- Added security hardening: Selenium Manager now validates TLS certificates, offers an opt‑in insecure mode, raises on unverified Grid certificates, and updates trust roots to block compromised eMudhra keys.
- Introduced new features and deprecations: support for installing web extensions via the driver, deprecation of ignoring Grid HTTPS certificates, and expanded BiDi testing and schema validation.
- Implemented numerous bug fixes and build improvements, including parallel unit test execution, removal of unused Maven artifacts, and updates to language bindings such as Python cookie handling per RFC 6265.
