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v1.53.0

Trace Viewer and HTML Reporter Updates

• New Steps in Trace Viewer and HTML reporter:

• New option in 'html' reporter to set the title of a specific test run:

  import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';
  export default defineConfig({
  reporter: [['html', { title: 'Custom test run #1028' }]]
  });
  

Miscellaneous

• New option kind in testInfo.snapshotPath() controls which snapshot path template is used.

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

  const button = page.getByTestId('btn-sub').describe('Subscribe button');
  await button.click();
  

• npx playwright 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

• 6822777 chore: mark v1.53.0 (#36266)
• 3940798 cherry-pick(#36260): fix(html-reporter): race condition where form submission...
• 8ecfb12 cherry-pick(#36258): fix: restore proper class name escaping
• 48ae259 cherry-pick(#36231): feat(chromium): roll to 1178
• 56eb92a cherry-pick(#36227): fix: java style selector string
• 1f643a3 cherry-pick(#36214): fix: ensure ElementHandlerDispatcher has FrameDispatcher...
• 88e4873 cherry-pick(#36206): fix(ai snapshot): wait for blocking CSS (#36206)
• f7fb274 cherry-pick(#36203): fix: capture snapshot for ai during navigation (#36203)
• b1734fd cherry-pick(#36211): chore: prepare to language ports roll
• 2e57a78 chore: add release notes for v1.53 (#36196)
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