Good news for Selenium test automation engineers — the newest version of Selenium 2.46.0 was released. This is the second new version of Selenium for 2015 and included fixes for all the Selenium Language bindings Java, C#, Ruby, Python and JavaScript(node).
What Selenium 2.46.0 Includes
Here is what’s been enhanced/fixed/changed in the latest 2.46.0 versions:
Java
- Critical Selenium Server compile issue resolved.
- HTMLUnitDriverUpdated
- Weird Safari issue with Selenium randomly updating page fixed.
- The ability to add custom annotations to the PageFactory added.
- Beta Marionette driver added.
- Firefoxdriver now supported on OpenBSD
- Much, much more! Check out the full Selenium Java Changelog
C#
- The DriverService has been improved.
- Firefox event support for newer versions added.
- New PhantomJS commandline arguments added.
- Many PageFactory improvements added.
- Added FindsByAllAttribute to .NET PageFactory implementation. This allows the user to specify that an element must match the criteria of all of the FindsBy attributes a property or field is marked with in order to be found by the PageFactory.
- Improvements to the ExecutJavaScript made.
- Much, much more! Check out the full Selenium C# Changelog
Ruby
- Firefox 38 support added
- httpd.js garbage collection performance issue fixed.
- Chromedriver port race condition fixed
- Retry binding to ports unavailable by EADDRNOTAVAIL (#394).
Remove Presto-Opera support (Blink-based Opera still supported) - Fix aborted rubygems.org release
Python
- Firefox support added up to 38
- BlackBerry browser support
- Support for Presto-Opera removed
- Firefox extension extraction fixes
- PhantomJs process management fixes
- 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
For More Selenium WebDriver Changes Info
To get the full change log info for each language make sure to check out the official change docs at:
http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/