specs2

This release fixes a few issues with the specs2.files runner (see #935)

This release removes the dependency of scala-xml from specs2-core (because it was needed there) and updates a few other dependencies:

• scala compiler
• cats-effects
• cats-core
• scalacheck
• shapeless
• hamcrest
• junit

Improvements

• guide #834 added a note about trait inheritance for contexts

Fixes

• allow parameters to be injected in ScalaJS specifications
• moved scala and scalaz future matchers to the JVM

Fixes

• #757 fixed the instantiation of objects (by @xuwei_k)

Fixes

• #822 catch fatal errors in executions
• #818 changed the implementation for beCloseTo with significant figures

Fixes

• project release a clean 4.9.2 for ScalaJS 1.0
• more complete implementation of Classes for ScalaJS

Fixes

• core fixed the instantiation of specification objects with ScalaJS

Improvements

• core upgraded ScalaJS to 1.0
• core #809 upgraded scala versions (by @xuwei-k)
• mock #808 upgraded mockito-core to 3.3.0
• guide - added an example on using noShrink in the user guide

Fixes

• core #749 special-case Option for quoting values
• core #798 proper fix for possible regex match failures in SpecificationFinder when trying to find specification class names

Maintenance release

Fixes

• core #798 proper fix for possible regex match failures in SpecificationFinder when trying to find specification class names

Maintenance release

Fixes

• core #797 fixed the evaluation order for the List Traverse instance. This fixes the execution order for linked specifications
• core prevent pattern match exceptions in the SpecificationFinder

Maintenance release

Improvements

• guide better documentation for the CommandLine.isSet method
• core #772 allow to determine the duration before retry according the retry number (thanks to Cédric Chantepie)
• upgraded sbt to 1.3.3
• upgraded scalacheck to 1.14.2
• upgraded mockito-core to 3.1.0

Fixes

• tests fixed some scalaz Validation examples
• core fixed the case of Array.empty must not be empty

Maintenance release

Improvements

• upgraded cats to 2.0.0

Fixes

• #765 Allow matching special line characters with regex (thanks to @mantasak)

Scala Native version!

Improvements

• runs on Scala 2.11 for Scala Native thanks to @lolgab
• form, gwt and markdown are now crossprojects (@lolgab)
• guide mention that minTestsOk is equivalent to minSuccessfulTests (@jkleckner)
• usual thanks to @xuwei-k for updating dependencies

Fixes

• #754 remove quote from test of XML escape (@ashawley)
• #755 find package names with SpecificationFinder even when there are comments

This version is compatible with both Scala 2.13 should be compatible with Dotty except for features using macros.

Improvements

• run on Scala 2.13 thanks to @SethTisue, @rossabaker

Fixes

• #751 fix for implicit resolution on Dotty thanks to @smarter
• #748 fixed a stack overflow with Producer.emitSeq (could happen with large specifications)
• #747 rethrow failures with a not matcher in mutable specs
• fixed a comment on SimpleTimer and added a return type
• fixed one edge case with implicit resolution on Scala 2.13: beSome(beLeft) (reported by @xuwei-k)

Maintenance version, with a change in the internal API which should not impact regular users.
The important fix is the one about the reported times which should be a lot more correct now.

Fixes

• #731 make sure that times are reported consistently (this changes the internal API for Expectation)
• #728 use a simple Await to timeout examples
• fixed a comment on SimpleTimer and added a return type

Maintenance version

Fixes

• #727 gracefully shut down specs2 env on exception from JUnit's Description creation (thanks to @hmemcpy)

Maintenance version

This release is the same as 4.3.6 but bumped up to 4.4.0 because 4.3.6 is
not binary compatible with 4.3.5

Maintenance version

Enhancements

• core report Throwables at the end of a sbt execution (#714)
• cats refactor IOMatchers to add Generic (#707) (Diego E. Alonso Blas)* core return a better failure message when the argument for a spec cannot be buit

2.13 and upgrades

• use cats-1.4.0
• use scalacheck-1.14.0
• add explicit return types for macro (#706) (kenji yoshida)
• fix compile errors latest Scala 2.13.x (#708) (kenji yoshida)
• allow building on JDK 11 (#710) (Seth Tisue)
• upgrade cats + cats-effect to versions community build expects (#711) (Seth Tisue)
• upgraded to scala 2.12.7
• adjustments for 2.13.0-M5 but some tests are not passing anymore probably because of some changes with collections

Maintenance version

Enhancements

• removed the `oracle-java9-installer (#722) (kenji yoshida)
• added the possibility to use Futures in immutable specs
• added the possibility to return a Future[Result] from an example
• better reporting when stats files cannot be written (#716)

Upgrades

• use cats-1.5.0, cats-effect 1.1.0 (#726) (kenji yoshida)
• use mockito-2.23.4 (#725) (kenji yoshida)
• use scalaz-7.2.27, kind-projector-0.9.9 (#723) (kenji yoshida)

Maintenance version, with some HTML enhancement and most importantly a fix for Bazel builds.

Enhancements

• scalacheck added missing setSeed(String) methods on scalacheck functions
• html #704 remove superflous lines between examples (by @kaatzee)
• html #696 set better levels for non mutable specifications reporting in HTML (by @kaatzee)
• guide #689 document the skipAllIf/skipAllUnless arguments

Fixes

• junit #705 added an exclusion for the Bazel runner, to prevent double reporting (#705) (17 minutes ago) (thanks to Igal Tabachnik)
• core #700 log errors properly when beforeAll fails (thanks to @kaatzee)