V0.56.0

k6 v0.56.0 is here 🎉! This release includes:

• We've merged xk6-browser into k6.
• Many small improvements, bug fixes and internal refactors.

Breaking changes

• browser#1541 Removes accessibility-events from a test, which is no longer a valid permission that can be granted by the latest version of Chromium/Chrome.
• #4093 Unexports lib/consts.FullVersion from the k6's Golang API.

New features

Merge browser code in k6 codebase #4056

While the browser module has been stabilized, the codebase was not moved inside of k6.

As part of the stabilization this is now also merged in the k6 codebase. In the following months we would move issues from the xk6-browser repo and then archive it.

UX improvements and enhancements

• browser#1536 Removes Headless from the user agent to prevent test traffic from being blocked.
• browser#1553 Reduces logging noise produced by the browser module.
• #4093 Introduces a --json flag to a k6 version sub-command, which switches an output to a JSON format.
• #4140 Tags browser module metrics with a resource_type tag which can be one of these values: "Document", "Stylesheet", "Image", "Media", "Font", "Script", "TextTrack", "XHR", "Fetch", "Prefetch", "EventSource", "WebSocket", "Manifest", "SignedExchange", "Ping", "CSPViolationReport", "Preflight", "Other", or "Unknown".
• #4092 Populates __ENV.K6_CLOUDRUN_TEST_RUN_ID with the corresponding value for local executions streaming results to the Cloud: k6 cloud run --local-execution.

Bug fixes

• browser#1507 Fixes the Geolocation.Accuracy field.
• browser#1515 Fixes Sobek Object.Get(key) by returning *[]any instead of []any.
• browser#1534 Fixes locator APIs to wait during a navigation without erroring out.
• browser#1538 Fixes frame.title.
• browser#1542 Fixes a panic which can occur when a frame navigates.
• browser#1547 Fixes a panic due to events associated to stale frames.
• browser#1552 Fixes a panic for locator.selectOption when value is an object.
• browser#1559 Fixes a panic for page.screenshot.
• browser#1544 Fixes a nil pointer dereference when calling evaluate or evaluateHandle with an invalid page function.
• #4058 Fixes the namespaced object export when default is the only one available.
• #4132 Returns an error when a page is null during the creation of a page.

Maintenance and internal improvements

• browser#1504, browser#1510, browser#1511 browser#1512 browser#1513, browser#1518, browser#1519, browser#1520, browser#1523, browser#1521, browser#1524, browser#1526, browser#1527, browser#1531 Removes Sobek out of business logic layers.
• browser#1528, browser#1529, browser#1557 Aligns repo with k6.
• browser#1517 Fixes internal tests.
• browser#1540 Refactors internals.
• #4049, #4095, browser#1535, browser#1537, #4073, #4101, #4103, #4104, #4134, #4148 Updates dependencies.
• #4057 Update k6-taskqueue-lib to drop goja dependency.
• #4076 modules.NewModuleInstance doc updates.
• #4137, #4148 Updates a dependency and adds release notes.
• #4099, #4114 Fixes to CI after browser merge, around running tests on windows.
• #4102 Fix windows-packaging CI after update of the windows github action.
• #4047 Uses (*Regexp).MatchString to avoid unnecessary []byte conversions. Thanks, @Juneezee for the contribution.
• #4055 Updates release template.
• #4143 Fix k6packager workflow which also broke v0.55.1 initial release.
• #4063 Updates usage report to return whether k6 was ran from CI.
• #4072 Uses the precompiled 'gotip' on the xk6 workflow.
• #4084 Updates usage report to return usage of the deprecated 'ext.loadimpact' option.

Roadmap

Removal of deprecated k6/experimental/browser module

Since v0.52.0 we have had a non experimental version of the browser module (k6/browser). We urge you to migrate your scripts over to the non experimental browser module as we will be removing the experimental version of it in the next release (v0.57.0).