Update dependency @playwright/test to v1.56.1

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
@playwright/test (source)	1.52.0 -> 1.56.1

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Release Notes

microsoft/playwright (@​playwright/test)

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

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

### Generate agent files for each agentic loop
### Visual Studio Code
npx playwright init-agents --loop=vscode

### Claude Code
npx playwright init-agents --loop=claude

### opencode
npx 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 methods page.consoleMessages() and page.pageErrors() for retrieving the most recent console messages from the page
• New method page.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

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

Miscellaneous

• Aria snapshots render and compare input placeholder
• Added environment variable PLAYWRIGHT_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 Property testStepInfo.titlePath Returns the full title path starting from the test file, including test and step titles.

Codegen

• Automatic toBeVisible() assertions: Codegen can now generate automatic toBeVisible() 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

v1.54.1

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Highlights

#​36650 - [Regression]: 1.54.0 breaks downloading browsers when an HTTP(S) proxy is used

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

v1.54.0

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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 noSnippets to disable code snippets in the html report.

  import { defineConfig } from '@​playwright/test';
  
  export default defineConfig({
    reporter: [['html', { noSnippets: true }]]
  });

• New property location in test annotations, for example in testResult.annotations and testInfo.annotations. It shows where the annotation like test.skip or test.fixme was added.

Command Line

• New option --user-data-dir in multiple commands. You can specify the same user data dir to reuse browsing state, like authentication, between sessions.

  npx playwright codegen --user-data-dir=./user-data

• Option -gv has been removed from the npx playwright test command. Use --grep-invert instead.

• npx playwright open does not open the test recorder anymore. Use npx playwright codegen instead.

Miscellaneous

• Support for Node.js 16 has been removed.
• Support for Node.js 18 has been deprecated, and will be removed in the future.

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

v1.53.2

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Highlights

#​36317 - [Regression]: Merging pre-1.53 blob reports loses attachments
#​36357 - [Regression (Chromium)]: CDP missing trailing slash
#​36292 - [Bug (MSEdge)]: Edge fails to launch when using msRelaunchNoCompatLayer

Browser Versions

• Chromium 138.0.7204.23
• Mozilla Firefox 139.0
• WebKit 18.5

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 137
• Microsoft Edge 137

v1.53.1

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Highlights

#​36339 - [Regression]: Click can fail when scrolling required
#​36307 - [Regression (Chromium)]: Under some scenarios filling a textarea doesn't fill
#​36294 - [Regression (Firefox)]: setViewportSize times out
#​36350 - [Fix]: Display HTTP method for fetch trace entries

Browser Versions

• Chromium 138.0.7204.23
• Mozilla Firefox 139.0
• WebKit 18.5

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 137
• Microsoft Edge 137

v1.53.0

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Trace Viewer and HTML Reporter Updates

• New Steps in Trace Viewer and HTML reporter:

• New option in 'html' reporter to set the title of a specific test run:

  import { defineConfig } from '@​playwright/test';
  
  export default defineConfig({
    reporter: [['html', { title: 'Custom test run #​1028' }]]
  });

Miscellaneous

• New option kind in testInfo.snapshotPath() controls which snapshot path template is used.

• New method locator.describe() to describe a locator. Used for trace viewer and reports.

  const button = page.getByTestId('btn-sub').describe('Subscribe button');
  await button.click();

• npx playwright 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

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