downloaded chromedriver isn't the latest version

[alex-popov-tech]

Hi guys. I'm doint webdriver-manager update and see that downloaded version of chromedriver on my macos is 2_46, whenever 73 and 74 already available - http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads, and it forces me to manually download latest binary and update it :(

[bstiles13]

I would also like to know if webdriver-manager 12.1.1 will support chromedriver 73+ or if an update to 13.0.0 is required

[cnishina]

Redirect to full discussion here: angular/protractor#5225

I have backward compatibility support for Protractor 5.4.2 here: #372.

From Protractor's point of view this isn't a major version bump BUT webdriver-manager 13 removes mobile support for appium and android sdk downloads so I'm not sure how to properly semver Protractor. Should this be 5.5?

[alex-popov-tech]

@cnishina I didn't get it...w-m is a standalone module, which can be downloaded and used separately from protractor, how its related to the fact it does not download latest chrome binaries?

[vadeneev]

webdriver manager 13.0.0 works with latest naming of chrome drivers
protractor 5.4.2 shipped with 12.1.1 - probably 12.1.1 doesn't support new naming (latest is 2.46)

[alex-popov-tech]

On npm there is 12.1.2, should I use webdriver-manager from a git release instead?

[cnishina]

I would hold off for now. I'm going to talk to Julie and Michael what we should do next.

[ksherard]

Now it's downloading the driver for chrome 75(chromedriver_75.0.3770.8.zip), which seems to be unreleased/beta channel.

According this bug, we can't override to the correct version:
#376 (comment)

bash-3.2$ webdriver-manager
webdriver-manager: using local installed version 12.1.3

[cnishina]

I just can't win today. I'm going to work on this tomorrow. Elevating this to P0. This needs to be fixed for 12.