[Feature]: Node 24 Docker Images

[jlp-craigmorten]

🚀 Feature Request

Node 24 (Krypton) became the Active LTS yesterday (28/10/2025), see release timelines at https://nodejs.org/en/about/previous-releases.

This request is to release Node 24 builds of the Playwright Docker images which are currently locked to Node 22, see https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/main/utils/docker/Dockerfile.noble#L17.

Example

Consumers of Playwright via the published Docker images at https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/playwright would download and use the image for the test automation.

Motivation

Consumers of the Playwright Docker images could make sure of the latest Node features such as the URLPattern, Error.isError, the permissions model, and other features, see https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v24.0.0 for details.

[kamranayub]

Yep, updating our CI images to use Node 24 so we can use npm 11 and ran into this. For now, I just do npm i -g npm@11 in the Docker container. This would be great to see!

[dimkin-eu]

Can the next version(s?) have both images - with nodes 22 and 24? Othewise untill the rest code/infra is compatible with node 24 playwright updates could be freezed :(
Like Dockerfile-22.noble and Dockerfile-24.noble

[agg23]

Can the next version(s?) have both images - with nodes 22 and 24? Othewise untill the rest code/infra is compatible with node 24 playwright updates could be freezed :( Like Dockerfile-22.noble and Dockerfile-24.noble

You can always downgrade your container manually.

[dimkin-eu]

@agg23 we already using

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.55.0-noble

which contains all the stuff + adding some needed for us. Also its not determined if "downgraded" image will work :(

[agg23]

Older images, such as mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.55.0-noble, will continue to function exactly the same. Starting with v1.57, our Docker images will be using Node 24 LTS instead.

We are a small team and can't afford to maintain multiple versions unnecessarily. Node 24 should have minimal breaking changes against 22.

[agg23]

This will release with v1.57.

[kk-adi]

Hi @agg23, could you please mention such changes also in the release notes? (Starting with v1.57, our Docker images will be using Node 24 LTS instead.). Finding such information in closed issues can be time consuming

[ConcernedHobbit]

Hi @agg23, could you please mention such changes also in the release notes? (Starting with v1.57, our Docker images will be using Node 24 LTS instead.). Finding such information in closed issues can be time consuming

Previously has been in misc. as 'Playwright docker images switched from Node.js v20 to Node.js v22 LTS.', so v1.57 release notes should have 'Playwright docker images switched from Node.js v22 to Node.js v24 LTS.'

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