Bump Microsoft.Playwright from 1.52.0 to 1.60.0

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Updated Microsoft.Playwright from 1.52.0 to 1.60.0.

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1.60.0

💬 Custom assertion messages

Expect() overloads now accept a custom message that is prepended to any failure, giving extra context in test reports:

await Expect(page.Locator("#status"), "Should be logged in").ToBeVisibleAsync();

When the assertion fails, the message is prefixed:

Should be logged in
Locator expected to be visible

🌐 HAR recording on Tracing

Tracing.StartHarAsync() / Tracing.StopHarAsync() expose HAR recording as a first-class tracing API, with the same Content, Mode and UrlFilter options as RecordHar:

await context.Tracing.StartHarAsync("trace.har");
var page = await context.NewPageAsync();
await page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev");
await context.Tracing.StopHarAsync();

🪝 Drop API

New Locator.DropAsync() 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:

await page.Locator("#dropzone").DropAsync(new() {
    Files = new FilePayload() {
        Name = "note.txt",
        MimeType = "text/plain",
        Buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("hello"),
    },
});

await page.Locator("#dropzone").DropAsync(new() {
    Data = new Dictionary<string, string> {
        ["text/plain"] = "hello world",
        ["text/uri-list"] = "https://example.com",
    },
});

🎯 Aria snapshots

• Expect(page).ToMatchAriaSnapshotAsync() now works on a Page, in addition to a Locator — equivalent to asserting against Page.Locator("body").
• New Boxes option on Locator.AriaSnapshotAsync() / Page.AriaSnapshotAsync() appends each element's bounding box as [box=x,y,width,height], useful for AI consumption.
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1.59.0

🎬 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:

await page.Screencast.StartAsync(new() { Path = "video.webm" });
// ... perform actions ...
await page.Screencast.StopAsync();

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

await page.Screencast.ShowActionsAsync(new() { Position = "top-right" });

ShowActionsAsync 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:

await page.Screencast.ShowChapterAsync("Adding TODOs", new() {
    Description = "Type and press enter for each TODO",
    Duration = 1000,
});

await page.Screencast.ShowOverlayAsync("<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:

await page.Screencast.StartAsync(new() {
    OnFrame = frame => SendToVisionModel(frame.Data),
});

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1.58.0

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.ConnectOverCDPAsync() 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.LaunchAsync() has been removed. Use Args = new[] { "--auto-open-devtools-for-tabs" } instead.
• Removed macOS 13 support for WebKit.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 145.0.7632.6
• Mozilla Firefox 146.0.1
• WebKit 26.0

1.57.0

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.Console event is emitted when JavaScript within the worker calls one of console API methods, e.g. console.log or console.dir.
• Locator.Description returns locator description previously set with Locator.Describe().
• New option Steps in Locator.ClickAsync() and Locator.DragToAsync() 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

1.56.0

New APIs

• New methods Page.ConsoleMessagesAsync() and Page.PageErrorsAsync() for retrieving the most recent console messages from the page
• New method Page.RequestsAsync() for retrieving the most recent network requests from the page

Breaking Changes

• Event BrowserContext.BackgroundPage has been deprecated and will not be emitted. Property 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

1.55.0

Codegen

• Automatic ToBeVisibleAsync() assertions: Codegen can now generate automatic ToBeVisibleAsync() 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".
• Added support for Xunit v3 as part of Microsoft.Playwright.Xunit.v3
• Added support for MSTest v4 as part of Microsoft.Playwright.MSTest.v4

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

1.54.0

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.

  pwsh bin/Debug/netX/playwright.ps1 codegen --user-data-dir=./user-data

• pwsh bin/Debug/netX/playwright.ps1 open does not open the test recorder anymore. Use pwsh bin/Debug/netX/playwright.ps1 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

1.53.0

Miscellaneous

• New Steps in Trace Viewer:
  

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

  var button = Page.GetByTestId("btn-sub").Describe("Subscribe button");
  await button.ClickAsync();

• pwsh bin/Debug/netX/playwright.ps1 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

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