# Playwright v1.57.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Playwright (https://playwright.dev)
- **Version:** v1.57.0
- **Released:** Nov 25, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/playwright/updates/v1.57.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Playwright v1.57.0. Source highlight: In HTML reporter, there's a new tab we call "Speedboard":

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking Change After 3 years of being deprecated, we removed `Page#accessibility` from our API. Please use other libraries such as [Axe](https://www.deque.com/axe/) if you need to test page accessibility. See our Node.js [guide](https://playwright.dev/docs/accessibility-testing) for integration with Axe.

## New Features
- New property testConfig.tag adds a tag to all tests in this run. This is useful when using merge-reports.

## Bug Fixes
- Console messages from Service Workers are dispatched through worker.on('console'). You can opt out of this using the `PLAYWRIGHT_DISABLE_SERVICE_WORKER_CONSOLE` environment variable.