Release Release 8.0.0 · webdriverio/driver

8.0.0 (2026-10-09)

For WebdriverIO 10; WebdriverIO 9 keeps using the previous majors. Read the upgrade note before you upgrade.

Node.js 22.19.0 or newer (#17)
@wdio/logger is a peer dependency (^9.29.1 || ^10.0.0), so the driver logs into WebdriverIO's log file. With Yarn and without WebdriverIO, add @wdio/logger yourself (#21)
require('edgedriver') returns every export, with CommonJS types (#21)
HTTPS_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY and NO_PROXY now apply to downloads; a dispatcher set with undici's setGlobalDispatcher wins over them (#29) (#36)
start() resolves to a ChildProcess (it was typed ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams) (#33)
The CLI exits with code 1 when a signal kills the driver; it exited with 0 (#33)
findEdgePath() on Windows returns undefined when Edge is not installed; it threw (#30)

@wdio/logger as a peer dependency, so the driver logs into WebdriverIO's log file; require() returns every export (#21) (32d065e)
require Node.js 22.19.0 or newer; build with TypeScript 7 and test with Vitest 5 (#17) (5f1f0ff)

CDN URLs with credentials; complete the v8 upgrade docs (#35) (695826d)
driver processes, CLI exit codes, version lookups; spawnOpts everywhere (#33) (daa94f1)
drop edge-paths, whose Windows fallback threw instead of returning undefined (#30) (1d92fb1)
find Edge and its version without a shell (#32) (5fe9ded)
honor HTTPS_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY and NO_PROXY when downloading drivers (#29) (02f2161)
run the auto-install postinstall on Windows too (#39) (511f318)
ship src so the source maps resolve (#37) (d1702d5)
use a dispatcher set with setGlobalDispatcher for driver downloads (#36) (d5692e6)

deps: Bump the minor-deps-updates-main group across 1 directory with 2 updates (#20) (86c0f6a)
deps: Bump the minor-deps-updates-main group with 2 updates (#18) (6981431)