- Selenium Manager receives major enhancements – adds web‑proxy support, Safari driver handling, JSON output parsing, improved PATH and architecture detection, and a new allowHosts option for GeckoDriverService.
- Grid and driver handling improvements – auto‑download support, refined flag descriptions, restored detectDrivers behaviour, and new support for pinned scripts and browsers.
- Deprecations and security updates – CDP methods in FirefoxDriver are deprecated, cryptography library upgraded to 39.0.1, plus numerous lint and NPE bug fixes.
Selenium 4.9.0
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Added a new transport layer for generated BiDi modules and improved BiDi schema fidelity, including extensible types and validation of primitives.