Cypress, a tool designed to advance the testing of modern web applications, has transitioned from a private to a public beta as of October 10, 2017, marking a significant step in its development journey that began with its first commit on June 5, 2014. Over the years, the team has made substantial progress, including over 20,000 commits and extensive collaboration with developers to refine the tool based on user feedback. The public beta launch introduces several key features, such as open-sourcing the entire code base, which includes components like the driver, desktop GUI, test runner, and server, and the highly anticipated support for Windows, albeit initially in a 32-bit version. Looking ahead, Cypress aims to further enhance its capabilities with upcoming features like a plugins and extensions API and improvements for running tests in continuous integration environments. While the core Test Runner is open source and free, the future will see the introduction of pricing plans for private projects using the Dashboard Service, starting at $99 per month.