Selenium 4.1 and Spring boot Web driver version issue

Question

I tried to migrate gradle project with spring boot from selenium 3 to selenium 4
(implementation 'org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:4.1.1')
But chrome, firefox and edge web drivers remains from selenium version 3 (org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-chrome-driver:3.141.59). If I remove spring boot dependency from project, they updates to 4.1.1

Currently using gradle version "7.3.3".
Spring boot "2.6.3".
Spring dependency management "1.0.11.RELEASE".

Any ideas why this happens, I hoped that dependency hell dissapeared with spring boot creation)

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I have the same promble, I found in spring-boot-starter-parent, there is a spring-boot-dependencies in ~/.m2/repository/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-dependencies/2.6.3/spring-boot-dependencies-2.6.3.pom, which declared <selenium.version>3.141.59</selenium.version> in properties, so you can try add

<properties>
    <selenium.version>4.1.2</selenium.version>
</properties>

in your project pom.xml.