Impact Score: 5/10
Cypress: 0.18.2
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v0.18.2. Source highlight: *Released 12/15/2016*
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- Under the hood cy.visit() now sets an `Accept: text/html,*/*` request header to prevent some web servers from sending back `404` in the case where they required this header. Only a small % of servers would ever do this, but `webpack-dev-server` was one of them. Fixes #309.
- cy.request() now sends an `Accept: */*` request header by default too. Fixes #338.
- cy.request() now includes more debugging information (related to headers) in the error output. Fixes #341.
- When cy.request() times out, we now output much better error messages including information about the request sent. Fixes #340.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
*Released 12/15/2016*
**Bugfixes:**
- Under the hood [cy.visit()](https://on.cypress.io/visit) now sets an `Accept: text/html,*/*` request header to prevent some web servers from sending back `404` in the case where they required this header. Only a small % of servers would ever do this, but `webpack-dev-server` was one of them. Fixes [#309](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/309).
- [cy.request()](https://on.cypress.io/request) now sends an `Accept: */*` request header by default too. Fixes [#338](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/338).
**Misc:**
- [cy.request()](https://on.cypress.io/request) now includes more debugging information (related to headers) in the error output. Fixes [#341](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/341).
- When [cy.request()](https://on.cypress.io/request) times out, we now output much better error messages including information about the request sent. Fixes [#340](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/340).