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Hamcrest v2.1-rc1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-11-25 // over 5 years ago

  • Overview

    🚀 After a long hiatus without releases, this version simplifies the packaging of
    Hamcrest into a single jar: hamcrest-<version>.jar. Other big changes include
    Java 9 module compatibility, along with numerous other improvements and bug
    🛠 fixes.

    💥 Breaking Changes

    Although the class API has not changed since Hamcrest 1.3, the way that the
    📦 project is packaged has changed. Refer to the Hamcrest Distributables
    📚 documentation for more information.

    🔄 Changes

    • Publish a single jar hamcrest-2.1.jar
    • 📚 Documentation updates
    • ➕ Add implementation for CharSequence length matcher
    • 🛠 Fix for TypeSafeDiagnosingMatcher can't detect generic types for subclass
    • 📇 Renamed IsCollectionContaining to IsIterableContaining
    • 👉 Make Hamcrest an OSGI bundle
    • ➕ Add StringRegularExpression matcher
    • 🛠 Fix StringContainsInOrder to detect if a repeated pattern is missing
    • ➕ Add ArrayAsIterableMatcher
    • 🛠 Fix description for IsEqualIgnoringCase
    • 🛠 Fix JavaDoc examples

    🔖 Version 2.0.0.0 Changes

    🔖 Version 2.1-rc1 also includes changes previous released (but un-tagged as version 2.0.0.0). These changes include:

    • ⬆️ Upgraded to Java 7
    • 🏗 Build with Gradle
    • Publish a single jar java-hamcrest-2.0.0.0.jar
    • ✂ Removed deprecated methods from previous release
    • 👌 Improve mismatch description of hasItem/hasItems
    • General improvements to mismatch descriptions
    • Several JavaDoc improvements and corrections
    • 🗄 Deprecated several matcher factory methods of the for "isXyz"
    • 🛠 Fix GH issue #75 - address doclint errors reported in JDK 1.8
    • 🛠 Fix GH issue #69 - Iterable contains in order is null-safe
    • 🛠 Fix GH issue #59 - added equalToObject() (i.e. unchecked) method
    • 🛠 Fix GH issue #25 - arrayContaining(null, null) cause NullPointerException
    • 🛠 Fix GH issue #36 - string matching on regular expressions
    • 🛠 Fix GH issue #8 - isCloseTo() shows wrong delta in mismatch description
    • 🛠 Fix GH issue #59 - add untyped version of equalTo, named equalToObject
    • 🛠 Fix GC issue #131 - Implement IsEmptyMap, IsMapWithSize
    • 🛠 Fix GC issue #187 - IsArray.describeMismatchSafely() should use Matcher.describeMismatch
    • 🛠 Fix GC issue #155 - Add Matcher implementation for files
    • 🛠 Fix GC issue #69 - fix NPE in IsIterableContainingInOrder