- Major releases: View summarized releases in the product changelog
Checkly Agent Releases
Version 6.1.7 (December 3, 2025)
Features- First image also including a developer version
6.1.7-dev, learn all about the dev image here.- From now on, you can get the most recent dev image available using
checkly/agent:dev.
- From now on, you can get the most recent dev image available using
- Playwright Check Suites: improved internal logging and metrics.
- Browser and MultiStep checks using Runtime 2025-04 automatically scrubs the authorization header in requests.
Version 6.1.6 (November 24, 2025)
Features- Added Checkly environment variables and configuration to Playwright Check Suites. See the docs on Playwright Check Suites environment variables
- Adds support for
CHECKLYto all checkly triggered runs: scheduled checks and test sessions triggered through eithernpx checkly test,npx checkly triggerornpx checkly pw-test - Includes the environment variable
CIas true only for test session triggered runs
- Adds support for
Version 6.1.5 (November 14, 2025)
Features- Added playwright test metrics support for Test performance and Test statuses graphs in Check Overview
Version 6.1.4 (October 29, 2025)
Improvements- Minor patches on reporting
Version 6.1.3 (August 14, 2025)
Security updates- Improved secret scrubbing with new Playwright fork version
- Additional commits from runners
- Full changelog here
Version 6.1.2 (August 6, 2025)
Features- Add support for CHECKLY_SECRET environment variables
- When an environment variable prefixed with
CHECKLY_SECRET_contains special characters (anything other than A-Za-z0-9-_.~), the system now:- Detects special characters using the regex pattern
/[^A-Za-z0-9\-_.~]/ - Creates an encoded version using
encodeURIComponent()with additional!character encoding (%21) - Adds it to the scrubbing cache to ensure both original and encoded values are properly scrubbed from traces
- Detects special characters using the regex pattern
- This ensures that secrets containing special characters like
@, %, !, +, etc. are properly scrubbed even when they appear in encoded form within request payloads or URLs
- When an environment variable prefixed with
Version 6.1.1 (July 30, 2025)
Bug fixes- Make proxied env accessible to dependency callers
Version 6.1.0 (July 25, 2025)
Features- Add support for secret detection on runtime for browser and MS checks (behind the Feature Flag
RUNTIME_SECRET_DETECTION)
Version 6.0.7 (June 30, 2025)
Bug fixes- Use lower case environment variables for cURL
- Pass both headers
- Allow proxy to forward requests to minio
- Use xit
- Create new hash
Version 6.0.6 (June 26, 2025)
Security improvements- Updated container to use GID 10001 for enhanced Kubernetes compatibility
- Configure with
runAsGroup: 10001in your security context
- Improved error handling for missing
awaitstatements in Playwright tests - Fixed JSON report generation issues with oversized or unparsable values
Version 6.0.5 (June 23, 2025)
Features- Added support for Playwright check suites.
- Added debug logging with
DEBUG=checkly:*environment variable - Bundled Node.js for offline installations
- Enhanced secret scrubbing in logs
- Patched all reported npm vulnerabilities
- Added retry logic for artifact uploads
- Improved fault tolerance
Version 6.0.0 (May 9, 2025)
Breaking changes- Minimum Docker version 20.10 required
- Updated configuration schema
- Support for runtimes 2024.09 and 2025.04
- Disabled
PLAYWRIGHT_NO_COPY_PROMPTfor better reporter compatibility
Version history
- Summary: Product changelog
- Latest versions published: Docker Hub tags
Compatibility matrix
Update checklist
When updating to the latest agent, ensure:- Confirm Docker version compatibility
- Review breaking changes like Node.js supported version.
- Test in staging environment
- Update configuration files
- Deploy changes
Getting help
- View logs with
docker logs <container-id> - Enable debug mode for detailed diagnostics
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- Contact the support team for help