➔ 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.