Selenium & Appium State of the Union

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Selenium reports near-complete WebDriver BiDi support in Java and JavaScript (~95–100%), .NET ~80% and Ruby ~70–75%, and bundles Selenium Manager since ~4.30 (last ~15 releases) to fetch browser binaries and drivers; Grid UI and CI pipelines get performance fixes. Appium announces Appium 3 beta, a new storage plugin for multi‑GB app install flows, Inspector integration with Selenium Grid, ~17 new Android accessibility properties surfaced, support for BiDi custom commands, log-masking, and a sponsor-funded pay‑per‑PR program for contributors. Selenium 5 aims to default to BiDi with WebDriver fallback.

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1. 0:00Introduction and community
2. 5:18Selenium project updates
3. 12:32Selenium Manager and tools
4. 14:25Selenium 5 and roadmap
5. 17:39Appium architecture overview
6. 27:08Appium updates and ecosystem
7. 38:14Appium 3 and BiDi protocol
8. 41:50Future collaboration goals

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