Impact Score: 5/10
Cypress: 0.18.5
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v0.18.5. Source highlight: *Released 01/08/2017*
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- You can now disable `videoCompression` by passing `false` in `cypress.json` or env variables. In very long runs and on CPU throttled instances compression can take a considerable amount of time, possibly as much as 50% of the time spent running actual tests. Fixes #372.
- Improved performance when running `cypress run` by caching the last bundled spec. This prevents having the same spec file rebundled each time cy.visit() caused a full page navigation. You should see a moderate improvement in test run time. Fixes #370.
- Enable cy.fixture() to send an encoding for images other than forcing the default encoding of `base64`. Fixes #373.
- Enable cy.route() to pass an `encoding` parameter when using `fx:fixture` syntax. Fixes #374.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
*Released 01/08/2017*
**Features:**
- You can now disable `videoCompression` by passing `false` in `cypress.json` or env variables. In very long runs and on CPU throttled instances compression can take a considerable amount of time, possibly as much as 50% of the time spent running actual tests. Fixes [#372](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/372).
**Misc:**
- Improved performance when running `cypress run` by caching the last bundled spec. This prevents having the same spec file rebundled each time [cy.visit()](https://on.cypress.io/visit) caused a full page navigation. You should see a moderate improvement in test run time. Fixes [#370](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/370).
- We are now capturing `stdout` and several other properties for use + display in our Dashboard on `cypress ci` runs.
- Enable [cy.fixture()](https://on.cypress.io/fixture) to send an encoding for images other than forcing the default encoding of `base64`. Fixes [#373](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/373).
- Enable [cy.route()](https://on.cypress.io/route) to pass an `encoding` parameter when using `fx:fixture` syntax. Fixes [#374](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/374).