playwright/docs/src/release-notes.md

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release-notes	Release notes

Version 1.9

• 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 [method: 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.

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

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4421.0
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
• WebKit 14.1

New APIs

• [method: Page.pause].

Version 1.8

• Selecting elements based on layout with :left-of(), :right-of(), :above() and :below().
• Playwright now includes command line interface, former playwright-cli.

  $ npx playwright --help
  

  $ playwright --help
  

• [method: Page.selectOption] now waits for the options to be present.
• New methods to assert element state like [method: Page.isEditable].

New APIs

• [method: ElementHandle.isChecked].
• [method: ElementHandle.isDisabled].
• [method: ElementHandle.isEditable].
• [method: ElementHandle.isEnabled].
• [method: ElementHandle.isHidden].
• [method: ElementHandle.isVisible].
• [method: Page.isChecked].
• [method: Page.isDisabled].
• [method: Page.isEditable].
• [method: Page.isEnabled].
• [method: Page.isHidden].
• [method: Page.isVisible].
• New option 'editable' in [method: ElementHandle.waitForElementState].

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4392.0
• Mozilla Firefox 85.0b5
• WebKit 14.1

Version 1.7

• New Java SDK: Playwright for Java is now on par with JavaScript, Python and C# bindings.
• Browser storage API: New convenience APIs to save and load browser storage state (cookies, local storage) to simplify automation scenarios with authentication.
• New CSS selectors: We heard your feedback for more flexible selectors and have revamped the selectors implementation. Playwright 1.7 introduces new CSS extensions and there's more coming soon.
• New website: The docs website at playwright.dev has been updated and is now built with Docusaurus.
• Support for Apple Silicon: Playwright browser binaries for WebKit and Chromium are now built for Apple Silicon.

New APIs

• [method: BrowserContext.storageState] to get current state for later reuse.
• storageState option in [method: Browser.newContext] and [method: Browser.newPage] to setup browser context state.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 89.0.4344.0
• Mozilla Firefox 84.0b9
• WebKit 14.1