v1.51.1

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Highlights

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/35093 - [Regression]: TimeoutOverflowWarning: 2149630.634 does not fit into a 32-bit signed integer
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/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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v1.50.1

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Highlights

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/34483 - [Feature]: single aria snapshot for different engines/browsershttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/344977 - [Bug]: Firefox not handling keepalive: true fetch requesthttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/3450404 - [Bug]: update snapshots not creating good difhttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/34507507 - [Bug]: snapshotPathTemplate doesnt work when multiple projehttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/344624462 - [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

• 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

v1.49.1

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Highlights

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/33802 - [Bug]: Codegen's Clear button doesn't work if not recordinghttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/338066 - [Bug]: playwright hangs while waiting for pending navigationhttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/3378787 - [Bug]: VSC extension isn't capturing all entered tehttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/33788788 - [Regression]: Double clicking the steps in trace viewer doesn't filter actihttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/337723772 - [Bug]: aria_snapshot generates invalid yaml when combined with an aria-label attrhttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/3379133791 - [Bug]: text input with number value raises "container is not iterable" with to_match_aria_snahttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/33644/33644 - [Bug]: getByRole can't find element with the accessible name from label element when aria-labelledby is nothttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/33660s/33660 - [Regression]: Unable to open Playwright UI in Dark Mode

Browser Versions

• Chromium 131.0.6778.33
• Mozilla Firefox 132.0
• WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 130
• Microsoft Edge 130

v1.49.0

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Aria snapshots

New assertion expect(locator).toMatchAriaSnapshot() verifies page structure by comparing to an expected accessibility tree, represented as YAML.

await page.goto('https://playwright.dev');
await expect(page.locator('body')).toMatchAriaSnapshot(`
 - banner:
 - heading /Playwright enables reliable/ [level=1]
 - link "Get started"
 - link "Star microsoft/playwright on GitHub"
 - main:
 - img "Browsers (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)"
 - heading "Any browser • Any platform • One API"
`);

You can generate this assertion with Test Generator and update the expected snapshot with --update-snapshots command line flag.

Learn more in the aria snapshots guide.

Test runner

• New option testConfig.tsconfig allows to specify a single tsconfig to be used for all tests.
• New method test.fail.only() to focus on a failing test.
• Options testConfig.globalSetup and testConfig.globalTeardown now support multiple setups/teardowns.
• New value 'on-first-failure' for testOptions.screenshot.
• Added "previous" and "next" buttons to the HTML report to quickly switch between test cases.
• New properties testInfoError.cause and testError.cause mirroring Error.cause.

Breaking: channels chrome, msedge and similar switch to new headless

This change affects you if you're using one of the following channels in your playwright.config.ts:

• chrome, chrome-dev, chrome-beta, or chrome-canary
• msedge, msedge-dev, msedge-beta, or msedge-canary

What do I need to do?

After updating to Playwright v1.49, run your test suite. If it still passes, you're good to go. If not, you will probably need to update your snapshots, and adapt some of your test code around PDF viewers and extensions. See issue #​33566 for more details.

Other breaking changes

• There will be no more updates for WebKit on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 11. We recommend updating your OS to a later version.
• Package @playwright/experimental-ct-vue2 will no longer be updated.
• Package @playwright/experimental-ct-solid will no longer be updated.

Try new Chromium headless

You can opt into the new headless mode by using 'chromium' channel. As official Chrome documentation puts it:

New Headless on the other hand is the real Chrome browser, and is thus more authentic, reliable, and offers more features. This makes it more suitable for high-accuracy end-to-end web app testing or browser extension testing.

See issue #​33566 for the list of possible breakages you could encounter and more details on Chromium headless. Please file an issue if you see any problems after opting in.

import { defineConfig, devices } from '@​playwright/test';
export default defineConfig({
 projects: [
 {
 name: 'chromium',
 use: { ...devices['Desktop Chrome'], channel: 'chromium' },
 },
 ],
});

Miscellaneous

• <canvas> elements inside a snapshot now draw a preview.
• New method tracing.group() to visually group actions in the trace.
• Playwright docker images switched from Node.js v20 to Node.js v22 LTS.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 131.0.6778.33
• Mozilla Firefox 132.0
• WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 130
• Microsoft Edge 130

v1.48.2

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Highlights

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/33141 - [Bug]: UI Mode crashedhttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/332199 - [BUG] Trace Viewer PWA crashes with "Aw, Snaphttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/3308686 - [Bug]: UI Mode Memory problhttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/33000000 - [Regression]: Inspector and Browser doesn't close on CTRhttps://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/332043204 - [Bug]: Chrome tab and inspector not closing after terminating session in terminal

Browser Versions

• Chromium 130.0.6723.19
• Mozilla Firefox 130.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 129
• Microsoft Edge 129