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A high-level API to automate web browsers
Last release today
04 Oct 2026
Ships on a steady schedule
a new release about every 8 days
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 43 of 43 stable releases
1959 versions withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
6 years old
3388 releases · first in 2020
One column per quarter.
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## Highlights #37871 chore: allow local-network-access permission in chromium #37891 fix(agents): remove workspaceFolder ref from vscode mcp #37759 ch
#37871 chore: allow local-network-access permission in chromium #37891 fix(agents): remove workspaceFolder ref from vscode mcp #37759 chore: rename agents to test agents #37757 chore(mcp): fallback to cwd when resolving test config
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Event browserContext.on('backgroundpage') has been deprecated and will not be emitted. Method browserContext.backgroundPages() will return an empty li…
Introducing Playwright Agents, three custom agent definitions designed to guide LLMs through the core process of building a Playwright test:
Run npx playwright init-agents with your client of choice to generate the latest agent definitions:
# Generate agent files for each agentic loop
# Visual Studio Code
npx playwright init-agents --loop=vscode
# Claude Code
npx playwright init-agents --loop=claude
# opencode
npx playwright init-agents --loop=opencode
[!NOTE] VS Code v1.105 (currently on the VS Code Insiders channel) is needed for the agentic experience in VS Code. It will become stable shortly, we are a bit ahead of times with this functionality!
Learn more about Playwright Agents
--test-list and --test-list-invert to allow manual specification of specific tests from a file'html' reporter to disable the "Copy prompt" button'html' reporter and UI Mode to merge files, collapsing test and describe blocks into a single unified list--update-snapshots optionsinput placeholderPLAYWRIGHT_TEST to Playwright worker processes to allow discriminating on testing statusNothing published for this version
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