v1.27.0

Locators

With these new APIs, inspired by Testing Library, writing locators is a joy:

• page.get_by_text(text) to locate by text content.
• page.get_by_role(role) to locate by ARIA role, ARIA attributes and accessible name.
• page.get_by_label(label) to locate a form control by associated label's text.
• page.get_by_placeholder(placeholder) to locate an input by placeholder.
• page.get_by_alt_text(altText) to locate an element, usually image, by its text alternative.
• page.get_by_title(title) to locate an element by its title.

page.get_by_label("User Name").fill("John")

page.get_by_label("Password").fill("secret-password")

page.get_by_role("button", name="Sign in").click()

expect(page.get_by_text("Welcome, John!")).to_be_visible()

All the same methods are also available on Locator, FrameLocator and Frame classes.

Other highlights

• As announced in v1.25, Ubuntu 18 will not be supported as of Dec 2022. In addition to that, there will be no WebKit updates on Ubuntu 18 starting from the next Playwright release.

Behavior Changes

• expect(locator).to_have_attribute(name, value) with an empty value does not match missing attribute anymore. For example, the following snippet will succeed when button does not have a disabled attribute.

  expect(page.get_by_role("button")).to_have_attribute("disabled", "")

Browser Versions

• Chromium 107.0.5304.18
• Mozilla Firefox 105.0.1
• WebKit 16.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 106
• Microsoft Edge 106

v1.26.1

Bugfixes

• fix(driver): with CWD which contained spaces (microsoft/playwright#17579, #1561, #1565)
• chore: mark pathAfterFinished return value optional (#1567)

v1.26.0

Highlights

Assertions

• New option enabled for method: LocatorAssertions.to_be_enabled.
• method: LocatorAssertions.to_have_text now pierces open shadow roots.
• New option editable for method: LocatorAssertions.to_be_editable.
• New option visible for method: LocatorAssertions.to_be_visible.

Other highlights

• New option max_redirects for method: APIRequestContext.get and others to limit redirect count.
• Python 3.11 is now supported.

Behavior Change

A bunch of Playwright APIs already support the wait_until: "domcontentloaded" option.
For example:

page.goto("https://playwright.dev", wait_until="domcontentloaded")

Prior to 1.26, this would wait for all iframes to fire the DOMContentLoaded
event.

To align with web specification, the 'domcontentloaded' value only waits for
the target frame to fire the 'DOMContentLoaded' event. Use wait_until="load" to wait for all iframes.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 106.0.5249.30
• Mozilla Firefox 104.0
• WebKit 16.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 105
• Microsoft Edge 105

v1.25.2

Highlights

• [BUG] Jammy images not available in advertised location (#1518)
• Roll to latest patch release of upstream driver

v1.25.1

Bugfixes

• [REGRESSION] 1.25.0 distributes "scripts" as a package (#1500 (comment))

v1.25.0

Highlights

Announcements

• 🎁 We now ship Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish docker image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.25.0-jammy.
• 🪦 This is the last release with macOS 10.15 support (deprecated as of 1.21).
• ⚠️ Ubuntu 18 is now deprecated and will not be supported as of Dec 2022.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 105.0.5195.19
• Mozilla Firefox 103.0
• WebKit 16.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 104
• Microsoft Edge 104

v1.24.1

Bug Fixes

• fix Route.abort not reported as handled #1458

v1.24.0

Highlights

🐂 Debian 11 Bullseye Support

Playwright now supports Debian 11 Bullseye on x86_64 for Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. Let us know
if you encounter any issues!

Linux support looks like this:

	Ubuntu 18.04	Ubuntu 20.04	Ubuntu 22.04	Debian 11
Chromium	✅	✅	✅	✅
WebKit	✅	✅	✅	✅
Firefox	✅	✅	✅	✅

📖 New Introduction Docs

We rewrote our Getting Started docs to be more end-to-end testing focused. Check them out on playwright.dev.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 104.0.5112.48
• Mozilla Firefox 102.0
• WebKit 16.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 103
• Microsoft Edge 103

v1.23.1

Bug Fixes

• [BUG] Frame is emitted on Page events domcontentloaded/load #1399
• [Question]: Task was destroyed but it is pending! in route.abort() #1402

v1.23.0

Highlights

Network Replay

Now you can record network traffic into a HAR file and re-use this traffic in your tests.

To record network into HAR file:

npx playwright open --save-har=github.har.zip https://github.com/microsoft

Alternatively, you can record HAR programmatically:

context = browser.new_context(record_har_path="github.har.zip")
# ... do stuff ...
context.close()

Use the new methods method: Page.route_from_har or method: BrowserContext.route_from_har to serve matching responses from the HAR file:

context.route_from_har("github.har.zip")

Read more in our documentation.

Advanced Routing

You can now use method: Route.fallback to defer routing to other handlers.

Consider the following example:

# Remove a header from all requests
def remove_header_handler(route: Route) -> None:
    headers = route.request.all_headers()
    if "if-none-match" in headers:
        del headers["if-none-match"]
    route.fallback(headers=headers)

page.route("**/*", remove_header_handler)

# Abort all images
def abort_images_handler(route: Route) -> None:
    if route.request.resource_type == "image":
        route.abort()
    else:
        route.fallback()

page.route("**/*", abort_images_handler)

Note that the new methods method: Page.route_from_har or method: BrowserContext.route_from_har also participate in routing and could be deferred to.

Web-First Assertions Update

• New method method: LocatorAssertions.to_have_values that asserts all selected values of <select multiple> element.
• Methods method: LocatorAssertions.to_contain_text and method: LocatorAssertions.to_have_text now accept ignore_case option.

Miscellaneous

• If there's a service worker that's in your way, you can now easily disable it with a new context option service_workers:

  context = browser.new_context(service_workers="block")
  page = context.new_page()

• Using .zip path for recordHar context option automatically zips the resulting HAR:

  context = browser.new_context(record_har_path="github.har.zip")

• If you intend to edit HAR by hand, consider using the "minimal" HAR recording mode
  that only records information that is essential for replaying:

  context = browser.new_context(record_har_mode="minimal", record_har_path="har.har")

• Playwright now runs on Ubuntu 22 amd64 and Ubuntu 22 arm64.