v1.56.1

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Highlights

#​37871 chore: allow local-network-access permission in chromium
#​37891 fix(agents): remove workspaceFolder ref from vscode mcp
#​37759 chore: rename agents to test agents
#​37757 chore(mcp): fallback to cwd when resolving test config

Browser Versions

• Chromium 141.0.7390.37
• Mozilla Firefox 142.0.1
• WebKit 26.0

v1.56.0

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Playwright Agents

Introducing Playwright Agents, three custom agent definitions designed to guide LLMs through the core process of building a Playwright test:

• 🎭 planner explores the app and produces a Markdown test plan
• 🎭 generator transforms the Markdown plan into the Playwright Test files
• 🎭 healer executes the test suite and automatically repairs failing tests

Runnpx playwright init-agents with your client of choice to generate the latest agent definitions:

### Generate agent files for each agentic loop### Visual Studio Codenpx playwright init-agents --loop=vscode### Claude Codenpx playwright init-agents --loop=claude### opencodenpx playwright init-agents --loop=opencode

[!NOTE]
VS Code v1.105 (currently on the VS Code Insiders channel) is needed for the agentic experience in VS Code. It will become stable shortly, we are a bit ahead of times with this functionality!

Learn more about Playwright Agents

New APIs

• New methodspage.consoleMessages() andpage.pageErrors() for retrieving the most recent console messages from the page
• New methodpage.requests() for retrieving the most recent network requests from the page
• Added--test-list and--test-list-invert to allow manual specification of specific tests from a file

UI Mode and HTML Reporter

• Added option to'html' reporter to disable the "Copy prompt" button
• Added option to'html' reporter and UI Mode to merge files, collapsing test and describe blocks into a single unified list
• Added option to UI Mode mirroring the--update-snapshots options
• Added option to UI Mode to run only a single worker at a time

Breaking Changes

• EventbrowserContext.on('backgroundpage') has been deprecated and will not be emitted. MethodbrowserContext.backgroundPages() will return an empty list

Miscellaneous

• Aria snapshots render and compareinputplaceholder
• Added environment variablePLAYWRIGHT_TEST to Playwright worker processes to allow discriminating on testing status

Browser Versions

• Chromium 141.0.7390.37
• Mozilla Firefox 142.0.1
• WebKit 26.0

v1.55.1

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Highlights

#​37479 - [Bug]: Upgrade Chromium to 140.0.7339.186.
#​37147 - [Regression]: Internal error: step id not found.
#​37146 - [Regression]: HTML reporter displays a broken chip link when there are no projects.
#​37137 - Revert "fix(a11y): track inert elements as hidden".
#​37532 - chore: do not use -k option

Browser Versions

• Chromium 140.0.7339.186
• Mozilla Firefox 141.0
• WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 139
• Microsoft Edge 139

v1.55.0

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New APIs

• New PropertytestStepInfo.titlePath Returns the full title path starting from the test file, including test and step titles.

Codegen

• AutomatictoBeVisible() assertions: Codegen can now generate automatictoBeVisible() assertions for common UI interactions. This feature can be enabled in the Codegen settings UI.

Breaking Changes

• ⚠️ Dropped support for Chromium extension manifest v2.

Miscellaneous

• Added support for Debian 13 "Trixie".

Browser Versions

• Chromium 140.0.7339.16
• Mozilla Firefox 141.0
• WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 139
• Microsoft Edge 139

v1.54.2

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Highlights

#​36714 - [Regression]: Codegen is not able to launch in Administrator Terminal on Windows (ProtocolError: Protocol error)
#​36828 - [Regression]: Playwright Codegen keeps spamming with selected option
#​36810 - [Regression]: Starting Codegen with target language doesn't work anymore

Browser Versions

• Chromium 139.0.7258.5
• Mozilla Firefox 140.0.2
• WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 140
• Microsoft Edge 140