protractor: Protractor 5.4.2 is not compatible with Chrome 77

Chrome 77 just got released, which is not compatible with Protractor 5.4.2:

[15:06:46] E/runner - Unable to start a WebDriver session.
[15:06:46] E/launcher - Error: SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: 
  This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 75
  (Driver info: chromedriver=75.0.3770.90 (a6dcaf7e3ec6f70a194cc25e8149475c6590e025-refs/branch-heads/3770@{#1003}),platform=Mac OS X 10.14.6 x86_64)

Specifying later version of chromedriver works, but it is pretty much not a robust solution, as it requires to specify the exact version of driver:

/webdriver-manager update --versions.chrome=77.0.3865.40

--versions.chrome=77 doesn’t work

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 32
Comments: 16 (2 by maintainers)

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@localpcguy this is what I put in our protractor config:

chromeDriver: './node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_77.0.3865.75',

That won’t cause protractor to download it. We use Travis CI instead of Circle CI. To get the correct chromedriver downloaded, I put this command in our travis.yml file:

./node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager update --versions.chrome=77.0.3865.75

mharting on Sep 12, 2019

Okay this should work now. You’ll need to get the latest webdriver-manager version 12.1.7. This should work from here on in to get the latest release of chromedriver.

cnishina on Sep 16, 2019

To get the latest you might need to remove the node_modules folder and redownload your node modules or do a force install of your node modules (npm i -f)

cnishina on Sep 16, 2019