v1.27.0

Highlights

Locators

With these new APIs writing locators is a joy:

• Page.getByText(text, options) to locate by text content.
• Page.getByRole(role, options) to locate by ARIA role, ARIA attributes and accessible name.
• Page.getByLabel(label, options) to locate a form control by associated label's text.
• Page.getByTestId(testId) to locate an element based on its data-testid attribute (other attribute can be configured).
• Page.getByPlaceholder(placeholder, options) to locate an input by placeholder.
• Page.getByAltText(altText, options) to locate an element, usually image, by its text alternative.
• Page.getByTitle(title, options) to locate an element by its title.

page.getByLabel("User Name").fill("John");

page.getByLabel("Password").fill("secret-password");

page.getByRole(AriaRole.BUTTON, new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("Sign in")).click();

assertThat(page.getByText("Welcome, John!")).isVisible();

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).hasAttribute(name, value, options) 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.

  assertThat(page.getByRole(AriaRole.BUTTON)).hasAttribute("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

Highlights

This patch includes the following bug fixes (they were reported in Playwright Python but manifested themselves in Java too):

microsoft/playwright-python#1561 - [Question]: 'c:\Users\ASUS' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
microsoft/playwright-python#1565 - [BUG] AttributeError: 'PlaywrightContextManager' object has no attribute '_playwright

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

v1.26.0

Highlights

Assertions

• LocatorAssertions.hasText() now pierces open shadow roots.
• New option setEditable for LocatorAssertions.isEditable().
• New option setEnabled for LocatorAssertions.isEnabled().
• New option setVisible for LocatorAssertions.isVisible().

Other highlights

• New option setMaxRedirects for APIRequestContext.get() and others to limit redirect count.
• Docker images are now using OpenJDK 17.

Behavior Change

A bunch of Playwright APIs already support the setWaitUntil(WaitUntilState.DOMCONTENTLOADED) option.
For example:

page.navigate("https://playwright.dev", new Page.NavigateOptions().setWaitUntil(WaitUntilState.DOMCONTENTLOADED));

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

To align with web specification, the WaitUntilState.DOMCONTENTLOADED value only waits for the target frame to fire the 'DOMContentLoaded' event. Use setWaitUntil(WaitUntilState.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

v1.25.0

New APIs & changes

• Default assertions timeout now can be changed with setDefaultAssertionTimeout.

Announcements

• 🪦 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

Highlights

This patch includes the following bug fix:

microsoft/playwright#15932 - [BUG] - Install MS Edge on CI Fails

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

v1.24.0

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	✅	✅	✅	✅

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

v1.23.0

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:

mvn exec:java -e -Dexec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -Dexec.args="open --save-har=example.har --save-har-glob='**/api/**' https://example.com"

Alternatively, you can record HAR programmatically:

BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions()
    .setRecordHarPath(Paths.get("example.har"))
    .setRecordHarUrlFilter("**/api/**"));

// ... Perform actions ...

// Close context to ensure HAR is saved to disk.
context.close();

Use the new methods page.routeFromHAR() or browserContext.routeFromHAR() to serve matching responses from the HAR file:

context.routeFromHAR(Paths.get("example.har"));

Read more in our documentation.

Advanced Routing

You can now use route.fallback() to defer routing to other handlers.

Consider the following example:

// Remove a header from all requests.
page.route("**/*", route -> {
  Map<String, String> headers = new HashMap<>(route.request().headers());
  headers.remove("X-Secret");
  route.resume(new Route.ResumeOptions().setHeaders(headers));
});

// Abort all images.
page.route("**/*", route -> {
  if ("image".equals(route.request().resourceType()))
    route.abort();
  else
    route.fallback();
});

Note that the new methods page.routeFromHAR() and browserContext.routeFromHAR()also participate in routing and could be deferred to.

Web-First Assertions Update

• New method assertThat(locator).hasValues() that asserts all selected values of <select multiple> element.
• Methods assertThat(locator).containsText() and assertThat(locator).hasText() now accept ignoreCase option.

Miscellaneous

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

  BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions()
      .setServiceWorkers(ServiceWorkerPolicy.BLOCK));

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

  BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions()
      .setRecordHarPath(Paths.get("example.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:

  BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions()
      .setRecordHarPath(Paths.get("example.har.zip"))
      .setRecordHarMode(HarMode.MINIMAL));

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

v1.22.0

Highlights

• Role selectors that allow selecting elements by their ARIA role, ARIA attributes and accessible name.

  // Click a button with accessible name "log in"
  page.click("role=button[name='log in']")

  Read more in our documentation.

• New locator.filter([options]) API to filter an existing locator

  Locator buttonsLocator = page.locator("role=button");
  // ...
  Locator submitButton = buttonsLocator.filter(new Locator.FilterOptions().setHasText("Submit"));
  submitButton.click();

• Playwright for Java now supports Ubuntu 20.04 ARM64 and Apple M1.
  You can now run Playwright for Java tests on Apple M1, inside Docker on Apple M1, and on Raspberry Pi.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 102.0.5005.40
• Mozilla Firefox 99.0.1
• WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 101
• Microsoft Edge 101

v1.21.0

Highlights

• New experimental role selectors that allow selecting elements by their ARIA role, ARIA attributes and accessible name.

  // Click a button with accessible name "log in"
  page.click("role=button[name='log in']")

  To use role selectors, make sure to pass PLAYWRIGHT_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES=1 environment variable.

  Read more in our documentation.

• New scale option in Page.screenshot for smaller sized screenshots.

• New caret option in Page.screenshot to control text caret. Defaults to HIDE.

Behavior Changes

• Playwright now supports large file uploads (100s of MBs) via Locator.setInputFiles API.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 101.0.4951.26
• Mozilla Firefox 98.0.2
• WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 100
• Microsoft Edge 100

v1.20.1

Highlights

This patch includes the following bug fixes:

microsoft/playwright#12711 - [REGRESSION] Page.screenshot hangs on some sites
microsoft/playwright#12807 - [BUG] Cookies get assigned before fulfilling a response
microsoft/playwright#12821 - [BUG] Chromium: Cannot click, element intercepts pointer events
microsoft/playwright#12887 - [BUG] Locator.count() with _vue selector with Repro
microsoft/playwright#12974 - [BUG] Regression - chromium browser closes during test or debugging session on macos

Browser Versions

• Chromium 101.0.4921.0
• Mozilla Firefox 97.0.1
• WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 99
• Microsoft Edge 99