Impact Score: 5/10
Cypress v9.5.1 โ Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v9.5.1. Source highlight: _Released 2/28/2022_
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
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โจ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Added a `ready` event to the Plugins process to ensure all plugins have
โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Made a change to the DNS lookup to improve test performances and reliability
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- This fixes an issue where the plugin is never executed and leaves Cypress
- Fixed a regression in 9.5.0 where ANSI
- Fixed a regression in 9.5.0 where the
- Fixed an issue where Cypress would throw an error when reporting or wrapping
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
_Released 2/28/2022_
**Bugfixes:**
- Added a `ready` event to the Plugins process to ensure all plugins have
successfully started before the configuration is loaded and the tests start.
Fixed in [#19792](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/19792).
- This fixes an issue where the plugin is never executed and leaves Cypress
stuck in the initialization phase, where the user can only view the loading
spinner.
- This enables support for node's experimental `--loader` flag for plugins.
- Made a change to the DNS lookup to improve test performances and reliability
on MacOS machines that leverage the VMWare CBCloud SaaS solution. Before this
change, random test failures were observed, as well as hanging tests and
initially pending HTTP and HTTPS responses. Fixed in
[#20062](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/20062).
- Fixed a regression in [9.5.0](https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/changelog#9-5-0) where ANSI
colors were not removed from the `cy.fixtures()` error code frame. Fixes
[#20208](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/20208).
- Fixed a regression in [9.5.0](https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/changelog#9-5-0) where the
test config override errors were formatted incorrectly. Fixes
[#20208](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/20208).
- Fixed an issue where Cypress would throw an error when reporting or wrapping
errors with booleans or numbers. Fixes
[#19561](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/19561).
**Dependency Updates:**
- Upgraded `url-parse` dependency from `1.5.2` to `1.5.6` to avoid authorization
bypass through user-controlled key to address this
[NVD security vulnerability](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0512).
Addressed in [#20270](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/20270).