How to Upgrade Maven and Gradle Projects to Selenium 4 (Alpha)

Selenium 4 alpha‑7 is now available for download. The official Selenium website provides language‑specific binaries:

Java:

https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/4.0-alpha-7/selenium-java-4.0.0-alpha-7.zip

Python: https://pypi.org/project/selenium/4.0.0.a7/ C#:

https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/package/Selenium.WebDriver/4.0.0-alpha07

Ruby:

https://rubygems.org/gems/selenium-webdriver/versions/4.0.0.alpha7

Maven upgrade : Change the Selenium version in pom.xml to 4.0.0-alpha-7. Add the selenium-chrome-driver and selenium-remote-driver artifacts if needed.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
  <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
  <version>4.0.0-alpha-7</version>
</dependency>

Gradle upgrade : Add the following dependencies to build.gradle (Groovy DSL):

// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java
implementation group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', name: 'selenium-java', version: '4.0.0-alpha-7'
implementation group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', name: 'selenium-chrome-driver', version: '4.0.0-alpha-7'
implementation group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', name: 'selenium-remote-driver', version: '4.0.0-alpha-7'
implementation group: 'org.testng', name: 'testng', version: '6.14.3'

test {
  useTestNG()
}

Demo build.gradle showing a complete configuration:

plugins {
  id 'java'
}

group = 'org.demo'
version = '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
  compile group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', name: 'selenium-java', version: '4.0.0-alpha-7'
  compile group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', name: 'selenium-chrome-driver', version: '4.0.0-alpha-7'
  compile group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', name: 'selenium-remote-driver', version: '4.0.0-alpha-7'
  compile group: 'org.testng', name: 'testng', version: '6.14.3'
}

test {
  useTestNG()
}

Selenium 4 introduces new capabilities such as enhanced locators, Chrome DevTools integration, and an improved Selenium Grid, making the upgrade worthwhile. The same process applies to other supported languages (Python, C#, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript), allowing developers to quickly adopt the latest features.