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Migrating to Selenium selenium-4.44.0

Version selenium-4.44.0 introduces 2 breaking changes. This guide details how to update your code.

Released: 5/12/2026

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Breaking Changes
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Migration Steps
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Affected Symbols

⚠️ Check Your Code

If you use any of these symbols, you need to read this guide:

HttpClientChromiumDriver.capabilitiesInput.Type(string)UnhandledPromptBehavior

Breaking Changes

●Issue #1

[dotnet] Support `UnhandledPromptBehavior` option as string and map (breaking change)

✓Solution

Review usage of `UnhandledPromptBehavior` option in .NET bindings; it now supports string and map representations.

●Issue #2

[java] remove field `ChromiumDriver.capabilities`

✓Solution

Code relying on direct access to the private/protected `ChromiumDriver.capabilities` field must be updated to use public APIs.

Migration Steps

  1. 1
    Review usage of `UnhandledPromptBehavior` option in .NET bindings; it now supports string and map representations.
  2. 2
    Update Java code that directly accesses the `ChromiumDriver.capabilities` field.

Release Summary

This release focuses heavily on internal tooling improvements, Bidi specification alignment across languages (.NET, Python), and bug fixes, including updates to dependency management and build processes.

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