CHANGES

Selenium 4.31.0
* Add CDP for Chrome 135 and remove 132
* Fix docstring issues that sphinx complains about (#15466)
* service: only shutdown if process not terminated (#15183)

Selenium 4.30.0
* Add CDP for Chrome 134 and remove 131
* Remove support for v85 since no longer required by Firefox
* expected_conditions: correct type annotation (#15337)
* use `By` class attributes instead of strings in locator converter (#15402)
* fix invalid selector bug for mutation observation
* improve socket resource management with proper shutdown sequence (#15453)

Selenium 4.29.0
* Add CDP for Chrome 133 and remove 130
* [py] Disable strict time stamps in Firefox profile (#15141)
* [py] Enhance PrintOptions to support default, predefined, and custom page sizes (#15052) (#15064)
* [py] Remove Firefox CDP (#15200)
* [py] Handle named `get_cookie` and `delete_cookie` for None and empty strings (#15073)
* [py] Document cygwin path for `send_keys` (#15275)
* [py] Fix return type and docstring of get_downloadable_files (#15292)

Selenium 4.28.1
* [py] Fix installing most of the data from source distributions

Selenium 4.28.0
* Add CDP for Chrome 132 and remove 129
* [py] fix packaging (#14823)
* [py] Typing package import enhancement (#14283)
* [py] moved all getters in `fedcm/account.py` into descriptor object. (#14858)
* [py] add execute_cdp_cmd to Remote (#14809)
* Added more detailed docstrings to find_element() (#14930)
* [py] Refactored `remote/client_config.py` by moving `properties` into `descriptor` object (#14899)
* py: Ensure DRIVER_PATH_ENV_KEY defaults to string (#14862)
* [py] add doc for driver_path_env_key (#14997)
* [py] Fix WebKitGTK driver name check (#15046)
* [py] Upgraded WebDriverWait Docstrings (#15054)
* [py] Added Docstrings to ActionBuilder (#15065)
* [py] Upgraded WebElement Docstrings (#15056)
* [py] Upgraded WebDriver Docstrings (#15055)
* [java][js][py] Add straight relative-by locators (#14482)
* [py] Added Docstrings to RelativeBy Class and Added Missing Deprecation Warning to with_tag_name() (#15097)

Selenium 4.27.1
* Fix `pyproject.toml` for installable from sdist (#14806)
* Revert the Deprecation warnings of WebElement.get_attribute() (#14808)

Selenium 4.27.0
* Add CDP for Chrome 131 and remove 128
* Add Firefox CDP deprecation warnings (#14787)
* Cleaned up Py doc sphinx warnings/errors and added README (#14191)
* Added Deprecation of WebElement.get_attribute() per #13334 (#14675)
* Fix TypeError when init Safari webdriver (#14699)
* Set user_agent and extra_headers via ClientConfig (#14718)
* Updated Handling for DetachedShadowRoot Exception (#14677)
* Support FedCM commands (#14710)

Selenium 4.26.1
* DeprecationWarning raised in default webdriver init (#14690)
* Remote connection use timeout from ClientConfig (#14692)
* Add backward compatibility for AppiumConnection (#14696)

Selenium 4.26.0
* Add CDP for Chrome 130 and remove 127
* Added more internal logging for CDP (#14668)
* Set consistent polling across java and python for `WebDriverWait` methods (#14626)
* webkitgtk: log_path -> log_output (#14618)
* Implement configurable configuration class for the http client (#13286)
* Better compatibility with Appium-python (#14587)
* Avoid waiting indefinitely on a frozen chromedriver process (#14578)
* Allow logging diagnose in safari driver (#14606)
* Remote connection throws response status code when data is empty (#14601)
* Remove deprecated parameter from EdgeService (#14563)
* Allow driver path to be set using ENV variables (#14528)
* Remove un-needed print (#14562)
* Fix a bug in `bidi/session.py` by removing mutable object as default value for function argument (#14286)

Selenium 4.25.0
* Add CDP for Chrome 129 and remove 126
* fix type errors for `service.py`, `cdp.py`, `webelement.py` and `remote_connection.py` (#14448)
* fix type errors for `input_device` and `file_detector` (#14459)
* fix type errors for `pointer_input.py`, `wheel_input.py` and `firefox/options.py` (#14476)
* firefox_profile.py: use `with` statement in zipfile as Python 2.x support is dropped (#14489)

Selenium 4.24.0
* Allow overriding `GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT` (#14354)
* fix mypy errors for `timeouts.py` and `print_page_options.py` (#14362)
* fix mypy errors for `input_device.py`, `ie/options.py` and `selenium_manager.py` (#14377)
* fix type errors for `log.py`, `chromium/options.py`, `websocket_connection.py` and `chrome/options.py` (#14392)
* Add CDP for Chrome 128 and remove 125

Selenium 4.23.1

* Fix 14278 and match ordering of dependencies (#14297)

Selenium 4.23.0

* Disable strict time stamps in Firefox profile (#14168)
* Update the py api doc build (#14173)
* Add websocket-client v.1.8.0 to setup.py (#14187)
* Remove precompiled binaries from sdist (#14233)
* Fix RelativeBy#near to take 2 parameters (#13082)
* Add CDP for Chrome 127 and remove 124

Selenium 4.22.0

* Fix EOFError when calling the Remote WebDriver download_file method (#14031)
* Add low-level sync API to use DevTools (#13977)
* Add preference to enable CDP in Firefox by default (#14091)
* Allow using enable_bidi property on options class
* Implement script module for BiDi
* Remove desired capabilities argument for Webkitgtk (#14128)
* Make webkitgtk.webdriver same as wpewebkit.webdriver
* Add CDP for Chrome 126 and remove 123

Selenium 4.21.0

* Add CDP for Chrome 125 and remove 122
* Moving ignore_local_proxy_environment_variables to BaseOptions (#13926)

Selenium 4.20.0

* Add CDP for Chrome 124 and remove 121
* Add type hints for selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver.WebDriver.__init__ (#13775)
* Add types to set_window_position parameters (#13786)
* Making Selenium Manager a thin wrapper (#13387)
  * This change has been made to make it easier to maintain and improve, the interface has
  changed and if users were invoking it, they might experience issues. Selenium Manager is
  still in beta and these type of changes are expected.


Selenium 4.19.0

* Add CDP for Chrome 123 and remove 120
* Add more network interfaces to detect lan ip (#13663)
* install_addon() didn't take into account dir paths with trailing slashes (#13694)
* Explicitly export Select and WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support.ui (#13491)
* Add return type to webelement.submit (#13490)
* Add type to parameter of webelement.WebElement.send_keys (#13492)

Selenium 4.18.1

* Add CDP for Chrome 122 and remove 119

Selenium 4.18.0

* Update linting dependencies
* Setting Python for nightly releases - https://test.pypi.org/project/selenium/

Selenium 4.17.2
* [py] Correct typing_extension dependency for wheel generation

Selenium 4.17.1
* Fix typo in setup.py (#13487)

Selenium 4.17.0
* Add page load strategy enum (#13258)
* Use correct file name when bumping versions (#13282)
* Filter which bidi logs are recorded based on event type (#12951)
* Add python to Selenium Manager input for tracking (see #13288)
* Sleep depending on the number of attempts to check if the service has started (#13321)
* Use subprocess.DEVNULL instead of open(os.devnull) to avoid leaking a file handle (#13329)
* Remove all references to firefox-bin
* Check if architecture/platform combination is supported for Selenium Manager (#13381)
* Remove extension connection class and other usages of webdriver.xpi
* remove deprecated verbose argument from edge service
* remove deprecated desired_capabilities property from webdriver
* remove deprecated application cache support
* truncate large strings when logging requests
* Update WPEWebKit support code (#13278)
* [py] Fix WPEWebKit python support code
* Do not change profile preferences of an existing directory by default (#13477)
* Deprecate firefox profile methods that are not supported (#13477)
* deprecate FirefoxBinary class (#13476)
* Fix type error in mypy (#13482)
* Add CDP for Chrome 121 and remove 118

Selenium 4.16.0
* Fix inadvertent code change in mutation_event
* Fix bug in using SE_MANAGER_PATH
* Fix bug where downloaded file was not getting unzipped
* Add more logging to driver startup
* Fix WebDriverWait type hints for WebElement (#13108)
* Clean up of usage of executable path in services
* Don't leak a file descriptor to os.devnull by default (#13162)
* Allow bsd operating systems to use the linux binary
* Close trio memory channel sender after the driver is quit (#13151)
* Remote webdriver cannot match Chromium browser name for remote connection
* Remove deprecated reuse_service parameter from Safari driver constructor
* Remove deprecated quiet parameter from Safari service constructor
* Ensure all drivers stop service during driver quit
* Update chromium driver constructors for readability
* Add CDP for Chrome 120 and remove 117


Selenium 4.15.2
* Fix bug for unzipping downloaded files

Selenium 4.15.1
* Fix bug in using SE_MANAGER_PATH
* Fix inadvertent code change in mutation_event

Selenium 4.15.0
* Return a `pathlib.Path` when `SE_MANAGER_PATH` is set. closes #12929
* Do not set browser binary in selenium manager if it is an empty string (#12738)
* Add CDP v119 and remove v116
* Remove selenium manager accommodation for Conda
* Implement file downloads (#12979)
* Add some type hints to selenium.webdriver.support (#13070)

Selenium 4.14.0
* add CDP files for v118 and remove v115
* use lazy string interpolation for logging calls
* Fix dangling log_output in Service (#12871)

Selenium 4.13.0
* add CDP files for v117 and remove v114
* do not send parameters in payload that are used in endpoint (#12685)
* close out driver logging on quit (#12637)
* disable console appearing on windows when running in pythonw (#12715)
* remove deprecated headless methods
* fix bug preventing using performance logging in chromium
* remove deprecation notice from Firefox profiles
* Allow users to set Selenium Manager path by environment variable (#12752)

Selenium 4.12.0
* Add CDP files for v116 and remove v113
* fix bug in ElementScrollBehavior in IE Options (#12462)
* fix bug preventing sending keys with long strings (#12474)
* fix typing for action_chains (#12477)
* fix typing for IE Options (#12464)
* fix bug in common options (#12499)
* allow setting http client certifications with REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE env (#11957)
* support conda installation of selenium manager (#12536)
* Drop support for `python3.7`
* Fixed a bug where `Popen.wait()` calls caught the wrong exceptions when timing out

Selenium 4.11.2
* better bug fix for #12454

Selenium 4.11.1
* Delete unusable Safari Options parameters to fix bug preventing Safari execution (#12454)

Selenium 4.11.0
* Add CDP files for v115 and remove v112
* removed redundant attributes `capabilities` and `set_capability` in wpewebkit/options.py (#12169)
* mapped all error codes in `errorhandler.py` to corresponding exception object. (#12190)
* improve driver logging (#12103) - implement log_output() for flexibility and consistency of driver logging
* fix property name in Selenium Manager (#12237)
* used truthy check instead of checking for length in `to_capabilities` method in `ie/options.py` (#12262)
* remote commands dict is moved outside `RemoteConnection` class in `remote/remote_connection.py` (#12261)
* moved `ConnectionType` class outside `Mobile` class to avoid nesting of classes (#12256)
* used `pathlib` module to check if the file exist in `remote/file_detector.py` (#12253)
* added truthy check in chromium options instead of identity operator (#12274)
* added pythonic approach of type checking in `firefox/firefox_profile.py` (#12271)
* let users pass service args to IE driver (#12272)
* Adding ignore process match for IE Mode across bindings (#12279)
* moved all ie options to custom descriptors. (#12283)
* minor ie-options fix to PR 12283 (#12309), fixes #12283
* added type hints to `SwitchTo` class (#12296)
* Refactored Proxy object in common/proxy.py using custom descriptor. (#12286)
* optimized Timeouts class by moving timeouts to descriptor class (#12287)
* added type hinting support to ActionChains and Alert class (#12290)
* Moved all `PrintOptions` class attributes to custom descriptor class. (#12297)
* Use Selenium Manager to locate drivers on PATH (#12356
* Enable cdp to work for edge
* Update docstring of wait.py so it can also cover the case of WebElement as 1st arg of WebDriverWait. (#12376)
* Added type hinting support to `common/actions` libraries. (#12325)
* Fix type of `ignore_proxy` in `ChromiumRemoteconnection`
* set exception direct cause when switching frame focus when NSE is raised
* Raise a more generic `ValueError` when proxy type is not acceptable
* Add browser output from selenium manager to options (#12404)
* Add check=False explicitly to subprocess calls; simplify `keys_to_typing`
* Expose `WPEWebKitService` and `WebKitGTKService` in the public API
* Remove deprecated `ActionChains.scroll(...)`
* Removed unused variable `DEFAULT_SAFARI_CAPS` in `safari/webdriver.py` (#12416)
* Added type checks in `setter` methods of different browser options (#12328)
* Add creation flag for windows in selenium_manager (#12435)
* Fix checking window handles for current

Selenium 4.10.0
* Add CDP files for v114 and remove v111
* Fix bug preventing proxy from working in Options classes (#12029)
* Add proxy support for Selenium Manager (#12032)
* Additional updates to typing (#12067, #12106)
* Add support for changing pointers in Actions class (#11521)
* Remove browser filters for shadow root element searches (#12112)
* Remove significant amounts of deprecated code (#12030)
* Improve near relative locator behavior (#11290)
* Change Selenium Manager logging to debug (#12145)
* Add links to documentation in error messages (#12156)
* Add custom error class for driver location and improve error logic
* Fix bug in BiDi mutation events

Selenium 4.9.1
* Add CDP files for v113 and remove v110
* Minor fixes for docstring and dictionary declarations (#11975)
* Update logging to match other bindings (#11990)
* Support newer versions of urllib3 (#11993)

Selenium 4.9.0
* Remove "shadow_root" assertion in Python bindings for Firefox (#11821)
* Simplify driver binary and driver location selecting (#11864)
* Do not pass desired caps in Safari (#11854)
* Selenium Manager get Browser Version from Options classes
* Selenium Manager use binary from Browser Options
* Adding v112 and removing v109

Selenium 4.8.3
* Add fine grained control for arguments provided to service subprocesses by passing a `popen_kw` mapping for all services.
* `Options` classes now allow `timeout` to be set partially and no longer raise an exception when all values are not provided. (#11623)
* No longer sending `SIGKILL` to subprocesses in instances where `SIGTERM` was successful within 60 seconds.
* Add CDP files for v111 and remove v108
* Pass default to `pop` when parsing service popen_kw
* Using json output with Selenium Manager
* Sphinx config update to keep invoked methods and shorter aliases in documentation (#11802)

Selenium 4.8.2
* Update tox.ini for a valid "isort" version (#11667)
* Undo a bug fix that caused a worse bug. (#11666)

Selenium 4.8.1
* Add CDP files for v110 and remove v107
* pylint fixes including tidy of f strings, simplifications of conditional statements and isinstances (#11205)
* Replace devtools genrule with proper generate_devtools rule. (#11392)
* Add docstring for `alert_is_present`
* Updating Selenium Manager binaries for 4.8.1 release

Selenium 4.8.0
* Add CDP files for v109 and remove v106
* Add logging to Selenium Manager for both stdout and stderr
* Multiple updates and improvements to types
* Fix sdist tar package_dir (#11416)
* Add comment with name of large JS executions (#11038)
* Deprecate headless property for chromium and firefox options classes (#11467)

Selenium 4.7.2
* Put selenium manager bug fix from 4.7.1 in the correct place

Selenium 4.7.1
* Fix bug preventing selenium manager from using Internet Explorer

Selenium 4.7.0
* Add CDP files for v108 and remove v105
* Improve error handling with Selenium Manager (#11329)
* Fix bug preventing alternate package managers from using Selenium Manager (#11234)

Selenium 4.6.1
* Replace response.getheader() with response.headers.get() (deprecated in urllib3 1.26.13).
* Fixed a bug in `Service` destructors accessing modules that no longer existed during interpreter shutdown.
* Improved exception messages when raising for `relative` locator issues.

Selenium 4.6.0
* Document firefox `service=` arg. closes #11067
* Additional types and tidying safari service
* Revert removal of default executable global for safari
* Additional types; remove unused `permissions.py`
* Remove `RemoteDriverServerException`
* Remove unused `send_remote_shutdown_command` implementations in services
* Update `log_path` docs for non chromium based services
* Make `get_screenshot_as_file()` work with pathlib.Paths (#11095)
* Remove `protocols.py`
* fix typing in get_full_page_screenshot_as_png (#11163)
* typo in error message (#11166)
* Adding CDP files for v107 and removing v104
* add initial support for selenium manager
* Revert "[py] do not allow Select class to work with disabled selects"
* #11093 - The SessionId shouldn't be added to params themself bu… (#11121)

Selenium 4.5.0
* Fix frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it() for string inputs (#10963)
* Implicit non w3c capability conversion for `acceptSslCerts`, `platform` and `version` is now deprecated
* Additional type hints
* Bugfix options returning `None` when strict_file_interactability, set_window_rect or accept_insecure_certs are not set
* Add CDP for v105, remove support for v102
* Add CDP for v106, remove support for v103

Selenium 4.4.3
* Update explicit dependency for certifi to remove upper bound (#10956)

Selenium 4.4.2
* Add explicit dependency for certifi (#10953)

Selenium 4.4.1
* Removal of urllib3[secure] extras (deprecated) dependency

Selenium 4.4.0
* More flexibility in locating Firefox binary (#10818)
* Add CDP for v104, remove support for v101
* Throw error when setting w3c to False on Chromium, and warning when setting w3c to True

Selenium 4.3.0
* Deprecated find_element_by_* and find_elements_by_* are now removed (#10712)
* Deprecated Opera support has been removed (#10630)
* Fully upgraded from python 2x to 3.7 syntax and features (#10647)
* Added a devtools version fallback mechanism to look for an older version when mismatch occurs (#10749)
* Better support for co-operative multi inheritance by utilising super() throughout
* Improved type hints throughout

Selenium 4.2.0
* Fix bug preventing Firefox from setting accept_insecure_certs to False (#10442)
* Deprecated opera classes as not w3c compatible (#10379)
* Fix SecurityError: Invalid Domain problem (#10653)
* Implement convenience methods for scrolling

Selenium 4.1.5
* use `typing_extensions` to be compatible with `py37` (#10613)

Selenium 4.1.4

* Hook options class in safari driver (#10433)
* Remove universal wheel, python 2 is unsupported (#10438)
* Fix `tox -e docs` by pinning `Jinja2` (#10492)
* Add support Chrome 100 and remove for Chrome 97
* Removed desired capabilities from handshake code (#10494)
* Invalid selector exceptions are is not a no such element exception
* Do not convert tag name to css selector
* Add debug logging for urllib response data (#10568)
* Use monotonic clock for waits, fixes #10544 (#10550)
* Adding Chrome DevTools 101 and removing 98
* Add the ability to create sdist package of the python bindings
* Remove unicode prefix for strings (#10562)
* Use `get_timeout()` for urllib pool manager timeouts in remote connection (#10563)
* Fixing "--connect-existing" #10598
* Added DeprecationWarning to the warnings.warn methods inside the find_element_by_x methods (#10575)
* Added virtual authenticator for Python Bindings (#10579)

Selenium 4.1.3

* fix generated wheel asset (#10022)
* add support for proxy authentication (#10358)
* add Safari options (#10385)
* add support for Firefox to install unpacked addons (#10308)
* add support for Chrome 99 and remove support for Chrome 96

Selenium 4.1.2

* Include `py.typed` in the library

Selenium 4.1.1

* add support for Chrome 98 and remove support for Chrome 95
* Add py.typed file (#10310)
* Elaborate find_element deprecation message (#10273)
* add support for Chrome v97
* convert selectors for finding elements in shadow dom
* missing self for service args
* don't use websocket-port if user sets connect-existing (a4dc6e)
* update tests for current IE options
* fix firefox addon tests
* Support new Cast command added to Chrome Devtools (#10150)
* send Base64 encoded addon to driver instead of path String
* Reflect how find_elements returns a list, not just one WebElement. (#10172)
* add shadowroot to api docs
* add log reference to api rst file
* remove non breaking space for doc generation
* Updating exceptions file for docs
* Add type hinting to Shadowroot
* update ShadowRoot find element signatures to match those in WebElement (#10138)
* add Zenkaku/Hankaku key
* raise `NoSuchElementException` for relative failures instead of `IndexError` (#10078)
* Remove legacy in favour of W3C endpoints. (#10075)
* Tidy relativeby docs, use non deprecated methods in webserver (#10077, #10103, #10108, #10186, #10212, #10120)
* PEP 484 type hints s (#10099)
* Handle Socks Proxy for Remote Connections. Fixes #10091
* Add extra attributes to pointer down and pointer move actions
* Add Scroll via Wheel Inputs and Wheel Actions

Selenium 4.1.0

* add warning if people set w3c to false as it may break their tests
* Fix wrong type annotations for "env" it's a dict not a string (#10072)
* Added default executable path in service module for (#10057)
* Fix typos for docstrings (#10052)
* Fix return type hint in get_screenshot_as_png (#10060)
* Add CDP for v96, remove support for v92 and v93
* Add support for shadow dom end points
* Upgrade sphinx to use latest
* Correct docstrings around Service usage
* XFail alert tests due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi\?id\=1731795
* Remove py2 import code
* Check the values in NO_PROXY and set the poolmanager accordingly (#9925, #9967)
* Move python version to a variable to be shared about in build steps
* Bump Bazel rules_pkg to 0.5.1

Selenium 4.0.0

* Add cdp 95 to python and JS
* Remove Edge legacy options. (#9908)
* Expected condition for checking attribute value (#9881)
* implement relative locator for find_element (#9902)
* Fix python generation code for CDP to optionals better

Selenium 4 Release Candidate 3

* Fix CDP Code Generation broken by Chromium 94
* Fix Deprecation warnings for IE Bindings. Fixes #9818

Selenium 4 Release Candidate 2

* Add new websocketUrl capability
* Force free ports for cdp in geckodriver
* Add w3c capabilities to Python options (#9870)
* expected_conditions and wait modules raises InvalidSelectorException for invalid xpaths (#9805)
* implement chromium specific endpoint for setting permissions
* implement chromium specific endpoint for deleting network conditions
* update ruby, python and JS to add support for v94 and remove support for v92
* Fix type hint on chrome option method (#9840)
* Allows None to be set for the sameSite attribute (#9771)
* Fix typo in python webdriver for IE (#9801)

Selenium 4 Release Candidate 1

* Remove cdp versions 88, 89, and 90
* Replace v91 with v93 in bazel files
* update IE options class in each language to match the currently supported capabilities in the IE Driver
* Specify that the "find_element_by_* ..." warning is a deprecation warning (#9700)
* clean up imports
* Use options when passing things to remote webdriver instead of capabilities (#9678)
* Correct deprecation message in IE handling code
* Rewrite the logging module for bidi connections
* remove non-w3c compliant parameters from default capabilities
* Run type checks in CI and report typing coverage to codecov (#9523)
* PEP 484 Type Hints added
* Handle first/always match better when it hits lists/dicts. Fixes #9538
* correct tox warnings
* Fix deprecation warnings for Safari (#9577)
* Allow 0 coordinates for the window position. Fixes #9574
* Fix incorrect use of 'NoReturn' type annotation. (#9540)

Selenium 4 Beta 4 (The Final Beta)

* Returning fixed IP in GitHub actions (#9550)
* PEP 484 type hints for common.exceptions and webdriver.support.color (#9482)
* Add the ability to pass in multiple options and have that capabilities returned as (first|always)Match
* Add docstrings for RelativeBy
* Add the ability to pass in different locators to do Relative Locator searches
* Add a test with returning a JS Const object #9468
* Handle poor responses from drivers when there are errors. Fixes #9437
* Add the ability to enable mobile on options classes
* Add the ability to use Options classes on Safari
* Fix converting list of tuples to str in send_keys (#9330)
* Expand element to be clickable in expected conditions(#9374)
* Upgrade rules_python to 0.2.0

Selenium 4 Beta 3

* Enable more tests
* Improve support for WebDriver Bidi over selenium grid
* Update CDP Support versions to remove 86,87 and add 90,91
* Allow overriding the default 250 msecs duration of pointer movement (#9336)
* Only give deprecation warning if Profile is being used in options
* Loosen version requirements on dependencies. Fixes #9312
* Bump urllib3 from 1.26.2 to 1.26.3 in /py (#9311)
* Disable wait on frame test due to bug in Firefox
* Correct pinned browser path for chrome on linux

Selenium 4 beta 2 Post 1

* Fix Chrome instantiation

Selenium 4 beta 2

* Set up python for pinned browsers
* Add Multiple file upload test
* Fix using arguments in Chrome Option. Fixes  #9281
* Deprecate arguments in remote webdriver instantiation
* Improve proxy via options test for Firefox
* Set Chromium Edge to be the default for Edge browsers
* Move code so that it is reachable
* Fix usage of options to RemoteWebDriver (#9240)
* Deprecate using a Firefox profile in Options
* use attribute endpoint to evaluate multiple selects
* implement get_dom_attribute
* Add attribute_to_be_include method to expected_conditions when the at… (#9200)
* Additional Python type hints (#9192)
* Correct Type Hinting on option method. Fixes #9210
* Use a flat namespace for selenium options
* remove unused imports
* Add ARIA APIs for getting the role and label of an Element
* Fix homepage attribute in wheel target
* Avoid using bazel native python rules

Selenium 4.0 Beta 1

* Deprecate all but `Options` and `Service` arguments in driver instantiation. (#9125,#9128)
* Upgrade Bazel rules_python to latest
* Deprecate w3c checks in python bindings (#9109)
* Remove legacy WebElement key `ELEMENT` (#9102, #9110)
* Improve how desired_capabilities and options are merged
* Use weakreferences for driver in switch and mobile classes (#2425)
* Fix 'webview2' browser name for Edge py options. (#9090)
* Add python type hinting
* Improved alias for Keys (#9076)
* Improve comment about using importlib_resources
* Add mozdebugger capability to use CDP Features with Firefox
* Refactor bidi APIs for logging to be on their own class
* Make sure we are checking a string for local file detector
* Add Ignored Exception to wait in Bidi Tests
* Update tests
* Adding Github Actions workflow for Python (#9031)
* Fix WebDriver.start_session docstring to remove incorrect arguments (#9021)
* Add Mutation Logging support
* Pin Firefox bidi support to use the generated code for CDP 85
* Fix handling of generated code put into wheels
* Modernise the python code around imports and conditionals
* Support for float types in text fields (#8936)
* Add print page command to python binding (#8903)
* Add Chrome v88 to bidi support
* Fix pytest macro to allow --test_args to pass through
* Remove thread.join in testing webserver due to chromedriver issue 3654
* Fix grammar typos in exceptions.py (#8876)
* Enforce python version in wheel when created. fixes #8863
* Correct proxy tests
* Include readme in Wheel so it's rendered on Pypi

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 7

* BREAKING CHANGE: Dropped support for python < 3.7

* Remove support for XBL in Firefox.
* Correct formatting with JS fragment
* Add debugpy to requirements
* Fix uploading multiple files on remote driver (#7472) (#8734)
* Correct docstring around find_element and find_elements. Fixes #8806
* Add the ability to ignore local proxys that are available
* add script pinning to python bindings
* Deprecate desired_capabilities property in favour of capabilities property
* Update tests to use requirements file
* Allow driver fixtures to be used in Chrome only tests
* Update testing to use the latest pytest
* do not update already set preference (#8692)
* Added new argument creationflags in Service class for common, chrome, and firefox (#8647)
* add se namespacing to file upload endpoint for all bindings (#8588)
* Correct dependency management for code generator
* Update host to connect to get a port. Fixes #8503
* Poll quicker for the driver when starting up. Fixes #8477
* Add support for DevTools APIs
* Improve WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit support
* Fix browserName typo for Edge WebView2
* Fix wheel generation for multiple python versions

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 6 Post 2

* Correct usage of Abstract Base class in some instances
* Correct build step for releasing

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 6

* Add Abstract Base Class to WebElement and WebDriver #7127 (#8348)
* Copy `acceptInsecureCerts` to Options for Firefox. Fixes #8261
* Correct check on DEFAULT_EXECUTABLE_PATH
* Use ProxyManager instead of PoolManager in remote_connection (#8297)
* Check offsets are cast to int. Fixes #7639
* Fixes an issue where IE server port is set '0' by default (#8294)
* Favor Python3 constructs and Python 2.7 compatibility (#8290)
* Remove Unused Arguments from Firefox
* Fixup Firefox deprecations
* Delete support for Blackberry Driver
* Delete PhantomJS capabilities
* Delete Android Driver support
* Remove python crazyfun references
* Enable and update Safari tests
* Use same port in remote executor and service (#8255)
* Update tests and docs to not use deprecated methods
* mark various tests as failing in Firefox
* Use callback functions instead callable objects as expected conditions (#7765)
* Fix error in webelemet not created, verifying if is str or dict. (#3481)
* verify command_executor ssl certificate by default (#6536)
* Correct documentation for ChromiumDriver
* Deprecating find_element(s)_* calls in event firing webdriver
* Fixing path to selenium server for remote tests
* Fixing relative locator constructor
* Changing environment variable we use to check if the tests are running on travis
* Fixing HSL to RGBa color converter
* Deprecate use of AppCache APIs

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 5

* Correct service usage in IE Binding. Fixes  #7749
* Deprecate find_element(s)_by_* calls
* Use a capability to switch engines for Edge (#8096)
* Fix Flake8 errors
* Add WPEWebKit driver (#6375)
* update python_requires to only support python 2.7 and Python3.5+(#8085)
* add the ability to generate a wheel via bazel
* Add in support for page loading strategies for Options
* Add the ability to get and set timeouts against a driver. Fixes #7738
* Correct Docstring import in WebDriverWait example. Fixes #7780
* Explicitly force timeout value to float in WebDriverWait. Fixes #8050
* Add support for relative locators
* Fix clear actions in ActionChains (#7943)
* Automate RemoteConnection subclass selection  (#8010)
* Fix capabilities to support macOS platform (#7980)
* fix: DeprecationWarning of base64.encodestring() (#7446)
* Build python code with Bazel
* Parse python docstring example as code snippet
* correct python_requires in setup
* Fix grammar typo in exceptions.py (#7657)
* Fixed references to chromedriver website

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 3

* Fixing stacktrace parser to handle strings as well as objects
* urllib throws on 404 so let's check the /status endpoint that returns 200
* Changing default command executor address to the address of TNG Grid
* Fixing check of type of a returned element in a test for all_of condition
* Implement logical expected conditions in Python (#7121)
* Explicitly clear PoolManager by using context manager (#6878)
* Fix invisibility_of_element expected condition init function (#7484)
* fix docs build, add chromium and edge to docs
* flake8 fixes
* allow --browser-binary and --browser-args to be used with ChromiumEdge
* Add support for the new MicrosoftEdge (#7459)
* increase async script timeout from 0 as the w3c spec states to start time checking immediately
* fix unit test for firefox options, proxy key should be outside of options
* update to w3c compliant log endpoints
* Remove 'resolve_ip' option from RemoteConnection (#1729,#2509)
* Running python unit tests with bazel
* Pass capabilities rather than options to the proxy object (#6620)
* Adding full page screenshot feature for Firefox (#7182)
* Added EventFiringWebElement to the isinstance check in the move_to method.(#6604)
* Added socksVersion field in proxy class (#6983)
* also clear w3c actions in ActionChains#reset_actions
* fix edge webdriver init by deprecating edge_service in favor of service also fix warnings import in edge/webdriver
* Removes old exception and dead code from py lib.(#7134)
* Raise error for unsupported method for set_window_rect

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 1

* Update driver initialisation to use service and option objects
* turn on keep-alive by default for remote connections (#7072)
* Fix ConnectionResetError
* Add new Cast commands
* Suggest download Microsoft Webdriver over HTTPS
* Clear PoolManager in ‘remote_connection’ to ensure sockets are closed
* remove --disable-gpu option for headless Chrome
* Add support for the New Window command (#6873)
* Update docstrings in Options classes to allow documentation to highlight Return values
* Fix typos in select.py (#6925)
* Remove native events handling code
* Deleting unused imports, fixing flake8 issues
* Remove unused port selection in IE Driver
* Enabling tests xpassed in Chrome
* Pretty-printing code samples
* remove all deprecated methods and args from Python bindings
* Fix DeprecationWarning: invalid escape sequence
* Don't override browser options with desired capabilities by default in WebKitGTK (#6814)
* Add WebKitGTK to API docs (#6815)
* Subclass options classes from a common base class (#6522)
* Update Sphinx (#6728)
* WebDriverWait: update documentation for until and until_not (#6711)
* Fix typo in description of WebDriver class (#6724)
* add strictFileInteractability to acceptable W3C capabilities
* Deprecate Blackberry Driver support
* Fixing/tidying docstring.

Selenium 3.141.0

* Bump version to a better approximation of Π
* Improved Test build targets
* fix os path in test for Windows
* use 'NUL' for /dev/null on Windows
* Update ctor docstrings to explain that a directory passed in is cloned. Fixes #6542
* Allow passing of service_args to Safari. Fixes #6459
* Remove element equals url
* Improved WebExtension support

Selenium 3.14.1

* Fix ability to set timeout for urllib3 (#6286)
* get_cookie uses w3c endpoint when compliant
* Remove body from GET requests (#6250)
* Fix actions pause for fraction of a second (#6300)
* Fixed input pausing for some actions methods
* Capabilities can be set on Options classes
* WebElement rect method is now forward compatible for OSS endpoints (#6355)
* Deprecation warnings now have a stacklevel of 2
* keep_alive can now be set on Webdriver init (#6316)
* isDisplayed atom is now used for all w3c compliant browser, fixing issue with Safari 12

Selenium 3.14.0

* Fix doc of URL-related ExpectedCondition (#6236)
* Added ExpectedCondition invisibility_of_element
* Swap out httplib for urllib3
* Be consistent with webdriver init kwarg service_log_path (#5725)

Selenium 3.13.0

* Add executing Chrome devtools command (#5989)
* fix incorrect w3c action encoding in python client (#6014)
* Implement context manager for WebDriver
* Stop sending "windowHandle" param in maximize_window command for w3c

Selenium 3.12.0

* Add desired_capabilities keyword to IE and Firefox drivers for driver consistency
* Fix bug with creating Safari webdriver instance (#5578)
* Add support for Safari extension command
* Deprecate Options `set_headless` methods in favor of property setter
* Only set --disable-gpu for Chrome headless when on Windows
* Add selenium User-Agent header (#5696)
* Remote webdriver can now be started when passing options
* All Options.to_capabilities now start with default DesiredCapabilities
* Improve the error message that is raised when safaridriver cannot be found (#5739)
* IeOptions class is now imported to selenium.webdriver
* Remove the beta `authenticate` methods from `Alert`

Selenium 3.11.0

No changes just keeping python version in step with the rest of the project.

Selenium 3.10.0

* make tests to check clicking on disabled element work for w3c compliant drivers (#5561)
* add docstring for InvalidElementStateException. Fixes #5520
* Deleting unused imports
* Making python specification in IDEA project more generic
* It should be possible to use a custom safaridriver executable to run Selenium's test suite.

Selenium 3.9.0

* Add docstrings to WebElement find methods (#5384)
* Additional data in unexpected alert error is now handled for w3c drivers (#5416)
* Allow service_args to be passed into Firefox WebDriver (#5421)
* Fix bug introduced with response logging in 3.8.1 (#5362)

Selenium 3.8.1

* Fix bug when creating an Opera driver (#5266)
* Stop sending sessionId in w3c payload. (#4620)
* Fix issue with w3c actions releasing on element (#5180)
* A more descriptive log message is displayed if the port cannot be connected (#2913)
* Initialize Alert object by calling alert.text (#1863)
* PhantomJS is now deprecated, please use either Chrome or Firefox in headless mode
* Legacy Firefox driver: ensuring copy of profile dir, its 'extensions' subdir and 'user.js' file are writable. (#1466)

Selenium 3.8.0

* Firefox options can now be imported from selenium.webdriver as FirefoxOptions (#5120)
* Headless mode can now be set in Chrome Options using `set_headless`
* Headless mode can now be set in Firefox Options using `set_headless`
* Add the WebKitGTK WebDriver and options class (#4635)
* Browser options can now be passed to remote WebDriver via the `options` parameter
* Browser option parameters are now standardized across drivers as `options`. `firefox_options`,
  `chrome_options`, and `ie_options` are now deprecated
* Added missing W3C Error Codes (#4556)
* Support has been removed for Python versions 2.6 and 3.3

Selenium 3.7.0

* need to pass applicable environment variables to tox
* Fix active_element for w3c drivers (#3979)
* add support for minimize command
* add support for fullscreen command
* window rect commands should fail on firefox and remote (legacy)
* Fix python backward compatibility for window commands (#4937)
* Update docstrings to specify the type of path needed to install firefox addons. (#4881)
* Update python chromeOptions key for capabilities (#4622)
* Fix python pause action implementation (#4795)

Selenium 3.6.0

* Fix package name in python webelement module (#4670)
* Fix python driver examples (#3872)
* No need to multiply pause by 1000
* Add pause to action chains
* only check for proxyType once
* lowercase proxy type for w3c payload in python #4574
* guarding against null return value from find_elements in python #4555
* remove unnecessary pytest marking, address flake8 issues
* allow IE WebDriver to accept IE Options
* add IE Options class
* convert OSS capabilities to W3C equivalent for W3C payload
* Add Safari to API docs

Selenium 3.5.0

* Numerous test fixes
*Iterate over capabilities in a way to support py2.7 and py3
* Fix W3C switching to window by name.
* Support GeckoDriver addon install/uninstall commands  #4215.
* Move firefox_profile into moz:firefoxOptions.
* Filter non-W3C capability names out of alwaysMatch.
* Honor cmd line args passed to Service ctor (#4167)
* Add expected conditions based on URL to Python Expected Conditions #4160
* Add network emulation to Chrome Python bindings (#4011)
* add warning when saving incorrectly named screenshot (#4141)

Selenium 3.4.3

* Fix EventFiringWebdriver and WebElement to raise AttributeError on missing attributes. (#4107)
* unwrap WebElements inside dicts

Selenium 3.4.2

* translate move_by_offset command to w3c
* Update capabilities properly instead of assuming dict structure. Fixes #3927
* Add missing file for Chrome options to API docs.
* Add Chrome options module to API docs.

Selenium 3.4.1

* Add back the ability to set profile when using Firefox 45ESR. Fixes #3897

Selenium 3.4.0

* Correct usage of newSession around `firstMatch` and `alwaysMatch`
* Remove superfluous capabilities that are not needed
* Add expected condition that waits for all found elements to be visible (#3532)
* Allow methods wrapped by EventFiringWebDriver and EventFiringWebElement (#806)
* Dropping `javascriptEnabled` capability for real browsers
* Use W3C check from parent object instead of assuming from capabilities
* Bump example source distribution to match latest release.
* Replace TypeError with KeyError in remote webdriver error handler code (#3826)
* When testing Marionette use default capabilities in testing
* Conform to the api of urllib2 for adding header for a request (#3803)
* Add `text` key to alert#sendKeys parameters for W3C Endpoint
* Location once scrolled into view should use W3C executeScript endpoint not JSONWP
* Fixed the usage information in documentation of "save_screenshot". (#3804)
* Add Element Not Interactable exception
* Clean up imports in error handler
* flake8 cleanup

Selenium 3.3.3

* make w3c execute_script commands unique

Selenium 3.3.2

* Update window commands to use W3C End points
* Update Alert when in W3C mode to use W3C Endpoints
* Update to new W3C Execute Script end points
* Add setting/getting proxy details to Firefox Options
* Deprecate the use of browser profile when instantiating a session
* Update start session to handle the W3C New Session
* Add get/set window rect commands
* Add InvalidArgumentException
* When passing in `text` to send_keys, make sure we send a string not array
* Fix string decoding in remote connection (#3663)
* Fix indentation to satisfy PEP8
* Try use old way of setting page load timeout if new way fails. Fixes #3654
* fix file uploads for Firefox
* Run unit tests on Python 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5 (#3638)
* Fix indentation in double_click.
* Fix non-W3C page load timeout setting.

Selenium 3.3.1

* Fix encoding of basic auth header when using Python 3 Fixes #3622
* Add initial unit test suite
* Update W3C Timeout setting to be in line with the specification
* support.ui.Select class inherits from object (#3067)
* fix bug in proxy constructor that some properties are not proper set (#3459)
* Fix flake8 issues (#3628)

Selenium 3.3.0
**Note** If you are updating to this version, please also update GeckoDriver to v0.15.0

* Fix python HTTPS encoding for python driver (#3379)
* Allow Firefox preferences to be set directly in Options
* Fix shutdown and process termination (#3263)
* Preventing exception if log_path is none or empty. Fixes #3128
* Add the W3C capability to Firefox for accepting insecure certificates
* Initial implementation of Pointer Actions
* Only skip tests if driver name matches a directory name.
* Update calls that return a pure object with keys to look for 'value' key
* Initial W3C Actions support
* fix docs output directory

Selenium 3.0.2

* Add support for W3C Get Active Element
* Return when we use executeScript for faking WebElement.get_property
* Expand user paths and resolve absolute path for Chrome extensions
* Add support for verbose logging and custom path to EdgeDriver
* Update TakeElementScreenshot to match WebDriver specification
* Raise WebDriverException when FirefoxBinary fails to locate binary
* Fix getting IP for python 3
* Write Service log to DEVNULL by default
* Only attempt to remove the Firefox profile path if one was specified
* Added context manager for chrome/content in Firefox

Selenium 3.0.1

* Fix regressions with python 3
* Add support for Safari Technology Preview

Selenium 3.0.0

* new FirefoxDriver ctor precedence logic and moz:firefoxOptions support (#2882)
* Add W3C Set Window Position and W3C Get Window Position
* enable log path setting from firefox webdriver (#2700)
* Correct encoding of getAttribute.js and only load it once. Fixes #2785
* Encode the isDisplayed atom and only load it once

Selenium 3.0.0.b3

* Use atoms for get_attribute and is_displayed when communicating with
  a w3c compliant remote end.
* Make it possible to specialise web element

Selenium 3.0.0.b2

* Updated Marionette port argument to match other drivers.

Selenium 3.0.0.b1

* Fix basestring reference to work with python 3. Fixes #1820
* Correct Length conditional when filtering in PhantomJS. Fixes #1817
* Fix send keys when using PUA keys e.g. Keys.RIGHT #1839
* Fix cookie file leak in PhantomJS #1854
* Use the correct binary path when using Marionette
* Fixed: Unhelpful error message when PhantomJS exits. (#2173 #2168)
* Fix broken link to python documentation (#2159)
* Attempt to remove Firefox profile when using Marionette
* Ensure all capabilities are either within desiredCapabilities or requiredCapabilities
* Correct the expected capability name for the Firefox profile
* Add Firefox options to capabilities
* Visibility_of_all implies it only returns elements if all visible (#2052)
* Find visible elements (#2041)
* Pass the firefox_profile as a desired capability in the Python client when using a remote server
* Avoid checking exception details for invalid locators due to differences in server implementations
* Handle capabilities better with Marionette and GeckoDriver
* Updated the maxVersion of FirefoxDriver xpi maxVersion to work with Firefox 47.0.1
* Remove Selenium RC support

Selenium 2.53.0

* Adding Options object for use with Python FirefoxDriver
* Fixed improper usage of super in exceptions module
* create a temp file for cookies in phantomjs if not specified
* Pass in the executable that FirefoxBinary finds to the service if there isn't one passed in as a kwarg or capability
* Applied some DRY and extracted out the keys_to_typing()
* Fix deselecting options in <select>

Selenium 2.52.0

* Fixing case where UnexpectedAlertException doesn't get the alert_text in the error object
* Firefox: Actually use launch_browser timeout Fixes #1300

Selenium 2.51.1

* correcting bundling issue missing README.rst file

Selenium 2.51.0

* Firefox updates (see java changelog)

Selenium 2.50.1

* Fixing error message handling. Fixes issue #1497
* Fixing error message handling. Fixes issue #1507
* Update webelement to handle W3C commands for size/location and rect
* rewrite click scrolling tests to match the Java ones

Selenium 2.50.0

* handle potential URLError from sending shutdown, set self.process to None after it's already been quit
* Add support for submit() with W3C compliant endpoint

Selenium 2.49.1

* Ensure you can close stream before attempting to close it.
* message response may cause json loads ValueError when it's not actually json
  and just a string (like the message that occurs when firefox driver thinks
  another element will receive the click)
* Cleanup some error handling when sniffing what protocol you are speaking

Selenium 2.49.0

* Have Firefox service write to a file instead of PIPE
* on osx for firefox, fallback to checking homebrew install, if the default isn't there
* Added Firefox path variable for string placeholder
* Update README to show Python 3.2+
* refactoring all the service classes to use a common one.
* Add Firefox specific command to switch context between Browser content and Browser chrome
* updating files after go copyright:update
* Use specificationLevel to know that we are speaking GeckoDriver
* Bug fixes: #1294, #1186

Selenium 2.48.0

* Update error pulling to match spec when we encounter a spec compliant browser.
* Disable tests that are not working with Marionette when running Marionette tests
* Add the ability to run python marionette tests
* Python 3 compatibility for remote Authorization
* changing casing of children finding tests

Selenium 2.47.3

* Bring back py 3 support

Selenium 2.47.2

* Fix running Edge driver locally on win10
* adding repr to WebDriver and WebElement

Selenium 2.47.1

* Fix the issue of deleting the profile when shutting down Firefox
* WebElement **eq** compares against more types
* Issues fixed: 850

Selenium 2.47.0

* Add in support for when communicating with a Spec compliant browsers
* Initial support for Edge using EdgeDriver
* Issues fixed: 818

Selenium 2.46.1

* Adding ability to make remote call for webelement screenshots in accordance to the W3C spec
* Adding api to authenticate HTTP Auth modal dialogs via driver.switch_to.alert (beta)
* Add rebeccapurple to Color Object
* Add element screenshot
* Add service handler and minimal update to driver to use service for Marionette
* Add the ability to start FirefoxDriver backed with Marionette via a capability
* support socket timeout for connections
* free_port checks if port is available on all interfaces
* Allow error handling to handle both current errors and w3c errors
* Update find_elements to match spec
* phantomjs: service: remove unused import of signal
* phantomjs: add port information to WebDriverException
* Issues fixed (Github): 478, 612, 734, 780

Selenium 2.46.0

* Firefox support up to 38
* BlackBerry browser support
* remove Presto-Opera support
* firefox extension extraction fixes
* process management fixes with phantomjs
* Comparing remote web element for equality does not require a remote command
* Issues Fixed: (gcode) 8493, 8521, 8498, 8274, 8497, 5923
* Issues Fixed: (github) 401

Selenium 2.45.0

* Firefox support up to 35, support for native events up to 34.
* Make Opera driver support also the new Blink based Opera
* README: Fix the Yahoo example
* WebElement docstring fixes
* Add debugger_address option to the ChromeDriver options list to optionally instruct ChromeDriver to wait for the target devtools instance to be started at a given host:ip
* Set default value for PhantomJS process reference
* Allow setting of FileDetector for send_keys
* Pass info to TimeoutException in WebDriverWait
* Issues Fixed: 8065, 8310, 8539

Selenium 2.44.0

* (previous release person forgot to add release notes! DAVID!)

Selenium 2.43.0

* Expand WebElement.get_attribute API docs
* firefox may be installed without administrator privileges
    and therefore there may be no HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE entry. Issue #7784
* UnexpectedAlertPresentException should contain the alert text in python too. Issue #7745
* don't mutate the global 'ignored exceptions', take a copy of the globally specified ones, change the
  global to be a tuple instead. Issue #7725
* raise exception when the firefox binary isn't actually found, which usually implies the upgrade failed (on windows) Issue #6092 ,#6847
* Fixing NameError: global name 'options' is not defined.
* Remove unused import subprocess.PIPE
* Redirect Firefox output to /dev/null by default Fixes Issue #7677
* More flexible management of http timeouts in Selenium RC python client
* Generate Python API docs for selenium.webdriver.chrome.options. Fixes issue #7471
* Use 127.0.0.1 as localhost name resolving might fail on some systems

Selenium 2.42.1

* Fixed Py3 issues
* Make firefox_binary.py and firefox_profile.py not executable
* Make exceptions Python 3 compatible

Selenium 2.42

* Support for Firefox 29 Native Events
* "remote_url" and "remote_browser" parameters for "./go test_remote".
* missing **init** in new android module
* issue #7304 Fix memory leak caused by **del** in PhantomJS
* File upload using remotedriver on python3
* Updating xpi install to align with mozprofile
* command_executor should also support unicode strings as well.

Selenium 2.41

* Support for Firefox 28
* deprecating switch_to_* in favour of driver.switch_to.*

Selenium 2.40

* Support for Firefox 27
* Fixes related to http connection
* Fix for phantomjs running on windows #6736

Selenium 2.39

* Support for Firefox 26

Selenium 2.38.4

* keep-alive can't be used for phantomjs / IE, fix for that and tested for py3 :)

Selenium 2.38.3

* really supporting py3 :)

Selenium 2.38.2

* py3 support (once again)

Selenium 2.38.1

* fix packaging problem where firefox/webdriver_prefs.json was missing

Selenium 2.38

* Support for Firefox 25
* FirefoxProfile now using common webdriver.json instead of having our own copy in py
  * behavior change to the preferences is that they now should be treated
    like raw types rather than strings and allow the json library to translate
    the types appropriated (e.g. True => true)

* Set proper 'Accept' request header so that Python bindings work with some old WebDriver implementations that reply 404 to requests with no 'Accept' set.
* handle redirect response explicitly (since switching to using keep-alive)
* phantomjs service needs to really kill the spawned process Issue #5921
* removing old api endpoints from command listing
* using keep-alive for remote connection
* adjusting phantomjs subprocess.Popen
* ActionsChains.send_keys should use <session>/keys endpoint Issue #6348
* fix TypeError in chrome_options.extensions for Python3.x

* Other Bugs Fixed: #6531, #6513, #4569, #6454

Selenium 2.37.2

* fix regression added with unicode fix
* Bug fix #6360

Selenium 2.37.1

* fix find_elements on webelement using unicode locators and py 2.7

Selenium 2.37

* repackage with fix for Firefox native events on Linux
* fix issue with unicode By locators w/ python 2.7 #6430

Selenium 2.36

* Added Safari WebDriver. Fixes issue 5352.
* fix platform for safari caps
* Convert all offsets/coordinates/speeds into integers
* Fix drag and drop by offset behaviour
* Fix initialization of Proxy by capabilities when proxyType is set
* Enable SOCKS proxy support
* Validation of passed locator for find_element(s) methods #5690
* Adding support for /status, /sessions commands
* Doc fixes
* ability to set Chrome extensions by using base64 encoded strings #4013
* fix logic regarding Select.select_by_visible_text #3910
* Bugs fixed: #6165, #6231

Selenium 2.35

* Remove duplicate 'get screenshot as file' methods.  Add method 'get_screenshot_as_png'
* fixing UnicodeEncodeError on get attribute of webelement

Selenium 2.34

* Corrected webdriverbackedselenium session handling. Fixes issue 4283
* Corrected use of basestring for python 3. Fixes issue 5924
* Support for Firefox 22
* Added support for logging from the browser
* corrected proxy handling on FirefoxProfile
* Corrected handling of chrome extensions. Fixes issue 5762

Selenium 2.33

* getText() ignores elements in the <head>
* Adding both official and informal string representations to Color object.
* Replace distutils.dir_util by shutil
* Allow finding firefox binary at ProgramFiles(x86) on windows(64 bit)
* Py3 compatible winreg import and content-type access

Selenium 2.32

* Support for FF20 Native Events
* Python 3 support
* Misc Python 3 patches
* Allow easy FirefoxBinary subclassing

Selenium 2.31

* Support for FF19 native events
* web element equality is now in conformance with other language bindings

Selenium 2.30

* Allow env to be specified for the chromedriver service
* Allow log path to be specified for phantomjs driver service.
* Bug Fixes: 4608 4940 4974 5034 5075

Selenium 2.29

* Allow subclassing of driver and have the ability to send_keys Issue 4877, 5017
* Simplifying save_screenshot and allow phantomjs to take screenshots

Selenium 2.28

* "null" can now be passed to executeScript
* Add transparent and extended colour keywords to color support module. Fixes issue 4866

Selenium 2.27

* Added support for phantomjs / ghostdriver
* Fix python client, avoid duplicate chrome option items after reusing options class. Fixes Issue 4744.
* adding colour support to Python. fixes issue 4623
* Adding log_path/service_log_path as named kwargs for chrome

Selenium 2.26

* Added location_when_scrolled_into_view - Bug 4357
* Added new expected_conditions support module to be used with WebDriverWait

Selenium 2.25

* Jython 2.7 Support - Bug 3988
* EventFiringWebDriver added to Support module - Bug 2267
* Added IEDriverServer logging that can be accessed via desired capabilities
* Fixed by data being passed into find_elements - bug 3735
* Removed deprecated ChromeDriver items around desiredcapabilities in favour of chrome options
* Added default values for a number of action_chains calls

Selenium 2.24

* Removing the ctypes approach of invoking IEDriver, you will need to download the IEDriverServer from
  <https://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list>

Selenium 2.23

* Support for FF13 native events

Selenium 2.22

* Moving IEDriver to be able to use IEDriverServer

Selenium 2.21.3

* Fix for File Upload to remote servers
* Better handling of typing in input=file. Bug 3831, 3736
* Better handling of unicode URLS Bug 3740

Selenium 2.21.2

* Fix typing to file input when not using Selenium Server. Bug 3736

Selenium 2.21.1

* focusmanager.testmode messes with native events, removing it.

Selenium 2.21

* Local File upload capabilities for non-remote browser
* Adding maximize_window api call
* Updating default firefox profile to set focusmanager.testmode to true
    see <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704583>
* bugs fixed: 3506, 3528, 3607

Selenium 2.20

* disable native events for FF on Mac by default
* fix webdriverwait to execute at least once when using 0 timeout
* Fixed Issue 3438

Selenium 2.19

* WebDriverBackedSelenium is now available to all languages
* Addon installation fixes

Selenium 2.18

* Proxy capabilities passing

Selenium 2.17

* OperaDriver can now be invoked by webdriver.Opera()
* Support has been added for ChomeOptions. This deprecates support passing in DesiredCapabilities
* Proxy class to tell the browser a proxy is in use. Currently only for Firefox

Selenium 2.16

* bug fixes

Selenium 2.15

* bug fixes

Selenium 2.14

* Fix for LD_PRELOAD being polluted by WebDriver
* Added Orientation API
* A fix for Error Handling

Selenium 2.13

* Fixed switch_to_window so that it didn't crash Firefox Bug 2633
* Fixed Screenshot handling to work in all browsers. Bug 2829
* Force Firefox to the Foreground

Selenium 2.12

* Added Select as a support package
* Added Beta window size / position api's
* Bug Fixes

Selenium 2.11.0 2.11.1

* no changes just packaging

Selenum 2.10

* "Choose which apps" dialog has been disabled
* Bug Fixes

Selenium 2.9

* Bug Fixes
* Documentation

Selenium 2.8

* Actions updates
* Bug Fixes

Selenium 2.6

* Documentation fixes

Selenium 2.5

* Fixed x64 IE Support
* Bug Fixes

Selenium 2.4

* Bug Fixes
* x64 IE Support
* Added WebDriverWait as a support package

Selenium 2.3

* Bug Fixes

Selenium 2.2

* Ability to get screenshots from Exceptions if they are given
* Access to Remote StackTrace on error

Selenium 2.1

* Bug Fixes

Selenium 2

* Removed toggle() and select()

Selenium 2 RC 3

* Added Opera to Desired Capabilities
* Removed deprecrated methods
* Deprecated toggle() and select() methods. This will be removed in the next release

Selenium 2 Beta 4

* Fix for using existing Firefox Profiles
* Alerts Support in IE
* Fix to dictionary returned from size
* Deprecated value property. Use the get_attribute("value") method
* Deprecated get_page_source method. Use page_source property
* Deprecated get_current_window_handle. Use current_window_handle property
* Deprecated get_window_handles. Use window_handles property
* Ability to install extensions into profiles
* Added Location to the WebElement
* ChromeDriver rewritten to use new built in mechanism
* Added Advanced User Interaction API. Only Available for HTMLUnit at the moment
* Profiles now delete their temp folders when driver.quit() is called

Selenium 2 Beta 3

* Accept Untrusted Certificates in Firefox
* Fixed Screenshots
* Added DesiredCapabilities to simplify choosing Drivers
* Fixed Firefox Profile creation
* Added Firefox 4 support
* DocStrings Improvements

Selenium 2 Beta 2

* New bindings landed. Change webdriver namespace to "selenium.webdriver"
* Ability to move to default content
* Implicit Waits
* Change the API to use properties instead of get_x
* Changed the Element Finding to match other languages
* Added ability to execute asynchronous scripts from the driver
* Ability to get rendered element size
* Ability to get CSS Value on a webelement
* Corrected Element finding from the element
* Alert and Prompt handling
* Improved IEDriver
* Basic Authentication support for Selenium 2
* Ability to have multiple Firefox instances