Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.64.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.64.1. Source highlight: #43247 [Bug]: _electron.launch intermittently loses a packaged app's first window since 1.64.0
Playwright Changelog & Release History
Cross-browser end-to-end testing and browser automation.
Partial archive: 100 tracked releases, May 12, 2022–Oct 14, 2026. Includes multiple channels and packages. Coverage & limitations.
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⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.64.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.64.0. Source highlight: New page.webmcp and frame.webmcp give access to the tools that a page registers through the experimental WebMCP browser API, so you can test them like any other part of your app:
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.63.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.63.0. Source highlight: Tests that access a shared resource — an external service, a global account setting — can now declare a named `lock`.
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.62.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.62.1. Source highlight: #41989 [Regression]: tsconfig "extends" bare specifier isn't resolved via node_modules walk-up like tsc (fatal since 1.62)
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.62.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.62.0. Source highlight: 🧱 New component testing model
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.61.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.61.1. Source highlight: #41365 [Bug]: Expect.Extend matcher with same name as default matcher in same expect instance overrides default matchers implementation to custom matcher
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.61.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.61.0. Source highlight: New Credentials virtual authenticator, available via browserContext.credentials, lets tests register passkeys and answer `navigator.credentials.create()` / `navigator.credentials.get()` ceremonies in the page — no real hardware key required, works in all browsers:
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.60.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.60.0. Source highlight: 🌐 HAR recording on Tracing
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.59.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.59.1. Source highlight: **[Windows]** Reverted hiding console window when spawning browser processes, which caused regressions including broken `codegen`, `--ui` and `show` commands (#39990)
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.59.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.59.0. Source highlight: New page.screencast API provides a unified interface for capturing page content with:
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.58.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.58.2. Source highlight: #39121 fix(trace viewer): make paths via stdin work
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.58.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.58.1. Source highlight: #39036 fix(msedge): fix local network permissions
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.58.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.58.0. Source highlight: 📣 Playwright CLI+SKILLs 📣
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.57.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.57.0. Source highlight: In HTML reporter, there's a new tab we call "Speedboard":
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.56.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.56.1. Source highlight: #37871 chore: allow local-network-access permission in chromium
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.56.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.56.0. Source highlight: Introducing Playwright Agents, three custom agent definitions designed to guide LLMs through the core process of building a Playwright test:
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.55.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.55.1. Source highlight: Chromium 140.0.7339.186
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.55.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.55.0. Source highlight: New Property testStepInfo.titlePath Returns the full title path starting from the test file, including test and step titles.
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.54.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.54.2. Source highlight: Chromium 139.0.7258.5
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.54.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.54.1. Source highlight: Chromium 139.0.7258.5
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.54.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.54.0. Source highlight: 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.
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.53.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.53.2. Source highlight: Chromium 138.0.7204.23
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.53.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.53.1. Source highlight: Chromium 138.0.7204.23
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.53.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.53.0. Source highlight: Trace Viewer and HTML Reporter Updates
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.52.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.52.0. Source highlight: New method expect(locator).toContainClass() to ergonomically assert individual class names on the element.
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.51.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.51.1. Source highlight: Chromium 134.0.6998.35
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.51.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.51.0. Source highlight: StorageState for indexedDB
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.50.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.50.1. Source highlight: Chromium 133.0.6943.16
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.50.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.50.0. Source highlight: 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.
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.49.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.49.1. Source highlight: Chromium 131.0.6778.33
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.49.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.49.0. Source highlight: New assertion expect(locator).toMatchAriaSnapshot() verifies page structure by comparing to an expected accessibility tree, represented as YAML.
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.48.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.48.2. Source highlight: Chromium 130.0.6723.19
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.48.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.48.1. Source highlight: Chromium 130.0.6723.19
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.48.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.48.0. Source highlight: New methods page.routeWebSocket() and browserContext.routeWebSocket() allow to intercept, modify and mock WebSocket connections initiated in the page. Below is a simple example that mocks WebSocket communication by responding to a `"request"` with a `"response"`.
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.47.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.47.2. Source highlight: Chromium 129.0.6668.29
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.47.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.47.1. Source highlight: Chromium 129.0.6668.29
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.47.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.47.0. Source highlight: Network Tab improvements
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.46.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.46.1. Source highlight: Chromium 128.0.6613.18
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.46.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.46.0. Source highlight: TLS Client Certificates
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.45.3 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.45.3. Source highlight: Chromium 127.0.6533.5