# Cypress v0.18.5 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Cypress (https://www.cypress.io)
- **Version:** v0.18.5
- **Released:** Jul 19, 2018
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/cypress/updates/v0.18.5/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v0.18.5. Source highlight: *Released 01/08/2017*

## Bug Fixes
- 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.