Impact Score: 5/10
Cypress: 0.17.7
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Component: cypress · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v0.17.7. Source highlight: *Released 10/12/2016*
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- There is now a new chromeWebSecurity option you can set in `cypress.json` to turn off Chrome's Web Security features. We've written a brand new reference that details why and how you could use this. Cypress Web Security. This option can be used for accessing `cross origin` `<iframes>` or if your application needs to test navigation across super domains. Fixes #262.
- We now capture `cross origin` errors correctly instead of these showing as `Uncaught DOMExceptions` in the console. Fixes #261.
- We no longer trash the wrong folder on OSX in-app updates (when a project is open). Sorry about this! Fixes #260.
- cy.visit() urls with domain-like segments (which weren't actually the domain) no longer cause Cypress to think you're trying to navigate to a different superdomain. Fixes #255.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
*Released 10/12/2016*
**Features:**
- There is now a new [chromeWebSecurity](https://on.cypress.io/configuration#Browser) option you can set in `cypress.json` to turn off Chrome's Web Security features. We've written a brand new reference that details why and how you could use this. [Cypress Web Security](https://on.cypress.io/web-security). This option can be used for accessing `cross origin` `<iframes>` or if your application needs to test navigation across super domains. Fixes [#262](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/262).
**Bugfixes:**
- We now capture `cross origin` errors correctly instead of these showing as `Uncaught DOMExceptions` in the console. Fixes [#261](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/261).
- We no longer trash the wrong folder on OSX in-app updates (when a project is open). Sorry about this! Fixes [#260](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/260).
- [cy.visit()](https://on.cypress.io/visit) urls with domain-like segments (which weren't actually the domain) no longer cause Cypress to think you're trying to navigate to a different superdomain. Fixes [#255](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/255).