Selenium CHANGELOG[最新版本4.8.0 计划中]

Selenium CHANGELOG[持续更新]

源文件 https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/trunk/py/CHANGES

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对重点版本做时间标注，具体时间点可以参考https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases

对重点更新做简单翻译

持续更新

Selenium 4.8.0 (暂未发布)

• Add CDP files for v109 and remove v106
• Add logging to Selenium Manager for both stdout and stderr
• Multiple updates and improvements to types
• Fix sdist tar package_dir (#11416)
• Add comment with name of large JS executions (#11038)
• Deprecate headless property for chromium and firefox options classes (#11467)

Selenium 4.7.2 2022-12-3

• Put selenium manager bug fix from 4.7.1 in the correct place

Selenium 4.7.1 2022-12-3

• Fix bug preventing selenium manager from using Internet Explorer

Selenium 4.7.0 2022-12-2

• Add CDP files for v108 and remove v105
• Improve error handling with Selenium Manager (#11329)
• Fix bug preventing alternate package managers from using Selenium Manager (#11234)

Selenium 4.6.1 2022-11-6

• Replace response.getheader() with response.headers.get() (deprecated in urllib3 1.26.13).
• Fixed a bug in Service destructors accessing modules that no longer existed during interpreter shutdown.
• Improved exception messages when raising for relative locator issues.

★Selenium 4.6.0 2022-11-4

• Document firefox service= arg. closes #11067
• Additional types and tidying safari service
• Revert removal of default executable global for safari
• Additional types; remove unused permissions.py
• Remove RemoteDriverServerException
• Remove unused send_remote_shutdown_command implementations in services
• Update log_path docs for non chromium based services
• Make get_screenshot_as_file() work with pathlib.Paths (#11095)
• Remove protocols.py
• fix typing in get_full_page_screenshot_as_png (#11163)
• typo in error message (#11166)
• Adding CDP files for v107 and removing v104
• add initial support for selenium manager
• Revert "[py] do not allow Select class to work with disabled selects"
• #11093 - The SessionId shouldn't be added to params themself bu… (#11121)

Selenium 4.5.0

• Fix frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it() for string inputs (#10963) 修复显式等待方法的bug(传入字符串参数)
• Implicit non w3c capability conversion for acceptSslCerts, platform and version is now deprecated
• Additional type hints
• Bugfix options returning None when strict_file_interactability, set_window_rect or accept_insecure_certs are not set
• Add CDP for v105, remove support for v102
• Add CDP for v106, remove support for v103

Selenium 4.4.3

• Update explicit dependency for certifi to remove upper bound (#10956)

Selenium 4.4.2

• Add explicit dependency for certifi (#10953)

Selenium 4.4.1

• Removal of urllib3[secure] extras (deprecated) dependency

Selenium 4.4.0

• More flexibility in locating Firefox binary (#10818)
• Add CDP for v104, remove support for v101
• Throw error when setting w3c to False on Chromium, and warning when setting w3c to True

★Selenium 4.3.0

• Deprecated find_element_by_* and find_elements_by_* are now removed (#10712) 正式移除find_element_by*系列方法
• Deprecated Opera support has been removed (#10630)
• Fully upgraded from python 2x to 3.7 syntax and features (#10647)
• Added a devtools version fallback mechanism to look for an older version when mismatch occurs (#10749)
• Better support for co-operative multi inheritance by utilising super() throughout
• Improved type hints throughout

Selenium 4.2.0

• Fix bug preventing Firefox from setting accept_insecure_certs to False (#10442)
• Deprecated opera classes as not w3c compatible (#10379)
• Fix SecurityError: Invalid Domain problem (#10653)
• Implement convenience methods for scrolling

Selenium 4.1.5

• use typing_extensions to be compatible with py37 (#10613)

Selenium 4.1.4

• Hook options class in safari driver (#10433)
• Remove universal wheel, python 2 is unsupported (#10438)
• Fix tox -e docs by pinning Jinja2 (#10492)
• Add support Chrome 100 and remove for Chrome 97
• Removed desired capabilities from handshake code (#10494)
• Invalid selector exceptions are is not a no such element exception
• Do not convert tag name to css selector
• Add debug logging for urllib response data (#10568)
• Use monotonic clock for waits, fixes #10544 (#10550)
• Adding Chrome DevTools 101 and removing 98
• Add the ability to create sdist package of the python bindings
• Remove unicode prefix for strings (#10562)
• Use get_timeout() for urllib pool manager timeouts in remote connection (#10563)
• Fixing "--connect-existing" #10598
• Added DeprecationWarning to the warnings.warn methods inside the find_element_by_x methods (#10575)
• Added virtual authenticator for Python Bindings (#10579)

Selenium 4.1.3

• fix generated wheel asset (#10022)
• add support for proxy authentication (#10358)
• add Safari options (#10385)
• add support for Firefox to install unpacked addons (#10308)
• add support for Chrome 99 and remove support for Chrome 96

Selenium 4.1.2

• Include py.typed in the library

Selenium 4.1.1

• add support for Chrome 98 and remove support for Chrome 95
• Add py.typed file (#10310)
• Elaborate find_element deprecation message (#10273)
• add support for Chrome v97
• convert selectors for finding elements in shadow dom
• missing self for service args
• don't use websocket-port if user sets connect-existing (a4dc6e)
• update tests for current IE options
• fix firefox addon tests
• Support new Cast command added to Chrome Devtools (#10150)
• send Base64 encoded addon to driver instead of path String
• Reflect how find_elements returns a list, not just one WebElement. (#10172)
• add shadowroot to api docs
• add log reference to api rst file
• remove non breaking space for doc generation
• Updating exceptions file for docs
• Add type hinting to Shadowroot
• update ShadowRoot find element signatures to match those in WebElement (#10138)
• add Zenkaku/Hankaku key
• raise NoSuchElementException for relative failures instead of IndexError (#10078)
• Remove legacy in favour of W3C endpoints. (#10075)
• Tidy relativeby docs, use non deprecated methods in webserver (#10077, #10103, #10108, #10186, #10212, #10120)
• PEP 484 type hints s (#10099)
• Handle Socks Proxy for Remote Connections. Fixes #10091
• Add extra attributes to pointer down and pointer move actions
• Add Scroll via Wheel Inputs and Wheel Actions

Selenium 4.1.0

• add warning if people set w3c to false as it may break their tests
• Fix wrong type annotations for "env" it's a dict not a string (#10072)
• Added default executable path in service module for (#10057)
• Fix typos for docstrings (#10052)
• Fix return type hint in get_screenshot_as_png (#10060)
• Add CDP for v96, remove support for v92 and v93
• Add support for shadow dom end points
• Upgrade sphinx to use latest
• Correct docstrings around Service usage
• XFail alert tests due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1731795
• Remove py2 import code
• Check the values in NO_PROXY and set the poolmanager accordingly (#9925, #9967)
• Move python version to a variable to be shared about in build steps
• Bump Bazel rules_pkg to 0.5.1

★Selenium 4.0.0 2021-10-13 4系列第一个版本

• Add cdp 95 to python and JS
• Remove Edge legacy options. (#9908)
• Expected condition for checking attribute value (#9881)
• implement relative locator for find_element (#9902) 实现相对定位
• Fix python generation code for CDP to optionals better

Selenium 4 Release Candidate 3

• Fix CDP Code Generation broken by Chromium 94
• Fix Deprecation warnings for IE Bindings. Fixes #9818

Selenium 4 Release Candidate 2

• Add new websocketUrl capability
• Force free ports for cdp in geckodriver
• Add w3c capabilities to Python options (#9870)
• expected_conditions and wait modules raises InvalidSelectorException for invalid xpaths (#9805)
• implement chromium specific endpoint for setting permissions
• implement chromium specific endpoint for deleting network conditions
• update ruby, python and JS to add support for v94 and remove support for v92
• Fix type hint on chrome option method (#9840)
• Allows None to be set for the sameSite attribute (#9771)
• Fix typo in python webdriver for IE (#9801)

Selenium 4 Release Candidate 1

• Remove cdp versions 88, 89, and 90
• Replace v91 with v93 in bazel files
• update IE options class in each language to match the currently supported capabilities in the IE Driver
• Specify that the "find_element_by_* ..." warning is a deprecation warning (#9700)
• clean up imports
• Use options when passing things to remote webdriver instead of capabilities (#9678)
• Correct deprecation message in IE handling code
• Rewrite the logging module for bidi connections
• remove non-w3c compliant parameters from default capabilities
• Run type checks in CI and report typing coverage to codecov (#9523)
• PEP 484 Type Hints added
• Handle first/always match better when it hits lists/dicts. Fixes #9538
• correct tox warnings
• Fix deprecation warnings for Safari (#9577)
• Allow 0 coordinates for the window position. Fixes #9574
• Fix incorrect use of 'NoReturn' type annotation. (#9540)

Selenium 4 Beta 4 (The Final Beta)

• Returning fixed IP in GitHub actions (#9550)
• PEP 484 type hints for common.exceptions and webdriver.support.color (#9482)
• Add the ability to pass in multiple options and have that capabilities returned as (first|always)Match
• Add docstrings for RelativeBy
• Add the ability to pass in different locators to do Relative Locator searches
• Add a test with returning a JS Const object #9468
• Handle poor responses from drivers when there are errors. Fixes #9437
• Add the ability to enable mobile on options classes
• Add the ability to use Options classes on Safari
• Fix converting list of tuples to str in send_keys (#9330)
• Expand element to be clickable in expected conditions(#9374)
• Upgrade rules_python to 0.2.0

Selenium 4 Beta 3

• Enable more tests
• Improve support for WebDriver Bidi over selenium grid
• Update CDP Support versions to remove 86,87 and add 90,91
• Allow overriding the default 250 msecs duration of pointer movement (#9336)
• Only give deprecation warning if Profile is being used in options
• Loosen version requirements on dependencies. Fixes #9312
• Bump urllib3 from 1.26.2 to 1.26.3 in /py (#9311)
• Disable wait on frame test due to bug in Firefox
• Correct pinned browser path for chrome on linux

Selenium 4 beta 2 Post 1

• Fix Chrome instantiation

Selenium 4 beta 2

• Set up python for pinned browsers
• Add Multiple file upload test
• Fix using arguments in Chrome Option. Fixes #9281
• Deprecate arguments in remote webdriver instantiation
• Improve proxy via options test for Firefox
• Set Chromium Edge to be the default for Edge browsers
• Move code so that it is reachable
• Fix usage of options to RemoteWebDriver (#9240)
• Deprecate using a Firefox profile in Options
• use attribute endpoint to evaluate multiple selects
• implement get_dom_attribute
• Add attribute_to_be_include method to expected_conditions when the at… (#9200)
• Additional Python type hints (#9192)
• Correct Type Hinting on option method. Fixes #9210
• Use a flat namespace for selenium options
• remove unused imports
• Add ARIA APIs for getting the role and label of an Element
• Fix homepage attribute in wheel target
• Avoid using bazel native python rules

Selenium 4.0 Beta 1

• Deprecate all but Options and Service arguments in driver instantiation. (#9125,#9128)
• Upgrade Bazel rules_python to latest
• Deprecate w3c checks in python bindings (#9109)
• Remove legacy WebElement key ELEMENT (#9102, #9110)
• Improve how desired_capabilities and options are merged
• Use weakreferences for driver in switch and mobile classes (#2425)
• Fix 'webview2' browser name for Edge py options. (#9090)
• Add python type hinting
• Improved alias for Keys (#9076)
• Improve comment about using importlib_resources
• Add mozdebugger capability to use CDP Features with Firefox
• Refactor bidi APIs for logging to be on their own class
• Make sure we are checking a string for local file detector
• Add Ignored Exception to wait in Bidi Tests
• Update tests
• Adding Github Actions workflow for Python (#9031)
• Fix WebDriver.start_session docstring to remove incorrect arguments (#9021)
• Add Mutation Logging support
• Pin Firefox bidi support to use the generated code for CDP 85
• Fix handling of generated code put into wheels
• Modernise the python code around imports and conditionals
• Support for float types in text fields (#8936)
• Add print page command to python binding (#8903)
• Add Chrome v88 to bidi support
• Fix pytest macro to allow --test_args to pass through
• Remove thread.join in testing webserver due to chromedriver issue 3654
• Fix grammar typos in exceptions.py (#8876)
• Enforce python version in wheel when created. fixes #8863
• Correct proxy tests
• Include readme in Wheel so it's rendered on Pypi

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 7

• BREAKING CHANGE: Dropped support for python < 3.7

• Remove support for XBL in Firefox.

• Correct formatting with JS fragment

• Add debugpy to requirements

• Fix uploading multiple files on remote driver (#7472) (#8734)

• Correct docstring around find_element and find_elements. Fixes #8806

• Add the ability to ignore local proxys that are available

• add script pinning to python bindings

• Deprecate desired_capabilities property in favour of capabilities property

• Update tests to use requirements file

• Allow driver fixtures to be used in Chrome only tests

• Update testing to use the latest pytest

• do not update already set preference (#8692)

• Added new argument creationflags in Service class for common, chrome, and firefox (#8647)

• add se namespacing to file upload endpoint for all bindings (#8588)

• Correct dependency management for code generator

• Update host to connect to get a port. Fixes #8503

• Poll quicker for the driver when starting up. Fixes #8477

• Add support for DevTools APIs

• Improve WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit support

• Fix browserName typo for Edge WebView2

• Fix wheel generation for multiple python versions

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 6 Post 2

• Correct usage of Abstract Base class in some instances
• Correct build step for releasing

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 6

• Add Abstract Base Class to WebElement and WebDriver #7127 (#8348)
• Copy acceptInsecureCerts to Options for Firefox. Fixes #8261
• Correct check on DEFAULT_EXECUTABLE_PATH
• Use ProxyManager instead of PoolManager in remote_connection (#8297)
• Check offsets are cast to int. Fixes #7639
• Fixes an issue where IE server port is set '0' by default (#8294)
• Favor Python3 constructs and Python 2.7 compatibility (#8290)
• Remove Unused Arguments from Firefox
• Fixup Firefox deprecations
• Delete support for Blackberry Driver
• Delete PhantomJS capabilities
• Delete Android Driver support
• Remove python crazyfun references
• Enable and update Safari tests
• Use same port in remote executor and service (#8255)
• Update tests and docs to not use deprecated methods
• mark various tests as failing in Firefox
• Use callback functions instead callable objects as expected conditions (#7765)
• Fix error in webelemet not created, verifying if is str or dict. (#3481)
• verify command_executor ssl certificate by default (#6536)
• Correct documentation for ChromiumDriver
• Deprecating find_element(s)_* calls in event firing webdriver
• Fixing path to selenium server for remote tests
• Fixing relative locator constructor
• Changing environment variable we use to check if the tests are running on travis
• Fixing HSL to RGBa color converter
• Deprecate use of AppCache APIs

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 5

• Correct service usage in IE Binding. Fixes #7749
• Deprecate find_element(s)by* calls
• Use a capability to switch engines for Edge (#8096)
• Fix Flake8 errors
• Add WPEWebKit driver (#6375)
• update python_requires to only support python 2.7 and Python3.5+(#8085)
• add the ability to generate a wheel via bazel
• Add in support for page loading strategies for Options
• Add the ability to get and set timeouts against a driver. Fixes #7738
• Correct Docstring import in WebDriverWait example. Fixes #7780
• Explicitly force timeout value to float in WebDriverWait. Fixes #8050
• Add support for relative locators
• Fix clear actions in ActionChains (#7943)
• Automate RemoteConnection subclass selection (#8010)
• Fix capabilities to support macOS platform (#7980)
• fix: DeprecationWarning of base64.encodestring() (#7446)
• Build python code with Bazel
• Parse python docstring example as code snippet
• correct python_requires in setup
• Fix grammar typo in exceptions.py (#7657)
• Fixed references to chromedriver website

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 3

• Fixing stacktrace parser to handle strings as well as objects
• urllib throws on 404 so let's check the /status endpoint that returns 200
• Changing default command executor address to the address of TNG Grid
• Fixing check of type of a returned element in a test for all_of condition
• Implement logical expected conditions in Python (#7121)
• Explicitly clear PoolManager by using context manager (#6878)
• Fix invisibility_of_element expected condition init function (#7484)
• fix docs build, add chromium and edge to docs
• flake8 fixes
• allow --browser-binary and --browser-args to be used with ChromiumEdge
• Add support for the new MicrosoftEdge (#7459)
• increase async script timeout from 0 as the w3c spec states to start time checking immediately
• fix unit test for firefox options, proxy key should be outside of options
• update to w3c compliant log endpoints
• Remove 'resolve_ip' option from RemoteConnection (#1729,#2509)
• Running python unit tests with bazel
• Pass capabilities rather than options to the proxy object (#6620)
• Adding full page screenshot feature for Firefox (#7182)
• Added EventFiringWebElement to the isinstance check in the move_to method.(#6604)
• Added socksVersion field in proxy class (#6983)
• also clear w3c actions in ActionChains#reset_actions
• fix edge webdriver init by deprecating edge_service in favor of service also fix warnings import in edge/webdriver
• Removes old exception and dead code from py lib.(#7134)
• Raise error for unsupported method for set_window_rect

Selenium 4.0 Alpha 1

• Update driver initialisation to use service and option objects
• turn on keep-alive by default for remote connections (#7072)
• Fix ConnectionResetError
• Add new Cast commands
• Suggest download Microsoft Webdriver over HTTPS
• Clear PoolManager in ‘remote_connection’ to ensure sockets are closed
• remove --disable-gpu option for headless Chrome
• Add support for the New Window command (#6873)
• Update docstrings in Options classes to allow documentation to highlight Return values
• Fix typos in select.py (#6925)
• Remove native events handling code
• Deleting unused imports, fixing flake8 issues
• Remove unused port selection in IE Driver
• Enabling tests xpassed in Chrome
• Pretty-printing code samples
• remove all deprecated methods and args from Python bindings
• Fix DeprecationWarning: invalid escape sequence
• Don't override browser options with desired capabilities by default in WebKitGTK (#6814)
• Add WebKitGTK to API docs (#6815)
• Subclass options classes from a common base class (#6522)
• Update Sphinx (#6728)
• WebDriverWait: update documentation for until and until_not (#6711)
• Fix typo in description of WebDriver class (#6724)
• add strictFileInteractability to acceptable W3C capabilities
• Deprecate Blackberry Driver support
• Fixing/tidying docstring.

★Selenium 3.141.0 2018-12-20 3系列最后一个版本

其实后面还有几个小版本

• Bump version to a better approximation of Π
• Improved Test build targets
• fix os path in test for Windows
• use 'NUL' for /dev/null on Windows
• Update ctor docstrings to explain that a directory passed in is cloned. Fixes #6542
• Allow passing of service_args to Safari. Fixes #6459
• Remove element equals url
• Improved WebExtension support

Selenium 3.14.1

• Fix ability to set timeout for urllib3 (#6286)
• get_cookie uses w3c endpoint when compliant
• Remove body from GET requests (#6250)
• Fix actions pause for fraction of a second (#6300)
• Fixed input pausing for some actions methods
• Capabilities can be set on Options classes
• WebElement rect method is now forward compatible for OSS endpoints (#6355)
• Deprecation warnings now have a stacklevel of 2
• keep_alive can now be set on Webdriver init (#6316)
• isDisplayed atom is now used for all w3c compliant browser, fixing issue with Safari 12

Selenium 3.14.0

• Fix doc of URL-related ExpectedCondition (#6236)
• Added ExpectedCondition invisibility_of_element
• Swap out httplib for urllib3
• Be consistent with webdriver init kwarg service_log_path (#5725)

Selenium 3.13.0

• Add executing Chrome devtools command (#5989)
• fix incorrect w3c action encoding in python client (#6014)
• Implement context manager for WebDriver
• Stop sending "windowHandle" param in maximize_window command for w3c

Selenium 3.12.0

• Add desired_capabilities keyword to IE and Firefox drivers for driver consistency
• Fix bug with creating Safari webdriver instance (#5578)
• Add support for Safari extension command
• Deprecate Options set_headless methods in favor of property setter
• Only set --disable-gpu for Chrome headless when on Windows
• Add selenium User-Agent header (#5696)
• Remote webdriver can now be started when passing options
• All Options.to_capabilities now start with default DesiredCapabilities
• Improve the error message that is raised when safaridriver cannot be found (#5739)
• IeOptions class is now imported to selenium.webdriver
• Remove the beta authenticate methods from Alert

Selenium 3.11.0

No changes just keeping python version in step with the rest of the project.

Selenium 3.10.0

• make tests to check clicking on disabled element work for w3c compliant drivers (#5561)
• add docstring for InvalidElementStateException. Fixes #5520
• Deleting unused imports
• Making python specification in IDEA project more generic
• It should be possible to use a custom safaridriver executable to run Selenium's test suite.

Selenium 3.9.0

• Add docstrings to WebElement find methods (#5384)
• Additional data in unexpected alert error is now handled for w3c drivers (#5416)
• Allow service_args to be passed into Firefox WebDriver (#5421)
• Fix bug introduced with response logging in 3.8.1 (#5362)

Selenium 3.8.1

• Fix bug when creating an Opera driver (#5266)
• Stop sending sessionId in w3c payload. (#4620)
• Fix issue with w3c actions releasing on element (#5180)
• A more descriptive log message is displayed if the port cannot be connected (#2913)
• Initialize Alert object by calling alert.text (#1863)
• PhantomJS is now deprecated, please use either Chrome or Firefox in headless mode
• Legacy Firefox driver: ensuring copy of profile dir, its 'extensions' subdir and 'user.js' file are writable. (#1466)

Selenium 3.8.0

• Firefox options can now be imported from selenium.webdriver as FirefoxOptions (#5120)

• Headless mode can now be set in Chrome Options using set_headless

• Headless mode can now be set in Firefox Options using set_headless

• Add the WebKitGTK WebDriver and options class (#4635)

• Browser options can now be passed to remote WebDriver via the options parameter

• Browser option parameters are now standardized across drivers as options. firefox_options,

  chrome_options, and ie_options are now deprecated

• Added missing W3C Error Codes (#4556)

• Support has been removed for Python versions 2.6 and 3.3

Selenium 3.7.0

• need to pass applicable environment variables to tox
• Fix active_element for w3c drivers (#3979)
• add support for minimize command
• add support for fullscreen command
• window rect commands should fail on firefox and remote (legacy)
• Fix python backward compatibility for window commands (#4937)
• Update docstrings to specify the type of path needed to install firefox addons. (#4881)
• Update python chromeOptions key for capabilities (#4622)
• Fix python pause action implementation (#4795)

Selenium 3.6.0

• Fix package name in python webelement module (#4670)
• Fix python driver examples (#3872)
• No need to multiply pause by 1000
• Add pause to action chains
• only check for proxyType once
• lowercase proxy type for w3c payload in python #4574
• guarding against null return value from find_elements in python #4555
• remove unnecessary pytest marking, address flake8 issues
• allow IE WebDriver to accept IE Options
• add IE Options class
• convert OSS capabilities to W3C equivalent for W3C payload
• Add Safari to API docs

Selenium 3.5.0

• Numerous test fixes

*Iterate over capabilities in a way to support py2.7 and py3

• Fix W3C switching to window by name.
• Support GeckoDriver addon install/uninstall commands #4215.
• Move firefox_profile into moz:firefoxOptions.
• Filter non-W3C capability names out of alwaysMatch.
• Honor cmd line args passed to Service ctor (#4167)
• Add expected conditions based on URL to Python Expected Conditions #4160
• Add network emulation to Chrome Python bindings (#4011)
• add warning when saving incorrectly named screenshot (#4141)

Selenium 3.4.3

• Fix EventFiringWebdriver and WebElement to raise AttributeError on missing attributes. (#4107)
• unwrap WebElements inside dicts

Selenium 3.4.2

• translate move_by_offset command to w3c
• Update capabilities properly instead of assuming dict structure. Fixes #3927
• Add missing file for Chrome options to API docs.
• Add Chrome options module to API docs.

Selenium 3.4.1

• Add back the ability to set profile when using Firefox 45ESR. Fixes #3897

Selenium 3.4.0

• Correct usage of newSession around firstMatch and alwaysMatch
• Remove superfluous capabilities that are not needed
• Add expected condition that waits for all found elements to be visible (#3532)
• Allow methods wrapped by EventFiringWebDriver and EventFiringWebElement (#806)
• Dropping javascriptEnabled capability for real browsers
• Use W3C check from parent object instead of assuming from capabilities
• Bump example source distribution to match latest release.
• Replace TypeError with KeyError in remote webdriver error handler code (#3826)
• When testing Marionette use default capabilities in testing
• Conform to the api of urllib2 for adding header for a request (#3803)
• Add text key to alert#sendKeys parameters for W3C Endpoint
• Location once scrolled into view should use W3C executeScript endpoint not JSONWP
• Fixed the usage information in documentation of "save_screenshot". (#3804)
• Add Element Not Interactable exception
• Clean up imports in error handler
• flake8 cleanup

Selenium 3.3.3

• make w3c execute_script commands unique

Selenium 3.3.2

• Update window commands to use W3C End points
• Update Alert when in W3C mode to use W3C Endpoints
• Update to new W3C Execute Script end points
• Add setting/getting proxy details to Firefox Options
• Deprecate the use of browser profile when instantiating a session
• Update start session to handle the W3C New Session
• Add get/set window rect commands
• Add InvalidArgumentException
• When passing in text to send_keys, make sure we send a string not array
• Fix string decoding in remote connection (#3663)
• Fix indentation to satisfy PEP8
• Try use old way of setting page load timeout if new way fails. Fixes #3654
• fix file uploads for Firefox
• Run unit tests on Python 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5 (#3638)
• Fix indentation in double_click.
• Fix non-W3C page load timeout setting.

Selenium 3.3.1

• Fix encoding of basic auth header when using Python 3 Fixes #3622
• Add initial unit test suite
• Update W3C Timeout setting to be in line with the specification
• support.ui.Select class inherits from object (#3067)
• fix bug in proxy constructor that some properties are not proper set (#3459)
• Fix flake8 issues (#3628)

Selenium 3.3.0

Note If you are updating to this version, please also update GeckoDriver to v0.15.0

• Fix python HTTPS encoding for python driver (#3379)
• Allow Firefox preferences to be set directly in Options
• Fix shutdown and process termination (#3263)
• Preventing exception if log_path is none or empty. Fixes #3128
• Add the W3C capability to Firefox for accepting insecure certificates
• Initial implementation of Pointer Actions
• Only skip tests if driver name matches a directory name.
• Update calls that return a pure object with keys to look for 'value' key
• Initial W3C Actions support
• fix docs output directory

Selenium 3.0.2

• Add support for W3C Get Active Element
• Return when we use executeScript for faking WebElement.get_property
• Expand user paths and resolve absolute path for Chrome extensions
• Add support for verbose logging and custom path to EdgeDriver
• Update TakeElementScreenshot to match WebDriver specification
• Raise WebDriverException when FirefoxBinary fails to locate binary
• Fix getting IP for python 3
• Write Service log to DEVNULL by default
• Only attempt to remove the Firefox profile path if one was specified
• Added context manager for chrome/content in Firefox

Selenium 3.0.1

• Fix regressions with python 3
• Add support for Safari Technology Preview

Selenium 3.0.0

• new FirefoxDriver ctor precedence logic and moz:firefoxOptions support (#2882)
• Add W3C Set Window Position and W3C Get Window Position
• enable log path setting from firefox webdriver (#2700)
• Correct encoding of getAttribute.js and only load it once. Fixes #2785
• Encode the isDisplayed atom and only load it once

Selenium 3.0.0.b3

• Use atoms for get_attribute and is_displayed when communicating with

  a w3c compliant remote end.

• Make it possible to specialise web element

Selenium 3.0.0.b2

• Updated Marionette port argument to match other drivers.

Selenium 3.0.0.b1

• Fix basestring reference to work with python 3. Fixes #1820
• Correct Length conditional when filtering in PhantomJS. Fixes #1817
• Fix send keys when using PUA keys e.g. Keys.RIGHT #1839
• Fix cookie file leak in PhantomJS #1854
• Use the correct binary path when using Marionette
• Fixed: Unhelpful error message when PhantomJS exits. (#2173 #2168)
• Fix broken link to python documentation (#2159)
• Attempt to remove Firefox profile when using Marionette
• Ensure all capabilities are either within desiredCapabilities or requiredCapabilities
• Correct the expected capability name for the Firefox profile
• Add Firefox options to capabilities
• Visibility_of_all implies it only returns elements if all visible (#2052)
• Find visible elements (#2041)
• Pass the firefox_profile as a desired capability in the Python client when using a remote server
• Avoid checking exception details for invalid locators due to differences in server implementations
• Handle capabilities better with Marionette and GeckoDriver
• Updated the maxVersion of FirefoxDriver xpi maxVersion to work with Firefox 47.0.1
• Remove Selenium RC support

Selenium 2.53.0

• Adding Options object for use with Python FirefoxDriver
• Fixed improper usage of super in exceptions module
• create a temp file for cookies in phantomjs if not specified
• Pass in the executable that FirefoxBinary finds to the service if there isn't one passed in as a kwarg or capability
• Applied some DRY and extracted out the keys_to_typing()
• Fix deselecting options in

  Selenium 2.52.0

  Fixing case where UnexpectedAlertException doesn't get the alert_text in the error object
  Firefox: Actually use launch_browser timeout Fixes #1300

  Selenium 2.51.1

  correcting bundling issue missing README.rst file

  Selenium 2.51.0

  Firefox updates (see java changelog)

  Selenium 2.50.1

  Fixing error message handling. Fixes issue #1497
  Fixing error message handling. Fixes issue #1507
  Update webelement to handle W3C commands for size/location and rect
  rewrite click scrolling tests to match the Java ones

  Selenium 2.50.0

  handle potential URLError from sending shutdown, set self.process to None after it's already been quit
  Add support for submit() with W3C compliant endpoint

  Selenium 2.49.1

  Ensure you can close stream before attempting to close it.

  message response may cause json loads ValueError when it's not actually json
  and just a string (like the message that occurs when firefox driver thinks
  another element will receive the click)

  Cleanup some error handling when sniffing what protocol you are speaking

  Selenium 2.49.0

  Have Firefox service write to a file instead of PIPE
  on osx for firefox, fallback to checking homebrew install, if the default isn't there
  Added Firefox path variable for string placeholder
  Update README to show Python 3.2+
  refactoring all the service classes to use a common one.
  Add Firefox specific command to switch context between Browser content and Browser chrome
  updating files after go copyright:update
  Use specificationLevel to know that we are speaking GeckoDriver
  Bug fixes: #1294, #1186

  Selenium 2.48.0

  Update error pulling to match spec when we encounter a spec compliant browser.
  Disable tests that are not working with Marionette when running Marionette tests
  Add the ability to run python marionette tests
  Python 3 compatibility for remote Authorization
  changing casing of children finding tests

  Selenium 2.47.3

  Bring back py 3 support

  Selenium 2.47.2

  Fix running Edge driver locally on win10
  adding repr to WebDriver and WebElement

  Selenium 2.47.1

  Fix the issue of deleting the profile when shutting down Firefox
  WebElement eq compares against more types
  Issues fixed: 850

  Selenium 2.47.0

  Add in support for when communicating with a Spec compliant browsers
  Initial support for Edge using EdgeDriver
  Issues fixed: 818

  Selenium 2.46.1

  Adding ability to make remote call for webelement screenshots in accordance to the W3C spec
  Adding api to authenticate HTTP Auth modal dialogs via driver.switch_to.alert (beta)
  Add rebeccapurple to Color Object
  Add element screenshot
  Add service handler and minimal update to driver to use service for Marionette
  Add the ability to start FirefoxDriver backed with Marionette via a capability
  support socket timeout for connections
  free_port checks if port is available on all interfaces
  Allow error handling to handle both current errors and w3c errors
  Update find_elements to match spec
  phantomjs: service: remove unused import of signal
  phantomjs: add port information to WebDriverException
  Issues fixed (Github): 478, 612, 734, 780

  Selenium 2.46.0

  Firefox support up to 38
  BlackBerry browser support
  remove Presto-Opera support
  firefox extension extraction fixes
  process management fixes with phantomjs
  Comparing remote web element for equality does not require a remote command
  Issues Fixed: (gcode) 8493, 8521, 8498, 8274, 8497, 5923
  Issues Fixed: (github) 401

  Selenium 2.45.0

  Firefox support up to 35, support for native events up to 34.
  Make Opera driver support also the new Blink based Opera
  README: Fix the Yahoo example
  WebElement docstring fixes
  Add debugger_address option to the ChromeDriver options list to optionally instruct ChromeDriver to wait for the target devtools instance to be started at a given host:ip
  Set default value for PhantomJS process reference
  Allow setting of FileDetector for send_keys
  Pass info to TimeoutException in WebDriverWait
  Issues Fixed: 8065, 8310, 8539

  Selenium 2.44.0

  (previous release person forgot to add release notes! DAVID!)

  Selenium 2.43.0

  Expand WebElement.get_attribute API docs

  firefox may be installed without administrator privileges
  and therefore there may be no HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE entry. Issue #7784

  UnexpectedAlertPresentException should contain the alert text in python too. Issue #7745

  don't mutate the global 'ignored exceptions', take a copy of the globally specified ones, change the
  global to be a tuple instead. Issue #7725

  raise exception when the firefox binary isn't actually found, which usually implies the upgrade failed (on windows) Issue #6092 ,#6847

  Fixing NameError: global name 'options' is not defined.

  Remove unused import subprocess.PIPE

  Redirect Firefox output to /dev/null by default Fixes Issue #7677

  More flexible management of http timeouts in Selenium RC python client

  Generate Python API docs for selenium.webdriver.chrome.options. Fixes issue #7471

  Use 127.0.0.1 as localhost name resolving might fail on some systems

  Selenium 2.42.1

  Fixed Py3 issues
  Make firefox_binary.py and firefox_profile.py not executable
  Make exceptions Python 3 compatible

  Selenium 2.42

  Support for Firefox 29 Native Events
  "remote_url" and "remote_browser" parameters for "./go test_remote".
  missing init in new android module
  issue #7304 Fix memory leak caused by del in PhantomJS
  File upload using remotedriver on python3
  Updating xpi install to align with mozprofile
  command_executor should also support unicode strings as well.

  Selenium 2.41

  Support for Firefox 28
  deprecating switch_to_* in favour of driver.switch_to.*

  Selenium 2.40

  Support for Firefox 27
  Fixes related to http connection
  Fix for phantomjs running on windows #6736

  Selenium 2.39

  Support for Firefox 26

  Selenium 2.38.4

  keep-alive can't be used for phantomjs / IE, fix for that and tested for py3

  Selenium 2.38.3

  really supporting py3

  Selenium 2.38.2

  py3 support (once again)

  Selenium 2.38.1

  fix packaging problem where firefox/webdriver_prefs.json was missing

  Selenium 2.38

  Support for Firefox 25

  FirefoxProfile now using common webdriver.json instead of having our own copy in py

  behavior change to the preferences is that they now should be treated
  like raw types rather than strings and allow the json library to translate
  the types appropriated (e.g. True => true)

  Set proper 'Accept' request header so that Python bindings work with some old WebDriver implementations that reply 404 to requests with no 'Accept' set.

  handle redirect response explicitly (since switching to using keep-alive)

  phantomjs service needs to really kill the spawned process Issue #5921

  removing old api endpoints from command listing

  using keep-alive for remote connection

  adjusting phantomjs subprocess.Popen

  ActionsChains.send_keys should use /keys endpoint Issue #6348

  fix TypeError in chrome_options.extensions for Python3.x

  Other Bugs Fixed: #6531, #6513, #4569, #6454

  Selenium 2.37.2

  fix regression added with unicode fix
  Bug fix #6360

  Selenium 2.37.1

  fix find_elements on webelement using unicode locators and py 2.7

  Selenium 2.37

  repackage with fix for Firefox native events on Linux
  fix issue with unicode By locators w/ python 2.7 #6430

  Selenium 2.36

  Added Safari WebDriver. Fixes issue 5352.
  fix platform for safari caps
  Convert all offsets/coordinates/speeds into integers
  Fix drag and drop by offset behaviour
  Fix initialization of Proxy by capabilities when proxyType is set
  Enable SOCKS proxy support
  Validation of passed locator for find_element(s) methods #5690
  Adding support for /status, /sessions commands
  Doc fixes
  ability to set Chrome extensions by using base64 encoded strings #4013
  fix logic regarding Select.select_by_visible_text #3910
  Bugs fixed: #6165, #6231

  Selenium 2.35

  Remove duplicate 'get screenshot as file' methods. Add method 'get_screenshot_as_png'
  fixing UnicodeEncodeError on get attribute of webelement

  Selenium 2.34

  Corrected webdriverbackedselenium session handling. Fixes issue 4283
  Corrected use of basestring for python 3. Fixes issue 5924
  Support for Firefox 22
  Added support for logging from the browser
  corrected proxy handling on FirefoxProfile
  Corrected handling of chrome extensions. Fixes issue 5762

  Selenium 2.33

  getText() ignores elements in the
  Adding both official and informal string representations to Color object.
  Replace distutils.dir_util by shutil
  Allow finding firefox binary at ProgramFiles(x86) on windows(64 bit)
  Py3 compatible winreg import and content-type access

  Selenium 2.32

  Support for FF20 Native Events
  Python 3 support
  Misc Python 3 patches
  Allow easy FirefoxBinary subclassing

  Selenium 2.31

  Support for FF19 native events
  web element equality is now in conformance with other language bindings

  Selenium 2.30

  Allow env to be specified for the chromedriver service
  Allow log path to be specified for phantomjs driver service.
  Bug Fixes: 4608 4940 4974 5034 5075

  Selenium 2.29

  Allow subclassing of driver and have the ability to send_keys Issue 4877, 5017
  Simplifying save_screenshot and allow phantomjs to take screenshots

  Selenium 2.28

  "null" can now be passed to executeScript
  Add transparent and extended colour keywords to color support module. Fixes issue 4866

  Selenium 2.27

  Added support for phantomjs / ghostdriver
  Fix python client, avoid duplicate chrome option items after reusing options class. Fixes Issue 4744.
  adding colour support to Python. fixes issue 4623
  Adding log_path/service_log_path as named kwargs for chrome

  Selenium 2.26

  Added location_when_scrolled_into_view - Bug 4357
  Added new expected_conditions support module to be used with WebDriverWait

  Selenium 2.25

  Jython 2.7 Support - Bug 3988
  EventFiringWebDriver added to Support module - Bug 2267
  Added IEDriverServer logging that can be accessed via desired capabilities
  Fixed by data being passed into find_elements - bug 3735
  Removed deprecated ChromeDriver items around desiredcapabilities in favour of chrome options
  Added default values for a number of action_chains calls

  Selenium 2.24

  Removing the ctypes approach of invoking IEDriver, you will need to download the IEDriverServer from
  https://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list

  Selenium 2.23

  Support for FF13 native events

  Selenium 2.22

  Moving IEDriver to be able to use IEDriverServer

  Selenium 2.21.3

  Fix for File Upload to remote servers
  Better handling of typing in input=file. Bug 3831, 3736
  Better handling of unicode URLS Bug 3740

  Selenium 2.21.2

  Fix typing to file input when not using Selenium Server. Bug 3736

  Selenium 2.21.1

  focusmanager.testmode messes with native events, removing it.

  Selenium 2.21

  Local File upload capabilities for non-remote browser

  Adding maximize_window api call

  Updating default firefox profile to set focusmanager.testmode to true
  see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704583

  bugs fixed: 3506, 3528, 3607

  Selenium 2.20

  disable native events for FF on Mac by default
  fix webdriverwait to execute at least once when using 0 timeout
  Fixed Issue 3438

  Selenium 2.19

  WebDriverBackedSelenium is now available to all languages
  Addon installation fixes

  Selenium 2.18

  Proxy capabilities passing

  Selenium 2.17

  OperaDriver can now be invoked by webdriver.Opera()
  Support has been added for ChomeOptions. This deprecates support passing in DesiredCapabilities
  Proxy class to tell the browser a proxy is in use. Currently only for Firefox

  Selenium 2.16

  bug fixes

  Selenium 2.15

  bug fixes

  Selenium 2.14

  Fix for LD_PRELOAD being polluted by WebDriver
  Added Orientation API
  A fix for Error Handling

  Selenium 2.13

  Fixed switch_to_window so that it didn't crash Firefox Bug 2633
  Fixed Screenshot handling to work in all browsers. Bug 2829
  Force Firefox to the Foreground

  Selenium 2.12

  Added Select as a support package
  Added Beta window size / position api's
  Bug Fixes

  Selenium 2.11.0 2.11.1

  no changes just packaging

  Selenium 2.10

  "Choose which apps" dialog has been disabled
  Bug Fixes

  Selenium 2.9

  Bug Fixes
  Documentation

  Selenium 2.8

  Actions updates
  Bug Fixes

  Selenium 2.6

  Documentation fixes

  Selenium 2.5

  Fixed x64 IE Support
  Bug Fixes

  Selenium 2.4

  Bug Fixes
  x64 IE Support
  Added WebDriverWait as a support package

  Selenium 2.3

  Bug Fixes

  Selenium 2.2

  Ability to get screenshots from Exceptions if they are given
  Access to Remote StackTrace on error

  Selenium 2.1

  Bug Fixes

  Selenium 2

  Removed toggle() and select()

  Selenium 2 RC 3

  Added Opera to Desired Capabilities
  Removed deprecrated methods
  Deprecated toggle() and select() methods. This will be removed in the next release

  Selenium 2 Beta 4

  Fix for using existing Firefox Profiles
  Alerts Support in IE
  Fix to dictionary returned from size
  Deprecated value property. Use the get_attribute("value") method
  Deprecated get_page_source method. Use page_source property
  Deprecated get_current_window_handle. Use current_window_handle property
  Deprecated get_window_handles. Use window_handles property
  Ability to install extensions into profiles
  Added Location to the WebElement
  ChromeDriver rewritten to use new built in mechanism
  Added Advanced User Interaction API. Only Available for HTMLUnit at the moment
  Profiles now delete their temp folders when driver.quit() is called

  Selenium 2 Beta 3

  Accept Untrusted Certificates in Firefox
  Fixed Screenshots
  Added DesiredCapabilities to simplify choosing Drivers
  Fixed Firefox Profile creation
  Added Firefox 4 support
  DocStrings Improvements

  Selenium 2 Beta 2

  New bindings landed. Change webdriver namespace to "selenium.webdriver"
  Ability to move to default content
  Implicit Waits
  Change the API to use properties instead of get_x
  Changed the Element Finding to match other languages
  Added ability to execute asynchronous scripts from the driver
  Ability to get rendered element size
  Ability to get CSS Value on a webelement
  Corrected Element finding from the element
  Alert and Prompt handling
  Improved IEDriver
  Basic Authentication support for Selenium 2
  Ability to have multiple Firefox instances