Update dependency com.microsoft.playwright:playwright to v1.61.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
com.microsoft.playwright:playwright	1.59.0 → 1.61.0

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Release Notes

microsoft/playwright-java (com.microsoft.playwright:playwright)

v1.61.0

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🔑 WebAuthn passkeys

New Credentials virtual authenticator, available via browserContext.credentials, lets tests register passkeys and answer navigator.credentials.create() / navigator.credentials.get() ceremonies in the page — no real hardware key required, works in all browsers:

BrowserContext context = browser.newContext();

// Seed a passkey your backend provisioned for a test user.
context.credentials().create("example.com", new Credentials.CreateOptions()
    .setId(credentialId)
    .setUserHandle(userHandle)
    .setPrivateKey(privateKey)
    .setPublicKey(publicKey));
context.credentials().install();

Page page = context.newPage();
page.navigate("https://example.com/login");
// The page's navigator.credentials.get() is answered with the seeded passkey.

You can also let the app register a passkey once in a setup test, read it back with credentials.get(), and seed it into later tests — see Credentials for details.

🗃️ Web Storage

New WebStorage API, available via page.localStorage and page.sessionStorage, reads and writes the page's storage for the current origin:

page.localStorage().setItem("token", "abc");
String token = page.localStorage().getItem("token");
List<NameValue> items = page.sessionStorage().items();

New APIs

• apiResponse.securityDetails() and apiResponse.serverAddr() mirror the browser-side response.securityDetails() and response.serverAddr().
• New option artifactsDir in browserType.connectOverCDP() controls where artifacts such as traces and downloads are stored when attached to an existing browser.
• New option cursor in screencast.showActions() controls the cursor decoration rendered for pointer actions.
• The onFrame callback in screencast.start() now receives a timestamp of when the frame was presented by the browser.

🛠️ Other improvements

• Playwright now supports Ubuntu 26.04.
• HAR and trace recordings now include WebSocket requests.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 149.0.7827.55
• Mozilla Firefox 151.0
• WebKit 26.5

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 149
• Microsoft Edge 149

v1.60.0

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🌐 HAR recording on Tracing

tracing.startHar() / tracing.stopHar() expose HAR recording as a first-class tracing API, with the same content, mode and urlFilter options as recordHar:

context.tracing().startHar(Paths.get("trace.har"));
Page page = context.newPage();
page.navigate("https://playwright.dev");
context.tracing().stopHar();

🪝 Drop API

New locator.drop() simulates an external drag-and-drop of files or clipboard-like data onto an element. Playwright dispatches dragenter, dragover, and drop with a synthetic [DataTransfer] in the page context — works cross-browser and is great for testing upload zones:

page.locator("#dropzone").drop(new Locator.DropPayload()
    .setFiles(new FilePayload("note.txt", "text/plain", "hello".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))));

page.locator("#dropzone").drop(new Locator.DropPayload()
    .setData(Map.of(
        "text/plain", "hello world",
        "text/uri-list", "https://example.com")));

🎯 Aria snapshots

• assertThat(page).matchesAriaSnapshot() now works on a Page, in addition to a Locator — equivalent to asserting against page.locator("body").
• New boxes option on locator.ariaSnapshot() / page.ariaSnapshot() appends each element's bounding box as [box=x,y,width,height], useful for AI consumption.

New APIs

Browser, Context and Page

• Event browser.onContext() — fired when a new context is created on the browser.
• BrowserContext now mirrors lifecycle events from its pages: browserContext.onDownload(), browserContext.onFrameAttached(), browserContext.onFrameDetached(), browserContext.onFrameNavigated(), browserContext.onPageClose(), browserContext.onPageLoad().

Locators and Assertions

• New option description in page.getByRole() / locator.getByRole() / frame.getByRole() / frameLocator.getByRole() for matching the accessible description.
• New option pseudo in assertThat(locator).hasCSS() reads computed styles from ::before or ::after.
• New option style in locator.highlight() applies extra inline CSS to the highlight overlay, plus new page.hideHighlight() to clear all highlights.

Network

• webSocketRoute.protocols() returns the WebSocket subprotocols requested by the page.
• New option noDefaults in browserType.connectOverCDP() disables Playwright's default overrides on the default context (download behavior, focus emulation, media emulation), so attaching to a user's daily-driver browser doesn't disturb its state.

Errors

• New webError.location() mirrors consoleMessage.location().

🛠️ Other improvements

• Trace Viewer adds a pretty-print toggle for JSON / form request and response bodies in the network details panel.

Breaking Changes ⚠️

• Removed long-deprecated handle option on BrowserContext.exposeBinding and Page.exposeBinding.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 148.0.7778.96
• Mozilla Firefox 150.0.2
• WebKit 26.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 147
• Microsoft Edge 147

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