release: v2.1.319.0

**Features**

* Add state guardrail to control which URLs Nova Act can visit

**Fixes & Improvements**

* Improve support for select and input elements
* Allow about:blank navigation
* Fall back to scroll by moving mouse if page does not scroll
* Improve type definitions
* Reorder operations in browser initialization to improve starting page transition time
* Safely terminate Chrome before copying user data to prevent resource conflicts when using default Chrome browser
* Refactor backend interface to support multiple authentication strategies and endpoints and improve observability
* Add Content Security Policy (CSP) and improved HTML escaping to mitigate XSS risks
* Additional minor fixes, improvements, and cleanup

Co-authored-by: Rajan Agarwal <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Sushil Bajracharya <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Kao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Werchniak <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Matt Potok <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Ulas Kirazci <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Yilin Zhu <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Bhaumik Mistry <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Rick Liu <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Animesh Pandey <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Aaron Challenner <[email protected]>

release: v2.1.124.0

**Features**

* Enable CDP connection to existing browser session via the cdp_connect_to_existing parameter of the NovaAct constructor

**Fixes & Improvements**

* Remove deprecated parameters that throw ValidationFailed exceptions
* Fix exception raising for get_session_logs_directory() function
* Remove mypy overrides for cleaner type checking
* Improve definition of JSONType for better type safety
* Group actuator and browser related files under a tools directory for better organization
* Fix clearing input when agent types across different operating systems
* Fix scroll and click functionality on PDFs
* Update JSONType and replace all JSONSerializable references
* Style improvements for action viewer
* Refactor Interpreter to return a Program to unify response formats across different backends and enable structured tool execution

Co-authored-by: Matt Potok <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Werchniak <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Kao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Animesh Pandey <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Rick Liu <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Ulas Kirazci <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Luciana Corteggiano <[email protected]>

release: v2.1.36.0

**Features**

* Integration with theNova Act extension for enhanced development experience with automated environment setup, chat-based script generation, real-time debugging, and step-by-step testing capabilities

**Fixes & Improvements**

* Expand file upload coverage
* Fix scroll behavior when bounding box is the entire page before scrolling
* Fix model parameters not being passed to product server start-plan call
* Fix emoji decoding issues
* Improve scroll and click functionality on PDFs
* Fix scroll behavior when bounding box is the entire page (viewport dimensions)
* Improve setting of session and act ids
* Major error handling refactor with comprehensive improvements across multiple modules
* Minor logging improvements
* Relax Playwright dependency version constraints
* Add allow-origins for Chrome devtools frontend
* Interpret double and right clicks
* Additional minor fixes, improvements, and cleanup

**Documentation Updates**

* Add README note about cross-OS keyboard shortcuts with AgentCore Browser
* Improve documentation following error refactor
* Add README section for Nova Act extension

Co-authored-by: Andrew Werchniak <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Eric Zhou <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Kao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Matthew Potok <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Sushil Bajracharya <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Ulas Kirazci <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Yilin Zhu <[email protected]>

release: v2.0.357.0

**Fixes & Improvements**

* Strengthen type checking
* Minor refactor of telemetry module for reusability
* Remove legacy extension-related code
* Improve stop hook and S3Writer logging
* Factor browser profile and user data directory management out of default_chrome_browser feature to standardize user_data_dir behavior
* Improve scrollable element check logic
* Fix go_to_url_timeout
* Correct inaccurate ModelError raises
* Update agent_type() to insert the text if string length is > 10
* Allow scrollbars in Playwright headless mode
* Measure step server time
* Fix wait_for_page_to_settle bug that resulted in wait logic being bypassed
* Additional minor fixes, improvements, and cleanup

**Documentation Updates**

* Add README note about unencrypted password storage in browsers on some operating systems
* Update sample workflows

Co-authored-by: Andrew Werchniak <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Matthew Potok <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Yilin Zhu <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Kao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Sushil Bajracharya <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Christopher Whitten <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Eric Zhou <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Aaron Challenner <[email protected]>

release: v2.0.177.0

This version includes minor fixes and documentation improvements

Co-authored-by: Christopher Whitten <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Kao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Werchniak <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Yilin Zhu <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Animesh Pandey <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Eric Zhou <[email protected]>

release: Playwright browser actuation

**Features**

* Playwright Browser Actuation
    * Overhauled the browser actuation stack to use Playwright for improved accuracy, client-side latency, and customization
    * Extend the DefaultNovaLocalBrowserActuator class to override methods like agent_click to customize behavior
    * Implement the BrowserActuatorBase interface to provide your own browser implementation

**Fixes & Improvements**

* Allow specifying user agent when cdp_endpoint_url is set
* Add observation_delay_ms argument to act() for customizable delays before observations, e.g., waiting for UI animations
* Improve Action Viewer log output
* Improve error messages

Co-authored-by: Christopher Whitten <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Kao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Werchniak <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Yilin Zhu <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Matthew Potok <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Ulas Kirazci <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kadhir Manickam <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Animesh Pandey <[email protected]>

feat: path to production (preview)

- Authenticate with AWS IAM
- Write Action Viewer logs to Amazon S3
- Integrate with the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser

Note: Access to the preview is limited to select customers

Co-authored-by: Christopher Whitten <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Shruti Arora <[email protected]>

feat: add proxy support and quality of life improvements

**Features**

* Pass proxy configurations to Playwright via proxy option in the NovaAct constructor to route traffic through a specific proxy server

**Fixes & Improvements**

* Refactor PlaywrightInstanceManager to improve code organization and make the actuation system more modular and maintainable
* Improve session logs directory management
* Fix page access logic for different actuator types (default vs custom)
* Enhance error message clarity
* Improve custom actuator functionality by providing access to the starting page URL during initialization
* Improve unicode string decoding
* Simplify DOM and idToBboxMap actuation logic
* Improve observability
* Various fixes and improvements to the extension and actuation preview

Co-authored-by: Andrew Werchniak <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Animesh Pandey <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Gary Lim <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Christopher Whitten <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Matthew Potok <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Kao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Billy Wang <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Yilin Zhu <[email protected]>

experimental_features -> preview

refactor: improve Nova Act client code organization and maintainability

- Created abstract ActDispatcher interface to standardize dispatcher implementations
- Moved common logging utilities to shared location
- Simplified client initialization by introducing dispatcher factory pattern
- Removed direct dependency on extension version in core client code