🚀 Ecosystem Updates & New Releases
A packed month in the ecosystem — new tools, fresh releases, and plenty of reasons to update your dependencies. Here's what dropped:
Browser Library 19.15.0
Playwright-based browser automation library — latest in a series of updates this month.
- Support for Robot Framework Secret type in Proxy and httpCredentials arguments
- Enhancements to playwright-log.txt with suite and test information
- Bug fixes for gRPC server startup and NodeJS dependency security updates
- Drops Node 20 support (Node 22/24 LTS going forward)
- Release notes · Previous releases: 19.14.0, 19.13.0
RobotCode 2.5.0
Robot Framework support for Visual Studio Code and more — a fresh update with noticeable improvements.
RobotDashboard 1.9.0
Interactive dashboard for visualizing and analyzing Robot Framework test results — major update this month.
- HTTPS server support with SSL certificate and key file configuration
- Relative path support for run/log file links, making dashboards more portable
- Run name aliases and merge filter profiles
- Various chart and label fixes
- Release notes
CacheLibrary 1.3.0
Speed up your test automation by reusing work across tests, suites, parallel runs, and even separate test runs.
- Added support for caching Secret variables and complex Python objects
- Cache Retrieve Value From Collection can now pick a value based on parallel process
- Release notes
robotframework-reportlens 0.1.7
Failure-first HTML reporting for Robot Framework — this release focused heavily on scaling for large test runs.
- gzip-compressed external-data support (~97% size reduction on large suites)
- Log level support for generation-time filtering
- Payload serialization optimizations
- Release notes · Previous release: 0.1.6
RoboScope 0.9.0
Visual Robot Framework IDE with flow editor, recorder, and dashboard — a big jump from 0.8.
- Visual Flow Editor now supports control structures, setup/teardown, tags, timeouts, arguments, and return values
- Recorder improvements for modern web components and shadow DOM
- Dashboard rebuild with card grid and a seeded "Robot Framework Examples" project on first start
- Release notes
robotframework-testdoc 0.7.0
External test documentation tool — significant new features this release.
- Tag filtering directly in the HTML output
- Statistics dashboard showing test counts per tag
- JSON output format option
- VS Code extension for generating docs from the explorer view — no terminal needed
- Release notes
robotframework-find-unused 0.9.0
Find unused keywords, variables, arguments, returns, and files across your Robot Framework projects.
- Warnings when importing a library with different arguments, including downloaded and built-in libraries
- Major internal refactor separating out the presentation layer
- Release notes
SchemathesisLibrary 2.3.2
API testing library for Robot Framework.
- Raises minimum version of Schemathesis and PythonLibCore
- Release notes
robotframework-mobilewright 0.1.0 (alpha)
First release — a Robot Framework library for native iOS and Android test automation using the MobileWright Playwright-like framework.
- ~50 keywords covering locators, element interactions, assertions, waits, and app lifecycle
- Communicates with the mobilecli server via JSON-RPC
- PyPI · Docs
rellu 2.0.2
Tooling to ease creating releases.
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