Cypress release notes
Browser-based end-to-end and component testing.
Latest tracked stable: v16.2.1
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Playwright, Cypress and Vitest changelogs for browser automation, end-to-end tests and JavaScript test suites.
Tracked Testing & QA products
Playwright release notes
Cross-browser end-to-end testing and browser automation.
Latest tracked stable: v1.64.1
Official documentation ↗Vitest release notes
Vite-powered testing framework for JavaScript and TypeScript projects.
Latest tracked stable: v4.1.12
Official documentation ↗What to review before upgrading
- Check browser binaries, Node.js requirements and CI container images.
- Review assertions, mocks, snapshots and reporter API changes.
- Run representative tests before changing the version pinned in CI.
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Impact 2/10
Cypress v16.2.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v16.2.1 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.12 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.12. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 5/10
Vitest v5.0.5 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v5.0.5. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 2/10
Cypress v16.2.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v16.2.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.64.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.64.1. Source highlight: #43247 [Bug]: _electron.launch intermittently loses a packaged app's first window since 1.64.0
Impact 5/10
Vitest v5.0.4 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v5.0.4. Source highlight: 🚀 Features
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.64.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.64.0. Source highlight: New page.webmcp and frame.webmcp give access to the tools that a page registers through the experimental WebMCP browser API, so you can test them like any other part of your app:
Impact 5/10
Vitest v5.0.3 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v5.0.3. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 2/10
Cypress v16.1.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v16.1.1 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v5.0.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v5.0.2. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 2/10
Cypress v16.1.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v16.1.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v5.0.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v5.0.1. Source highlight: 🚀 Features
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.63.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.63.0. Source highlight: Tests that access a shared resource — an external service, a global account setting — can now declare a named `lock`.
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Vitest v5.0.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v5.0.0. Source highlight: Vitest 5 is officially out! This release focuses on performance and brings a lot of new features while fixing long-standing bugs. See our blog post for the official announcement.
Impact 2/10
Cypress v16.0.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v16.0.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.21.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.21.1 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.21.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.21.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.11 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.11. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.20.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.20.1 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.20.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.20.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.62.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.62.1. Source highlight: #41989 [Regression]: tsconfig "extends" bare specifier isn't resolved via node_modules walk-up like tsc (fatal since 1.62)
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.62.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.62.0. Source highlight: 🧱 New component testing model
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.19.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.19.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.18.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.18.1 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.10 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.10. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 5/10
Vitest v3.2.7 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v3.2.7. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.61.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.61.1. Source highlight: #41365 [Bug]: Expect.Extend matcher with same name as default matcher in same expect instance overrides default matchers implementation to custom matcher
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.18.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.18.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.9 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.9. Source highlight: Fix `importOriginal` with optimizer and query import [backport to v4] - by **Hiroshi Ogawa**, **David Harris**, **Codex**and **Vladimir** in https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/issues/10546 <samp>(a5180)</samp>
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.61.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.61.0. Source highlight: New Credentials virtual authenticator, available via browserContext.credentials, lets tests register passkeys and answer `navigator.credentials.create()` / `navigator.credentials.get()` ceremonies in the page — no real hardware key required, works in all browsers:
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.17.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.17.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v3.2.6 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v3.2.6. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 5/10
Vitest v3.2.5 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v3.2.5. Source highlight: 🚀 Features
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.8 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.8. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.16.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.16.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.7 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.7. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.15.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.15.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.60.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.60.0. Source highlight: 🌐 HAR recording on Tracing
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.6 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.6. Source highlight: 🐞 Bug Fixes
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.14.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.14.2 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.14.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.14.1 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.5 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.5. Source highlight: 🚀 Experimental Features
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.14.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.14.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.4 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.4. Source highlight: 🚀 Experimental Features
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.13.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.13.1 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.3 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.3. Source highlight: 🚀 Experimental Features
Impact 5/10
Playwright v1.59.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.59.1. Source highlight: **[Windows]** Reverted hiding console window when spawning browser processes, which caused regressions including broken `codegen`, `--ui` and `show` commands (#39990)
⚠️ Breaking
Impact 7/10
Playwright v1.59.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Playwright v1.59.0. Source highlight: New page.screencast API provides a unified interface for capturing page content with:
Impact 5/10
Vitest v4.1.2 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Vitest v4.1.2. Source highlight: This release bumps Vitest's `flatted` version and removes version pinning to resolve `flatted`'s CVE related issues (https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/issues/9975).
Impact 2/10
Cypress v15.13.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Cypress v15.13.0 is published, but the available notes are too limited to assess upgrade impact. Review the official source before upgrading.