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title: "Selenium 4.29 Released!"
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linkTitle: "Selenium 4.29 Released!"
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date: 2025-02-20
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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_4.29.jpg"
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description: >
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Today we're happy to announce that Selenium 4.29 has been released!
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We're very happy to announce the release of Selenium 4.29 for
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Javascript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java and the Grid!
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Links to everything can be found on our [downloads page][downloads].
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---
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## 🚀 Major Highlights
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- **Final removal of [Firefox CDP support](/blog/2025/remove-cdp-firefox/)** across all language bindings.
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- **New WebDriver BiDi capabilities**: Implementation of `setCacheBehavior` and `getClientWindows` commands.
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- **Grid UI Fixes**: Live session view now works as expected.
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- **PrintOptions enhancements**: Support for predefined and custom paper sizes.
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- **Nullability annotations** continue to improve type safety in .NET.
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- **BiDi improvements**: Network response handlers and optimizations.
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- **Enhancements to logging options** in Java.
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## 🔹 Language-Specific Changes
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### **Java**
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- Implemented `setCacheBehavior` for WebDriver BiDi. ([#15130](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15130))
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- Enhanced `PageSize` class to support predefined and custom paper sizes. ([#15052](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15052))
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- Ensured purging dead nodes service interval is configurable. ([#15175](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15175))
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- Improved handling of Selenium logging options. ([#15197](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15197))
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- Added support for `getClientWindows` in WebDriver BiDi. ([#14869](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/14869))
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### **Python**
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- Fixed installation issues for source distributions. ([#15128](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15128))
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- Updated `PrintOptions` to support different page sizes. ([#15064](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15064))
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- Documented `cygwin` path usage in `send_keys()`. ([#15275](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15275))
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- Fixed return type and docstrings for `get_downloadable_files()`. ([#15292](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15292))
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### **JavaScript**
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- Implemented `setCacheBehavior` for WebDriver BiDi. ([#15136](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15136))
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- Fixed dependencies for `novnc` v1.5.0. ([#15005](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15005))
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- Added support for `getClientWindows` in WebDriver BiDi. ([#15248](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15248))
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### **Ruby**
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- Removed Java date dependency. ([#15122](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15122))
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- Added WebDriver BiDi network response handler. ([#14900](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/14900))
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- Implemented WebDriver BiDi `setCacheBehavior` command. ([#15114](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15114))
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### **.NET**
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- Improved BiDi exception handling when it is not enabled. ([#15163](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15163))
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- Added nullability annotations across multiple modules, including `Command`, `DriverService`, `FirefoxProfile`, `Manage()`, `SafariOptions`, and `Navigate()`.
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- Updated WebAuth credential handling. ([#15201](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15201))
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- Simplified creation of network types. ([#15267](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15267))
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- Improved logging stability. ([#15257](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/15257))
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### **Docker Selenium**
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- Publish Node/Standalone images with the latest Grid core version and browser backward versions
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- Update container environment to JDK21 ([#2642](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2642))
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- Node base with share system certificate support ([#2653](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2653))
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- Node container is able to restart and retry to register when `register-period` exceeded ([#2662](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2662))
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- Selenium Grid scaler in KEDA feature preview
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- Add trigger param to set custom capabilities for matching specific Nodes ([KEDA#6536](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/6536))
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- Add trigger param for Node enables managed downloads capability ([KEDA#6570](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/6570))
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- Helm config: Set K8s node IP to all components via env var KUBERNETES_NODE_HOST_IP in template ([#2668](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2668))
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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 release. ❤️
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For a detailed look at all changes, check out the [release notes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/tag/4.29).
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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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- [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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