- Added UI enhancements (time‑range zoom, redesigned network panel) and new APIs: browserContext.on('weberror'), locator.pressSequentially(), and reporter.onEnd now provides startTime and total duration.
- Deprecated page.type(), frame.type(), locator.type() and elementHandle.type() in favor of the faster locator.fill() method.
- Breaking change: Playwright no longer auto‑downloads browsers on npm install; users must run npx playwright install or add @playwright/browser packages manually.
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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.