Current behavior

After scaffolding Angular 20 and then applying @cypress/schematic, Cypress has been entered into the package.json file at the end of the devDependencies key section with the literal version latest:

  "devDependencies": {
    "@angular/build": "^20.2.1",
    "@angular/cli": "^20.2.1",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "^20.2.0",
    "@cypress/schematic": "^4.1.1",
    "@types/jasmine": "~5.1.0",
    "jasmine-core": "~5.9.0",
    "karma": "~6.4.0",
    "karma-chrome-launcher": "~3.2.0",
    "karma-coverage": "~2.2.0",
    "karma-jasmine": "~5.1.0",
    "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "~2.1.0",
    "typescript": "~5.9.2",
    "cypress": "latest"
  }

Desired behavior

@cypress/schematic should retrieve and save the latest version of Cypress in semver format. For instance, at the moment, that would be 15.0.0.

Test code to reproduce

Set up project with:

npm install -g @angular/cli@20
ng new angular-app --defaults=true
cd angular-app

this is available in https://github.com/MikeMcC399/cypress-test-tiny/tree/32388-angular-20/angular-app:

git clone --branch 32388-angular-20 https://github.com/MikeMcC399/cypress-test-tiny
cd cypress-test-tiny
cd angular-app

then execute:

ng add @cypress/schematic --e2e --component
cat package.json | grep cypress

Cypress Version

15.0.0

Node version

v22.19.0 LTS

Operating System

Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

Debug Logs

    "cypress:open": "cypress open",
    "cypress:run": "cypress run"
    "@cypress/schematic": "^4.1.1",
    "cypress": "latest"

Other

attempts to pull version.latest from http://registry.npmjs.org

GET http://registry.npmjs.org/cypress produces the HTTP response 301 Moved Permanently to https://registry.npmjs.org/cypress which is however using the https protocol instead of http.