Selenium: State of the Union

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Timeline shows the W3C WebDriver standard becoming a recommendation and browsers (Edge preview, Safari tech preview, Gecko, Chrome work) adopting it, and the project moves from the JSON Wire Protocol to W3C WebDriver standard as part of Selenium 4. Work underway: Grid refactor (safer internals, standalone-as-grid, refreshed console), first-class Docker/Kubernetes support, observability with structured logs and distributed tracing, new documentation repo on GitHub, and a rebuilt Selenium IDE with a Node.js CLI runner and plugin system supporting parallel runs. Contributions and maintainers’ time commitments are highlighted.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:56Selenium Over Time
3. 6:58W3C WebDriver Standard
4. 10:11Spec Adoption
5. 17:37Selenium 4: Adopting the New Protocol
6. 19:55Selenium 4: An Improved Grid
7. 23:15Selenium 4 A Better Console
8. 24:32Selenium 4: Better Observability
9. 26:29Selenium 4: Refreshed Documentation
10. 37:00India and Indian Contributions to Selenium
11. 39:52SFC Representation
12. 41:10Project Leadership Committee
13. 42:56How can you Contribute?
14. 44:56What We Do With the Money
15. 50:15Open Source As We Know It Needs You

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