Release Notes

Release information for different distributions of Selenium

Selenium 0.6.0

September 24, 2005

pattern-matching: Support for regular-expression and exact matching. Allow patterns to be used to match alert and confirmation messages.
support for Javascript prompts: Capture and verify prompt-messages, set up return values.
fireEvent command: Allows arbitrary events to be raised.
logging: New "pop up" log window.
error-handling: Better handling and reporting of internal errors.
bug-fixes: Various defects fixed.

June 19, 2005

"waitForValue" command: Tells Selenium to wait until an input element has a specified value.
"close" command: Closes an open popup window
DOM Viewer: Now works in IE, show/hide works in all browsers
Option locators: Can now select options based on index, value or id, as well as label
verifyLocation: Now handles querystring in the url
selectWindow: Can now select windows that aren't assigned to a global variable
TestRunner hanging: Fixed problem found in some IE installations

May 20, 2005

This release breaks backward compatibility in 3 ways:

The 'click' command now requires the 'AndWait' suffix in order to wait for a page to reload. The 'nowait' parameter is no longer supported.
The previously undocumented 'link:' locator is now specified as 'link=the link text'
The previously undocumented 'setVariable' command has been renamed to 'store', with slightly different semantics.

Safari support: Most Selenium features now work in Safari!
Click command doesn't wait: Use 'clickAndWait' to wait for a page reload
Locator specificity: Can use prefixes ('id=', 'xpath=' etc) to specify exactly which locator strategy to use.
Better XPath support: Works in Konqueror, and is faster on other platforms.
Javascript parameters: All parameters can now take a javascript{...} syntax, constructing the parameter value from javascript.
Handle 'AndWait' commands in popup windows: This bug has been fixed
Bug fixes: Many broken things fixed.

May 2, 2005

Jan 20, 2005