Update dependency webdriver-manager to v4.1.1

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
webdriver-manager	4.0.2 → 4.1.1

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Release Notes

SergeyPirogov/webdriver_manager (webdriver-manager)

v4.1.1

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Packaging

• Fixed package metadata shown on PyPI.
• Added Python version classifiers for currently supported Python versions.
• Removed obsolete universal wheel metadata.
• Ensured release metadata better reflects the current Python support policy.

Docs

• Fixed PyPI badge package name in README.
• Updated README badges to use the published package name webdriver-manager.

Notes

• No functional driver-resolution changes are included in this release.
• This is a packaging and documentation cleanup release following 4.1.0.

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v4.1.0

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Compatibility

• Added support for Python 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14.
• Added CI coverage for Python 3.15.0-beta.1.
• Kept compatibility with both Selenium 3 and Selenium 4 usage patterns.
• Improved Chrome / Chromium / Brave support for Chrome 115+ and Chrome for Testing driver resolution.
• Improved Microsoft Edge driver resolution through updated endpoint handling and platform mapping.
• Improved Firefox/geckodriver resolution on Linux ARM64.
• Improved Windows browser version detection through safer PowerShell command execution.
• Improved Docker, CI, and serverless compatibility when default cache locations are unavailable or read-only.

Fixes

• Chrome/Chromium: improved Chrome for Testing resolution and fallbacks for missing exact build metadata, readable errors, and stable URL resolution. (#​706, #​685, #​639)
• Chrome on Windows: prefer win64 on 64-bit hosts with safe fallback to win32 when the win64 asset is unavailable. (#​647, #​686)
• Edge: updated driver endpoint and improved OS/platform mapping for driver artifacts. (#​697)
• Firefox on Linux ARM64: prefer linux-aarch64 geckodriver to avoid architecture mismatch. (#​616)
• Windows browser version detection: switched to PowerShell -EncodedCommand flow to avoid quoting and expansion failures in browser version probes. (#​625)
• Opera driver install path handling when cache already returns a binary file path, preventing NotADirectoryError caused by directory-only assumptions. (#​730)
• Cache reliability: avoid remote version lookup when a valid browser-version cache entry already exists. (#​661)
• Cache stability: cache resolved driver version inside the cache manager to reduce repeated metadata and network requests. (#​656)
• Concurrency: added an inter-process install lock with post-lock cache recheck to prevent parallel download and unpack races such as BadZipFile and startup failures. (#​700, #​631)
• Archive extraction robustness: improved zip fallback handling in concurrent or busy-file scenarios.
• Docker/serverless cache path safety: fall back to a writable temp directory when HOME or project-root cache targets are invalid or read-only. (#​636, #​651, #​682, #​694)
• Binary selection safety: prevent selecting non-executable companion files such as THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.* as driver executables. (#​667, #​670, #​683, #​699)
• Logger API: set_logger() now accepts logger-like objects exposing log(level, message), not only logging.Logger. (#​688)

Tests

• Added regression tests for Chrome 115+ Chrome for Testing resolution flows and Chrome 118 resolution.
• Added tests for compressed and invalid Chrome for Testing metadata parsing paths.
• Added tests for cache lookup behavior and no-network cache hit paths.
• Added tests for binary selection safety to avoid selecting THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.*.
• Added tests for Firefox ARM64 OS mapping.
• Added tests for manager concurrency and cache recheck behavior.
• Added tests for constants and cache path behavior in frozen/PyInstaller and invalid HOME scenarios.
• Expanded CI matrix for Python 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, and 3.15.0-beta.1.

Docs

• Reworked README structure for the 4.1.0 release to focus on installation, usage, compatibility, configuration, and maintenance information.
• Added guidance on when to use webdriver-manager instead of Selenium Manager.
• Clarified package/import naming: webdriver-manager is the package name, webdriver_manager is the import name. (#​660)
• Added desktop browser automation scope guidance and clarified that Android/PyDroid local browser automation is out of scope. (#​640)
• Added Docker, CI, and serverless cache-path recommendations. (#​630)
• Updated Selenium 3 and Selenium 4 usage examples for Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Edge, Firefox, IE, and Opera.
• Documented configuration use cases for custom cache, custom OS/architecture detection, custom download URLs, GitHub token usage, SSL verification, custom logger, and custom HTTP client.

CI

• Added CI coverage for Python 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, and 3.15.0-beta.1.
• Stabilized Linux test runs with explicit xvfb-run.
• Improved cross-platform test stability for Edge, IE, Opera, cache handling, and extraction race scenarios.

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