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A high-level API to automate web browsers
Last release today
06 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
9 years old
5717 releases · first in 2017
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https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/22144 - [BUG] WebServer only starting after timeout https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/22191
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/22144 - [BUG] WebServer only starting after timeout https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/22191 - chore: allow reusing browser between the tests https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/22215 - [BUG] Tests failing in toPass often marked as passed
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https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/21993 - [BUG] Browser crash when using Playwright VSC extension and trace-viewer enabled in config http
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/21993 - [BUG] Browser crash when using Playwright VSC extension and trace-viewer enabled in config https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/22003 - [Feature] Make Vue component mount props less restrictive https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/22089 - [REGRESSION]: Tests failing with "Error: tracing.stopChunk"
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https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/21832 - [BUG] Trace is not opening on specific broken locator https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/i
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/21832 - [BUG] Trace is not opening on specific broken locator https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/21897 - [BUG] --ui fails to open with error reading mainFrame from an undefined this._page https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/21918 - [BUG]: UI mode, skipped tests not being found https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/21941 - [BUG] UI mode does not show webServer startup errors https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/21953 - [BUG] Parameterized tests are not displayed in the UI mode
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New UI Mode lets you explore, run and debug tests. Comes with a built-in watch mode.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF0yA-JLQW0"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/746130/227044467-b4db82dc-c7fa-40d7-a0c8-8f702581c3b9.png" width=340></a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF0yA-JLQW0">Playwright v1.32 updates</a>
New UI Mode lets you explore, run and debug tests. Comes with a built-in watch mode.
Engage with a new flag --ui:
npx playwright test --ui
option: updateMode and option: updateContent in page.routeFromHAR() and browserContext.routeFromHAR().TestInfo.testId.name in method Tracing.startChunk().Note: component tests only, does not affect end-to-end tests.
@playwright/experimental-ct-react now supports React 18 only.@playwright/experimental-ct-react with @playwright/experimental-ct-react17.This version was also tested against the following stable channels:
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