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feat(cli): keep sockets in XDG_RUNTIME_DIR - #43732

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Summary

  • On Unix, put the CLI session, dashboard and browser.bind sockets in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/playwright, which only the user can access. Fall back to the temporary directory when the variable is not set or the directory cannot be used.

Refs #43698

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@yury-s Yury Semikhatsky (yury-s) changed the title feat(cli): keep sockets in XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, add PLAYWRIGHT_SOCKETS_DIR feat(cli): keep sockets in XDG_RUNTIME_DIR Oct 28, 2026
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❌ [playwright-test] › hooks.spec.ts:132 › beforeEach failure should prevent the test, but not other hooks @playwright-x64-ubuntu24-64-core-bun

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⚠️ [firefox-library] › library/capabilities.spec.ts:105 › CA-008 should support webgl Radoslav Kirilov (@smoke) `@firefox-playwright-x64-ubuntu24-64-core-node22`

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🟢 The CI failure is a pre-existing flake

Hi, I'm the Playwright bot. I checked the CI report, PR diff, and refreshed test history.

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The latest merged report has one failed test and two tests that passed on retry. The failure does not look caused by this PR.

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[playwright-test] › hooks.spec.ts:132 › beforeEach failure should prevent the test, but not other hooks fails in the Ubuntu Bun job. The assertion expects consecutive beforeEach1, beforeEach2, and afterEach log lines. All three are present, but a reporter result line appears between beforeEach2 and afterEach.

The exact same test failed with an identical error on the same Bun bot in #43719's CI run, hours before this PR was opened. That PR only changes Firefox download handling. In the refreshed database, this test passed in 288 of 289 runs outside #43732 on that bot.

This PR changes makeSocketPath() and CLI session tests, not hook execution or reporter output. The failing test runs a hook-only test without a browser or CLI daemon, so it does not exercise the changed socket paths.

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chore: mark v0.1.23 (#494)
0a80807 
## ✨ Highlights

- **👥 Use different signed-in users in one session** — `playwright-cli
tab-new https://example.com --isolated-context=user-b` opens a tab with
separate cookies and storage. Tabs with the same context name share
their login state; different names stay isolated.
([microsoft/playwright#43087](microsoft/playwright#43087))
- **🎬 Smaller video recordings with less encoding CPU** —
`playwright-cli video-start demo.webm` now records with VP9, keeping the
same WebM output format. Stop and save the recording with
`playwright-cli video-stop`.
([microsoft/playwright#43021](microsoft/playwright#43021))
- **📋 Keep console messages and requests across navigations**
([#479](#479)) —
`playwright-cli console --all` and `playwright-cli requests --all`
include retained entries from earlier navigations, so warnings and
failed requests are not lost when checking a multi-page flow. Request
numbers stay stable for `playwright-cli request 5`.
([microsoft/playwright#43526](microsoft/playwright#43526))
- **🔎 Keep common searches from flooding the agent's context**
([microsoft/playwright#42077](microsoft/playwright#42077))
— `playwright-cli find button --max-results=5` returns at most five
matching items and reports the total match count.
([microsoft/playwright#42947](microsoft/playwright#42947))
- **🍪 Delete one site's cookie without signing out of others**
([microsoft/playwright#43310](microsoft/playwright#43310))
— `playwright-cli cookie-delete session_id --domain=example.com
--path=/` removes only the cookie matching that name, domain and path,
leaving same-named cookies elsewhere intact.
([microsoft/playwright#43319](microsoft/playwright#43319))
- **🔒 Redact session tokens in URLs printed in responses**
([microsoft/playwright-mcp#1791](microsoft/playwright-mcp#1791))
— add `"redactUrlParams": ["access_token", "code"]` to
`.playwright/cli.config.json` to replace those query and fragment
parameter values with `<redacted>` in command responses.
([microsoft/playwright#43258](microsoft/playwright#43258))

## 🐛 Fixes

- `fix(cli): do not force-kill the browser on close` — `playwright-cli
close` lets Chrome shut down normally, preventing temporary app-clone
folders from accumulating on macOS.
([#475](#475),
[microsoft/playwright#43229](microsoft/playwright#43229))
- `fix(cli): respect npm registry config in update check` — update
checks honor npm's registry, scoped registry, proxy and authentication
settings instead of contacting the public registry directly when a
custom registry is configured.
([#478](#478),
[#484](#484))
- `fix(cli): report run-code route handler exception once and verbatim`
— asynchronous route callback errors return their original message
without duplicated errors or an extra `Error:` prefix.
([#476](#476),
[microsoft/playwright#43203](microsoft/playwright#43203))
- `fix(chromium): do not hang on pages without a renderer when
connecting over CDP` — `attach --cdp` handles discarded or crashed tabs
without wedging every command; a follow-up closes those tabs while
preserving live ones.
([microsoft/playwright#41714](microsoft/playwright#41714),
[microsoft/playwright#42936](microsoft/playwright#42936),
[microsoft/playwright#43075](microsoft/playwright#43075))
- `fix(chromium): report local frames of existing oopifs when connecting
over CDP` — attaching to an already-loaded page discovers nested frames
correctly instead of replacing the main document with a sandboxed
iframe.
([microsoft/playwright#42955](microsoft/playwright#42955),
[microsoft/playwright#43000](microsoft/playwright#43000))
- `fix(mcp): report invalid element targets and accept locators in any
language` — action targets accept JavaScript, Python, Java and C#
locators. Invalid targets explain the accepted forms, including how to
pass a bare snapshot ref.
([microsoft/playwright-mcp#1797](microsoft/playwright-mcp#1797),
[microsoft/playwright#43539](microsoft/playwright#43539))
- `fix(mcp): normalize bare host URLs and loopback IP addresses` —
`playwright-cli open 127.0.0.1:3000` uses HTTP, and bare external hosts
with ports are normalized to HTTPS rather than mistaken for custom
schemes.
([microsoft/playwright#43263](microsoft/playwright#43263),
[microsoft/playwright#43264](microsoft/playwright#43264))
- `fix(mcp): race browser_navigate_back and forward against modal
states` — `go-back` and `go-forward` surface navigation dialogs
immediately so they can be handled, rather than hanging until timeout.
([microsoft/playwright#43251](microsoft/playwright#43251),
[microsoft/playwright#43252](microsoft/playwright#43252))
- `fix(mcp): preserve origin filters when modifying request headers` —
header-only `route` handlers no longer skip configured
allowed/blocked-origin filters.
([microsoft/playwright#43630](microsoft/playwright#43630),
[microsoft/playwright#43637](microsoft/playwright#43637))
- `fix(mcp): pass custom headers to route.fulfill when mocking response`
— mocked `route` responses retain supplied headers, including CORS and
cache headers.
([microsoft/playwright#43245](microsoft/playwright#43245),
[microsoft/playwright#43244](microsoft/playwright#43244))
- `fix(mcp): match browser_route header names case-insensitively` —
request-header replacement and removal work consistently regardless of
header-name casing.
([microsoft/playwright#43215](microsoft/playwright#43215),
[microsoft/playwright#43227](microsoft/playwright#43227))
- `fix(mcp): match cookie list domain filter on domain boundaries` —
`cookie-list --domain=example.com` includes that domain and its
subdomains, not unrelated names such as `my-example.com`; matching
ignores case and a leading dot.
([microsoft/playwright#43308](microsoft/playwright#43308),
[microsoft/playwright#43316](microsoft/playwright#43316))
- `fix(mcp): do not match sibling paths in cookie-list path filter` —
`cookie-list --path=/api` includes `/api` and paths under `/api/`, not
`/apikeys`.
([microsoft/playwright#43366](microsoft/playwright#43366),
[microsoft/playwright#43368](microsoft/playwright#43368))
- `fix(mcp): ask for a cookie domain when the page has no host` —
`cookie-set` on `about:blank` or a data URL asks for `--domain` instead
of returning an internal assertion error.
([microsoft/playwright#43309](microsoft/playwright#43309),
[microsoft/playwright#43318](microsoft/playwright#43318))
- `fix(mcp): pass credentials from --proxy-server as proxy
username/password` — authenticated proxy URLs supplied through
`PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_PROXY_SERVER` retain their credentials instead of
failing proxy authentication.
([microsoft/playwright#43048](microsoft/playwright#43048),
[microsoft/playwright#43071](microsoft/playwright#43071))
- `fix(mcp): accept Windows paths in browser_resume location` —
`pause-at` accepts Windows source locations such as
`C:\tests\example.spec.ts:42`.
([microsoft/playwright#43340](microsoft/playwright#43340),
[microsoft/playwright#43349](microsoft/playwright#43349))
- `fix(video): hide ffmpeg console windows on Windows` — `video-start`
no longer opens a terminal window that steals focus during background
recording.
([microsoft/playwright#43515](microsoft/playwright#43515),
[microsoft/playwright#43575](microsoft/playwright#43575))
- `feat(cli): keep sockets in XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` — Unix CLI sessions and
the dashboard prefer `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/playwright` over the shared
temporary directory when it is usable.
([microsoft/playwright#43698](microsoft/playwright#43698),
[microsoft/playwright#43732](microsoft/playwright#43732))
- `fix(tracing): do not store secrets in trace context options` — trace
metadata no longer copies credential-bearing context options such as
HTTP credentials, proxy credentials, extra headers and storage-state
cookies.
([microsoft/playwright#38673](microsoft/playwright#38673),
[microsoft/playwright#43220](microsoft/playwright#43220))
- `fix(aria): preserve iframe snapshots with fallback text` — snapshots
show a loaded iframe's content and element refs even when its HTML
contains fallback text.
([microsoft/playwright#43628](microsoft/playwright#43628),
[microsoft/playwright#43635](microsoft/playwright#43635))
- `fix(aria): quote ~, .inf and .nan in aria snapshots` — YAML-special
text remains a string when snapshot output is parsed or reused.
([microsoft/playwright#43451](microsoft/playwright#43451),
[microsoft/playwright#43469](microsoft/playwright#43469))
- `fix(a11y): treat inert elements and content outside of modal dialogs
as hidden` — snapshots exclude controls that cannot currently be used,
and click/fill actions wait for targets to stop being inert rather than
silently misfiring.
([microsoft/playwright#36938](microsoft/playwright#36938),
[microsoft/playwright#42967](microsoft/playwright#42967),
[microsoft/playwright#43211](microsoft/playwright#43211))
- `fix(webmcp): handle Chromium tool API changes` — WebMCP tool
discovery tolerates Chromium's null input schemas while preserving the
existing tool shape.
([microsoft/playwright#43578](microsoft/playwright#43578))

## 📦 Upgrading

```bash
npm install -g @playwright/cli@0.1.23
```

This release uses Playwright `1.65.0-alpha-2026-10-30`.

Co-authored-by: microsoft-playwright-automation[bot] <203992400+microsoft-playwright-automation[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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