# Cypress v0.17.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Cypress (https://www.cypress.io)
- **Version:** v0.17.1
- **Released:** Jul 19, 2018
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/cypress/updates/v0.17.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v0.17.1. Source highlight: *Released 08/31/2016*

## New Features
- You can now pass keyboard modifiers such as `ctrl`, `cmd`, `shift`, and `alt` to .type(). In addition we've added support for not "releasing" these keys so they can affect other actions such as .click(). Addresses #196.

## Bug Fixes
- The `__cypress.initial` cookie should now be removed during any cy.visit(), which should fix some edge cases with the proxy accidentally injecting content when it shouldn't. We also added a ton more e2e tests covering these edge cases and other behavior.
- All cy.fixture() extensions are now supported and Cypress will no longer throw on extensions it doesn't recognize. For known fixture extensions we'll continue to apply a default `encoding` and for everything else it will default to `utf8`. Fixes #200.