➔ Selenium 4.45.0 - Atoms Migration and Grid Redis Updates
The Selenium project released version 4.45.0 on June 16, 2026, bringing a major update to internal browser atoms and Grid infrastructure. This release focuses on moving core logic to TypeScript and bundling Redis session management for distributed testing environments.
➔ Playwright Python 1.60.0 release with HAR tracing and drop locators
Playwright Python 1.60.0 ships HAR recording as a tracing API, a new drop() method on locators, and soft assertions for pytest. The release was published on May 18, 2026 and pulls the bundled browsers up to Chromium 148, Firefox 150, and WebKit 26.4.
➔ Selenium 4.44.0 - new CLI, Redis Grid distributor, BiDi cleanup
Selenium 4.44.0 shipped on May 12, 2026. The release introduces an initial Selenium CLI tool, makes the Redis backed Grid Distributor a built in option, and lands a long round of dotnet and Python BiDi cleanup. It is a regular release, not a prerelease.
➔ Selenium Trunk This Week: Bazel Test Gating, Grid Redis Bundle, and Atoms Migration
Selenium trunk took 71 commits in the past week. The activity falls into four themes plus a pile of smaller fixes: a build refactor that switches IE and Safari test gating to bazel’s target_compatible_with, a Grid default flip that bundles the Redis backed SessionMap, a cross language move of internal atoms to TypeScript, and a long stream of Ruby binding cleanups around pinned browsers. If you build Selenium from source or operate Selenium Grid, this week is worth a look. Full repo: SeleniumHQ/selenium on GitHub.