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title: "Selenium 4.34 Released!"
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linkTitle: "Selenium 4.34 Released!"
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date: 2025-06-29
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tags: [ "selenium" ]
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categories: [ "releases" ]
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author: Diego Molina [@diemol](https://www.diemol.com)
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- "/images/blog/2025/selenium_4.34.jpg"
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description: >
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Today we're happy to announce that Selenium 4.34 has been released!
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We’re excited to announce the release of **Selenium 4.34** for Javascript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java
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and the Grid! 🎉
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Links to all assets can be found on our [downloads page][downloads].
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---
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## 🔦 Highlights
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- **macOS Improvements**: Added macOS-specific key support for both Ruby and Python.
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- **Web Extension Support**: BiDi implementations now support Chromium web extensions (Java, Python).
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- **Deprecations**: FTP proxy support deprecated across Java, Python, Ruby, and .NET.
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- **Selenium Manager**: Now supports Electron (Rust backend). Still needs implementation in the bindings.
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- **BiDi Enhancements**: Continued progress with `historyUpdated`, `permissions`, and `storage` modules (Java, .NET, Python).
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- **Quality Improvements**: Significant type annotation cleanup, test stability enhancements, and doc generation in Python.
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### Java
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- ✅ Implemented BiDi commands:
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- `browsingContext.historyUpdated`
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- `webExtensions` and extended `BrowsingContextInfo`
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- 🛠 Refactored `CommandPayload`, removed deprecated classes:
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- `ContextAware`
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- `CommandLine`
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- `OsProcess`
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- ⚠️ Deprecated `FtpProxy`
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- ➕ Environment variable support for driver paths with Selenium Manager
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- 🔐 Improvements in `VirtualAuthenticator`
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### Python
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- 🔑 Added macOS-specific keys to `Keys` enum (`OPTION`, `FN`)
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- 🧠 Extensive BiDi updates:
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- WebExtensions
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- Permissions
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- Storage
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- History updates (with timestamps)
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- 🧼 Code quality:
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- mypy/type hint cleanups
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- API docs improvements (auto-generated)
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- tox/ruff upgrades
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- 💡 `enable_webextensions()` now documented with CDP note
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- ❌ Deprecated: FTP proxy support
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- 🌐 Better error reporting on HTTP failures, improved error handling in `expected_conditions`
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### .NET
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- 🚫 Deprecated FTP proxy support
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- 📚 BiDi enhancements:
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- `OnHistoryUpdated` event
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- AcceptInsecureCerts & Proxy in user context
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- Implicit screenshot-to-bytes conversion
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- Protected DTOs from inheritance
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- 🧹 Cleanup:
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- Namespace simplifications
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- Removed StyleCop config
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### JavaScript
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- 📢 Warning added when FTP proxy is used
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- 💡 Declared minimum required Node.js version: `>= 20.0.0`
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### Grid
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- 🧪 Grid UI updated to Node 20 for type compatibility
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- 🧰 New built-in slot selector: `GreedySlotSelector`
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- 🧹 UI cleanup: session deletion, log level validation
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### Ruby
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- 🧑‍💻 Added macOS key mappings (Option/Fn)
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- ⚠️ Deprecated FTP proxy support
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- 🛠 Fixed child process termination handling
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### Rust (Selenium Manager)
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- 🖥️ Added **Electron** browser support
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- 🔧 Fixed Edge version test logic
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- Electron support.
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### Docker Selenium
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- K8s: Fix Helm chart template for deployment of video recording manager ([#2828](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2828), [#2831](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2831)).
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- K8s: Node enable readiness probe checks status registered to Hub ([#2833](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2833)).
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- K8s: Video recorder run as sidecar container is disabled by default ([#2843](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2843)).
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- K8s: Fix chart template issue that might occur when using Helm version v3.18.0 ([365c106](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/commit/365c10659905e6ad5e7e972fcb54225dc2a8c928)).
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- K8s: Update chart dependencies (KEDA core 2.17,1, and so on).
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- [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/releases)
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<br>
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We thank all our contributors for their incredible efforts in making Selenium better with every
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release. ❤️
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For a detailed look at all changes, check out
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the [release notes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/tag/selenium-4.34.0).
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<br>
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## Contributors
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**Special shout-out to everyone who helped the Selenium Team get this release out!**
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### [Selenium](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium)
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### [Docker Selenium](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium)
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### [Selenium Team Members][team]
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**Thanks as well to all the team members who contributed to this release:**
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Happy automating!
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[downloads]: /downloads
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[bindings]: /downloads#bindings
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[team]: /project/structure
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[BiDi]: https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi

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