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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
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
7 years old
5694 releases · first in 2020
One column per quarter.
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https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36317 - [Regression]: Merging pre-1.53 blob reports loses attachments https://github.com/microsoft/play
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36317 - [Regression]: Merging pre-1.53 blob reports loses attachments
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/36357 - [Regression (Chromium)]: CDP missing trailing slash
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36292 - [Bug (MSEdge)]: Edge fails to launch when using msRelaunchNoCompatLayer
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https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36339 - [Regression]: Click can fail when scrolling required https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/is
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36339 - [Regression]: Click can fail when scrolling required
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36307 - [Regression (Chromium)]: Under some scenarios filling a textarea doesn't fill
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/36294 - [Regression (Firefox)]: setViewportSize times out
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/36350 - [Fix]: Display HTTP method for fetch trace entries
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New Steps in Trace Viewer and HTML reporter:
New Steps in Trace Viewer and HTML reporter: <img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1963ff7d-4070-41be-a79b-4333176921a2" alt="New Trace Viewer Steps" height="500">
New option in 'html' reporter to set the title of a specific test run:
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';
export default defineConfig({
reporter: [['html', { title: 'Custom test run #1028' }]]
});
New option kind in testInfo.snapshotPath() controls which snapshot path template is used.
New method locator.describe() to describe a locator. Used for trace viewer and reports.
const button = page.getByTestId('btn-sub').describe('Subscribe button');
await button.click();
npx playwright install --list will now list all installed browsers, versions and locations.
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