- Added extensive Selenium Manager enhancements, including a Rust library crate, beta/dev/canary version detection, multiple browser name support, and optional CLI arguments;
- Improved Java driver services with configurable log levels, appendLog for msedgedriver, ability to ignore chromedriver build checks, timestamp formatting, and removal of several deprecated capabilities;
- Extended BiDi functionality with BrowsingContext commands, LogInspector filtering and renaming, and updated Grid UI dependencies with node file‑download support
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Added a new transport layer for generated BiDi modules and improved BiDi schema fidelity, including extensible types and validation of primitives.