Devpebe Radar — Playwright

Playwright — 2026-07

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

v1.62.0 — Jul 24, 2026

Passkeys survive storage state: a credentials option persists the context’s virtual WebAuthn credentials for re-seeding.
locator.waitForFunction; a scroll option to opt out of auto scroll-into-view; page.evaluate and addInitScript accept functions as arguments.
The Playwright MCP server and playwright-cli now ship in the box (npx playwright mcp / npx playwright cli).
⚠ Debian 11 support dropped.

Playwright — 2026-06

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

v1.61.0 — Jun 15, 2026

expect.soft.poll(...) is supported; video gains the same retry-aware modes as trace (on-all-retries, retain-on-failure-…).
fullConfig.argv snapshots runner args; -G shorthand for --grep-invert; AggregateError sub-errors listed separately in testInfo.errors.

Playwright — 2026-05

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

v1.60.0 — May 11, 2026

toMatchAriaSnapshot works on a whole Page; a boxes option appends bounding boxes to aria snapshots (aimed at AI consumption).
getByRole gains a description option; toHaveCSS reads ::before/::after via the new pseudo option.
BrowserContext mirrors page lifecycle events (download, frameattached, …); connectOverCDP gets noDefaults.

Playwright — 2026-04

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

v1.59.0 — Apr 1, 2026

Screencast recordings with action annotations and visual overlays for background browser sessions.
A dashboard for background browser sessions: watch agents live, intervene manually, open DevTools; PLAYWRIGHT_DASHBOARD=1 shows all @playwright/test browsers.

Playwright — 2026-01

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

v1.58.0 — Jan 23, 2026

UI mode: a ‘system’ theme option, Cmd/Ctrl+F search in code editors, and a reorganized network panel with auto-formatted JSON responses.
⚠ Removed: the _react/_vue selectors, the :light selector suffix, the devtools launch option, and WebKit on macOS 13.

Playwright — 2025-11

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

v1.57.0 — Nov 25, 2025

Service Worker network requests are now reported and routable through the BrowserContext (Chromium), with SW console messages on worker.on('console').
testConfig.tag adds a tag to all tests in a run (useful with merge-reports).
locator.description returns the description set with locator.describe.
New steps option in locator.click / locator.dragTo controls emitted mousemove events.

Playwright — 2025-10

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

v1.56.0 — Oct 6, 2025

Playwright Agents: a planner that explores the app and produces a Markdown test plan, a generator that turns the plan into test files, and a healer that runs the suite and repairs failing tests.
New page.consoleMessages, page.pageErrors, and page.requests for retrieving recent console/network activity.
--test-list / --test-list-invert to pick tests from a file.

Playwright — 2025-09

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

v1.55.1 — Sep 23, 2025

Browser roll: Chromium 140, Firefox 141, WebKit 26.0.

Playwright — 2025-08

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

v1.55.0 — Aug 20, 2025

testStepInfo.titlePath — full title path from test file through steps.
Codegen can generate automatic toBeVisible assertions.
⚠ Dropped support for Chromium extension manifest v2.

Playwright — 2025-07

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

v1.54.0 — Jul 10, 2025

Cookies gain partitionKey (CHIPS partitioned cookies) in browserContext.cookies/addCookies.
--user-data-dir in multiple commands — reuse auth/browsing state between sessions; location property in test annotations.
⚠ -gv removed (use --grep-invert); npx playwright open no longer opens the recorder (use codegen).

Playwright — 2025-06

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

v1.53.0 — Jun 10, 2025

Browser lineup: Chromium 138, Firefox 139, WebKit 18.5.

Playwright — 2025-04

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

v1.52.0 — Apr 17, 2025

New expect(locator).toContainClass assertion.
Aria snapshots: /children for strict matching and /url for links.
testProject.workers for per-project concurrency; testConfig.failOnFlakyTests fails the run on flaky tests.
⚠ Glob patterns: ? wildcard and [] ranges no longer supported — use regular expressions.
⚠ route.continue no longer allows overriding the Cookie header.

Playwright — 2025-03

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

v1.51.0 — Mar 6, 2025

browserContext.storageState gets an indexedDB option — save and restore IndexedDB contents (e.g. Firebase Authentication tokens).

Playwright — 2025-01

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

v1.50.0 — Jan 23, 2025

timeout option for individual test steps, and test.step.skip to disable a step.
Aria snapshots can now live in separate YAML files (toMatchAriaSnapshot).
New expect(locator).toHaveAccessibleErrorMessage assertion.
updateSnapshots gains a changed mode (⚠ all now updates every snapshot, differences or not), with overwrite and 3-way source update methods.
webServer.gracefulShutdown for a kill signal other than SIGKILL.