# Puppeteer puppeteer-v25.8.0 — puppeteer: v25.8.0

- Product: Puppeteer (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/puppeteer)
- Vendor: Chrome DevTools
- Date: 2026-08-17
- Version: puppeteer-v25.8.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/releases/tag/puppeteer-v25.8.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/puppeteer/releases/puppeteer-v25.8.0

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- **added** — Support followSymlinks option
- **fixed** — Tell the user how to recover a partial browser folder

##### [25.8.0](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/compare/puppeteer-v25.7.0...puppeteer-v25.8.0) (2026-08-17)


###### 🎉 Features

* support followSymlinks option ([#15335](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/15335)) ([af6a23d](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/commit/af6a23dde5e95516929b24b62f2eac4e71fa14c8))


###### 🛠️ Fixes

* tell the user how to recover a partial browser folder ([#15319](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/15319)) ([bbc51bd](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/commit/bbc51bd2eff8a4423bf8432c41a31178b13ea9f7))


###### Dependencies

* The following workspace dependencies were updated
  * dependencies
    * @puppeteer/browsers bumped from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1
    * puppeteer-core bumped from 25.7.0 to 25.8.0