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title: "Selenium 4.38 Released!"
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linkTitle: "Selenium 4.38 Released!"
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date: 2025-10-24
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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_4.38.jpg"
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description: >
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Today we're happy to announce that Selenium 4.38 has been released!
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We’re excited to announce the release of **Selenium 4.38** 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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# Selenium 4.38 Released
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Selenium 4.38 is a maintenance-focused release with improvements in code quality, documentation
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formatting, and test infrastructure. The update includes ongoing work on BiDi features, cleanup of
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deprecated code, and expansion of JSpecify annotations for better type safety in Java.
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## Highlights
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- **Chrome DevTools support** is now: v142, v141, and v140.
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- **Java JSpecify Coverage Expanded**: Dozens of additional classes annotated to improve null-safety and developer experience.
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- **Python Docstring and BiDi Work**: Switched to Google-style docstrings and added support for `set_timezone_override` in BiDi emulation.
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- **Ruby Cleanup**: Deprecated logging classes removed and RSpec linting applied.
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- **Infrastructure & Docs**: Test workflows cleaned up, doc update jobs fixed, and Travis cruft removed from builds.
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## Language-specific Changes
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### Java
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- JSpecify annotations added for:
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- `ExecuteMethod`
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- `org.openqa.selenium.federatedcredential`
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- `org.openqa.selenium.interactions`
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- `org.openqa.selenium.net`
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- `Credential`, `MBean`
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- `ScriptKey`, `UnpinnedScriptKey`
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- `FileDetector`
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- `ExpectedCondition`
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- `Response`, `SessionId`, `HttpSessionId`
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- BiDi:
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- New test added for the `onHistoryUpdated` event.
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### Python
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- BiDi:
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- Added `set_timezone_override` command under emulation.
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- Documentation:
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- Converted more docstrings to Google style.
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- Removed use of `:param:` and `:args:` Sphinx directives.
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- Tooling:
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- Bumped `ruff` formatter/linter version.
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### .NET
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- BiDi:
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- Updated DTO property inclusion to avoid reliance on `JsonInclude`.
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### Ruby
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- BiDi test infra:
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- Reduced number of BiDi-related test targets for better performance.
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- Disabled `dev/shm` for Chrome/Edge tests on RBE.
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- Code cleanup:
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- Removed deprecated logging classes.
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- Applied `rspec` linter syntax updates.
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- Fixed `nil` handling in network requests.
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- Build improvements:
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- Improved local dev environment generation.
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### Rust (Selenium Manager)
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- Fixed browser version test for Edge.
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## Tooling & Infrastructure
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- Removed unused `test_tag_filter`.
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- Removed legacy Travis CI environment code (Java, Ruby).
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- Fixed documentation update workflows for both staging and main releases.
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### 🐳 Docker Selenium
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- [ci] Use test public site when test run via relay session to cloud
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- K8s: Remove triggerMetadata with empty value to prevent Unmatched input property from KEDA checks (#3005)
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- K8s: Expose config session request timeout in Helm chart values (#3006)
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- chore(deps): update helm release kube-prometheus-stack to v79 (#3007)
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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-4.38.0).
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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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### [Selenium Docs & Website](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/seleniumhq.github.io)
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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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Stay tuned for updates by following SeleniumHQ on:
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- [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@[email protected])
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- [BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/seleniumconf.bsky.social)
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- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/selenium/)
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- [Selenium Community YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@SeleniumHQProject/streams)
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- [X (Formerly Twitter)](https://twitter.com/seleniumhq)
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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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