Impact Score: 5/10
Cypress v8.7.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v8.7.0. Source highlight: _Released 10/25/2021_
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)
- Added a `slowTestThreshold`
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Improved the error message when running Cypress without non-root permissions.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- Fixed a regression introduced in 8.6.0 where videos recorded in
- Fixed a regression introduced in 8.6.0 so that the warning about the
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
_Released 10/25/2021_
**Features:**
- There are changes to how "slow" tests are determined and displayed in Cypress.
Addresses [#18496](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/pull/18496).
- Added a [`slowTestThreshold`](https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/configuration#Timeouts)
configuration option to customize when tests are considered "slow" during
`cypress run`. A test that runs slower than the given threshold will display
in orange text in the default 'spec' reporter. This configuration can be set
in your Cypress config file or via specific
[test configuration](https://docs.cypress.io/guides/core-concepts/writing-and-organizing-tests#Test-Configuration).
- The default slow test threshold was changed from 75ms (Mocha's default) to
10000ms for e2e tests and 250ms for component tests. To restore the old
behavior, you can add `"slowTestThreshold": 75` to your Cypress config file.
- All tests will show the time the test ran in milliseconds during
`cypress run` with the default 'spec' reporter.
- Users can pass an `overwrite: true` option to `Cypress.Screenshot.defaults` to
change default behavior to overwrite existing screenshots without having to
set `overwrite` for each `cy.screenshot()` command. Addresses
[#7955](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/7955).
**Bugfixes:**
- Fixed a regression introduced in [8.6.0](https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/changelog#8-6-0) where videos recorded in
Electron to the Dashboard were not playable in the Firefox or Safari browser
and were not compatible with QuickTime player in MacOS.
- Fixed a regression introduced in [8.6.0](https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/changelog#8-6-0) so that the warning about the
`projectRoot` directory not being writeable will now display correctly. Fixes
[#18485](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/18485).
- Improved the error message when running Cypress without non-root permissions.
Fixes [#18445](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/18445).
- An error now throws when invalid options are passed to the `selectorPriority`
configuration option of `Cypress.SelectorPlayground.defaults`. Valid values
are `data-*`, `id`, `class`, `tag`, `attribute`, or `nth-child`. Fixes
[#7745](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/7745).
**Dependency Updates:**
- Pinned resolution of `ua-parser-js` to `0.7.24` to avoid dependency resolution
to the compromised package versions. Please read the
[security advisory](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pjwm-rvh2-c87w) and
take actions advised as soon as possible. Addressed in
[#18611](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/pull/18611)