Impact Score: 5/10
Cypress v0.6.8 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v0.6.8. Source highlight: *Released 06/05/2015*
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 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.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- cy.clearCookie() and cy.clearCookies() have been added as new commands.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- Finally tracked down and fixed edge case causing empty view to display when tests were not empty. Fixes #13
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
*Released 06/05/2015*
**Features:**
- [cy.clearCookie()](https://on.cypress.io/clearcookie) and [cy.clearCookies()](https://on.cypress.io/clearcookies) have been added as new commands.
- Cypress will automatically clear all cookies **before** each test run.
- Named the spec + app iframe so that inside of Chrome Dev Tools the iframe selector will clearly distinguish which iframe is your application versus Cypress.
**Bugfixes:**
- Hitbox is no longer covered up by element layers on DOM revert.
- Finally tracked down and fixed edge case causing empty view to display when tests were not empty. Fixes [#13](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/13)
**Misc:**
- [cy.visit()](https://on.cypress.io/visit) now accepts `{log: false}` to prevent logging out (useful in custom commands).
- [cy.contains()](https://on.cypress.io/contains) is now scoped by default to the `<body>` instead of `document` which prevents it from returning elements in the `head` like `title`.