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Scrapy landed 17 commits on master over the past week, touching 71 files with a net gain of about 400 lines. Most of the diff is test coverage, but a handful of changes matter if you run spiders behind proxies, pass prebuilt Crawler objects into runners, or rely on rel="nofollow" to stay off certain pages. The headline fix stops Proxy-Authorization from leaking into upstream requests when using the streaming download handlers.

Playwright Python version 1.61.0 has arrived with a significant set of features for modern web testing, including native access to WebStorage, virtual WebAuthn authenticators, and early support for the upcoming Python 3.14 release. This update also marks the end of support for Python 3.9 and introduces Docker images for Ubuntu 26.04.

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.

Terratest continues its steady pace of maintenance with a focus on keeping its Kubernetes integration current and refining its internal development workflows. The latest updates bring support for Kubernetes v0.36.2 dependencies and a cleanup of the continuous integration configuration to remove inherited rules that no longer apply.

The Apache Kafka project continues to refine its next generation features with significant updates to share groups and the new Kafka Streams rebalance protocol. This week the maintainers landed a major algorithmic improvement for state management and a critical fix for a RocksDB native memory leak.