Release notes

• Version 1.10
• Version 1.9
• Version 1.8
• Version 1.7

Version 1.10

• Playwright for Java v1.10 is now stable!
• 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.

Version 1.9

• Playwright Inspector is a new GUI tool to author and debug your tests.
  • Line-by-line debugging of your Playwright scripts, with play, pause and step-through.
  • Author new scripts by recording user actions.
  • Generate element selectors for your script by hovering over elements.
  • Set the PWDEBUG=1 environment variable to launch the Inspector
• Pause script execution with page.pause(). in headed mode. Pausing the page launches Playwright Inspector for debugging.
• New has-text pseudo-class for CSS selectors. :has-text("example") matches any element containing "example" somewhere inside, possibly in a child or a descendant element. See more examples.
• Page dialogs are now auto-dismissed during execution, unless a listener for dialog event is configured. Learn more about this.
• Playwright for Python is now stable with an idiomatic snake case API and pre-built Docker image to run tests in CI/CD.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4421.0
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
• WebKit 14.1

New APIs

• page.pause().

Version 1.8

• Selecting elements based on layout with :left-of(), :right-of(), :above() and :below().

• Playwright now includes command line interface, former playwright-cli.

  $ playwright --help

• page.select_option(selector, **kwargs) now waits for the options to be present.

• New methods to assert element state like page.is_editable(selector, **kwargs).

New APIs

• element_handle.is_checked().
• element_handle.is_disabled().
• element_handle.is_editable().
• element_handle.is_enabled().
• element_handle.is_hidden().
• element_handle.is_visible().
• page.is_checked(selector, **kwargs).
• page.is_disabled(selector, **kwargs).
• page.is_editable(selector, **kwargs).
• page.is_enabled(selector, **kwargs).
• page.is_hidden(selector, **kwargs).
• page.is_visible(selector, **kwargs).
• New option 'editable' in element_handle.wait_for_element_state(state, **kwargs).

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4392.0
• Mozilla Firefox 85.0b5
• WebKit 14.1

Version 1.7

• New Java SDK: Playwright for Java is now on par with JavaScript, Python and C# bindings.
• Browser storage API: New convenience APIs to save and load browser storage state (cookies, local storage) to simplify automation scenarios with authentication.
• New CSS selectors: We heard your feedback for more flexible selectors and have revamped the selectors implementation. Playwright 1.7 introduces new CSS extensions and there's more coming soon.
• New website: The docs website at playwright.dev has been updated and is now built with Docusaurus.
• Support for Apple Silicon: Playwright browser binaries for WebKit and Chromium are now built for Apple Silicon.

New APIs

• browser_context.storage_state(**kwargs) to get current state for later reuse.
• storageState option in browser.new_context(**kwargs) and browser.new_page(**kwargs) to setup browser context state.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 89.0.4344.0
• Mozilla Firefox 84.0b9
• WebKit 14.1