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+'@backstage/create-app': patch
+---
+
+Bump version of `cypress` in newly scaffolded Backstage Applications. To apply this change to your own instance, please make the following change to `packages/app/package.json` under `devDependencies`.
+
+```diff
+-   "cypress": "^7.3.0",
++   "cypress": "^9.7.0",
+```