SeleniumHQ · VietND96 · Aug 15, 2025 · Aug 13, 2025 · Aug 13, 2025 · Aug 15, 2025
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+---
+title: "Selenium 4.35 Released!"
+linkTitle: "Selenium 4.35 Released!"
+date: 2025-08-12
+tags: [ "selenium" ]
+categories: [ "releases" ]
+author: Diego Molina [@diemol](https://www.diemol.com)
+images:
+  - "/images/blog/2025/selenium_4.35.jpg"
+description: >
+  Today we're happy to announce that Selenium 4.35 has been released!
+---
+
+We’re excited to announce the release of **Selenium 4.35** for Javascript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java
+and the Grid! 🎉
+
+Links to all assets can be found on our [downloads page][downloads].
+
+
+---
+
+## 🔦 Highlights
+
+- **Chrome DevTools support** is now: v139, v138, and v137.
+- **BiDi Improvements Across Bindings**: Expanded BiDi support including emulation, input, script execution, and user context enhancements.
+- **Java Cleanup and JSpecify Annotations**: Deprecated APIs removed and comprehensive `@Nullable` annotations added for better type safety.
+- **Grid Performance Enhancements**: Improved logging, reduced redundancy, race condition fixes, and migration from Guava to Caffeine.
+- **Better Proxy and Network Handling**: Support for `SameSite=default`, IPv6 improvements, and fixes for proxy authentication and WebView2.
+- **Logging Improvements**: Driver logs in .NET are more structured and can output to console or file with timestamps.
+
+---
+
+## 🧪 Language-specific Updates
+
+### Java
+
+- 🔧 Added support for:
+  - BiDi emulation module
+  - `SameSite=default` for cookies
+  - Shadow DOM element normalization
+- 🧹 Major cleanup of deprecated classes:
+  - `LocationContext`, `WebStorage`, `FirefoxBinary`, `SessionStorage`, `AppCacheStatus`, and more
+- ✅ Enhanced test coverage: `--connect-existing` WebSocket check
+- 📝 Added JSpecify `@Nullable` annotations across all driver services and locator classes
+- 🧼 Memory/resource improvements:
+  - Released `HttpClient` resources
+  - Removed unused internal classes
+
+### Python
+
+- 🧠 BiDi enhancements:
+  - Implemented input and emulation modules
+  - Added `pin`, `unpin`, and `execute` for scripts
+  - Supported `accept_insecure_certs`, `proxy`, and `unhandled_prompt_behavior` in user context
+- 🔧 Improved handling for:
+  - Proxy authentication with special characters
+  - WebView2 + CDP/BiDi compatibility
+  - Vendor prefix fix for Edge
+- 📦 Loosened dependency for `urllib3`, and included IPv6 support for `free_port()`
+- 📚 API documentation improvements, including nightly builds and license notices
+
+### .NET
+
+- 💡 Logging Enhancements:
+  - Timestamps for Chromium-based browser logs
+  - GeckoDriver log file support
+  - Default log level now `WARN`
+  - Console output support for all drivers
+- 🧠 BiDi enhancements:
+  - Exposed internal methods and new result types
+  - User context supports `UnhandledPromptBehavior`, `proxy`, `accept_insecure_certs`
+  - Tree and Emulation modules added
+- 🧹 Cleanup:
+  - Removed long-deprecated members
+  - Reduced internal tracing noise
+- 🔄 Native packaging for Selenium Manager
+- 🌐 IPv6 support for port allocation
+
+### JavaScript
+
+- 🧪 BiDi:
+  - Stability fix for flaky cookie network test
+  - Skip FedCM tests until Chrome 140
+- ⚠️ Added `SameSite=default` cookie support
+- 🔄 Dependency updates (`typescript`, `@emotion/styled`)
+
+### Ruby
+
+- 🔒 Guarded support for Firefox Beta
+- 🚫 Removed deprecated local/session storage APIs
+- 🆗 Allowed use of `rubyzip` v3
+- ✂️ Excluded Rakefile from line-length linter
+- ⚠️ Added support for `SameSite=default`
+
+### Rust (Selenium Manager)
+
+- 🧪 Updated base URL for Edge WebDriver
+- ⬆️ Dependency upgrades (`zip`, `rstest`, `which`, Bazel lock files)
+- 🔧 Improved architecture normalization for Plausible analytics
+
+### Grid
+
+- 🔁 Performance and logging improvements:
+  - Reduced duplicate logs
+  - Improved node health checks
+  - Better session map handling and retry queue management
+- 🧰 Switched from Guava’s CacheBuilder to Caffeine
+- 🧪 New UI sorting option by URI
+
+
+### 🐳 Docker Selenium
+
+- K8s: Add config for over-provision ratio in autoscaling deployment of Nodes ([#2930](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2930))
+- Docker: Distributor uses Greedy as the slot selector strategy default in Hub-Node and Standalone mode ([#2915](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2915))
+- Docker: Update Google Noto font family to support better language character displays ([#2914](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/pull/2914))
+- [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/releases)
+
+
+<br>
+
+We thank all our contributors for their incredible efforts in making Selenium better with every
+release. ❤️
+
+For a detailed look at all changes, check out
+the [release notes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/tag/selenium-4.35.0).
+
+<br>
+
+## Contributors
+
+**Special shout-out to everyone who helped the Selenium Team get this release out!**
+
+### [Selenium](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium)
+
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+    <div class="row justify-content-center">
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+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+### [Selenium Docs & Website](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/seleniumhq.github.io)
+
+<div class="row justify-content-center">
+  <div class="col-11 p-4 bg-transparent">
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+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+### [Docker Selenium](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium)
+
+<div class="row justify-content-center">
+  <div class="col-11 p-4 bg-transparent">
+    <div class="row justify-content-center">
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+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+### [Selenium Team Members][team]
+
+**Thanks as well to all the team members who contributed to this release:**
+
+<div class="row justify-content-center">
+  <div class="col-11 p-4 bg-transparent">
+    <div class="row justify-content-center">
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+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+
+Stay tuned for updates by following SeleniumHQ on:
+
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+
+Happy automating!
+
+[downloads]: /downloads
+
+[bindings]: /downloads#bindings
+
+[team]: /project/structure
+
+[BiDi]: https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi
diff --git a/website_and_docs/layouts/downloads/list.html b/website_and_docs/layouts/downloads/list.html
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       <h2 class="card-title">C# NuGet</h2>
       <p class="card-text w-lg-75">
-        Nuget latest release is 4.35.0 Released on Aug 12, 2025.
+        Nuget latest release is 4.35.0 Released on August 12, 2025.
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         <p class="card-text m-0 pb-1">
           Stable:
           <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/Selenium.WebDriver" class="card-link">
-            4.35.0 (Aug 12, 2025)
+            4.35.0 (August 12, 2025)
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           Stable:
           <a href="https://rubygems.org/gems/selenium-webdriver/versions/4.35.0" class="card-link">
-            4.35.0 (Aug 12, 2025)
+            4.35.0 (August 12, 2025)
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           Stable:
           <a href="https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/download/selenium-4.35.0/selenium-java-4.35.0.zip" class="card-link">
-            4.35.0 (Aug 12, 2025)
+            4.35.0 (August 12, 2025)
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           Stable:
           <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium" class="card-link">
-            4.35.0 (Aug 12, 2025)
+            4.35.0 (August 12, 2025)
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         <p class="card-text m-0 pb-1">
           Stable:
           <a href="https://npmjs.org/package/selenium-webdriver" class="card-link">
-            4.35.0 (Aug 12, 2025)
+            4.35.0 (August 12, 2025)
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