Impact Score: 5/10
Cypress v0.9.4 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v0.9.4. Source highlight: *Released 07/06/2015*
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.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- cy.contains(), cy.get(), and `traversal commands` will now all log out heir last known `$el` on failure. This means the `$el` will be highlight during Command Log hovering, and will display in the console on click. his should make debugging failed DOM based commands much easier. Fixes #52.
- Fixed edge case with cy.contains() and command options `visible` and `exist` where it would always fail ven though the matched element was in the correct state.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
*Released 07/06/2015*
**Features:**
- [cy.contains()](https://on.cypress.io/contains), [cy.get()](https://on.cypress.io/get), and `traversal commands` will now all log out heir last known `$el` on failure. This means the `$el` will be highlight during Command Log hovering, and will display in the console on click. his should make debugging failed DOM based commands much easier. Fixes [#52](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/52).
**Bugfixes:**
- Fixed edge case with [cy.contains()](https://on.cypress.io/contains) and command options `visible` and `exist` where it would always fail ven though the matched element was in the correct state.
**Misc:**
- [cy.contains()](https://on.cypress.io/contains) now throws when provided the command option: `length` because it will only ever return 1 element.