V3 Spring '26 Release 1 (3.0.5)
Executive Summary
We’re thrilled to announce Provar Automation V3 (Version 3.0.5) release, which strengthens Provar’s foundation across security, governance, usability, and modern web support, while continuing to improve automation reliability and developer productivity. This release introduces tighter administrative controls, enhanced license enforcement, and stronger protection for sensitive credentials helping organizations adopt new capabilities with confidence and compliance.
This release also delivers meaningful functional enhancements, including secure GitHub project import via SSH, improved Page Object modeling with hierarchical page structures, and more robust locator support for React applications. Together, these improvements streamline project setup, improve test stability across modern UI frameworks, and ensure consistent execution across both UI and CLI workflows, reinforcing Provar’s readiness for enterprise-scale automation. You can download and install this release from the Provar Success Portal directly.
Key Highlights
- UI-based Admin Control for AI Feature Enablement: AI-powered features in V3 can now be enabled or disabled through an admin-only UI toggle under Settings, replacing .INI file configuration and disabled by default ensuring a controlled rollout, stronger security oversight, and full visibility through logging and instrumentation.
- Execution License Usage Enforcement: Execution licenses are now restricted to CLI usage only, blocking access to the Provar UI while maintaining backward compatibility and supporting smooth activation and execution via the command line.
- GitHub project import via SSH is now supported: Enabling secure, SSH-based authentication for cloning repositories on both macOS and Windows.
- Expanded support for encrypted password variables in Expression Editors: Securely reuse encrypted credentials across all expression editors without exposing sensitive data or limiting API request configurations.
- Enhanced ProvarX locators for React-based applications: Enabling reliable identification of React components using a new react: namespace with no impact on performance.
- Added hierarchical page structure support for Page Objects: Improving interaction with tab- and accordion-based layouts through a refreshed mapping UI, cleaner terminology, and full support for execution, waits, auto-retry, and ANT runs without impacting legacy behavior
Essential Upgrade Instructions
We highly recommend upgrading to the latest release to benefit from the new capabilities, latest enhancements, optimal performance, and uninterrupted support.
To ensure a clean setup and avoid compatibility issues, follow the instructions given below:
- Import your projects into a new workspace
Avoid reusing your previous workspace to ensure compatibility with new configurations. - Remove old configuration folders
Delete previous configuration directories from:{UserHome}\Provar\.configuration\{versioned config folders} - Delete your existing Chrome profile folder
{UserHome}\Provar\.chromeProfile
Spring ‘26 Compatibility
| Change Area | Impact Summary |
| Secondary Tabs Navigation – DOM Class Change | In Spring ’26, Salesforce updated the DOM class for secondary tab navigation. The element class changed from slds-tabs–default__nav to slds-tabs_default__nav. This caused failures where the “Secondary Tab” value was not populating. Provar handles this change, and existing scripts continue to work without additional effort. Custom implementations for tab switching that rely on hardcoded DOM classes may require review and updates. |
| Checkbox Rendering on New/View/Edit/Inline Edit Screens | Spring ’26 introduced a structural change in checkbox rendering across New, View, Edit, and Inline Edit screens. The traditional tag has been replaced with lightning-primitive-input-checkbox. This resulted in execution failures for checkbox interactions. Provar support aligns with the new Lightning primitive; custom scripts or locators relying on direct tags may require updates. |
| FieldServiceSettings Query Exception | In Spring ’26 jar is introducing a new element ‘enableServiceAppointmentLifecycle’, leading to an exception: “Exception while querying FieldServiceSettings: unable to find end tag”. This is a tooling-level issue and will be resolved once the underlying jars are upgraded to API version 66. For now exception has been absorved, and hence no script-level changes are required. |
| FSL Product Request – Related Object API Name Change | In Spring ’26, the Product Request reference API name is appearing as Parent__c, whereas earlier it appeared as ProductRequestId. This has impacted navigation from Detail pages to Related Lists in Field Service Lightning. This behavior may be addressed in future Salesforce patches, otherwise, affected steps may need to be recreated using the updated API name. |
| Advanced Search – Object Mapping Issue | In Spring ’26, the Advanced Search window mapping behavior changed due to the removal of the targetApiName property from the lightning-modal DOM, which was previously used to resolve the object API name. Provar handles this change in this release, and existing scripts continue to work without disruption. |
| Global Advanced Search – Default UI Behavior Change | In Spring ’26, the Global Search default view behavior has changed. The Search Filter panel is no longer visible by default and is now available only after clicking into the search bar. This may impact automation flows where the first interaction targets the Search Filter, and test steps may need adjustment to explicitly activate the search bar before applying filters. |
Spring ’26 – CPQ
Provar is now compatible with the latest CPQ package version 260.3 introduced in the Salesforce Spring ’26 release. This compatibility ensures that existing Provar test cases will continue to run without interruption. No updates are required for the existing Provar test cases.
Provar Automation Features and Enhancements
User-friendly AI Enablement in UI (Admin only)
This release adds an admin-managed setting that allows organizations to enable or disable AI features as needed, helping build confidence during early adoption and supporting security review requirements.A new toggle is available under Settings > Preferences, accessible only to users with System Admin privileges. When enabled, all AI-powered features become available to end users; when disabled, AI functionality is fully hidden and blocked across both the UI and backend. Changes to this setting are logged for auditability and instrumentation analytics. With this update, AI enablement is no longer controlled through the provar.ini file and old entries will be ignored.
Note: For AI Services Enablement, Windows and macOS users need to launch Provar as Admin users.
- macOS users should have permission to update the files under Applications following these steps to ensure the correct permissions.
- Windows users should run Provar as Administrator following the Windows steps
For more information, see Enable or Disable AI Features
Execution License Usage Enforcement in Provar UI
With this release, we are introducing clearer usage boundaries for Execution licenses, aligning them specifically with CLI-based execution rather than launching or using the Provar UI.
If an Execution license is used in the UI, it will show a clear error message, while CLI execution will continue to work as expected.
Execution licenses remain fully supported for CLI execution, and Developer (Floating) licenses continue to support both UI and CLI usage.
For more information, see License Usage Enforcement in Provar UI
Note: Please reach out to your Customer Success representative if you encounter any challenges.
Encrypted Password Variables in Expression Editors
Password variables can now be securely used across all Expression Editors, including Web Services, Custom APIs, Page Operations, and Custom Test Steps. This enables encrypted credentials such as Client ID and Client Secret or any other global password variable to be safely used into request bodies (including JSON) for both REST and SOAP calls.
The enhancement ensures that sensitive values remain fully encrypted meeting best security practices while continuing to work seamlessly with encrypted projects and environments.
For more information, see Encrypted Password Variables in Expression Editor
GitHub Project Import via SSH (V3)
Provar V3 now supports importing and cloning projects from GitHub using SSH keys, enabling secure and seamless SSH-based authentication during project setup. Project import now allows selecting HTTPS or SSH from a drop-down, with validation to ensure the URL matches the chosen protocol. This enhancement brings V3 in line with standard Git workflows and allows teams to use existing SSH keys for project import on both macOS and Windows.
Hierarchical Page Structure Support for Page Objects
This release introduces support for hierarchical page structures in Page Objects, making navigation easier and improving interaction with elements, especially on pages that use tabs and accordion-based layouts that require activation.
The Page Object mapping experience has been updated to visually reflect these page hierarchies and provide more context-aware behavior. With this enhancement, users can easily navigate standard components built using tabs and accordions. Previously, users needed to explicitly add steps to activate these components before interacting with elements.
With hierarchical support, those extra steps are no longer required, Provar now handles the navigation of these standard components automatically in a single step. This is particularly useful for applications such as Experience Cloud, which are commonly built using Salesforce LWC components.
Edit Web Components in Test Builder
To keep the Test Builder edit functionality aligned with Web Elements, this release adds support for editing Web Components as well.
Users can now edit a Web Component to update its locators, modify interactions, or refresh the Web Component directly from the page. This ensures greater flexibility and consistency when maintaining tests.
Enhanced ProvarX Locators for React-based websites
React is one of the most widely used technologies for building modern web applications and components. As part of strengthening our locator engine, Provar now provides enhanced support for React-based applications by extending ProvarX locators to reliably identify React components using their properties through a new react: namespace.
The Test Builder intelligently detects React components, suggests optimal locators, and allows customization using the existing locator editors.
These enhancements ensure consistent and reliable element identification during test execution through automatic, intelligent locator selection.
Browser Compatibility Updates
Browser and Driver Combinations Recommended for Provar Automation v3.0.5
For a comprehensive guide, please refer to Browser and Driver Recommendations.
Security Improvements
This release includes ongoing security and compliance improvements validated through Provar’s internal and third-party review processes. These updates reinforce Provar’s commitment to delivering a secure, enterprise-grade platform aligned with modern security standards and best practices.
This release includes ongoing security and compliance improvements validated through Provar’s internal and third-party review processes. These updates reinforce Provar’s commitment to delivering a secure, enterprise-grade platform aligned with modern security standards and best practices.
A JFrog Xray Scan Report has been reviewed to confirm component integrity and compliance.
Known Issues
- In NitroX, Test Builder may get stuck when editing a previously mapped checkbox Group field.
- When working with Hybrid mappings, users may experience repeated “Evaluating XPath…” popups while accessing Component Locator settings or toggling qualifiers, causing noticeable delays. Performance optimization is planned in an upcoming release.
- In Provar V3, the application may become unstable or crash when adding more than ~46 connection overrides to a single connection. Additionally, projects migrated from V2 with a large number of existing overrides may cause Provar V3 to crash when selecting the Test Connection under View/Edit Test Connection. A fix is under investigation.
Provar Quality Hub
Provar Quality Hub 3.23.0 introduces several enhancements across AI integration, GitHub connectivity, dashboard performance, and platform stability. This release adds support for custom OpenAI API hostnames, with Remote Site Settings automatically configured when enabled. GitHub Enterprise support is extended to allow connections using the standard api.github.com domain, along with an SSL toggle for added flexibility. The Executive Dashboard has been significantly enhanced with improved metric tier calculations, faster load times, smarter caching, clearer UI/UX updates, and proper scalability to support up to 50 million records asynchronously. Refresh capabilities have also been improved to reliably update pages and individual KPIs. Remote Site Settings management has been refined so API toggles now deactivate rather than delete settings, ensuring they are preserved when re-enabled, across services including Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Slack, and OpenAI. Additionally, an issue with Provar Grid videos prompting login pop-ups has been resolved.
For more information, see Provar Quality Hub 3.23.0 Release Notes
Upcoming Webinars
Our upcoming Salesforce Spring ’26 Release: Impacts & Provar Enhancements webinar on January 13, 2026 focuses on Salesforce Spring ’26 Updates and Provar Readiness. Register now on this exclusive webinar to explore the impact on your test automation strategy.
Join our upcoming V3 Migration Webinar on January 21, 2026, to learn about migrating from Provar V2 to V3 and discover enhanced features for Salesforce testing. This webinar aims to help customers leverage Provar V3 capabilities and ensure a smooth transition from V2 to V3 in 2026.
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