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Cypress v5.3.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-09-29 // over 3 years ago

  • 🚀 Released 9/28/2020

    🔋 Features:

    • 🍱 Firefox support is now out of beta! 🎉 Firefox 80 and newer are now officially stable when used with Cypress. Addresses #8241.
      • Versions of Firefox older than 80 can still be used, but will be subject to the firefoxGcInterval workaround. The desktop GUI will display a warning if such versions are used.

    🛠 Bugfixes:

    • 🛠 Fixed a bug where cy.route2 would not automatically JSONify an empty array handler. Addresses #8532.
    • 🛠 Fixed a bug where objects yielded by using cy.wait on a cy.route2 alias would not always have a response property. Addresses #8536.
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where cy.route2 routes would not be able to intercept requests to HTTPS destinations on a different origin. Addresses #8487.
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where subjects became undefined after certain assertion failures. Addresses #5763.
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where a cy.task with no arguments passed would receive null as the first argument instead of undefined. Addresses #5913.
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue preventing users from passing the config-file argument when starting cypress through the node module API. Addresses #8632.
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where cy.visit()s to a relative URL containing .. would not work. Addresses #5090.
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where Mocha hooks could still be triggered after the Test Runner was manually stopped. Addresses #8621.
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where cy.setCookie failed when given a cookie name with a __Host- prefix. Addresses #8261.
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue where a misleading error was displayed when test code threw an exception with a non-Error object. Addresses #7870.

    Misc:

    • 🔒 The proxy now omits the Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only header the same way that it does for Content-Security-Policy. Addresses #7936.
    • ➕ Added a status property to CypressRunResult objects. Addresses #8580.
    • ⚡️ Updated types to no longer use deprecated Mocha interfaces. Addresses #5795.
    • Passing an empty string to CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY now takes precedence over npm config. Addresses #8488.