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	1.47.0 → 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

v1.59.0

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🎬 Screencast

New page.screencast API provides a unified interface for capturing page content with:

• Screencast recordings
• Action annotations
• Visual overlays
• Real-time frame capture
• Agentic video receipts

Screencast recording — record video with precise start/stop control, as an alternative to the recordVideoDir option:

page.screencast().start(new Screencast.StartOptions().setPath(Paths.get("video.webm")));
// ... perform actions ...
page.screencast().stop();

Action annotations — enable built-in visual annotations that highlight interacted elements and display action titles during recording:

page.screencast().showActions(new Screencast.ShowActionsOptions().setPosition("top-right"));

screencast.showActions() accepts position ("top-left", "top", "top-right", "bottom-left", "bottom", "bottom-right"), duration (ms per annotation), and fontSize (px). Returns a disposable to stop showing actions.

Visual overlays — add chapter titles and custom HTML overlays on top of the page for richer narration:

page.screencast().showChapter("Adding TODOs",
    new Screencast.ShowChapterOptions()
        .setDescription("Type and press enter for each TODO")
        .setDuration(1000));

page.screencast().showOverlay("<div style=\"color: red\">Recording</div>");

Real-time frame capture — stream JPEG-encoded frames for custom processing like thumbnails, live previews, AI vision, and more:

page.screencast().start(new Screencast.StartOptions()
    .setOnFrame(frame -> sendToVisionModel(frame.data)));

Agentic video receipts — coding agents can produce video evidence of their work. After completing a task, an agent can record a walkthrough video with rich annotations for human review:

page.screencast().start(new Screencast.StartOptions()
    .setPath(Paths.get("receipt.webm")));
page.screencast().showActions(new Screencast.ShowActionsOptions().setPosition("top-right"));

page.screencast().showChapter("Verifying checkout flow",
    new Screencast.ShowChapterOptions()
        .setDescription("Added coupon code support per ticket #​1234"));

// Agent performs the verification steps...
page.locator("#coupon").fill("SAVE20");
page.locator("#apply-coupon").click();
assertThat(page.locator(".discount")).containsText("20%");

page.screencast().showChapter("Done",
    new Screencast.ShowChapterOptions()
        .setDescription("Coupon applied, discount reflected in total"));

page.screencast().stop();

The resulting video serves as a receipt: chapter titles provide context, action annotations highlight each interaction, and the visual walkthrough is faster to review than text logs.

🔍 Snapshots and Locators

• Method page.ariaSnapshot() to capture the aria snapshot of the page — equivalent to page.locator("body").ariaSnapshot().
• Options depth and mode in locator.ariaSnapshot().
• Method locator.normalize() converts a locator to follow best practices like test ids and aria roles.
• Method page.pickLocator() enters an interactive mode where hovering over elements highlights them and shows the corresponding locator. Click an element to get its Locator back. Use page.cancelPickLocator() to cancel.

New APIs

Screencast

• page.screencast provides video recording, real-time frame streaming, and overlay management.
• Methods screencast.start() and screencast.stop() for recording and frame capture.
• Methods screencast.showActions() and screencast.hideActions() for action annotations.
• Methods screencast.showChapter() and screencast.showOverlay() for visual overlays.
• Methods screencast.showOverlays() and screencast.hideOverlays() for overlay visibility control.

Storage, Console and Errors

• Method browserContext.setStorageState() clears existing cookies, local storage, and IndexedDB for all origins and sets a new storage state — no need to create a new context.
• Methods page.clearConsoleMessages() and page.clearPageErrors() to clear stored messages and errors.
• Option filter in page.consoleMessages() and page.pageErrors() controls which messages are returned.
• Method consoleMessage.timestamp().

Miscellaneous

• browserContext.debugger() provides programmatic control over the Playwright debugger.
• Method browserContext.isClosed().
• Method request.existingResponse() returns the response without waiting.
• Method response.httpVersion() returns the HTTP version used by the response.
• Option live in tracing.start() for real-time trace updates.
• Option artifactsDir in browserType.launch() to configure the artifacts directory.

🔗 Interoperability

New browser.bind() API makes a launched browser available for playwright-cli, @playwright/mcp, and other clients to connect to.

Bind a browser — start a browser and bind it so others can connect:

Browser.BindResult serverInfo = browser.bind("my-session",
    new Browser.BindOptions().setWorkspaceDir("/my/project"));

Connect from playwright-cli — connect to the running browser from your favorite coding agent.

playwright-cli attach my-session
playwright-cli -s my-session snapshot

Connect from @​playwright/mcp — or point your MCP server to the running browser.

@​playwright/mcp --endpoint=my-session

Connect from a Playwright client — use API to connect to the browser. Multiple clients at a time are supported!

Browser browser = chromium.connect(serverInfo.endpoint);

Pass host and port options to bind over WebSocket instead of a named pipe:

Browser.BindResult serverInfo = browser.bind("my-session",
    new Browser.BindOptions().setHost("localhost").setPort(0));
// serverInfo.endpoint is a ws:// URL

Call browser.unbind() to stop accepting new connections.

📊 Observability

Run playwright-cli show to open the Dashboard that lists all the bound browsers, their statuses, and allows interacting with them:

• See what your agent is doing on the background browsers
• Click into the sessions for manual interventions
• Open DevTools to inspect pages from the background browsers.

- `playwright-cli` binds all of its browsers automatically, so you can see what your agents are doing. - Pass `PLAYWRIGHT_DASHBOARD=1` env variable to see all `@playwright/test` browsers in the dashboard.

Breaking Changes ⚠️

• Removed macOS 14 support for WebKit. We recommend upgrading your macOS version, or keeping an older Playwright version.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 147.0.7727.15
• Mozilla Firefox 148.0.2
• WebKit 26.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 146
• Microsoft Edge 146

v1.58.0

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UI Mode and Trace Viewer Improvements

• New 'system' theme option follows your OS dark/light mode preference
• Search functionality (Cmd/Ctrl+F) is now available in code editors
• Network details panel has been reorganized for better usability
• JSON responses are now automatically formatted for readability

Thanks to @​cpAdm for contributing these improvements!

Miscellaneous

browserType.connectOverCDP() now accepts an isLocal option. When set to true, it tells Playwright that it runs on the same host as the CDP server, enabling file system optimizations.

Breaking Changes ⚠️

• Removed _react and _vue selectors. See locators guide for alternatives.
• Removed :light selector engine suffix. Use standard CSS selectors instead.
• Option devtools from browserType.launch() has been removed. Use setArgs(Arrays.asList("--auto-open-devtools-for-tabs")) instead.
• Removed macOS 13 support for WebKit. We recommend to upgrade your macOS version, or keep using an older Playwright version.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 145.0.7632.6
• Mozilla Firefox 146.0.1
• WebKit 26.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 144
• Microsoft Edge 144

v1.57.0

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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. onConsole event is emitted when JavaScript within the worker calls one of console API methods, e.g. console.log or console.dir. Worker.waitForConsoleMessage() can be used to wait for it.
• locator.description() returns locator description previously set with locator.describe().
• New option steps in locator.click() and locator.dragTo() 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

v1.56.0

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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

Breaking Changes

• Event browserContext.onBackgroundPage has been deprecated and will not be emitted. Method 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

v1.55.0

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Codegen

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

v1.54.0

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

  mvn exec:java -e -D exec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -D exec.args="codegen --user-data-dir=./user-data"

• mvn exec:java -e -D exec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -D exec.args=open command does not open the test recorder anymore. Use mvn exec:java -e -D exec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -D exec.args=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

v1.53.0

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Miscellaneous

• New Steps in Trace Viewer:
  

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

  Locator button = page.getByTestId("btn-sub").describe("Subscribe button");
  button.click();

• mvn exec:java -e -D exec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -D exec.args="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

v1.52.0

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Highlights

• New method assertThat(locator).containsClass() to ergonomically assert individual class names on the element.

  assertThat(page.getByRole(AriaRole.LISTITEM, new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("Ship v1.52")))
    .containsClass("done");

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

  assertThat(locator).matchesAriaSnapshot("""
    - list
      - /children: equal
      - listitem: Feature A
      - listitem:
        - link "Feature B":
          - /url: "https://playwright.dev"
  """);

Miscellaneous

• New option setMaxRedirects in apiRequest.newContext() to control the maximum number of redirects.
• New option setRef in locator.ariaSnapshot() to generate reference for each element in the snapshot which can later be used to locate the element.

Breaking Changes

• Method route.continue() 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.addCookies().
• 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

v1.51.0

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Highlights

• New option setIndexedDB for browserContext.storageState() 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.
  context.storageState(new BrowserContext.StorageStateOptions()
      .setPath(Paths.get("state.json"))
      .setIndexedDB(true));
  
  // Create a new context with the saved storage state.
  BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions()
      .setStorageStatePath(Paths.get("state.json")));

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

  // Ignore invisible todo items.
  Locator todoItems = page.getByTestId("todo-item")
      .filter(new Locator.FilterOptions().setVisible(true));
  // Check there are exactly 3 visible ones.
  assertThat(todoItems).hasCount(3);

• New option setContrast for methods page.emulateMedia() and browser.newContext() allows to emulate the prefers-contrast media feature.

• New option setFailOnStatusCode 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

v1.50.0

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Miscellaneous

• Added method assertThat(locator).hasAccessibleErrorMessage() 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

• assertThat(locator).isEditable() 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

v1.49.0

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Aria snapshots

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

page.navigate("https://playwright.dev");
assertThat(page.locator("body")).matchesAriaSnapshot("""
  - 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 group and groupEnd
// will be shown in the trace viewer as a group.
page.context().tracing().group("Open Playwright.dev > API");
page.navigate("https://playwright.dev/");
page.getByRole(AriaRole.LINK, new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("API")).click();
page.context().tracing().groupEnd();

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.

Browser browser = playwright.chromium().launch(new BrowserType.LaunchOptions().setChannel("chromium"));

Miscellaneous

• There will be no more updates for WebKit on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 11. We recommend updating your OS to a later version.
• <canvas> elements inside a snapshot now draw a preview.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 131.0.6778.33
• Mozilla Firefox 132.0
• WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 130
• Microsoft Edge 130

v1.48.0

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WebSocket routing

New methods page.routeWebSocket() and browserContext.routeWebSocket() allow to intercept, modify and mock WebSocket connections initiated in the page. Below is a simple example that mocks WebSocket communication by responding to a "request" with a "response".

page.routeWebSocket("/ws", ws -> {
  ws.onMessage(message -> {
    if ("request".equals(message))
      ws.send("response");
  });
});

See WebSocketRoute for more details.

UI updates

• New "copy" buttons for annotations and test location in the HTML report.
• Route method calls like route.fulfill() are not shown in the report and trace viewer anymore. You can see which network requests were routed in the network tab instead.
• New "Copy as cURL" and "Copy as fetch" buttons for requests in the network tab.

Miscellaneous

• New method page.requestGC() may help detect memory leaks.
• Requests made by APIRequestContext now record detailed timing and security information in the HAR.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 130.0.6723.19
• Mozilla Firefox 130.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 129
• Microsoft Edge 129

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