Chromium driver version (79) does not match latest Chrome (81)

[oymo]

There is a conflict between the Chromium driver and Chrome versions in the 7.3.1 image, and probably also earlier images.
When we run our a simple Test Suite Collection by executing

docker run -t --rm -v "$(pwd)":/tmp/project katalonstudio/katalon:7.3.1 katalonc.sh -projectPath=/tmp/project -retry=0 -statusDelay=15 -testSuiteCollectionPath="Test Suites/TSC-eb" -apikey=xxx

It runs as expected and displays amongst much else

[07:06:10] : [Step 2/2] Starting Katalon Studio
[07:06:10] : [Step 2/2] + cat /katalon/version
[07:06:10] : [Step 2/2] Mozilla Firefox 75.0
[07:06:10] : [Step 2/2] Google Chrome 81.0.4044.92

[07:06:18] : [Step 2/2] INFO: Katalon Version: 7.3.1:

The problem is, that our test cases run with the Chrome browser fail, and the log states:

Reason:
com.kms.katalon.core.exception.StepFailedException: Unable to open browser with url: ''
at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.internal.WebUIKeywordMain.stepFailed(WebUIKeywordMain.groovy:64)

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 79
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'
System info: host: '4b7863965329', ip: '172.17.0.2', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.19.76-linuxkit', java.version: '1.8.0_242'
Driver info: driver.version: CChromeDriver

The Chrome driver in the docker image, seems to be:
ChromeDriver 79.0.3945.36

[oymo]

Furthermore, I see the same errors when using the option "--config -webui.autoUpdateDrivers=true".

[StijnMeersschaert]

Hi,

Our tests are failing for the exact same reason. Setting the browser version in the project settings > Desired Capabilities > Web UI also didn't fix it.

[StijnMeersschaert]

@oymo we temporarily worked around this for now by using the last version before 7.3: katalonstudio/katalon:7.2.10

[oymo]

@StijnMeersschaert Thanks, for sharing, Stijn. We also found a workaround for the latest version, by downloading the latest chromium driver for Linux, and placing this in a special folder of our Katalon project structure. See:
https://forum.katalon.com/t/chromedriver-not-working-on-chrome-80/42133
and:
https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/handle-webdrivers.html#replace-webdriver-binaries-project-level

[JoshuaSLYoung]

Are there any plans to fix this underlying issue, which is that the --config -webui.autoUpdateDrivers=true argument does not appear to be working?

I too had to work around this issue by using the last known (to me) working version of the Katalon docker container: katalonstudio/katalon:7.2.10