SeleniumLibrary is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Selenium tool internally. SeleniumLibrary 6.1.1 is a hotfix release with one bug fix - the incompatablitilty with Selenium v4.10.0+. More information is given below.
If you have pip installed, just run
pip install --upgrade robotframework-seleniumlibrary
to install the latest available release or use
pip install robotframework-seleniumlibrary==6.1.1
to install exactly this version. Alternatively you can download the source distribution from PyPI and install it manually.
SeleniumLibrary 6.1.1 was released on Friday August 4, 2023. SeleniumLibrary supports Python 3.7+, Selenium 4.3.0 or higher and Robot Framework 4.1.3 or higher.
Update SeleniumLibrary to be compatable with Selenium v4.10.0 (#1836, rc 1)
Selenium v4.10.0 removed code that was labeled as deprected which we did not catch before the release. As such it broke code particular around how the Open Browser keyword calls into selenium. This release is a targeted change to resolve that conflict. In particular if one is using a few particular arguments with the
Open Browser
keyword then it is recommended you verify you get the same results as before. Some of these you should not need to make any changes as we make those internally. But others we completely removed and you with need to update to get the same functionality. Let me walk through those argument now ..If you use the
service_log_path
and/orexecutable_path
argument, these are now passed different to the webdriver creation. We have strong confidence this was done properly but still want to be transparent a change was made there. If you find something amiss please open a support ticket.If you use Firefox and the
ff_profile_dir
argument, this is now attached first to theoptions
structure and passed along to the webdriver creation via options. Again for most users you should not see any issues. If, by chance, you are already setting the profile via options (ieOpen Browser None Firefox options=profile=/path/to/profile/dir
) and through theff_profile_dir
then you will get unexpected operation. I suspect the ff_profile_dir will overwride the other; but that is just a guess. Don't try to set it in two places at once. I recognize the change of profile into the options strucutre complicates the argumrnt structure here (for example what is you want to pass a profile object?). It is not my intention nor do I even attempt to address that here. If you do use firefox profiles and have some thoughts on how we can improve this, please reach out.If you use
desired_capabilities
they are deprecated and removed completey by Selenium. SeleniumLibrary jsut ignores that you passed them in. We will, most likely in the next release jsut remove that argument, but I wanted to ease you into this as best as I could. This is not the place for a tutorial on what has been the ay to do this but you can find plenty about that on either Selenium Grid documentation or vendors like SauceLabs or BrowserStack.Finally if you do do anything beyond the basic
Open Browser someUrl someBrowser
it would be worthwhile that with this release you get similar expected results as with the previos 6.1.0 release. If you see some browser configuration settings that are not and can prove this release has something in error please raise a ticket.
ID | Type | Priority | Summary | Added |
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#1836 | bug | critical | Update SeleniumLibrary to be compatable with Selenium v4.10.0 | rc�1 |
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