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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 60 of the last 60 stable releases
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no release was ever pulled
7 years old
5694 releases · first in 2020
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https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36714 - [Regression]: Codegen is not able to launch in Administrator Terminal on Windows (ProtocolError
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36714 - [Regression]: Codegen is not able to launch in Administrator Terminal on Windows (ProtocolError: Protocol error) https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36828 - [Regression]: Playwright Codegen keeps spamming with selected option https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36810 - [Regression]: Starting Codegen with target language doesn't work anymore
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https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36650 - [Regression]: 1.54.0 breaks downloading browsers when an HTTP(S) proxy is used
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36650 - [Regression]: 1.54.0 breaks downloading browsers when an HTTP(S) proxy is used
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Support for Node.js 18 has been deprecated, and will be removed in the future.
New cookie property partitionKey in browserContext.cookies() and browserContext.addCookies(). This property allows to save and restore partitioned cookies. See CHIPS MDN article for more information. Note that browsers have different support and defaults for cookie partitioning.
New option noSnippets to disable code snippets in the html report.
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';
export default defineConfig({
reporter: [['html', { noSnippets: true }]]
});
New property location in test annotations, for example in testResult.annotations and testInfo.annotations. It shows where the annotation like test.skip or test.fixme was added.
New option --user-data-dir in multiple commands. You can specify the same user data dir to reuse browsing state, like authentication, between sessions.
npx playwright codegen --user-data-dir=./user-data
Option -gv has been removed from the npx playwright test command. Use --grep-invert instead.
npx playwright open does not open the test recorder anymore. Use npx playwright codegen instead.
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