Selenium Remote Control

A new PHP driver lets you write Selenium RC tests in PHP was added. The long broken Firefox 2 browser launcher was fixed. Launch/kill of IE7 on Vista in Protected mode with UAC enabled was implemented. A new "captureScreenshot" command lets you capture PNG screenshots and save them to disk. A new "getXpathCount" command tells you how many elements match a given XPath expression. A new "addLocationStrategy" command lets you define new ways to locate elements on the page. Stability was vastly improved in proxy injection mode. Logging was totally revamped. Small API changes were made.

This version includes a bunch of new features,
including frame support, multiWindow support (for
testing apps that don't like to run in a
subframe), a Konqueror browser launcher, new
cookie-management actions, and support for Firefox
2.0 and IE7. It also includes experimental support
for SSL directly in the Selenium proxy and a new
highly experimental "proxy injection" mode that
gives more control over the application under
testing by modifying it in the HTTP proxy.

Numerous significant bugfixes and enhancements
were made. New features include a Perl RC Client
Driver, a translator from Selenium Core Selenese
HTML test tables into Java JUnit tests and Opera
8.54 support. Experimental support was also added
for new browser launchers, "*chrome" and "*iehta",
which may one day eliminate the need for the
Selenium Server proxy altogether, by running the
Selenium JavaScript with elevated security
privileges.