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Playwright v1.55.0stable Released Aug 20, 2025
⚠️ Breaking Change Impact Score: 7/10

Playwright v1.55.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

Breaking-change evidence from the source

  • Breaking Changes - ⚠️ Dropped support for Chromium extension manifest v2.
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✨ Features 2 ⚠️ Breaking & Deprecations 1
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

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.

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⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)

  • Breaking Changes - ⚠️ Dropped support for Chromium extension manifest v2.

✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)

  • Automatic `toBeVisible()` assertions: Codegen can now generate automatic `toBeVisible()` assertions for common UI interactions. This feature can be enabled in the Codegen settings UI.
  • Added support for Debian 13 "Trixie".
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## New APIs - New Property [testStepInfo.titlePath](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-teststepinfo#test-step-info-title-path) 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
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