Bump Microsoft.Playwright from 1.48.0 to 1.57.0 #60

dependabot · 2026-01-12T08:00:40Z

Updated Microsoft.Playwright from 1.48.0 to 1.57.0.

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1.57.0 Chrome for Testing

Starting with this release, Playwright switches from Chromium, to using Chrome for Testing builds. Both headed and headless browsers are subject to this. Your tests should still be passing after upgrading to Playwright 1.57.

We're expecting no functional changes to come from this switch. The biggest change is the new icon and title in your toolbar.

If you still see an unexpected behaviour change, please file an issue.

On Arm64 Linux, Playwright continues to use Chromium.

Breaking Change

After 3 years of being deprecated, we removed Page.Accessibility from our API. Please use other libraries such as Axe if you need to test page accessibility. See our Node.js guide for integration with Axe.

New APIs

Worker.Console event is emitted when JavaScript within the worker calls one of console API methods, e.g. console.log or console.dir.
Locator.Description returns locator description previously set with Locator.Describe().
New option Steps in Locator.ClickAsync() and Locator.DragToAsync() that configures the number of mousemove events emitted while moving the mouse pointer to the target element.

Browser Versions

Chromium 143.0.7499.4
Mozilla Firefox 144.0.2
WebKit 26.0

1.56.0 New APIs

New methods Page.ConsoleMessagesAsync() and Page.PageErrorsAsync() for retrieving the most recent console messages from the page
New method Page.RequestsAsync() for retrieving the most recent network requests from the page

Breaking Changes

Event BrowserContext.BackgroundPage has been deprecated and will not be emitted. Property BrowserContext.BackgroundPages will return an empty list

Miscellaneous

Aria snapshots render and compare input placeholder

Browser Versions

Chromium 141.0.7390.37
Mozilla Firefox 142.0.1
WebKit 26.0

1.55.0 Codegen

Automatic ToBeVisibleAsync() assertions: Codegen can now generate automatic ToBeVisibleAsync() 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".
Added support for Xunit v3 as part of Microsoft.Playwright.Xunit.v3
Added support for MSTest v4 as part of Microsoft.Playwright.MSTest.v4

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

1.54.0 Highlights

New cookie property PartitionKey in browserContext.cookies() and browserContext.addCookies(). This property allows to save and restore partitioned cookies. See CHIPS MDN article for more information. Note that browsers have different support and defaults for cookie partitioning.
New option --user-data-dir in multiple commands. You can specify the same user data dir to reuse browsing state, like authentication, between sessions.
```
pwsh bin/Debug/netX/playwright.ps1 codegen --user-data-dir=./user-data
```
pwsh bin/Debug/netX/playwright.ps1 open does not open the test recorder anymore. Use pwsh bin/Debug/netX/playwright.ps1 codegen instead.

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

1.53.0 Miscellaneous

New Steps in Trace Viewer:

New method Locator.Describe() to describe a locator. Used for trace viewer.

var button = Page.GetByTestId("btn-sub").Describe("Subscribe button");
await button.ClickAsync();

pwsh bin/Debug/netX/playwright.ps1 install --list will now list all installed browsers, versions and locations.

Browser Versions

Chromium 138.0.7204.4
Mozilla Firefox 139.0
WebKit 18.5

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 137
Microsoft Edge 137

1.52.0 Highlights

New method Expect(locator).ToContainClassAsync() to ergonomically assert individual class names on the element.

  await Expect(Page.GetByRole(AriaRole.Listitem, new() { Name = "Ship v1.52" })).ToContainClassAsync("done");

Aria Snapshots got two new properties: /children for strict matching and /url for links.

await Expect(locator).ToMatchAriaSnapshotAsync(@"
  - list
    - /children: equal
    - listitem: Feature A
    - listitem:
      - link ""Feature B"":
        - /url: ""https://playwright.dev""
");

Miscellaneous

New option MaxRedirects in apiRequest.NewContextAsync() to control the maximum number of redirects.
New option Ref in locator.AriaSnapshotAsync() to generate reference for each element in the snapshot which can later be used to locate the element.

Breaking Changes

Method route.ContinueAsync() does not allow to override the Cookie header anymore. If a Cookie header is provided, it will be ignored, and the cookie will be loaded from the browser's cookie store. To set custom cookies, use browserContext.AddCookiesAsync().
macOS 13 is now deprecated and will no longer receive WebKit updates. Please upgrade to a more recent macOS version to continue benefiting from the latest WebKit improvements.

Browser Versions

Chromium 136.0.7103.25
Mozilla Firefox 137.0
WebKit 18.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 135
Microsoft Edge 135

1.51.0 Highlights

New option IndexedDB for BrowserContext.StorageStateAsync() allows to save and restore IndexedDB contents. Useful when your application uses IndexedDB API to store authentication tokens, like Firebase Authentication.

Here is an example following the authentication guide:

// Save storage state into the file. Make sure to include IndexedDB.
await context.StorageStateAsync(new()
{
    Path = "../../../playwright/.auth/state.json",
    IndexedDB = true
});

// Create a new context with the saved storage state.
var context = await browser.NewContextAsync(new()
{
    StorageStatePath = "../../../playwright/.auth/state.json"
});

New option Visible for locator.filter() allows matching only visible elements.

// Ignore invisible todo items.
var todoItems = Page.GetByTestId("todo-item").Filter(new() { Visible = true });
// Check there are exactly 3 visible ones.
await Expect(todoItems).ToHaveCountAsync(3);

New option Contrast for methods page.emulateMedia() and Browser.NewContextAsync() allows to emulate the prefers-contrast media feature.
New option FailOnStatusCode makes all fetch requests made through the APIRequestContext throw on response codes other than 2xx and 3xx.

Browser Versions

Chromium 134.0.6998.35
Mozilla Firefox 135.0
WebKit 18.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 133
Microsoft Edge 133

1.50.0 Support for Xunit

Support for xUnit 2.8+ via Microsoft.Playwright.Xunit. Follow our Getting Started guide to learn more.

Miscellaneous

Added method Expect(locator).toHaveAccessibleErrorMessage() to assert the Locator points to an element with a given aria errormessage.

UI updates

New button in Codegen for picking elements to produce aria snapshots.
Additional details (such as keys pressed) are now displayed alongside action API calls in traces.
Display of canvas content in traces is error-prone. Display is now disabled by default, and can be enabled via the Display canvas content UI setting.
Call and Network panels now display additional time information.

Breaking

Expect(locator).toBeEditable() and locator.isEditable() now throw if the target element is not <input>, <select>, or a number of other editable elements.

Browser Versions

Chromium 133.0.6943.16
Mozilla Firefox 134.0
WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 132
Microsoft Edge 132

1.49.0 Aria snapshots

New assertion Expect(locator).toMatchAriaSnapshot() verifies page structure by comparing to an expected accessibility tree, represented as YAML.

await page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev");
await Expect(page.Locator("body")).ToMatchAriaSnapshotAsync(@"
  - banner:
    - heading /Playwright enables reliable/ [level=1]
    - link ""Get started""
    - link ""Star microsoft/playwright on GitHub""
  - main:
    - img ""Browsers (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)""
    - heading ""Any browser • Any platform • One API""
");

You can generate this assertion with Test Generator or by calling locator.ariaSnapshot().

Learn more in the aria snapshots guide.

Tracing groups

New method tracing.group() allows you to visually group actions in the trace viewer.

// All actions between GroupAsync and GroupEndAsync
// will be shown in the trace viewer as a group.
await Page.Context.Tracing.GroupAsync("Open Playwright.dev > API");
await Page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev/");
await Page.GetByRole(AriaRole.Link, new() { Name = "API" }).ClickAsync();
await Page.Context.Tracing.GroupEndAsync();

Breaking: `chrome` and `msedge` channels switch to new headless mode

This change affects you if you're using one of the following channels in your playwright.config.ts:

chrome, chrome-dev, chrome-beta, or chrome-canary
msedge, msedge-dev, msedge-beta, or msedge-canary

After updating to Playwright v1.49, run your test suite. If it still passes, you're good to go. If not, you will probably need to update your snapshots, and adapt some of your test code around PDF viewers and extensions. See issue #33566 for more details.

Try new Chromium headless

You can opt into the new headless mode by using 'chromium' channel. As official Chrome documentation puts it:

New Headless on the other hand is the real Chrome browser, and is thus more authentic, reliable, and offers more features. This makes it more suitable for high-accuracy end-to-end web app testing or browser extension testing.

See issue #33566 for the list of possible breakages you could encounter and more details on Chromium headless. Please file an issue if you see any problems after opting in.

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3 suites ±0 2 💤 ±0
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Results for commit 1bc30fd. ± Comparison against base commit 30c1639.

This pull request removes 3 and adds 2 tests. Note that renamed tests count towards both.

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AdaptiveRemote.Services.ProgrammaticSettings.PersistSettingsTests ‑ PersistSettings_Set_ValidatesKeyName (Hello
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AdaptiveRemote.Services.ProgrammaticSettings.PersistSettingsTests ‑ PersistSettings_Set_ValidatesKeyName (Hello
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Chrome for Testing

Breaking Change

New APIs

Browser Versions

1.56.0

New APIs

Breaking Changes

Miscellaneous

Browser Versions

1.55.0

Codegen

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Miscellaneous

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1.54.0

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1.53.0

Miscellaneous

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1.52.0

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Miscellaneous

Breaking Changes

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1.51.0

Highlights

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1.50.0

Support for Xunit

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