- Consolidated browser installations to a shared folder and introduced page.waitForTimeout API (feature).
- Breaking change: page.waitFor removed; use page.waitForSelector, page.waitForFunction, page.waitForTimeout and the mutation polling option is dropped (breaking).
- Multiple bug fixes and documentation improvements, including attribute selector support, shadow‑DOM piercing for page.$/$$, and clearer docs for wait functions (bugfix, docs).
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Fix regression where tsconfig "extends" bare specifiers weren’t resolved via node_modules walk-up, breaking builds since 1.62
Component testing shifts to a story/gallery model with a new fixtures.mount() API for scoped locators and type‑checked props.