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website_and_docs/content/blog/2026/selenium-4-47-released.md

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+---
+title: "Selenium 4.47 Released!"
+linkTitle: "Selenium 4.47 Released!"
+date: 2026-08-10
+tags: [ "selenium" ]
+categories: [ "releases" ]
+author: Diego Molina [@diemol](https://www.diemol.com)
+images:
+  - "/images/blog/2026/selenium_4.47.jpg"
+description: >
+  Today we're happy to announce that Selenium 4.47 has been released!
+---
+
+We’re excited to announce the release of **Selenium 4.47** for JavaScript, Ruby, Python, .NET, Java
+and the Grid! 🎉
+
+Links to all assets can be found on our [downloads page][downloads].
+
+
+---
+
+# Selenium 4.47 Released
+
+## ✨ Highlights
+
+- **BiDi** Continued unifying the BiDi protocol layer across bindings around the shared,
+  binding-neutral CDDL-derived schema — Ruby now generates its BiDi domain type accessors, union
+  variant factories, and typed errors from it, matching JavaScript's earlier adoption.
+- **[Java]** Removed the redundant BiDi subscription scope tracking and fixed BiDi not
+  initializing for `RemoteWebDriver` built via the builder.
+- **[.NET]** BiDi transport factories are now composable, the optional command timeout was
+  removed from command options, and spurious warnings when there are no BiDi subscribers are
+  gone.
+- **[.NET][Python][Ruby]** Firefox now blocks CDP access, reinforcing BiDi as the standard
+  cross-browser protocol.
+- **[Grid]** Dynamic Grid videos are now consistently stored in a per-session subfolder via
+  `SE_VIDEO_SESSION_SUBFOLDER`, including on Kubernetes, removing the previous pod-wait and
+  relocation logic.
+- **[Java]** Fixed `By.className()`/`By.id()` misescaping non-ASCII leading digits, and a
+  `By.name()` double `String.format` bug on names containing `%`.
+- **[Rust]** Selenium Manager fixes: honors `--browser-version` for Electron driver resolution,
+  locates Chrome and Edge in known install directories, and no longer caches an empty driver
+  version.
+
+---
+
+## 📦 Notable Changes
+
+### Java
+- Removed the redundant BiDi subscription scope tracking, and fixed BiDi not initializing for
+  `RemoteWebDriver` built via the builder.
+- Fixed `By.className()`/`By.id()` misescaping non-ASCII leading digits, and a `By.name()` double
+  `String.format` bug on names containing `%`.
+- Added regression coverage for relative locators on collapsed table borders.
+- Removed deprecated FTP proxy support and deprecated invalid Firefox profile code (shared with
+  JavaScript, Ruby, and .NET).
+
+### Python
+- Blocked CDP access with Firefox (shared with .NET and Ruby).
+- Fixed `no_proxy` matching so empty entries and substrings no longer bypass the proxy.
+- `find_element`/`find_elements` type hints now accept `By`.
+- Ensured driver service subprocess resources are cleaned up.
+- Fixed the default `command_executor` URL in the `RemoteWebDriver` docstring.
+
+### Ruby
+- Generated the BiDi domain type accessors, union variant factories, and typed WebDriver errors
+  from the shared binding-neutral schema.
+- Constructed the BiDi transport inside the domain from a connection, and routed BiDiBridge
+  navigation through the generated `Protocol::BrowsingContext`.
+- Added inbound/outbound validation for BiDi fields, including nullable-constant params, ref
+  fields, and float/enum type fidelity.
+- Added support for WebDriver BiDi on Safari Preview, moving `#bidi` onto `Driver`.
+- Added a `browser_family` test guard, and support for custom vendor-specific capabilities in
+  options classes.
+
+### .NET
+- Made BiDi transport factories composable.
+- Removed the optional command timeout from command options, and stopped warning when there are
+  no BiDi subscribers.
+- Added support for `SE_*DRIVER` environment variables to set driver locations.
+- Blocked CDP access with Firefox (shared with Python and Ruby).
+
+### Grid
+- Store Dynamic Grid videos in a per-session subfolder via `SE_VIDEO_SESSION_SUBFOLDER`,
+  including on Kubernetes, removing the previous pod-wait and relocation logic.
+- Inherited the Node Pod container's `securityContext` for Dynamic Grid on Kubernetes.
+- Honored client-advertised `se:remoteUrl` for reachable BiDi/CDP/VNC URLs.
+
+### Build & Infra
+- Continued the BiDi schema unification: merged vendor CDDL files into the shared schema, derived
+  per-type inbound/outbound directionality, and cleaned up schema generation.
+- Published a Selenium 5 release charter and an ADR documenting BiDi implementation boundaries.
+- Generated a cross-platform Selenium Manager SBOM and NOTICE, bundled into each package.
+- Bumped Rust build tooling (`@llvm`, `rules_rs`, `rules_ruby`) and updated Node.js versioning for
+  testing and publishing.
+
+---
+
+### 🐳 Docker Selenium
+
+- Docker: Support Google Chrome images for linux/arm64 (#3187)
+- [build] Keep Chrome dev/beta images on linux/amd64 only, resolve the latest rclone tag (#3188)
+- [video] Fall back to SE_NODE_CONTAINER_NAME for the per-session subfolder (#3194)
+- K8s: Implement KEDA external scaler and use it as default (#3169)
+- K8s: Gate distributed component replicas on external datastore (#3175)
+- [See all changes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/releases)
+
+<br>
+
+We thank all our contributors for their incredible efforts in making Selenium better with every
+release. ❤️
+
+For a detailed look at all changes, check out
+the [release notes](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/tag/selenium-4.47.0).
+
+<br>
+
+## Contributors
+
+**Special shout-out to everyone who helped the Selenium Team get this release out!**
+
+### [Selenium](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium)
+
+<div class="d-flex justify-content-center">
+  <div class="col-11 p-4 bg-transparent">
+    <div class="row justify-content-center">
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+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+### [Selenium Docs & Website](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/seleniumhq.github.io)
+
+<div class="row justify-content-center">
+  <div class="col-11 p-4 bg-transparent">
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+{{< gh-user "https://api.github.com/users/sadik312" >}}
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+### [Selenium Team Members][team]
+
+**Thanks as well to all the team members who contributed to this release:**
+
+<div class="row justify-content-center">
+  <div class="col-11 p-4 bg-transparent">
+    <div class="row justify-content-center">
+{{< gh-user "https://api.github.com/users/alaahong" >}}
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+{{< gh-user "https://api.github.com/users/titusfortner" >}}
+{{< gh-user "https://api.github.com/users/VietND96" >}}
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+
+Stay tuned for updates by following SeleniumHQ on:
+
+- [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@seleniumHQ@fosstodon.org)
+- [BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/seleniumconf.bsky.social)
+- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/selenium/)
+- [Selenium Community YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@SeleniumHQProject/streams)
+- [X (Formerly Twitter)](https://twitter.com/seleniumhq)
+
+Happy automating!
+
+[downloads]: /downloads
+
+[bindings]: /downloads#bindings
+
+[team]: /project/structure
+
+[BiDi]: https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi

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           Latest stable version
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+          <a href="https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/download/selenium-4.47.0/selenium-server-4.47.0.jar">4.47.0</a>
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           To use the Selenium Server in a Grid configuration, see the
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           Stable:
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-            4.46.0 (July 11, 2026)
+            4.47.0 (August 10, 2026)
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           Stable:
-          <a href="https://rubygems.org/gems/selenium-webdriver/versions/4.46.0" class="card-link">
-              4.46.0 (July 11, 2026)
+          <a href="https://rubygems.org/gems/selenium-webdriver/versions/4.47.0" class="card-link">
+              4.47.0 (August 10, 2026)
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           Stable:
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-              4.46.0 (July 11, 2026)
+          <a href="https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/download/selenium-4.47.0/selenium-java-4.47.0.zip" class="card-link">
+              4.47.0 (August 10, 2026)
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           Stable:
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-              4.46.0 (July 11, 2026)
+              4.47.0 (August 10, 2026)
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           Stable:
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-              4.46.0 (July 11, 2026)
+              4.47.0 (August 10, 2026)
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