What's New in Selenium 4.0
summary
Selenium 4 rewrites the Selenium Server/Grid architecture replacing the single hub with four node types (router, distributor, session-map, nodes) to eliminate the hub bottleneck and allow sessions to survive failures. The prototype can run components in-process or distributed, adds request tracing using OpenTracing/OpenCensus, and plans backward registration so Grid‑3 nodes and cloud providers continue to work during migration.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Selenium 4 intro
- 1:50What is Selenium
- 6:48Selenium Grid history
- 15:23Grid 3 issues
- 18:41Grid 4 fixes
- 20:28Grid 4 architecture
- 27:00New architecture benefits
- 33:08Debugging Grid 4
- 37:06Current state and roadmap








