Ecosystem Updates & New Releases 🚀
Many new releases past months, with new tools and updates on existing ones. Check out all the updates below!
Robot Framework 7.5 (beta 1)
A new feature release with major enhancements to Libdoc, improved console logging configuration, and various other fixes. Final release targeted for early September.
📝 Release notes
RobotCode 2.7.0
Robot Framework support for Visual Studio Code and more. This release adds a wrapper option to run tests inside a custom environment of your choosing (services, mocks, a graphical session), from the command line and editor alike.
- Analysis cache is now reliable under rapid file changes, so stale errors no longer linger
- Running a subset of tests from the VS Code Test Explorer works cleanly again on RF 6.1+
📝 What's new
Browser library 20.3.0
Playwright-based browser automation library for Robot Framework. This release updates the BrowserBatteries Node.js version. Supports Python 3.10+, Node 22/24/26, and RF 6.1+, tested with Playwright 1.62.1.
📝 Release notes · Previous releases: 20.2.0, 20.1.0
Medusa 3.4.0
A tool to parallelize execution of Robot Framework test suites, using suite metadata to avoid resource conflicts.
- New medusa:retry feature re-executes flaky suites automatically on failure
- Suite results (pass/fail/error) are now tracked and stored in the visualization
- medusa:for suite naming is now a stable hash instead of random, so results are trackable over time with tools like RobotDashboard
- Faster CLI thanks to optimized imports
📝 GitHub · PyPI
SchemathesisLibrary 2.5.0
An API testing library for Robot Framework built on Schemathesis. This release is the first to generate keyword documentation using RF 7.5's new Markdown-based Libdoc format.
📝 Release notes
robotframework-vibium 0.3.0 (alpha)
Still in alpha, this release tightens the keyword API and hardens the internals.
- Simplified, consolidated keyword set
- Dropped the asyncio stdout monkeypatch
- Reliability fixes for timeouts and closing browsers
📝 PyPI · Docs · Release notes
robotframework-xmlvalidator 2.1.1
Maintenance release: modernized type hints, cleaned up version handling, updated dependencies for security alerts.
📝 PyPI · GitHub
robotframework-jmslibrary 0.4.1
Bugfix release, fixing an issue where the library couldn't be used during robot --dry-run.
📝 GitHub · PyPI
RFSwarm 1.6.0
A feature release for RFSwarm, see the release notes for full details.
📝 Release notes
Salesforce Files Bulk Downloader 2.0.0
Open-source tool built with Robot Framework and Python for reliably downloading and validating Salesforce files at scale, supporting migration, backup, archival, and reconciliation workflows.
- Normalizes 15 and 18-character ContentDocumentId formats and removes duplicates
- Uses Salesforce CLI authentication, so credentials don't need to be stored in the project
- Validates each file for completeness, stability, and correct size
- Supports headless Chrome and parallel execution with Pabot
📝 GitHub
Robot Framework Essentials (early preview)
A free, hands-on Robot Framework training extension for VS Code, checking your work against your own workspace as you go.
📝 VS Code Marketplace
Awesome Robot Framework: new additions
The community-curated Awesome Robot Framework list got several new entries:
- crosslocator: define a UI selector once, resolve it per platform (Android, iOS, iPadOS, Windows).
- OKW API REST: keyword-driven REST API testing with a phase-based workflow.
- WebDialogs: browser-based dialogs and custom forms for human-in-the-loop test executions.
- robotframework-falsegreen: a static scanner that catches tests that pass green without actually verifying anything.
- ReportLens: converts output.xml into an interactive, single-file HTML report.
- LibToc: generates Libdoc docs for entire folders of RF resources and a table of contents. T
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