From e4afba2f51b522f88828ae4ba838f0945f2f7f56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corey Goldberg <1113081+cgoldberg@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 15:14:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Blog post announcing EOL for Python 3.9 --- .../content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md diff --git a/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md b/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..cc92ecac443 --- /dev/null +++ b/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +title: "Ending Support for Python 3.9" +linkTitle: "Ending Support for Python 3.9" +date: 2025-10-08 +tags: ["selenium", "python", "chrome", "telemetry"] +categories: ["releases"] +author: Corey Goldberg ([@cgoldberg](https://cgoldberg.github.io)) +description: > + Selenium is ending support for Python 3.9 in the Python WebDriver language bindings +--- + +In the upcoming 4.37 release, Selenium will no longer support Python 3.9 in the Python WebDriver language bindings. To install the [selenium package](https://pypi.org/project/selenium), you will need Python 3.10+. + +Selenium will continue to support all versions of Python that are actively receiving bugfix and security updates from the Python core maintainers. The end-of-life for each major Python version is 5 years after its first release. For more information on supported Python versions, see the [Python Developer's Guide](https://devguide.python.org/versions/#supported-versions). From 6f8396ef62f61878b0ab65ba12521bbc529ee6af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corey Goldberg <1113081+cgoldberg@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 15:34:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Removed incorrect metadata tags --- website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md b/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md index cc92ecac443..c21c5ea91dc 100644 --- a/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md +++ b/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: "Ending Support for Python 3.9" linkTitle: "Ending Support for Python 3.9" date: 2025-10-08 -tags: ["selenium", "python", "chrome", "telemetry"] +tags: ["selenium", "python"] categories: ["releases"] author: Corey Goldberg ([@cgoldberg](https://cgoldberg.github.io)) description: > From 348887827550e3b5be3e036480e64fd5a7afed93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corey Goldberg <1113081+cgoldberg@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 08:07:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Fixed wording --- website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md b/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md index c21c5ea91dc..e7f0c6732ef 100644 --- a/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md +++ b/website_and_docs/content/blog/2025/python3.9-eol.md @@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ description: > Selenium is ending support for Python 3.9 in the Python WebDriver language bindings --- -In the upcoming 4.37 release, Selenium will no longer support Python 3.9 in the Python WebDriver language bindings. To install the [selenium package](https://pypi.org/project/selenium), you will need Python 3.10+. +From the upcoming 4.37 release, Selenium will no longer support Python 3.9 in the Python WebDriver language bindings. To install the [selenium package](https://pypi.org/project/selenium), you will need Python 3.10+. Selenium will continue to support all versions of Python that are actively receiving bugfix and security updates from the Python core maintainers. The end-of-life for each major Python version is 5 years after its first release. For more information on supported Python versions, see the [Python Developer's Guide](https://devguide.python.org/versions/#supported-versions).