Impact Score: 5/10
Cypress v9.7.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Cypress v9.7.0. Source highlight: _Released 5/23/2022_
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
_Released 5/23/2022_
**Features:**
- The Electron version and shipped Chromium browser version has been updated.
Addressed in [#21418](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/pull/21418).
**Deprecations:**
- The `Cypress.Cookies.preserveOnce()` and `Cypress.Cookies.defaults()` Cypress
APIs have been deprecated. In a future release, support for
`Cypress.Cookies.preserveOnce()` and `Cypress.Cookies.defaults()` will be
removed. Consider using the experimental
[`cy.session()`](https://docs.cypress.io/api/commands/session) command instead to cache and restore
cookies and other sessions details between tests. Fixed
[#21333](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/21333).
**Bugfixes:**
- Updated the [`cy.contains()`](https://docs.cypress.io/api/commands/contains) command to correctly
error and retry if the provided regex pattern begins with an equal sign and a
match was not initially found. Previously the command would incorrectly fail
with a syntax error. Fixed
[#21108](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/21108).
- Corrected the `cy.session()` command log grouping and validation verbiage.
This change provides better insights to logs associated with the command.
Fixed [#21377](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/21377).
- Removed `eventemitter2` third-party type definitions from `cy` and `Cypress`
that were unintentionally exposed. Fixed
[#20556](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/20556).
**Dependency Updates:**
- Upgraded the bundled node version shipped with Cypress from `16.5.0` to
`16.13.2`. Addressed in
[#21418](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/pull/21418).
- Upgraded the Chromium browser version used during `cypress run` and when
selecting Electron browser in `cypress open` from `94.0.4606.81` to
`100.0.4896.75`. Addressed in
[#21418](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/pull/21418).
- Upgraded `electron` dependency from `15.5.1` to `18.0.4`. Addressed in
[#21418](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/pull/21418).