# Cypress v3.0.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Cypress (https://www.cypress.io)
- **Version:** v3.0.0
- **Released:** Jul 19, 2018
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/cypress/updates/v3.0.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v3.0.0. Source highlight: *Released 5/29/2018*

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking Changes:** - We now run each spec file in isolation from one another. This *shouldn't* technically break anything, but if you have set up your tests in a way that requires the state of a previous spec file, this could potentially break your tests. This will go a long ways towards reducing problems we were seeing with long runs in CI. Fixes [#431](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/431), [#681](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/681), [#1589](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/1589), [#1539](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/1539), and [#1692](h

## Improvements
- There is a new cy.task() command that enables you to go outside the browser to perform tasks directly in `node`. This will make it easy to setup, scaffold, seed, talk to your database, or anything else useful on a backend.
- We are now capturing the performance and timings data of every test when using `--record` mode and are beginning to offer the first analytics and insights into the health of your tests on our Dashboard service.

## Bug Fixes
- We now run each spec file in isolation from one another. This *shouldn't* technically break anything, but if you have set up your tests in a way that requires the state of a previous spec file, this could potentially break your tests. This will go a long ways towards reducing problems we were seeing with long runs in CI. Fixes #431, #681, #1589, #1539, and #1692.
- `screenshotOnHeadlessFailure` has been removed as an option in `cypress.json`. Instead you can now control this behavior directly with code by setting `screenshotOnRunFailure` to `false` within the new Screenshot API. Fixes #1140 and #1754.
- `trashAssetsBeforeHeadlessRuns` has been renamed to `trashAssetsBeforeRuns` in our configuration. Fixes #1754.
- `videoRecording` has been renamed to `video` in our configuration to be clearer and prevent confusion about recording to our Dashboard. Fixes #562.
- Cypress no longer copies screenshots and videos to artifacts for CircleCI. Copying artifacts should be left up to the user to handle themselves in their `circle.yml` file. Fixes #1592.
- The standard output has been redesigned to better visualize spec files running in isolation and to be more visually appealing. This may break any specialized logic written that expected the standard output to be structured in a specific way or contain specific words. Fixes #1588.