v1.42.0

New Locator Handler

New method page.add_locator_handler(locator, handler) registers a callback that will be invoked when specified element becomes visible and may block Playwright actions. The callback can get rid of the overlay. Here is an example that closes a cookie dialog when it appears.

# Setup the handler.
page.add_locator_handler(
    page.get_by_role("heading", name="Hej! You are in control of your cookies."),
    lambda: page.get_by_role("button", name="Accept all").click(),
)
# Write the test as usual.
page.goto("https://www.ikea.com/")
page.get_by_role("link", name="Collection of blue and white").click()
expect(page.get_by_role("heading", name="Light and easy")).to_be_visible()

New APIs

• page.pdf([options]) accepts two new options tagged and outline.

Announcements

• ⚠️ Ubuntu 18 is not supported anymore.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 123.0.6312.4
• Mozilla Firefox 123.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 122
• Microsoft Edge 123

v1.41.2

Highlights

#2258 - [REGRESSION] Failing step is not highlighted in red in actions panel for versions after 1.39.0
microsoft/playwright#29123 - [REGRESSION] route.continue: Protocol error (Fetch.continueRequest): Invalid InterceptionId.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 121.0.6167.57
• Mozilla Firefox 121.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 120
• Microsoft Edge 120

v1.41.1

Highlights

microsoft/playwright#29067 - [REGRESSION] Codegen/Recorder: not all clicks are being actioned nor recorded
microsoft/playwright#29019 - [REGRESSION] trace.playwright.dev does not currently support the loading from URL

Browser Versions

• Chromium 121.0.6167.57
• Mozilla Firefox 121.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 120
• Microsoft Edge 120

v1.41.0

New APIs

• New method page.unroute_all() removes all routes registered by page.route() and page.route_from_har(). Optionally allows to wait for ongoing routes to finish, or ignore any errors from them.
• New method browserContext.unroute_all() removes all routes registered by browserContext.route() and browserContext.route_from_har(). Optionally allows to wait for ongoing routes to finish, or ignore any errors from them.
• New option style in page.screenshot() and locator.screenshot() to add custom CSS to the page before taking a screenshot.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 121.0.6167.57
• Mozilla Firefox 121.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 120
• Microsoft Edge 120

v1.40.0

Test Generator Update

New tools to generate assertions:

• "Assert visibility" tool generates expect(locator).to_be_visible().
• "Assert value" tool generates expect(locator).to_have_value(value).
• "Assert text" tool generates expect(locator).to_contain_text(expected).

Here is an example of a generated test with assertions:

from playwright.sync_api import Page, expect

def test_example(page: Page) -> None:
    page.goto("https://playwright.dev/")
    page.get_by_role("link", name="Get started").click()
    expect(page.get_by_label("Breadcrumbs").get_by_role("list")).to_contain_text("Installation")
    expect(page.get_by_label("Search")).to_be_visible()
    page.get_by_label("Search").click()
    page.get_by_placeholder("Search docs").fill("locator")
    expect(page.get_by_placeholder("Search docs")).to_have_value("locator");

New APIs

• Option reason in page.close([options]), browserContext.close([options]) and browser.close([options]). Close reason is reported for all operations interrupted by the closure.
• Option firefox_user_prefs in browserType.launch_persistent_context(userDataDir[, options]).

Other Changes

• Method download.path() throws an error for failed and cancelled downloads.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 120.0.6099.28
• Mozilla Firefox 119.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 119
• Microsoft Edge 119

v1.39.0

Features

Python 3.12 support.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 119.0.6045.9
• Mozilla Firefox 118.0.1
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 118
• Microsoft Edge 118

v1.38.0

Trace Viewer Updates

1. Zoom into time range.
2. Network panel redesign.

New APIs

• browserContext.on('weberror')
• locator.press_sequentially()

Deprecations

• The following methods were deprecated: page.type(), frame.type(), locator.type() and elementHandle.type().
  Please use locator.fill() instead which is much faster. Use locator.press_sequentially() only if there is a
  special keyboard handling on the page, and you need to press keys one-by-one.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 117.0.5938.62
• Mozilla Firefox 117.0
• WebKit 17.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 116
• Microsoft Edge 116

v1.37.0

Highlights

• New --full-page-screenshot command line flag allows taking a
  full page screenshot on failure.

• It is now possible to override the context options for a single test by using the browser_context_args marker.

• pytest-playwright is now also getting published on Anaconda

📚 Debian 12 Bookworm Support

Playwright now supports Debian 12 Bookworm on both x86_64 and arm64 for Chromium, Firefox and WebKit.
Let us know if you encounter any issues!

Linux support looks like this:

	Ubuntu 20.04	Ubuntu 22.04	Debian 11	Debian 12
Chromium	✅	✅	✅	✅
WebKit	✅	✅	✅	✅
Firefox	✅	✅	✅	✅

Browser Versions

• Chromium 116.0.5845.82
• Mozilla Firefox 115.0
• WebKit 17.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 115
• Microsoft Edge 115

v1.36.0

Highlights

🏝️ Summer maintenance release.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 115.0.5790.75
• Mozilla Firefox 115.0
• WebKit 17.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 114
• Microsoft Edge 114

v1.35.0

Highlights

• New option mask_color for methods Page.screenshot() and Locator.screenshot() to change default masking color.

• New uninstall CLI command to uninstall browser binaries:

  $ playwright uninstall # remove browsers installed by this installation
  $ playwright uninstall --all # remove all ever-install Playwright browsers

Browser Versions

• Chromium 115.0.5790.13
• Mozilla Firefox 113.0
• WebKit 16.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 114
• Microsoft Edge 114