Selenium 2.53.0 released

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

This release is the FINAL 2.X release.

A big difference for maven users with 2.53 compared to previous
versions is that HtmlUnitDriver is now in a separate package and the
version mirrors HtmlUnit's version number.
So, to use the latest HtmlUnitDriver you need to additionally add this
to your maven dependencies:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.20</version>
</dependency>

(note that 2.20.0 is 'old', we might be changing this package
structure in the future...)


The next set of releases will be 3.0-betaX (followed by 3.0-rcX then
a 3.0.0 release).

3.X is not going to contain any Selenium RC classes.

If you only use WebDriver, you should have no issues upgrading to 3.X.
If you still use RC or WebDriverBackedSelenium, then you can include
the 2.53.0 'leg-rc' jar -
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-leg-rc/2.53.0/selenium-leg-rc-2.53.0.jar

maven users will add this dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-leg-rc</artifactId>
<version>2.53.0</version>
</dependency>

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

Thomas,

I understand it may seem like a breaking change, but really it wasn't. No Java API changed, only the maven distribution of artifacts changed, it is still included in the standalone-server. And sorry if I wrote the wrong artifactId at the time of the email, I didn't double check that.

Young,

3.0 doesn't / shouldn't have anything really "new". It's mainly removing the Selenium RC bits from the library (although not the Java Interfaces, just mainly the RC server). 3.0 is coming, but we're working through getting a beta ready.

One thing of note is that it will be requiring Java 8.

-Luke