v1.11.2

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes across all languages for the following issues:

• #679 - can't get browser's context pages after connect_over_cdp
• microsoft/playwright-java#432 - [Bug] Videos are not complete when an exception is thrown

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

v1.11.1

Highlights

🐧 Deploy v1.11 on PIP for Ubuntu users
🐍 Release Playwright-Python on Anaconda: https://anaconda.org/Microsoft/playwright

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

v1.11.0

Highlights

🎥 New video: Playwright: A New Test Automation Framework for the Modern Web (slides)

• We talked about Playwright
• Showed engineering work behind the scenes
• Did live demos with new features ✨
• Special thanks to applitools for hosting the event and inviting us!

⚙️ Chrome DevTools Protocol support with browser_type.connect_over_cdp().

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

New APIs

• new emulation devices: Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy Tab S4, Pixel 3, Pixel 4
• new methods:
  • browser_type.connect_over_cdp() to connect using Chrome DevTools protocol
  • browser_type.connect() to connect to a Playwright server
  • page.wait_for_url() to ensure navigations to URL
  • video.delete() and video.save_as() to manage screen recording
• new options:
  • screen option in the browser.new_context() method to emulate window.screen dimensions
  • position option in page.check() and page.uncheck() methods
  • trial option to dry-run actions in page.check(), page.uncheck(), page.click(), page.dblclick(), page.hover() and page.tap()
  • headers option in browser_type.connect()

v1.10.0

Highlights

• 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.

v1.9.2

Highlights

Text selector and click() fixes.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4421.0
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
• WebKit 14.1

Issues Closed (4)

#538 - page.on("request", f=func) fails if func is a class method
#534 - Either path or source parameter must be specified

microsoft/playwright#5634 - [REGRESSION]: Test selector changed behavior
microsoft/playwright#5674 - [REGRESSION]: Label is not visible anymore

v1.9.1

Highlights

Text selector fixes.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4421.0
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
• WebKit 14.1

v1.9.0

Highlights

• Playwright for Python is now stable with an idiomatic snake case API and pre-built Docker image to run tests in CI/CD.

• 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.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4421.0
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
• WebKit 14.1

New APIs

• page.pause

v1.8.0a1

Highlights

• Playwright goes semver. We are jumping from 0.170.* to 1.8.0a1 to become semver compliant. This is a breaking change, but once we drop the Alpha bit, it'll be in stone for years!
• Documentation site is now all about Python! It has guides, sample snippets, API docs
• You can now select elements based on layout with :left-of(), :right-of(), :above() and :below()
• New methods to assert element state like page.is_editable('selector') were added.

Migration from the pre-release versions

The API has changed since the last 0.170.0 version:

• Snake case notation for methods and arguments:

  # old
  browser.newPage()

  # new
  browser.new_page()

• Import has changed to include sync vs async mode explicitly:

  # old
  from playwright import sync_playwright

  # new
  from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4392.0
• Mozilla Firefox 85.0b5
• WebKit 14.1

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)
• page.is_disabled(selector)
• page.is_editable(selector)
• page.is_enabled(selector)
• page.is_hidden(selector)
• page.is_visible(selector)
• New option 'editable' in elementHandle.wait_for_element_state()

v0.171.1

• chore(stderr): fix handling without stderr fileno (#402)

v0.171.0

Rolled to Playwright 1.7.1