Next official Geb release and requirements

[RainerPodlas]

Hi all,
we are considering to use Geb in the near future for testing our Web frontends, and have a few questions about Geb releases:

• how regular are official releases (latest 7.0 was already more than 2 years ago)
• how about compatibility with newer Selenium or Groovy versions (what are the required versions of both in current Geb 7.0)
• what can we expect from upcoming Geb 8.0 (when will it be released, which Selenium/Groovy will be required)

Thank you very much!
All the best, Rainer

[jonnybot0]

Hey! So, we are aiming to get to a more regular release cadence, and expect to do another major release in the next few months to cover some major updates. We don't have a hard date, as we're all volunteers here, but sooner rather than later. As an incubating subproject of Apache Groovy, we'll be approving releases through the distribution lists as well, so there should be mailing list updates when it's coming.

You can use the 7.0 Geb release alongside more recent versions of Groovy and Selenium already, so feel free to update those independently. The specifics will depend on your build system (maven, gradle, ant, etc.). In Gradle, it should be as simple as specifying a different version of Selenium in your build file. For example:

dependencies {
    testImplementation "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-chrome-driver:4.33.0"
    testImplementation "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-support:4.33.0"
    testImplementation "org.gebish:geb-spock:7.0"
}

Maven and ant configurations should be similar.

[RainerPodlas]

Thank you very much for your quick response, Jonny!
We are looking forward to giving it a try :-)
One more quick question: Where can we find a (sort of) compatibility matrix of Geb and Selenium/Groovy versions? E.g. can we use Geb 7.0 with a Groovy 3.x (we are currently using 3.0.21, but plan to update anyway)?
All the best, Rainer

[jonnybot0]

There's no documented compatibility matrix, but 7.0 did explicitly update to Groovy 4. I would assume 7.0 didn't work with Groovy 3.x based on that.

Selenium you can generally change out a little more freely within the same major version. Selenium 4.x should work alongside Geb 7.0, even if you're using a later version than the source was built against. I know that at my workplace we updated so that we could start using Selenium Manager instead of the other webdriver manager solution we had, and we didn't have to update Geb to do it.

[RainerPodlas]

Thank you very much. That helps! 👍 All the best, Rainer