title: "Selenium 4.18 Released!"

linkTitle: "Selenium 4.18 Released!"

date: 2024-02-19

tags: ["selenium"]

categories: ["releases"]

author: Diego Molina [@diemol](https://diemol.com)

description: >

We're very happy to announce the release of Selenium 4.18.0 and 4.18.1 for

Javascript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java and the Grid!

Links to everything can be found on our [downloads page][downloads].

* Chrome DevTools support is now: v120, v121, and v122 (Firefox still uses v85 for all versions)

* Selenium Manager [records usage](https://plausible.io/manager.selenium.dev) has been decreased to reduce impact on users.

* Chrome headless changed the name of the browser to reflect that it is not actually chrome; Selenium now handles this seamlessly,

but you should still switch to `--headless=new` (see: [Headless is going away](/blog/2023/headless-is-going-away/))

* Java

* Enabling Grid to use self-signed certificate for debugging

* Added explicit target locator events to the listener support classes in `WebDriverListener`.

* Add missing event handlers for TargetLocator interface in `WebDriverListener`.

* Several [BiDi] additions: Browsing context destroyed event, Network intercept commands, command `continuewithAuth`, between others.

* [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/trunk/java/CHANGELOG)

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* JavaScript

* Several [BiDi] additions: Browsing context destroyed event, realm destroyed event, command `continuewithAuth`, between others.

* [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/trunk/javascript/node/selenium-webdriver/CHANGES.md)

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* .NET

* Fix protocol cdp version for `RemoteWebDriver`.

* Fix network response data encoding.

* Explicitly support passing the full path to driver in Service constructor

* [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/trunk/dotnet/CHANGELOG)

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* Python

* Python for [nightly releases](https://test.pypi.org/project/selenium/)

* [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/trunk/py/CHANGES)

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* Ruby

* [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/trunk/rb/CHANGES)

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* Rust

* Add timestamps to Selenium Manager logs

* Selenium Manager decreases frequency of statistics reporting

* [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/trunk/rust/CHANGELOG.md)

**Special shout-out to everyone who helped the Selenium Team get this release out!**

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**Thanks as well to all the team members who contributed to this release:**

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Happy testing!

[downloads]: /downloads

[bindings]: /downloads#bindings

[team]: /project/structure

[BiDi]: https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi