How to configure Jenkins to use the latest Chromedriver

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I am trying to run scripts in Jenkins from testng. I can run them fine from my local machine as I have it configured to use the latest chromedriver from the Environment Variables.

When I try to run the same scripts using Jenkins, I get the error below . I am trying to understand how I can configure or point Jenkins to use the latest chromedriver.

I see reference in a maven config file from Jenkins to chromedriver:1.2, but I cant find a newer version, and I am not sure if that is the correct place to update the config.

Error :
Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 114
Current browser version is 121.0.6167.185 with binary path C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

Note: if I downgrade the chrome browser it works fine, but I need to run it using the latest chrome version .


Jenkins setup:
Jenkins: 2.426.3
OS: Windows 10 - 10.0
Java: 11.0.16 - Oracle Corporation (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM)
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the chromedriver plugin was last released 9 years ago. So if you use this to install chromedriver I’m not surprised that it installs an old version. I suggest that you manually download chromedriver and install it in your pipeline. On https://chromedriver.chromium.org/ there’s a json linked that you can use to find the latest stable download url

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hmm looking at the plugin it relies on the jenkins updates tool to deliver the download urls here https://updates.jenkins.io/updates/org.jenkins-ci.plugins.chromedriver.ChromeDriver.json
And there is nothing newer than 114

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you should open a ticket on GitHub - jenkins-infra/crawler: tools crawler and ask them to update the chrome crawler to get the data from https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/last-known-good-versions-with-downloads.json
And the plugin itself should also be updated so it supports win64, mac-x64 and mac-arm64

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Thank you for confirming my suspicions and taking the time to provide several suggestions, I was finally able to solve this after three days :skull: . I finally was able to locate the chromen drive file that Jenkins was using to run the scripts, and replaced it with the latest version.

This is where I get the latest chrome drivers:
https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/

This is where I located the chrome driver that is used by jenkins from my local:
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile.cache\selenium\chromedriver\win32\96.0.4664.45

This is how I located the chrome driver file that Jenkins was using :

  1. Downgraded the chrome browser to a version that was supported
  2. I ran the Jenkins build and monitored the processes in the task manager
  3. When I saw the chrome driver show up , I right click on it and selected “Open File Location”
  4. After I located the chrome driver, I replaced it with the latest version