While it's technically been out for a few weeks, we hadn't officially announced it: The 1.0 versions of Selenium IDE and Selenium RC have been released. You can download them here. These releases include several important bug fixes and, most importantly, a brand new set of documentation that we hope will further accelerate Selenium adoption.

We know it's been a long time coming (5 years), but we are happy to report that we have a renewed energy in the Selenium team and don't expect future releases to take nearly as long. In fact, 1.0.1 was released before we could even announced 1.0! Even better, a lot of fantastic work is being done on Selenium 2.0 by the Web Driver team. But none of that would have been possible without two specific groups of people:

• Our new Selenium developers: Over the years there have been a lot of passionate and committed developers for this project. But this final 1.0 release could not have been done without our newest Selenium developer: András Hatvani. Andras has helped transform the Selenium project from a neat tool that was "stuck in a rut" to an active project with a new lease on life. His work was instrumental in allowing us to finally release version 1.0.
• The documentation team: we knew that one of the biggest problems with Selenium was the documentation. Thankfully, a dedicated group of Selenium end-users took on the challenge to build brand new, consolidated documentation. These docs are EXCELLENT and are the result of a true labor of love by some truly amazing individuals. Please thank the following people if you run across them in the Selenium community: Paul Grandjean, Dave Hunt, Santiago Suarez Ordonez, Tarun Kumar, Mary Ann May-Pumphrey, and Peter Newhook.

Finally, a big thank you to the entire community is in order. We appreciate your dedication to Selenium over the years and we promise you that there's a lot more exciting things to come this year!

Patrick & the entire Selenium team