Versions of Selenium
The different versions of Selenium are as follows-
| Selenium 1(Selenium RC) | Selenium 2 (Selenium Web-Driver) | Selenium 3 |
| The first version of Selenium is Selenium 1, which includes Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, and Selenium Grid. | The second version is Selenium 2, which includes Selenium IDE, Selenium Web -Driver 2.x, Selenium RC, and Selenium Grid. | The Third version is Selenium 3, which includes Selenium IDE, Selenium Web-Driver 3.x, and Selenium Grid. |
| These are the first and oldest versions of Selenium. | Selenium 3 is the Latest version of Selenium. | |
| Selenium -1 introduced in 2006. | Selenium-2 introduced into the market in 2011. | Selenium-3 got released in 2016. |
| In selenium 3, the support of Selenium-RC is removed. |
These are the main core languages which are most commonly used in projects-
| Languages | Client Version |
| Java | 3.141.59 |
| C# | 3.14.0 |
| Python | 3.14.0 |
| Ruby | 3.14.0 |
Latest Release of Selenium Components:
| Selenium Components | Description | Latest Version |
| Selenium Standalone Server | The Selenium stand-alone Server is needed to run remote Selenium Web-Driver. Directly Selenium 3.X is no longer capable of running Selenium RC. | Latest version 3.141.59 |
| The Internet Explorer Driver Server | The internet explorer driver required a server if you want to make use of the latest features of the Web-Driver Internet Explorer-Driver. | Latest version 3.14.0 |
| Selenium Client & Web-Driver | Selenium client & web-driver interact with the Selenium Server (Selenium RC, Selenium Remote Web Driver) or create local Selenium Web Driver scripts. | These languages include both 1.x and 2.x style clients. Latest Version of Web-Driver-3.141.0 |
| Selenium-IDE | It is a Firefox and chrome plug-in which records and plays back the user interactions with the browser. | Latest version 2.9.1 |