v7.2.0: 7.2.0

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Released 04/26/2021

Features:

• You can now navigate through folders in the Test Runner using the Tab keyboard input and open or close the folder's content with the Enter & Space keyboard inputs. Addresses #​3741.

Performance:

• Fixed a regression in 7.0.0 that caused tests to run slowly, especially when run with constrained CPU resources. Fixes #​15853.
• Fixed a regression in 7.0.0 causing decreased performance in Chromium browsers due to requesting screencast frames when video is disabled. Fixes #​16030.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a regression in 7.0.0 that caused the Test Runner to crash with an ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE type error. We now correctly detect a utf8 request body with multi-byte Unicode characters. Fixes #​15901.
• Reusing cy.intercept() aliases will now work as expected. Fixes #​15823.
• Fixed an issue in 7.0 where users could get a misleading "must pass a handler as the 3rd argument" error when using cy.intercept. Fixes #​16117.
• cypress run-ct no longer hangs on Windows machines. Fixes #​15976.
• Hovering over a command log without a snapshot will no longer cause the error Cannot read property 'name' of null. Fixes #​15816.
• We now throw an error when attempting to .select() an <option> within a disabled <fieldset>. Fixes #​5951.
• .type() will no longer change the value attribute of button-like inputs with type button, submit, reset, image, radio, or checkbox. Fixes #​15913.
• Specs will now load when using a relative directory for componentFolder outside of the root project when specifying --project. Fixes #​16053.
• The search input will now display when there are many component spec files. Fixes #​16089.

Misc:

• Lodash types have been updated. Addressed in #​15860.
• Types for the selector playground have been added. Addressed in #​15834.
• Cypress.Cookies.defaults() now returns the correct type instead of void. Addresses #​15426.
• .then() will show the correct type when a collection of HTMLElements is provided. Addressed in #​15869.
• Improved types for cy.intercept(). Addressed in #​16167.

Dependency Updates:

• Downgraded the Chromium browser version used during cypress run and when selecting Electron browser in cypress open from 89.0.4348.1 to 89.0.4328.0. This was done to address a performance regression introduced in 7.0.0. Addressed in #​16113.
• Upgraded systeminformation from 5.3.1 to 5.6.4. Addressed in #​15819.
• Replaced lolex with @sinonjs/fake-timers. Addressed in #​15595.