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v1.60.0

🌐 HAR recording on Tracing

tracing.startHar() / tracing.stopHar() expose HAR recording as a first-class tracing API, with the same content, mode and urlFilter options as recordHar. The returned Disposable makes it easy to scope a recording with await using:

await using har = await context.tracing.startHar('trace.har');
const page = await context.newPage();
await page.goto('https://playwright.dev');
// HAR is finalized when `har` goes out of scope.

🪝 Drop API

New locator.drop() 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').drop({
  files: { name: 'note.txt', mimeType: 'text/plain', buffer: Buffer.from('hello') },
});
await page.locator('#dropzone').drop({
data: {
'text/plain': 'hello world',
'text/uri-list': 'https://example.com',
},
});

🎯 Aria snapshots

• expect(page).toMatchAriaSnapshot() now works on a Page, in addition to a Locator — equivalent to asserting against page.locator('body').
• New boxes option on locator.ariaSnapshot() / page.ariaSnapshot() appends each element's bounding box as [box=x,y,width,height], useful for AI consumption.

🛑 test.abort()

New test.abort() aborts the currently running test from a fixture, hook, or route handler with an optional message. Use it when you have detected an unrecoverable misuse and want to fail the test right away:

test('does not publish to the shared page', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.route('**/publish', route => {
    test.abort('Tests must not publish to the shared page. Use the `clone` option.');
    return route.abort();
  });
  // ...
});

New APIs

Browser, Context and Page

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• 87bb9dd cherry-pick(#40747): fix(yauzl): vendor yauzl with destroy-lifecycle fix
• 9a9c51c cherry-pick(#40733): chore(electron): revert #40184 (move Electron API to a s...
• 4b3b628 cherry-pick(#40736): Revert "feat(electron): add timeout option to electronAp...
• f869f96 chore: bump version to v1.60.0 (#40714)
• 7eb6918 cherry-pick(#40710): docs: release notes v1.60
• 118d2aa cherry-pick(#40693): chore(python): formdata path type
• 54012f5 chore(deps): bump ip-address and express-rate-limit (#40680)
• 9fa531d fix(screencast): unblock frame ack when an async client disconnects (#40674)
• 3649db5 chore(mcp): bump default extension protocol to v2 (#40678)
• bb6c009 chore(extension): mark 0.2.1 (#40679)
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