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webdriver-manager 4.1.0

This release focuses on stability, platform compatibility, and CI reliability across Chrome/Chromium, Firefox, Edge, and Opera flows.

Highlights

Chrome / Chromium

  • Improved Chrome for Testing (CfT) resolution and fallback behavior.
  • Added robust handling for missing exact build metadata (fallback to milestone-level metadata).
  • Added safer metadata parsing paths and improved error messages.
  • Improved Windows platform selection: prefer win64 on 64-bit hosts with safe fallback to win32 when needed.

Firefox

  • Fixed Linux ARM64 (aarch64) mapping to use correct linux-aarch64 GeckoDriver artifacts.
  • Improved architecture detection stability for ARM/Linux environments.

Edge

  • Updated Edge driver source endpoint and improved OS/platform mapping behavior.

Opera

  • Fixed install flow when cache returns a direct binary path (prevents NotADirectoryError).
  • Improved cache/extraction resilience for file-vs-directory conflicts in extracted archives.

Cache / Concurrency / Download Stability

  • Reduced repeated metadata/network lookups by caching resolved driver version internally.
  • Added inter-process locking and post-lock cache recheck to prevent concurrent install races.
  • Improved extraction robustness in concurrent/busy-file scenarios.
  • Improved cache path fallback behavior for read-only/invalid HOME environments (Docker/serverless/PyInstaller-related cases).

Logger

  • set_logger() now accepts logger-like objects exposing log(level, message) (not only logging.Logger).

Docs

  • Clarified package/import naming (webdriver-manager vs webdriver_manager).
  • Clarified environment scope (desktop browser runtime vs Android/PyDroid).
  • Added guidance for Docker/CI cache path usage.

CI / Tooling

  • Updated workflows and expanded compatibility checks.
  • Added non-blocking future-python coverage jobs.
  • Modernized build flow usage in workflows.

Notes

If you are upgrading from older 4.0.x setups, we strongly recommend clearing stale .wdm cache in CI/containerized environments to avoid legacy artifact/path conflicts.

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