v0.0.76

What's New

New Tools

• browser_video_show_actions / browser_video_hide_actions — Overlay action annotations on the recorded video, or hide them again (#40914)

Tool Improvements

• Remote endpoint — remoteEndpoint now accepts a ConnectOptions object, not just a URL string (#40964)
• --output-max-size — Cap the size of tool responses, with post-response disk eviction of oversized output (#41031)
• --browser — Support moz-firefox BiDi channels (#41126)

Bug Fixes

• Support remoteHeaders for the remote browser endpoint (#40828, #41156)
• Use waitUntil: 'commit' when navigating back/forward (#41153)
• Report invalid tool arguments instead of failing opaquely (#40979)
• Use a writable cache directory for MCP user data instead of the browsers path (#40961)
• Disconnect the tracked browser when the browser tracker is disposed (#40967)
• Report a missing ffmpeg distinctly from a missing browser (#40867)
• Don't mark the response as closed when there are no open tabs (#40743)
• Validate user-provided regex patterns in MCP tools (#40752)
• Pass the time parameter to page.evaluate when waiting for a timeout (#41037)
• Add path-traversal checks to static file serving routes (#40715)

v0.0.75

Bug Fixes

• Serialize shared browser launch in --isolated mode (#40709)
• Forward browser-level CDP commands in extension mode (#40706)

v0.0.74

What's New

Browser Extension

• The extension now supports managing multiple tabs when used with --extension (#40678)

Tool Improvements

• browser_take_screenshot — Skip the base64 image in the response when filename is explicitly provided (#40577)

Bug Fixes

• Auto-recover when the remote browser disconnects mid-session (#40652)
• Recover from page renderer crash (#40617)
• Anchor aria-ref regex in target resolution (#40610)
• Propagate abort signal to stop test execution (#40582)

v0.0.73

What's New

Distribution

• Playwright MCP is now published to the official MCP Registry on each release (#1585)

Bug Fixes

• Resolve extension channel and executablePath from CLI flags and environment variables (#40572)
• Propagate --browser channel on the --extension path (#40567)
• Handle null viewport in dashboard annotate-screenshot (#40569)

v0.0.72

What's New

Tool Improvements

• browser_network_requests — Now returns a numbered list of requests; use the new browser_network_request tool with the index to fetch full details (headers/body) or a single part. Both tools accept a filename option to write the output to a file (#40447, #40454)
• browser_run_code → browser_run_code_unsafe — Renamed to make the sandbox-escape implication explicit (#40496)

Bug Fixes

• Surface unhandled rejections in browser_run_code_unsafe instead of crashing the server (#40452)
• Detect the installed extension in non-default Chrome profiles (#40471)
• Ignore browser config (channel, headless, viewport, etc.) when attaching to the extension (#40475)

v0.0.71

What's New

New Tools

• browser_drop — Expose Locator.drop as an MCP tool for completing drag-and-drop operations onto a target (#40367)

Tool Improvements

• browser_network_requests — Added responseBody and responseHeaders options; binary bodies are rendered as a placeholder using mime-type detection (microsoft/playwright@f0be0b17)
• browser_evaluate — Accept plain expressions in addition to function bodies (#39979)

Browser Extension

• Tab group syncing — Connected tabs are grouped into a green "Playwright" tab group (#1514, #1551)

Bug Fixes

• Disable CDP timeout for extension connection so long handshakes don't fail (#40265)
• Ensure --proxy-server overrides the proxy set in the config file (#40212)
• Merge user-supplied ignoreDefaultArgs with persistent mode defaults instead of replacing them (#40026)

v0.0.70

• Maintenance release off 1.59 branch point

v0.0.69

What's New

New Tools

• browser_network_state_set — Toggle network offline mode for testing connectivity scenarios (#39459)
• browser_video_chapter — Add a chapter marker to the video recording, showing a full-screen chapter card with blurred backdrop (#39891)

Tool Improvements

• browser_mouse_click_xy — Added button, clickCount, and delay options for more precise mouse interaction control (#39368, #39465)
• browser_network_requests — Added filtering support and optional headers/body fields in responses (#39672)
• Non-ref selectors — Tools now accept plain CSS/text selectors in addition to aria-ref handles (#39581)

Other Changes

• Added mcpName field to package for MCP Registry ownership verification (#1432)
• Chrome extension: inject public key into release zip to preserve Web Store extension ID (#1462)

Bug Fixes

• Fix verify tools not working inside iframes (#39374)
• Fix fs-based lock file not respected for Chromium family browsers (#39377)
• Fix console entries being printed when --snapshot-mode=none is set (#39378)
• Fix non-deterministic right-click behavior due to contextmenu/mouseup ordering (#39416)
• Fix header value parsing when header contains colons in value (#39401)
• Fix persistent context incorrectly using per-session isolation (#39601)
• Fix navigation protocol allowlist replaced with blocklist for better coverage (#39600)
• Fix malformed Unicode characters in MCP tool responses (#39625)
• Fix toWellFormed() compatibility with Node.js 18 (#39674)
• Fix empty cdpHeaders from environment overriding config file values (#39866)
• Fix file path validation in browser_set_storage_state tool (#39881)
• Fix Chrome for Testing executable location resolution in browser extension (#39936)
• Fix extension inactivity timers not armed for pending tabs (#1443)

v0.0.68

Quick follow-up bug fix

• Revert --no-sandbox → --no-chromium-sandbox rename.
  The CLI flag name is restored to --no-sandbox.

v0.0.67

Extension

• Our Google Chrome extension is now available in the Chrome Web Store:
  Playwright MCP Bridge

Bug Fixes

• Rename --[no-]sandbox to --[no-]chromium-sandbox for clarity and to avoid ambiguity with other browsers.