➔ Selenium This Week: JSON Parser and Manager Fixes
The recent activity in Selenium, the browser automation project, is mostly about making edge cases less strange. The headline change is Java JSON parser hardening, with smaller but useful fixes in Selenium Manager, Grid session queue wiring, and Python remote connection routing.
➔ 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.
➔ Selenium BiDi Network APIs and CI Stability
Selenium, the browser automation project at SeleniumHQ/selenium, had 57 commits in the last week, and the useful thread is not a release note. The interesting work is a set of BiDi network helpers for Python, more .NET BiDi transport cleanup, and CI fixes that make browser tests less random.
➔ 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.