🚀 Ecosystem Updates & New Releases
Many new releases this month, with new tools and updates on existing ones. Check out all the updates below!
Browser Library 20.0.0
Playwright-based browser automation library — major release with backward-incompatible changes.
- Enhancements to Wait For Request and Get Text keywords (backward incompatible)
- Bug fix for the Stop Coverage keyword
- Library documentation fixes
📝 Backwards incompatible changes · Previous release: 19.15.1 (hotfix for Secret type support)
RobotDashboard 2.1.0
Interactive dashboard for visualizing Robot Framework test results — two major releases this month, packed with new capabilities.
- Statistical widgets for custom run/suite/test/keyword stats
- NOT tag filter and custom filters in output processing
- Log URL support — click a run to open its log.html directly
- Age-based run cleanup and basic authentication for server endpoints
- Undo/redo for layout changes
📝 Release notes · Previous releases: 2.0.0, 1.9.0
RobotCode 2.6.0
Robot Framework support for Visual Studio Code and more — calmer Test Explorer, cleaner terminal colors, sharper diagnostics, and an experimental new analysis engine.
📝 Release notes
SeleniumLibrary 6.9.0
Selenium-based browser automation library for Robot Framework.
- New keywords for drag and drop and getting CSS properties
- Secret type support added
- Fixed issue with chaining locators using lists
📝 Release notes
AssertionEngine 5.0.0
Core assertion library used across Browser and other RF libraries — enhancements to the matches operator.
- Returns a string, tuple, or dictionary depending on regex group structure
- Named regex groups now return dictionary keys matching the group name
📝 Release notes
PythonLibCore 4.6.0
Core utility for building Robot Framework test libraries, used under the hood by Browser and SeleniumLibrary.
📝 Release notes
RoboView 1.0.0
Backend (pip) + frontend (VS Code extension) reporting tool — first stable release, shaped by community feedback.
📝 Release notes
RIDE 2.2.3
Robot Framework IDE.
- New colorization for control markers (AND, IF, FOR, WHILE, etc.)
- Auto-save feature (disabled by default)
- Sort Keywords (Case Insensitive) option in Project Explorer
- Various UX and bug fixes
📝 Release notes
robotframework-trace-report 0.5.33
Interactive HTML report generator and live trace viewer, powered by OpenTelemetry — correlates RF keywords with OpenTelemetry traces and logs for root cause analysis.
📝 Project · Live demo
robotframework-filewatcher 0.2.0
Event-driven filesystem testing library — waits for file creation, modification, deletion, and stability using native OS events instead of polling.
- File checksum generation and verification
- File stability assertions and wait-for-move events
- Wait until a directory is empty or a file checksum changes
- Event statistics and checkpoint-based file retrieval
📝 PyPI · GitHub · Previous release: 0.1.0
SchemathesisLibrary 2.4.0
API testing library for Robot Framework.
- Bumps dependencies to latest versions for security fixes
- Documents Pabot usage with the library
📝 Release notes · Previous release: 2.3.3
robotframework-vibium 0.1.0 (alpha)
First release — a new Robot Framework library for working with Vibium.
📝 PyPI · Docs
robotframework-jmslibrary 0.4.0
JMS (Java Message Service) testing library for Robot Framework.
- Added parameter to set the path to the JVM library file (for cases where it isn't auto-detected)
- Note: some existing keywords are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release
📝 Release notes
robotframework-allurevisitor
New tool to generate Allure-compatible reports from output.xml after test execution — no need to decide on Allure reporting during the run itself.
📝 GitHub
robotframework-openapitools
Small feature release — added support for the multipleOf JSON Schema property in value generation.
📝 PyPI
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