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title: "More Effective CI Orchestration - @currents/playwright@1.13.0"
description: "@currents/playwright@1.13.0 focused on improving the efficiency of Playwright Orchestration. While testing the beta version of this feature one of our cus…"
canonical: "https://currents.dev/changelog/more-effective-ci-orchestration-currentsplaywright1130"
updated: "2025-05-14"
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# More Effective CI Orchestration - @currents/playwright@1.13.0

2025-05-14, Improved (tracks: reporters, cli)

@currents/playwright@1.13.0 focused on improving the efficiency of Playwright Orchestration. While testing the beta version of this feature one of our cus…

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`@currents/playwright@1.13.0` focused on improving the efficiency of [Playwright Orchestration](https://docs.currents.dev/guides/ci-optimization/playwright-parallelization#playwright-orchestration). While testing the beta version of this feature one of our customers reported a decrease of Playwright CI tests from 42 to 29 minutes (**~30%** improvement).

The improvement was achieved by a more efficient use of [Playwright Worker Processes](https://playwright.dev/docs/test-parallel#worker-processes) + a highly concurrent nature of playwright test runner.

![](/img/changelog/more-effective-ci-orchestration-currentsplaywright1130-1.jpg)

If you are already using orchestration, give it a try:

- `@currents/playwright@1.13.0` introduces a new [configuration option](https://docs.currents.dev/resources/reporters/currents-playwright/configuration#orchestration.batchsize) `orchestration.batchSize`
- set `orchestration.batchSize` to the number of workers defined in `playwright.config.ts`
- when `orchestration.batchSize` is set, in addition to an optimized spit of test files between the CI machines, the orchestration takes into account the # of workers in each machine

See an [Example GitHub Repository](https://github.com/currents-dev/currents-playwright-orchestration-example).

Additional resources:

- [Playwright Parallelization](https://docs.currents.dev/guides/ci-optimization/playwright-parallelization) techniques overview
- [Orchestration Setup](https://docs.currents.dev/guides/ci-optimization/playwright-orchestration) instructions