Impact Score: 5/10
Playwright v1.14.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Source available — automated, not human-reviewed
Component: playwright · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Playwright v1.14.1. Source highlight: This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Highlights
This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:
#8287 - [BUG] webkit crashes intermittently: "file data stream has an unexpected number of bytes"
#8281 - [BUG] HTML report crashes if diff snapshot does not exists
#8230 - Using React Selectors with multiple React trees
#8366 - [BUG] Mark timeout in isVisible as deprecated and noop
## Browser Versions
- Chromium 94.0.4595.0
- Mozilla Firefox 91.0
- WebKit 15.0
This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:
- Google Chrome 92
- Microsoft Edge 92