Strange version number on downloads site

[swr...@gmail.com]

It seems that the downloads site has a folder for version 70.x that some helper tools are picking up on as the latest version, and the directory structure is different. See: https://github.com/flavorjones/chromedriver-helper/issues/62

[John Chen]

We're running some experiments on future release model of ChromeDriver. To avoid picking up these experiment code, it is recommended that tools should rely on https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE to pick up the latest version of ChromeDriver, instead of scanning the directories.

Thanks,

John

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:27 PM <swr...@gmail.com> wrote:

It seems that the downloads site has a folder for version 70.x that some helper tools are picking up on as the latest version, and the directory structure is different. See: https://github.com/flavorjones/chromedriver-helper/issues/62

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[jonath...@gmail.com]

Having the same issue even using the latest release, when this is supposed to finish?

Thanks

[John Chen]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:39 AM <jonath...@gmail.com> wrote:

Having the same issue even using the latest release, when this is supposed to finish? 

Could you explain? LATEST_RELEASE should still contain 2.42. Are you experiencing issues using version 2.42? Could you be specific what issues are you having?

Thanks,

John

[jonath...@gmail.com]

Using tag LATEST_RELEASE for some reason gets me to the 70.x.
Will try using 2.42 hard-coded.
Are these experiments going to end soon anyway?

Thanks

[John Chen]

I just double checked that https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE contains 2.42. Please make sure your app is correctly fetching it.

The experiment is part of the work to redesign the versioning model of ChromeDriver, so please don't depend on it going away soon. We will be sending out more information about this in the near future. For reliable operation, apps should use https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE to determine the latest ChromeDriver version to download. Manual downloads should use http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads as the starting point.

Thanks,

John

[jonath...@gmail.com]

Then why I keep getting this when running locally or in VM:

18-09-20 04:50:51 INFO Reflections:229 - Reflections took 5173 ms to scan 148 urls, producing 11962 keys and 63032 values

2018-09-20 04:50:53 INFO BrowserManager:563 - Reading https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/ to seek [chromedriver]

2018-09-20 04:50:54 INFO BrowserManager:498 - Latest version of [chromedriver] is 70.0.3538.16

[jonath...@gmail.com]

I also check the xml of the url u wrote and found this:

<Contents>
<Key>LATEST_RELEASE</Key>
<Generation>1536873102217209</Generation>
<MetaGeneration>1</MetaGeneration>
<LastModified>2018-09-13T21:11:42.214Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"e21d2ce379a925d2d818529e15ee4c21"</ETag>
<Size>4</Size>
</Contents>
<Contents>
<Key>LATEST_RELEASE_70.0.3538</Key>
<Generation>1537397668620873</Generation>
<MetaGeneration>1</MetaGeneration>
<LastModified>2018-09-19T22:54:28.620Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"386e96d2c8c20a9992f411e4f1a24133"</ETag>
<Size>12</Size>

[John Chen]

The right URL to retrieve the current ChromeDriver version is https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE. Currently, it should return 2.42.