---
title: "0.18.5"
url: "https://www.cypress.io/releases/0-18-5"
description: "Features: You can now disable videoCompression by passing false in cypress.json or env variables. In very long runs and on CPU throttled instances compression…"
---

# 0.18.5

ReleasedReleased on January 7, 2017

**Features:**

-   You can now disable `videoCompression` by passing `false` in `cypress.json` or env variables. In very long runs and on CPU throttled instances compression can take a considerable amount of time, possibly as much as 50% of the time spent running actual tests. Fixes [#372](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/372).
    

**Misc:**

-   Improved performance when running `cypress run` by caching the last bundled spec. This prevents having the same spec file rebundled each time [`cy.visit()`](/api/commands/visit) caused a full page navigation. You should see a moderate improvement in test run time. Fixes [#370](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/370).
    
-   We are now capturing `stdout` and several other properties for use + display in our Dashboard on `cypress ci` runs.
    
-   Enable [`cy.fixture()`](/api/commands/fixture) to send an encoding for images other than forcing the default encoding of `base64`. Fixes [#373](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/373).
    
-   Enable `cy.route()` to pass an `encoding` parameter when using `fx:fixture` syntax. Fixes [#374](https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/374).