- Added Safe Casting to getPermissions and expanded print options handling (page ranges, map) while allowing DevTools instance reuse with JDK 11.
- Improved Selenium Manager: Unix/BSD binary support, configurable external URIs, refined driver version discovery, and PATH usage only when version is unspecified.
- Introduced CDP‑based script pinning for Chrome, new Bidi realm events, and various bug fixes (logging levels, proxy handling, file descriptor leak, linter issues).
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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.