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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1959 versions withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing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
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https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/28319 - [REGRESSION]: Version 1.40.0 Produces corrupted traces https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/28319 - [REGRESSION]: Version 1.40.0 Produces corrupted traces https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/28371 - [BUG] The color of the 'ok' text did not change to green in the vs code test results section https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/28321 - [BUG] Ambiguous test outcome and status for serial mode https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/28362 - [BUG] Merging blobs ends up in Error: Cannot create a string longer than 0x1fffffe8 characters https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/28239 - fix: collect all errors in removeFolders
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New tools to generate assertions:
New tools to generate assertions:
Here is an example of a generated test with assertions:
import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';
test('test', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('https://playwright.dev/');
await page.getByRole('link', { name: 'Get started' }).click();
await expect(page.getByLabel('Breadcrumbs').getByRole('list')).toContainText('Installation');
await expect(page.getByLabel('Search')).toBeVisible();
await page.getByLabel('Search').click();
await page.getByPlaceholder('Search docs').fill('locator');
await expect(page.getByPlaceholder('Search docs')).toHaveValue('locator');
});
reason in page.close(), browserContext.close() and browser.close(). Close reason is reported for all operations interrupted by the closure.firefoxUserPrefs in browserType.launchPersistentContext(userDataDir).This version was also tested against the following stable channels:
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