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Cypress v4.2.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-03-16 // about 4 years ago

  • 🚀 Released 3/16/2020

    🔋 Features:

    • Videos can now be recorded when running Electron in --headed mode. Addresses #1767.
    • 🖨 cypress cache list now prints the last time the cached binary was accessed for each version present. Addresses #6682.

    🛠 Bugfixes:

    • 🛠 We fixed a regression in 3.8.3 where HTTPS requests could experience slowdown. Fixes #6659.
    • 🛠 We now detect some installations of Firefox that were previously undetected. Fixes #6669.
    • 🔌 We fixed a race condition where an asynchronous error could fail to be caught when running the plugins file process. Fixes #6570.
    • 🛠 We now more thoroughly ensure the parent of an element exists when recursively calling actionability checks in order to prevent some maximum call stack errors. Fixes #6707.
    • 🛠 Specfiles containing & or % characters now correctly run instead of erroring. Fixes #4210.
    • ✅ We added support for running tests on Jira plugins even when Jira scripts were not minified. Fixes #1436.
    • ✅ We fixed a bug causing specs to hang after rerunning tests during cypress open when there was an exception if thrown in an after hook. Fixes #6619.
    • 🖨 cypress verify no longer incorrectly prints messaging about this being the first time using that Cypress version. Fixes #6607.
    • 🔊 Screenshots no longer fail to be taken in Electron when Cypress DEBUG logs are enabled. Fixes #6662.

    Misc:

    • A warning is now printed when setting the reserved key CYPRESS_INTERNAL_ENV to a non-production value. Addresses #6436.
    • 🔊 When DEBUG logs are printed from cypress:launcher, they now print a clearer log during browser detection for easier reading. Addresses #6700.
    • ✅ The Test Runner now renders ANSI colors when there is a syntax error in the spec file. Addresses #6533.
    • ✅ The Test Runner now has an icon indicating whether the specs list parent folder is collapsed. Addresses #6277.
    • 👍 There's better type information for .click, .dblclick, and .rightclick command's position argument. Addresses #6341.
    • There's a more robust type signature for .its() and .invoke(). Addresses #6431.
    • Using Cypress.dom.isDetached no longer throws a type error in TypeScript projects. Addresses #4408.
    • 🌲 Using cy.clearLocalStorage({ log:false }) no longer throws a type error in TypeScript projects. Addresses #6615.
    • We added types for Cypress.sinon. Addresses #6720.
    • ✅ We've added the foundational work required to support experimental features in the Test Runner. Addresses #6257.

    ⚡️ Dependency Updates

    • ⬆️ Upgraded Chrome browser version used during cypress run and when selecting Electron browser in cypress open from 78 to 80. Addressed in #6555.
    • ⬆️ Upgraded electron from 7.1.13 to 8.1.1. This bumps the bundled Chromium to 80.0.3987.141 and the bundled Node to 12.13.0. Addressed in #6555.
    • ⬆️ Upgraded @ffmpeg-installer/ffmpeg from 1.0.19 to 1.0.20. Addressed in #6686.
    • ⬆️ Upgraded minimist from 1.2.0 to 1.2.2. Addressed in #6726.
    • 🗄 Replaced deprecated request with cypress-io/request. Addressed in #6679.