What’s new and good in Selenium

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Selenium 4 delivers concrete changes: relative selectors for position-based lookups, BiDi/CDP access to capture network and emulate devices, an improved Actions API and new open-tab/window commands, element and full-page screenshots, Shadow DOM traversal, and a rewritten Grid with observability. Selenium Manager now auto-downloads drivers matching browser versions; Java 8 support ends with 4.13 and a new HTTP client and virtual authenticator appear. Examples, migration effort (hours), and which browsers and bindings actually work are shown.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:35Selenium 3 to 4 migration
3. 8:08Recent Selenium features
4. 16:01Selenium Manager
5. 18:29BiDi and DevTools updates
6. 20:42Selector compilation errors
7. 21:26Selenium Grid updates
8. 22:51Community and future plans
9. 23:13Q&A

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