Released 06/23/2021
Features:
- You can now override the default delay between typing characters for
.type()withCypress.Keyboard.defaults()or via test configuration. Addresses #566. - The experience when opening a new project via
cypress openhas been improved. Addressed in #15826.- The scaffolded example files have been updated to include examples tests of the TodoMVC project.
- You can now easily delete all of the scaffolded example files directly from the Test Runner GUI.
- There's now a button to create a new spec file when no spec files are found in the project.
- A new onboarding banner with be present with helpful links for new users and new projects.
- The incoming request object yielded to request handler functions passed to
cy.intercept()(req) now has areq.queryproperty, which is a getter/setter for the query parameters on the request URL. Addresses #16327. - You can now pass an
ArrayBufferas a request / response body withcy.intercept(). Addresses #16722
Bugfixes:
- 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:startevent 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 UNKNOWNerrors when launching Cypress with code signing required by policy on Windows. Fixes #2543 - We now warn on
EPERMerrors when accessing the project directory instead of erroring. Fixes #16933. - Cypress now better handles running when browsers with unconventional versions are present on the machine. Fixes #15485.
- Expanded the types for
CyHttpMessages.BaseMessage.headersto support the value being an array of strings. Fixes #16734.
Dependency Updates:
- Added
enquirerdependency. Fixes #16846.