# Cypress v7.6.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Cypress (https://www.cypress.io)
- **Version:** v7.6.0
- **Released:** Jun 23, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/cypress/updates/v7.6.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v7.6.0. Source highlight: _Released 06/23/2021_

## Improvements
- The experience when opening a new project via `cypress open` has been improved. Addressed in #15826.

## Bug Fixes
- Cypress no longer hangs intermittently when using webpack 5. Fixes #15447.
- It is no longer necessary to return the config from the plugins function when using the `dev-server:start` event for component testing. Fixes #16860.
- `cy.intercept()` now correctly sets the response body as a string instead of an ArrayBuffer when it contains multi-byte characters. Fixes #16292.
- `cy.intercept()` won't corrupt certain binary responses. Fixes #16722.
- On Windows, the Cypress executable is now code signed by "Cypress.io, Inc.". This fixes `spawn UNKNOWN` errors when launching Cypress with code signing required by policy on Windows. Fixes #2543
- We now warn on `EPERM` errors when accessing the project directory instead of erroring. Fixes #16933.