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v1.54.0

Breaking Changes
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⚠ 3 breaking✨ 4 features⚡ 1 deprecations🔧 7 symbols

Summary

This release adds partitioned cookie support, new reporting options, and a CLI flag for user data directories, while removing the `-gv` flag, changing the behavior of `playwright open`, and dropping Node.js 16 support.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

  • `-gv` option removed from `npx playwright test`; use `--grep-invert` instead.
  • `npx playwright open` no longer opens the test recorder; use `npx playwright codegen` to launch the recorder.
  • Support for Node.js 16 has been removed; projects running on Node 16 must upgrade to a newer Node version.

Migration Steps

  1. Replace any usage of `-gv` with `--grep-invert` in test command scripts.
  2. If you relied on `npx playwright open` to launch the test recorder, switch to `npx playwright codegen`.
  3. Upgrade the runtime to Node.js 18 or newer (preferably Node.js 20) since Node.js 16 is no longer supported.
  4. Update any code that parses cookie objects to handle the new `partitionKey` field if needed.

✨ New Features

  • Added `partitionKey` property to `browserContext.cookies()` and `browserContext.addCookies()` for partitioned cookies.
  • Introduced `noSnippets` option to disable code snippets in the HTML report.
  • Added `location` property to test annotations (`testResult.annotations` and `testInfo.annotations`).
  • Added `--user-data-dir` CLI option to reuse browsing state across sessions.

🔧 Affected Symbols

browserContext.cookiesbrowserContext.addCookiestestResult.annotationstestInfo.annotationsnpx playwright test (CLI option -gv)npx playwright opennode runtime version

⚡ Deprecations

  • Support for Node.js 18 is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.