Impact Score: 5/10
Playwright v1.47.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Playwright v1.47.0. Source highlight: Network Tab improvements
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.
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (3)
- filtering by asset type and URL
- better display of query string parameters
- preview of font assets
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Network Tab improvements
The Network tab in the UI mode and trace viewer has several nice improvements:
- filtering by asset type and URL
- better display of query string parameters
- preview of font assets
Credit to @kubajanik for these wonderful improvements!
## `--tsconfig` CLI option
By default, Playwright will look up the closest tsconfig for each imported file using a heuristic. You can now specify a single tsconfig file in the command line, and Playwright will use it for all imported files, not only test files:
```sh
# Pass a specific tsconfig
npx playwright test --tsconfig tsconfig.test.json
```
## [APIRequestContext](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-apirequestcontext) now accepts [`URLSearchParams`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams) and `string` as query parameters
You can now pass [`URLSearchParams`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams) and `string` as query parameters to [APIRequestContext](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-apirequestcontext):
```ts
test('query params', async ({ request }) => {
const searchParams = new URLSearchParams();
searchParams.set('userId', 1);
const response = await request.get(
'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts',
{
params: searchParams // or as a string: 'userId=1'
}
);
// ...
});
```
## Miscellaneous
- The `mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.47.0` now serves a Playwright image based on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble.
To use the 22.04 jammy-based image, please use `mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.47.0-jammy` instead.
- The `:latest`/`:focal`/`:jammy` tag for Playwright Docker images is no longer being published. Pin to a specific version for better stability and reproducibility.
- New option `behavior` in [page.removeAllListeners()](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-page#page-remove-all-listeners), [browser.removeAllListeners()](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-browser#browser-remove-all-listeners) and [browserContext.removeAllListeners()](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-browsercontext#browser-context-remove-all-listeners) to wait for ongoing listeners to complete.
- TLS client certificates can now be passed from memory by passing `cert` and `key` as buffers instead of file paths.
- Attachments with a `text/html` content type can now be opened in a new tab in the HTML report. This is useful for including third-party reports or other HTML content in the Playwright test report and distributing it to your team.
- `noWaitAfter` in [locator.selectOption()](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-locator#locator-select-option) was deprecated.
- We've seen reports of WebGL in Webkit misbehaving on GitHub Actions `macos-13`. We recommend upgrading GitHub Actions to `macos-14`.
## Browser Versions
- Chromium 129.0.6668.29
- Mozilla Firefox 130.0
- WebKit 18.0
This version was also tested against the following stable channels:
- Google Chrome 128
- Microsoft Edge 128