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v1.61.1

Bug Fixes

• #41365 [Bug]: Expect.Extend matcher with same name as default matcher in same expect instance overrides default matchers implementation to custom matcher
• #41351 [Bug]: Playwright UI mode: apiRequestContext._wrapApiCall reports unexpected number of bytes (same test passes in headed mode)
• #41360 [Bug]: Trace viewer: message times in websockets are downscaled by 1000
• #41311 [Bug]: [Regression]: Sync loader throws "context.conditions?.includes is not a function" on Node 22.15
• #41371 [Regression]: Sync ESM loader (registerHooks) fails to resolve extensionless .ts subpath imports across pnpm workspace symlinks

v1.61.0

🔑 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:

const context = await browser.newContext();
// Seed a passkey your backend provisioned for a test user.
await context.credentials.create('example.com', {
id: credentialId,
userHandle,
privateKey,
publicKey,
});
await context.credentials.install();
const page = await context.newPage();
await page.goto('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:

await page.localStorage.setItem('token', 'abc');
const token = await page.localStorage.getItem('token');
const items = await page.sessionStorage.items();

New APIs

Network

• apiResponse.securityDetails() and apiResponse.serverAddr() mirror the browser-side response.securityDetails() and response.serverAddr().

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• 39e3553 cherry-pick(#41399): fix(test): load require-reached files as commonjs in syn...
• 4328122 chore: mark v1.61.1 (#41404)
• 2c29a94 fix(tracing): stop recording websocket frames outside of chunks (#41398)
• 4324b19 cherry-pick(#41367): fix(test): keep builtin expect matchers on base extend
• 041e7e3 cherry-pick(#41364): fix(har): WebSocket message timestamps should be in mi...
• b8a0fc3 cherry-pick(#41309, #43149): Revert "fix(firefox): treat `navigationCommitted...
• b5a3175 cherry-pick(#41319): fix(loader): support other node versions
• d4724a9 cherry-pick(#41290): feat(docker): add Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon) image
• 1cc5a90 cherry-pick(#41295): chore: PLAYWRIGHT_TRACING_NO_WEBSOCKET_FRAMES and PLAYWR...
• a6772bd cherry-pick(#41280): Revert "fix(trace-viewer): add keyboard navigation to `N...
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