final.
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Selenium 2.0rc2: The Better Working Release
You win some and you lose some.
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Selenium 2.0rc1: The Grid Release
We’re very happy to announce the first Release Candidate for Selenium 2, available for Java, C#, Ruby and Python.
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Selenium IDE 1.0.11 – Now with Firefox 4 Support!
We know that you have been waiting eagerly for this release and you have to wait no more.
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Selenium 2.0b3: The Next Gen Browser Release
It’s been about 5 weeks since the release of beta 2, so we’re very pleased to announce that Selenium 2.0b3 has just been released.
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Selenium 2.0b2 Released
We’ve just released Selenium 2.0b2.
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Selenium Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy
It doesn’t seem that long ago that we announced on the mailing list that the Selenium project planned to join the Software Freedom Conservancy.
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2.0b1 and Maven
If you’re using Maven and the 2.0b1 release of Selenium, you may be running into some problems getting maven to pick up your tests.
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Selenium Conf is coming… get your proposals in!
It has been mentioned at and hinted upon a couple times in the Smattering posts, but nothing has ‘officially’ been mentioned here, so it is time we fix that.
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Selenium 2.0 beta 1 Release
We recently released the first of the betas for Selenium 2.
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Selenium Conference Survey
Great news! Thanks to the initiative of our friends at Sauce Labs, we’re finally ready to host the first-ever Selenium Conference.
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Selenium 2.0a6 Released
We are extremely pleased to announce the release of Selenium 2.0a6!
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Going Atomic: How
This is the second of my technical posts. Again, if you’re interested in the internal workings of Selenium 2, then please skip straight to something else.
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Going Atomic: Why?
This is the first in a series of technical posts by me about the internals of Selenium WebDriver.
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How to use Selenium 2 with Maven
There are several ways to use Selenium 2!
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The Current Status of Selenium 1 and Selenium 2
In the beginning there was Se1, and it was good. But it could have been better — in ways that WebDriver was starting to be good at.
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Selenium 2.0a5 Released
I’m pleased to announce the release of Selenium 2.0a5, available for immediate download.
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Selenium IDE – Looking back and looking forward
Its been around six months and three releases since I took the reins of Selenium-IDE.
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Selenium Grid 1.0.8 Released
We’re pleased to announce the release of Selenium Grid 1.0.8
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Selenium IDE 1.0.7 – Now with Drag-and-Drop!
So its a month later than planned, but Selenium IDE 1.0.7 is now available.
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Selenium Grid 1.0.7 Released
Following up on the Selenium Grid 1.0.6 release, we’re pleased to announce the release of Selenium Grid 1.0.7
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The Future of Selenium Grid
As you likely know by now, after years of stewardship Philippe has stepped down as maintainer of Selenium Grid and has named me the new maintainer.
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Selenium 2.0a3 Released
Selenium 2.0a3 has been released. This is a major update to 2.0 and all users are encouraged to update.
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Selenium Grid 1.0.6 Released
Following up on the Selenium Grid 1.0.5 release, we’re pleased to announce the release of Selenium Grid 1.0.6
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Selenium 1.0.3 Released
Hot off the heals of 1.0.2, we’re releasing Selenium Remote Control 1.0.3!
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Selenium 1.0.2 Released: Firefox 3.6 and Snow Leopard Support
Today we’re happy to announce that Selenium Remote Control 1.0.2 has been released!
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Welcome to the official Selenium blog!
Since we moved away from Clearspace for our forums, it’s time we also did the same for our blogging platform. We hope to be much better about posting news, tips, and tricks here going forward.
