v1.13.1

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

#823 - [Bug]: Warning of Future exception was never retrieved when expect_* gets used and throws inside the context manager
#820 - [Bug]: wait_for_load_state("networkidle") was not working
#812 - [Bug]: added hooks for pyinstaller

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4576.0
• Mozilla Firefox 90.0
• WebKit 14.2

v1.13.0

Playwright

• 🖖 Programmatic drag-and-drop support via the page.drag_and_drop() API.
• 🔎 Enhanced HAR with body sizes for requests and responses. Use via record_har_path option in browser.new_context().

Tools

• Playwright Trace Viewer now shows parameters, returned values and console.log() calls.
• Playwright Inspector can generate Playwright Test tests.

New and Overhauled Guides

• Intro
• Authentication
• Chome Extensions
• Playwright Test Configuration
• Playwright Test Annotations
• Playwright Test Fixtures

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4576.0
• Mozilla Firefox 90.0
• WebKit 14.2

New Playwright APIs

• new baseURL option in browser.new_context() and browser.new_page()
• response.security_details() and response.server_addr()
• page.drag_and_drop() and frame.drag_and_drop()
• download.cancel()
• page.input_value(), frame.input_value() and element_handle.input_value()
• new force option in page.fill(), frame.fill(), and element_handle.fill()
• new force option in page.select_option(), frame.select_option(), and element_handle.select_option()

v1.12.1

Highlights

This patch release includes bugfixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#7015 - [BUG] Firefox: strange undefined toJSON property on JS objects
microsoft/playwright#7048 - [BUG] Dialogs cannot be dismissed if tracing is on in Chromium or Webkit
microsoft/playwright#7058 - [BUG] Getting no video frame error for mobile chrome

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4530.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 91
• Microsoft Edge 91

v1.12.0

🧟‍♂️ Introducing Playwright Trace & TraceViewer

Playwright Trace Viewer is a new GUI tool that helps exploring recorded Playwright traces after the script ran. Playwright traces let you examine:

• page DOM before and after each Playwright action
• page rendering before and after each Playwright action
• browse network during script execution

Traces are recorded using the new browser_context.tracing API:

browser = chromium.launch()
context = browser.new_context()

# Start tracing before creating / navigating a page.
context.tracing.start(screenshots=True, snapshots=True)

page.goto("https://playwright.dev")

# Stop tracing and export it into a zip archive.
context.tracing.stop(path = "trace.zip")

Traces are examined later with the Playwright CLI:

playwright show-trace trace.zip

That will open the following GUI:

👉 Read more in trace viewer documentation.

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Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4530.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 91
• Microsoft Edge 91

New APIs

• reduced_motion option in page.emulate_media(), browser_type.launch_persistent_context(), browser.new_context() and browser.new_page()
• browser_context.on("request")
• browser_context.on("requestfailed")
• browser_context.on("requestfinished")
• browser_context.on("response")
• traces_dir option in browser_type.launch() and browser_type.launch_persistent_context()
• new browser_context.tracing API namespace
• new download.page getter

v1.11.2

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes across all languages for the following issues:

• #679 - can't get browser's context pages after connect_over_cdp
• microsoft/playwright-java#432 - [Bug] Videos are not complete when an exception is thrown

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

v1.11.1

Highlights

🐧 Deploy v1.11 on PIP for Ubuntu users
🐍 Release Playwright-Python on Anaconda: https://anaconda.org/Microsoft/playwright

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

v1.11.0

Highlights

🎥 New video: Playwright: A New Test Automation Framework for the Modern Web (slides)

• We talked about Playwright
• Showed engineering work behind the scenes
• Did live demos with new features ✨
• Special thanks to applitools for hosting the event and inviting us!

⚙️ Chrome DevTools Protocol support with browser_type.connect_over_cdp().

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

New APIs

• new emulation devices: Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy Tab S4, Pixel 3, Pixel 4
• new methods:
  • browser_type.connect_over_cdp() to connect using Chrome DevTools protocol
  • browser_type.connect() to connect to a Playwright server
  • page.wait_for_url() to ensure navigations to URL
  • video.delete() and video.save_as() to manage screen recording
• new options:
  • screen option in the browser.new_context() method to emulate window.screen dimensions
  • position option in page.check() and page.uncheck() methods
  • trial option to dry-run actions in page.check(), page.uncheck(), page.click(), page.dblclick(), page.hover() and page.tap()
  • headers option in browser_type.connect()

v1.10.0

Highlights

• Run Playwright against Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge stable channels with the new channels API.
• Chromium screenshots are fast on Mac & Windows.

Bundled Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4430.0
• Mozilla Firefox 87.0b10
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 89
• Microsoft Edge 89

New APIs

• browserType.launch() now accepts the new 'channel' option. Read more in our documentation.

v1.9.2

Highlights

Text selector and click() fixes.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4421.0
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
• WebKit 14.1

Issues Closed (4)

#538 - page.on("request", f=func) fails if func is a class method
#534 - Either path or source parameter must be specified

microsoft/playwright#5634 - [REGRESSION]: Test selector changed behavior
microsoft/playwright#5674 - [REGRESSION]: Label is not visible anymore

v1.9.1

Highlights

Text selector fixes.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4421.0
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
• WebKit 14.1