Impact Score: 5/10
Cypress v9.2.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v9.2.1. Source highlight: _Released 1/10/2022_
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.
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Improve heuristic for verifying when the `--openssl-legacy-provider` option
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- Fixed a regression in 9.2.0 to keep
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
_Released 1/10/2022_
**Bugfixes:**
- Fixed a regression in [9.2.0](https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/changelog#9-2-0) to keep
Cypress open after each spec finishes when the `--headed --no-exit` flags are
passed to `cypress run`. Fixes
[#19485](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/19485).
- Improve heuristic for verifying when the `--openssl-legacy-provider` option
should be passed to the plugins' child process when the system Node version is
v17+. This prevents Cypress from crashing when a user has Node 17 installed
which was built with OpenSSL v1. Fixes
[#19320](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/19320).
- Correctly cast the `CYPRESS_VERIFY_TIMEOUT` environment variable as a number
so Cypress will no longer throw
`TypeError: Expected the timeout option to be a non-negative integer`. Fixes
[#19476](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/19476).
**Dependency Updates:**
- Update pinned resolution of `cli-table3` from `~0.6.0` to `~0.6.1` to avoid
problems with the bug introduced in the
[colors.js v1.4.44-liberty-2 release](https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285).
Addresses [#19624](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/19624).