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

v1.20.0

Highlights

• New options for methods page.screenshot(), locator.screenshot() and elementHandle.screenshot():
  • Option ScreenshotAnimations.DISABLED rewinds all CSS animations and transitions to a consistent state
  • Option mask: List<Locator> masks given elements, overlaying them with pink #FF00FF boxes.
• Trace Viewer now shows API testing requests.
• Locator.highlight() visually reveals element(s) for easier debugging.

Announcements

• v1.20 is the last release to receive WebKit update for macOS 10.15 Catalina. Please update macOS to keep using latest & greatest WebKit!

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

v1.19.0

Version 1.19

Locator Updates

Locator now supports a has option that makes sure it contains another locator inside:

page.locator("article", new Page.LocatorOptions().setHas(page.locator(".highlight"))).click();

The snippet above will select article that has highlight in it and will press the button in it.
Read more in locator documentation

Other Updates

• New method: Locator.page
• method: Page.screenshot and method: Locator.screenshot now automatically hides blinking caret
• Playwright Codegen now generates locators and frame locators

Browser Versions

• Chromium 100.0.4863.0
• Mozilla Firefox 96.0.1
• WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 98
• Microsoft Edge 98

v1.18.0

API Testing

Playwright for Java 1.18 introduces new API Testing that lets you send requests to the server directly from Java!

Now you can:

• test your server API
• prepare server side state before visiting the web application in a test
• validate server side post-conditions after running some actions in the browser

To do a request on behalf of Playwright's Page, use new page.request() API:

// Do a GET request on behalf of page
APIResponse res = page.request().get("http://example.com/foo.json");

Read more about it in our API testing guide.

Web-First Assertions

Playwright for Java 1.18 introduces Web-First Assertions.

Consider the following example:

...
import static com.microsoft.playwright.assertions.PlaywrightAssertions.assertThat;

public class TestExample {
  ...
  @Test
  void statusBecomesSubmitted() {
    ...
    page.click("#submit-button");
    assertThat(page.locator(".status")).hasText("Submitted");
  }
}

Playwright will be re-testing the node with the selector .status until
fetched Node has the "Submitted" text. It will be re-fetching the node and
checking it over and over, until the condition is met or until the timeout is
reached. You can pass this timeout as an option.

Read more in our documentation.

Locator Improvements

• Locator.dragTo()
• Each locator can now be optionally filtered by the text it contains:

  page.locator("li", new Page.LocatorOptions().setHasText("my item"))
      .locator("button").click();

  Read more in locator documentation

Tracing Improvements

Tracing now can embed Java sources to recorded
traces, using new setSources option.

New APIs & changes

• acceptDownloads option now defaults to true.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 99.0.4812.0
• Mozilla Firefox 95.0
• WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 97
• Microsoft Edge 97

v1.17.2

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#10638 - [BUG] Locator.click -> subtree intercepts pointer events since version 1.17.0
microsoft/playwright#10632 - [BUG] Playwright 1.17.0 -> After clicking the element - I get an error that click action was failed
microsoft/playwright#10627 - [REGRESSION]: Can no longer click Material UI select box
microsoft/playwright#10620 - [BUG] trailing zero width whitespace fails toHaveText

Browser Versions

• Chromium 98.0.4695.0
• Mozilla Firefox 94.0.1
• WebKit 15.4

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

• Google Chrome 96
• Microsoft Edge 96