chore(deps): update dependency @playwright/test to ^1.49.1 by renovate-sh-app[bot] · Pull Request #20 · grafana/provenance-test-plugin

renovate-sh-app · 2026-01-16T05:24:35Z

This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
@playwright/test (source)	`^1.41.2` → `^1.49.1`

Release Notes

microsoft/playwright (@playwright/test)

`v1.59.1`

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Bug Fixes

[Windows] Reverted hiding console window when spawning browser processes, which caused regressions including broken codegen, --ui and show commands (#39990)

`v1.59.0`

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🎬 Screencast

New page.screencast API provides a unified interface for capturing page content with:

Screencast recordings
Action annotations
Visual overlays
Real-time frame capture
Agentic video receipts

Screencast recording — record video with precise start/stop control, as an alternative to the recordVideo option:

await page.screencast.start({ path: 'video.webm' });
// ... perform actions ...
await page.screencast.stop();

Action annotations — enable built-in visual annotations that highlight interacted elements and display action titles during recording:

await page.screencast.showActions({ position: 'top-right' });

screencast.showActions() accepts position ('top-left', 'top', 'top-right', 'bottom-left', 'bottom', 'bottom-right'), duration (ms per annotation), and fontSize (px). Returns a disposable to stop showing actions.

Action annotations can also be enabled in test fixtures via the video option:

// playwright.config.ts
export default defineConfig({
  use: {
    video: {
      mode: 'on',
      show: {
        actions: { position: 'top-left' },
        test: { position: 'top-right' },
      },
    },
  },
});

Visual overlays — add chapter titles and custom HTML overlays on top of the page for richer narration:

await page.screencast.showChapter('Adding TODOs', {
  description: 'Type and press enter for each TODO',
  duration: 1000,
});

await page.screencast.showOverlay('<div style="color: red">Recording</div>');

Real-time frame capture — stream JPEG-encoded frames for custom processing like thumbnails, live previews, AI vision, and more:

await page.screencast.start({
  onFrame: ({ data }) => sendToVisionModel(data),
  size: { width: 800, height: 600 },
});

Agentic video receipts — coding agents can produce video evidence of their work. After completing a task, an agent can record a walkthrough video with rich annotations for human review:

await page.screencast.start({ path: 'receipt.webm' });
await page.screencast.showActions({ position: 'top-right' });

await page.screencast.showChapter('Verifying checkout flow', {
  description: 'Added coupon code support per ticket #&#8203;1234',
});

// Agent performs the verification steps...
await page.locator('#coupon').fill('SAVE20');
await page.locator('#apply-coupon').click();
await expect(page.locator('.discount')).toContainText('20%');

await page.screencast.showChapter('Done', {
  description: 'Coupon applied, discount reflected in total',
});

await page.screencast.stop();

The resulting video serves as a receipt: chapter titles provide context, action annotations highlight each interaction, and the visual walkthrough is faster to review than text logs.

🔗 Interoperability

New browser.bind() API makes a launched browser available for playwright-cli, @playwright/mcp, and other clients to connect to.

Bind a browser — start a browser and bind it so others can connect:

const { endpoint } = await browser.bind('my-session', {
  workspaceDir: '/my/project',
});

Connect from playwright-cli — connect to the running browser from your favorite coding agent.

playwright-cli attach my-session
playwright-cli -s my-session snapshot

Connect from @playwright/mcp — or point your MCP server to the running browser.

@&#8203;playwright/mcp --endpoint=my-session

Connect from a Playwright client — use API to connect to the browser. Multiple clients at a time are supported!

const browser = await chromium.connect(endpoint);

Pass host and port options to bind over WebSocket instead of a named pipe:

const { endpoint } = await browser.bind('my-session', {
  host: 'localhost',
  port: 0,
});
// endpoint is a ws:// URL

Call browser.unbind() to stop accepting new connections.

📊 Observability

Run playwright-cli show to open the Dashboard that lists all the bound browsers, their statuses, and allows interacting with them:

See what your agent is doing on the background browsers
Click into the sessions for manual interventions
Open DevTools to inspect pages from the background browsers.

- `playwright-cli` binds all of its browsers automatically, so you can see what your agents are doing. - Pass `PLAYWRIGHT_DASHBOARD=1` env variable to see all `@playwright/test` browsers in the dashboard.

🐛 CLI debugger for agents

Coding agents can now run npx playwright test --debug=cli to attach and debug tests over playwright-cli — perfect for automatically fixing tests in agentic workflows:

$ npx playwright test --debug=cli

### Debugging Instructions
- Run "playwright-cli attach tw-87b59e" to attach to this test

$ playwright-cli attach tw-87b59e

### Session `tw-87b59e` created, attached to `tw-87b59e`.
Run commands with: playwright-cli --session=tw-87b59e <command>

### Paused
- Navigate to "/" at output/tests/example.spec.ts:4

$ playwright-cli --session tw-87b59e step-over

### Page
- Page URL: https://playwright.dev/
- Page Title: Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright

### Paused
- Expect "toHaveTitle" at output/tests/example.spec.ts:7

📋 CLI trace analysis for agents

Coding agents can run npx playwright trace to explore Playwright Trace and understand failing or flaky tests from the command line:

$ npx playwright trace open test-results/example-has-title-chromium/trace.zip
  Title:        example.spec.ts:3 › has title

$ npx playwright trace actions --grep="expect"
     # Time       Action                                                  Duration
  ──── ─────────  ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────
    9. 0:00.859  Expect "toHaveTitle"                                        5.1s  ✗

$ npx playwright trace action 9
  Expect "toHaveTitle"
  Error: expect(page).toHaveTitle(expected) failed
    Expected pattern: /Wrong Title/
    Received string:  "Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright"
    Timeout: 5000ms
  Snapshots
    available: before, after
    usage:     npx playwright trace snapshot 9 --name <before|after>

$ npx playwright trace snapshot 9 --name after

### Page
- Page Title: Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright

$ npx playwright trace close

♻️ `await using`

Many APIs now return async disposables, enabling the await using syntax for automatic cleanup:

await using page = await context.newPage();
{
  await using route = await page.route('**/*', route => route.continue());
  await using script = await page.addInitScript('console.log("init script here")');
  await page.goto('https://playwright.dev');
  // do something
}
// route and init script have been removed at this point

🔍 Snapshots and Locators

Method page.ariaSnapshot() to capture the aria snapshot of the page — equivalent to page.locator('body').ariaSnapshot().
Options depth and mode in locator.ariaSnapshot().
Method locator.normalize() converts a locator to follow best practices like test ids and aria roles.
Method page.pickLocator() enters an interactive mode where hovering over elements highlights them and shows the corresponding locator. Click an element to get its Locator back. Use page.cancelPickLocator() to cancel.

New APIs

Screencast

page.screencast provides video recording, real-time frame streaming, and overlay management.
Methods screencast.start() and screencast.stop() for recording and frame capture.
Methods screencast.showActions() and screencast.hideActions() for action annotations.
Methods screencast.showChapter() and screencast.showOverlay() for visual overlays.
Methods screencast.showOverlays() and screencast.hideOverlays() for overlay visibility control.

Storage, Console and Errors

Method browserContext.setStorageState() clears existing cookies, local storage, and IndexedDB for all origins and sets a new storage state — no need to create a new context.
Methods page.clearConsoleMessages() and page.clearPageErrors() to clear stored messages and errors.
Option filter in page.consoleMessages() and page.pageErrors() controls which messages are returned.
Method consoleMessage.timestamp().

Miscellaneous

browserContext.debugger provides programmatic control over the Playwright debugger.
Method browserContext.isClosed().
Method request.existingResponse() returns the response without waiting.
Method response.httpVersion() returns the HTTP version used by the response.
Events cdpSession.on('event') and cdpSession.on('close') for CDP sessions.
Option live in tracing.start() for real-time trace updates.
Option artifactsDir in browserType.launch() to configure the artifacts directory.

🛠️ Other improvements

UI Mode has an option to only show tests affected by source changes.
UI Mode and Trace Viewer have improved action filtering.
HTML Reporter shows the list of runs from the same worker.
HTML Reporter allows filtering test steps for quick search.
New trace mode 'retain-on-failure-and-retries' records a trace for each test run and retains all traces when an attempt fails — great for comparing a passing trace with a failing one from a flaky test.

Known Issues ⚠️⚠️

navigator.platform emulation can cause Ctrl or Meta dispatching errors (#40009). Pass PLAYWRIGHT_NO_UA_PLATFORM = '1' environment variable while we are issuing a patch release. Let us know in the issue how it affected you.

Breaking Changes ⚠️

Removed macOS 14 support for WebKit. We recommend upgrading your macOS version, or keeping an older Playwright version.
Removed @playwright/experimental-ct-svelte package.

Browser Versions

Chromium 147.0.7727.15
Mozilla Firefox 148.0.2
WebKit 26.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 146
Microsoft Edge 146

`v1.58.2`

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Highlights

#39121 fix(trace viewer): make paths via stdin work
#39129 fix: do not force swiftshader on chromium mac

Browser Versions

Chromium 145.0.7632.6
Mozilla Firefox 146.0.1
WebKit 26.0

`v1.58.1`

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Highlights

#39036 fix(msedge): fix local network permissions
#39037 chore: update cft download location
#38995 chore(webkit): disable frame sessions on fronzen builds

Browser Versions

Chromium 145.0.7632.6
Mozilla Firefox 146.0.1
WebKit 26.0

`v1.58.0`

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📣 Playwright CLI+SKILLs 📣

We are adding a new token-efficient CLI mode of operation to Playwright with the skills located at playwright-cli. This brings the long-awaited official SKILL-focused CLI mode to our story and makes it more coding agent-friendly.

It is the first snapshot with the essential command set (which is already larger than the original MCP!), but we expect it to grow rapidly. Unlike the token use, that one we expect to go down since snapshots are no longer forced into the LLM!

Timeline

If you're using merged reports, the HTML report Speedboard tab now shows the Timeline:

UI Mode and Trace Viewer Improvements

New 'system' theme option follows your OS dark/light mode preference
Search functionality (Cmd/Ctrl+F) is now available in code editors
Network details panel has been reorganized for better usability
JSON responses are now automatically formatted for readability

Thanks to @cpAdm for contributing these improvements!

Miscellaneous

browserType.connectOverCDP() now accepts an isLocal option. When set to true, it tells Playwright that it runs on the same host as the CDP server, enabling file system optimizations.

Breaking Changes ⚠️

Removed _react and _vue selectors. See locators guide for alternatives.
Removed :light selector engine suffix. Use standard CSS selectors instead.
Option devtools from browserType.launch() has been removed. Use args: ['--auto-open-devtools-for-tabs'] instead.
Removed macOS 13 support for WebKit. We recommend to upgrade your macOS version, or keep using an older Playwright version.

Browser Versions

Chromium 145.0.7632.6
Mozilla Firefox 146.0.1
WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 144
Microsoft Edge 144

`v1.57.0`

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Speedboard

In HTML reporter, there's a new tab we call "Speedboard":

It shows you all your executed tests sorted by slowness,
and can help you understand where your test suite is taking longer than expected.
Take a look at yours - maybe you'll find some tests that are spending a longer time waiting than they should!

Chrome for Testing

Starting with this release, Playwright switches from Chromium, to using Chrome for Testing builds. Both headed and headless browsers are subject to this. Your tests should still be passing after upgrading to Playwright 1.57.

We're expecting no functional changes to come from this switch. The biggest change is the new icon and title in your toolbar.

If you still see an unexpected behaviour change, please file an issue.

On Arm64 Linux, Playwright continues to use Chromium.

Waiting for webserver output

testConfig.webServer added a wait field. Pass a regular expression, and Playwright will wait until the webserver logs match it.

import { defineConfig } from '@&#8203;playwright/test';

export default defineConfig({
  webServer: {
    command: 'npm run start',
    wait: {
      stdout: '/Listening on port (?<my_server_port>\\d+)/'
    },
  },
});

If you include a named capture group into the expression, then Playwright will provide the capture group contents via environment variables:

import { test, expect } from '@&#8203;playwright/test';

test.use({ baseUrl: `http://localhost:${process.env.MY_SERVER_PORT ?? 3000}` });

test('homepage', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.goto('/');
});

This is not just useful for capturing varying ports of dev servers. You can also use it to wait for readiness of a service that doesn't expose an HTTP readiness check, but instead prints a readiness message to stdout or stderr.

Breaking Change

After 3 years of being deprecated, we removed Page#accessibility from our API. Please use other libraries such as Axe if you need to test page accessibility. See our Node.js guide for integration with Axe.

New APIs

New property testConfig.tag adds a tag to all tests in this run. This is useful when using merge-reports.
worker.on('console') event is emitted when JavaScript within the worker calls one of console API methods, e.g. console.log or console.dir. worker.waitForEvent() can be used to wait for it.
locator.description() returns locator description previously set with locator.describe(), and Locator.toString() now uses the description when available.
New option steps in locator.click() and locator.dragTo() that configures the number of mousemove events emitted while moving the mouse pointer to the target element.
Network requests issued by Service Workers are now reported and can be routed through the BrowserContext, only in Chromium. You can opt out using the PLAYWRIGHT_DISABLE_SERVICE_WORKER_NETWORK environment variable.
Console messages from Service Workers are dispatched through worker.on('console'). You can opt out of this using the PLAYWRIGHT_DISABLE_SERVICE_WORKER_CONSOLE environment variable.

Browser Versions

Chromium 143.0.7499.4
Mozilla Firefox 144.0.2
WebKit 26.0

`v1.56.1`

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Highlights

#37871 chore: allow local-network-access permission in chromium
#37891 fix(agents): remove workspaceFolder ref from vscode mcp
#37759 chore: rename agents to test agents
#37757 chore(mcp): fallback to cwd when resolving test config

Browser Versions

Chromium 141.0.7390.37
Mozilla Firefox 142.0.1
WebKit 26.0

`v1.56.0`

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Playwright Agents

Introducing Playwright Agents, three custom agent definitions designed to guide LLMs through the core process of building a Playwright test:

🎭 planner explores the app and produces a Markdown test plan
🎭 generator transforms the Markdown plan into the Playwright Test files
🎭 healer executes the test suite and automatically repairs failing tests

Run npx playwright init-agents with your client of choice to generate the latest agent definitions:

# Generate agent files for each agentic loop
# Visual Studio Code
npx playwright init-agents --loop=vscode

# Claude Code
npx playwright init-agents --loop=claude

# opencode
npx playwright init-agents --loop=opencode

[!NOTE]
VS Code v1.105 (currently on the VS Code Insiders channel) is needed for the agentic experience in VS Code. It will become stable shortly, we are a bit ahead of times with this functionality!

Learn more about Playwright Agents

New APIs

New methods page.consoleMessages() and page.pageErrors() for retrieving the most recent console messages from the page
New method page.requests() for retrieving the most recent network requests from the page
Added --test-list and --test-list-invert to allow manual specification of specific tests from a file

UI Mode and HTML Reporter

Added option to 'html' reporter to disable the "Copy prompt" button
Added option to 'html' reporter and UI Mode to merge files, collapsing test and describe blocks into a single unified list
Added option to UI Mode mirroring the --update-snapshots options
Added option to UI Mode to run only a single worker at a time

Breaking Changes

Event browserContext.on('backgroundpage') has been deprecated and will not be emitted. Method browserContext.backgroundPages() will return an empty list

Miscellaneous

Aria snapshots render and compare input placeholder
Added environment variable PLAYWRIGHT_TEST to Playwright worker processes to allow discriminating on testing status

Browser Versions

Chromium 141.0.7390.37
Mozilla Firefox 142.0.1
WebKit 26.0

`v1.55.1`

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Highlights

#37479 - [Bug]: Upgrade Chromium to 140.0.7339.186.
#37147 - [Regression]: Internal error: step id not found.
#37146 - [Regression]: HTML reporter displays a broken chip link when there are no projects.
#37137 - Revert "fix(a11y): track inert elements as hidden".
#37532 - chore: do not use -k option

Browser Versions

Chromium 140.0.7339.186
Mozilla Firefox 141.0
WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 139
Microsoft Edge 139

`v1.55.0`

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New APIs

New Property testStepInfo.titlePath Returns the full title path starting from the test file, including test and step titles.

Codegen

Automatic toBeVisible() assertions: Codegen can now generate automatic toBeVisible() assertions for common UI interactions. This feature can be enabled in the Codegen settings UI.

Breaking Changes

⚠️ Dropped support for Chromium extension manifest v2.

Miscellaneous

Added support for Debian 13 "Trixie".

Browser Versions

Chromium 140.0.7339.16
Mozilla Firefox 141.0
WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 139
Microsoft Edge 139

`v1.54.2`

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Highlights

#36714 - [Regression]: Codegen is not able to launch in Administrator Terminal on Windows (ProtocolError: Protocol error)
#36828 - [Regression]: Playwright Codegen keeps spamming with selected option
#36810 - [Regression]: Starting Codegen with target language doesn't work anymore

Browser Versions

Chromium 139.0.7258.5
Mozilla Firefox 140.0.2
WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 140
Microsoft Edge 140

`v1.54.1`

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Highlights

#36650 - [Regression]: 1.54.0 breaks downloading browsers when an HTTP(S) proxy is used

Browser Versions

Chromium 139.0.7258.5
Mozilla Firefox 140.0.2
WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 140
Microsoft Edge 140

`v1.54.0`

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Highlights

New cookie property partitionKey in browserContext.cookies() and browserContext.addCookies(). This property allows to save and restore partitioned cookies. See CHIPS MDN article for more information. Note that browsers have different support and defaults for cookie partitioning.

New option noSnippets to disable code snippets in the html report.

import { defineConfig } from '@&#8203;playwright/test';

export default defineConfig({
  reporter: [['html', { noSnippets: true }]]
});

New property location in test annotations, for example in testResult.annotations and testInfo.annotations. It shows where the annotation like test.skip or test.fixme was added.

Command Line

New option --user-data-dir in multiple commands. You can specify the same user data dir to reuse browsing state, like authentication, between sessions.
```
npx playwright codegen --user-data-dir=./user-data
```
Option -gv has been removed from the npx playwright test command. Use --grep-invert instead.
npx playwright open does not open the test recorder anymore. Use npx playwright codegen instead.

Miscellaneous

Support for Node.js 16 has been removed.
Support for Node.js 18 has been deprecated, and will be removed in the future.

Browser Versions

Chromium 139.0.7258.5
Mozilla Firefox 140.0.2
WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 140
Microsoft Edge 140

`v1.53.2`

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Highlights

#36317 - [Regression]: Merging pre-1.53 blob reports loses attachments
#36357 - [Regression (Chromium)]: CDP missing trailing slash
#36292 - [Bug (MSEdge)]: Edge fails to launch when using msRelaunchNoCompatLayer

Browser Versions

Chromium 138.0.7204.23
Mozilla Firefox 139.0
WebKit 18.5

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 137
Microsoft Edge 137

`v1.53.1`

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Highlights

#36339 - [Regression]: Click can fail when scrolling required
#36307 - [Regression (Chromium)]: Under some scenarios filling a textarea doesn't fill
#36294 - [Regression (Firefox)]: setViewportSize times out
#36350 - [Fix]: Display HTTP method for fetch trace entries

Browser Versions

Chromium 138.0.7204.23
Mozilla Firefox 139.0
WebKit 18.5

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 137
Microsoft Edge 137

`v1.53.0`

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Trace Viewer and HTML Reporter Updates

New Steps in Trace Viewer and HTML reporter:

New option in 'html' reporter to set the title of a specific test run:

import { defineConfig } from '@&#8203;playwright/test';

export default defineConfig({
  reporter: [['html', { title: 'Custom test run #&#8203;1028' }]]
});

Miscellaneous

New option kind in testInfo.snapshotPath() controls which snapshot path template is used.

New method locator.describe() to describe a locator. Used for trace viewer and reports.

const button = page.getByTestId('btn-sub').describe('Subscribe button');
await button.click();

npx playwright install --list will now list all installed browsers, versions and locations.

Browser Versions

Chromium 138.0.7204.4
Mozilla Firefox 139.0
WebKit 18.5

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 137
Microsoft Edge 137

`v1.52.0`

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Highlights

New method expect(locator).toContainClass() to ergonomically assert individual class names on the element.
```
await expect(page.getByRole('listitem', { name: 'Ship v1.52' })).toContainClass('done');
```

Aria Snapshots got two new properties: /children for strict matching and /url for links.

await expect(locator).toMatchAriaSnapshot(`
  - list
    - /children: equal
    - listitem: Feature A
    - listitem:
      - link "Feature B":
        - /url: "https://playwright.dev"
`);

Test Runner

New property testProject.workers allows to specify the number of concurrent worker processes to use for a test project. The global limit of property testConfig.workers still applies.
New testConfig.failOnFlakyTests option to fail the test run if any flaky tests are detected, similarly to --fail-on-flaky-tests. This is useful for CI/CD environments where you want to ensure that all tests are stable before deploying.
New property testResult.annotations contains annotations for each test retry.

Miscellaneous

New option maxRedirects in apiRequest.newContext() to control the maximum number of redirects.
HTML reporter now supports NOT filtering via !@my-tag or !my-file.spec.ts or !p:my-project.

Breaking Changes

Changes to glob URL patterns in methods like page.route():
- ? wildcard is not supported any more, it will always match question mark ? character.
- Ranges/sets [] are not supported anymore. We recommend using regular expressions instead.
Method route.continue() does not allow to override the Cookie header anymore. If a Cookie header is provided, it will be ignored, and the cookie will be loaded from the browser's cookie store. To set custom cookies, use browserContext.addCookies().
macOS 13 is now deprecated and will no longer receive WebKit updates. Please upgrade to a more recent macOS version to continue benefiting from the latest WebKit improvements.

Browser Versions

Chromium 136.0.7103.25
Mozilla Firefox 137.0
WebKit 18.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 135
Microsoft Edge 135

`v1.51.1`

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Highlights

#35093 - [Regression]: TimeoutOverflowWarning: 2149630.634 does not fit into a 32-bit signed integer
#35138 - [Regression]: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'expectInfo')

Browser Versions

Chromium 134.0.6998.35
Mozilla Firefox 135.0
WebKit 18.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 133
Microsoft Edge 133

`v1.51.0`

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StorageState for indexedDB

New option indexedDB for browserContext.storageState() allows to save and restore IndexedDB contents. Useful when your application uses IndexedDB API to store authentication tokens, like Firebase Authentication.

Here is an example following the authentication guide:

// tests/auth.setup.ts
import { test as setup, expect } from '@&#8203;playwright/test';
import path from 'path';

const authFile = path.join(__dirname, '../playwright/.auth/user.json');

setup('authenticate', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.goto('/');
  // ... perform authentication steps ...

  // make sure to save indexedDB
  await page.context().storageState({ path: authFile, indexedDB: true });
});

Copy prompt

New "Copy prompt" button on errors in the HTML report, trace viewer and UI mode. Click to copy a pre-filled LLM prompt that contains the error message and useful context for fixing the error.

Filter visible elements

New option visible for locator.filter() allows matching only visible elements.

// example.spec.ts
test('some test', async ({ page }) => {
  // Ignore invisible todo items.
  const todoItems = page.getByTestId('todo-item').filter({ visible: true });
  // Check there are exactly 3 visible ones.
  await expect(todoItems).toHaveCount(3);
});

Git information in HTML report

Set option testConfig.captureGitInfo to capture git information into testConfig.metadata.

// playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@&#8203;playwright/test';

export default defineConfig({
  captureGitInfo: { commit: true, diff: true }
});

HTML report will show this information when available:

Test Step improvements

A new TestStepInfo object is now available in test steps. You can add step attachments or skip the step under some conditions.

test('some test', async ({ page, isMobile }) => {
  // Note the new "step" argument:
  await test.step('here is my step', async step => {
    step.skip(isMobile, 'not relevant on mobile layouts');

    // ...
    await step.attach('my attachment', { body: 'some text' });
    // ...
  });
});

Miscellaneous

New option contrast for methods page.emulateMedia() and browser.newContext() allows to emulate the prefers-contrast media feature.
New option failOnStatusCode makes all fetch requests made through the APIRequestContext throw on response codes other than 2xx and 3xx.
Assertion expect(page).toHaveURL() now supports a predicate.

Browser Versions

Chromium 134.0.6998.35
Mozilla Firefox 135.0
WebKit 18.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 133
Microsoft Edge 133

`v1.50.1`

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Highlights

#34483 - [Feature]: single aria snapshot for different engines/browsers
#34497 - [Bug]: Firefox not handling keepalive: true fetch requests
#34504 - [Bug]: update snapshots not creating good diffs
#34507 - [Bug]: snapshotPathTemplate doesnt work when multiple projects
#34462 - [Bug]: updateSnapshots "changed" throws an error

Browser Versions

Chromium 133.0.6943.16
Mozilla Firefox 134.0
WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 132
Microsoft Edge 132

`v1.50.0`

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Test runner

New option timeout allows specifying a maximum run time for an individual test step. A timed-out step will fail the execution of the test.

test('some test', async ({ page }) => {
  await test.step('a step', async () => {
    // This step can time out separately from the test
  }, { timeout: 1000 });
});

New method test.step.skip() to disable execution of a test step.

test('some test', async ({ page }) => {
  await test.step('before running step', async () => {
    // Normal step
  });

  await test.step.skip('not yet ready', async () => {
    // This step is skipped
  });

  await test.step('after running step', async () => {
    // This step still runs even though the previous one was skipped
  });
});

Expanded expect(locator).toMatchAriaSnapshot() to allow storing of aria snapshots in separate YAML files.
Added method expect(locator).toHaveAccessibleErrorMessage() to assert the Locator points to an element with a given aria errormessage.
Option testConfig.updateSnapshots added the configuration enum changed. changed updates only the snapshots that have changed, whereas all now updates all snapshots, regardless of whether there are any differences.
New option testConfig.updateSourceMethod defines the way source code is updated when testConfig.updateSnapshots is configured. Added overwrite and 3-way modes that write the changes into source code, on top of existing patch mode that creates a patch file.
```
npx playwright test --update-snapshots=changed --update-source-method=3way
```
Option testConfig.webServer added a gracefulShutdown field for specifying a process kill signal other than the default SIGKILL.
Exposed testStep.attachments from the reporter API to allow retrieval of all attachments created by that step.
New option pathTemplate for toHaveScreenshot and toMatchAriaSnapshot assertions in the testConfig.expect configuration.

UI updates

Updated default HTML reporter to improve display of attachments.
New button for picking elements to produce aria snapshots.
Additional details (such as keys pressed) are now displayed alongside action API calls in traces.
Display of canvas content in traces is error-prone. Display is now disabled by default, and can be enabled via the Display canvas content UI setting.
Call and Network panels now display additional time information.

Breaking

expect(locator).toBeEditable() and locator.isEditable() now throw if the target element is not <input>, <select>, or a number of other editable elements.
Option testConfig.updateSnapshots now updates all snapshots when set to all, rather than only the failed/changed snapshots. Use the new enum changed to keep the old functionality of only updating the changed snapshots.

Browser Versions

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Mozilla Firefox 134.0
WebKit 18.2

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Google Chrome 132
Microsoft Edge 132

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