Changes in PHPUnit 4.8

All notable changes of the PHPUnit 4.8 release series are documented in this file using the Keep a CHANGELOG principles.

4.8.35 - 2017-02-06

Added

Backported the forward compatibility layer for PHPUnit 6 from PHPUnit 5 so that PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase can be used instead of PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase

4.8.34 - 2017-01-26

Fixed #2447: Reverted backwards incompatible change to handling of boolean environment variable values specified in XML

4.8.33 - 2017-01-25

Fixed

Fixed #1983: Tests with @expectedException annotation cannot be skipped
Fixed #2275: Invalid UTF-8 characters can lead to missing output
Fixed #2331: Boolean environment variable values specified in XML get mangled
Fixed #2392: Empty (but valid) data provider should skip the test
Fixed #2431: assertArraySubset() does not support ArrayAccess

4.8.32 - 2017-01-22

Fixed

Fixed #2428: Nested arrays specificied in XML configuration file are not handled correctly

4.8.31 - 2016-12-09

Fixed

Fixed #2384: Handle PHPUnit_Framework_Exception correctly when expecting exceptions

4.8.30 - 2016-12-02

Fixed

Fixed #2367: Bug in PHPUnit_Util_Test::parseAnnotationContent()
Fixed #2375: Invalid regular expression for --filter causes PHP warning

4.8.29 - 2016-11-20

Changed

Bumped the required version of sebastian/comparator

4.8.28 - 2016-11-14

Fixed

Improved the fix for #1955: Process isolation fails when running tests with phpdbg -qrr

4.8.27 - 2016-07-21

Fixed

Fixed #1968: Invalid data sets are not handled correctly for @testWith annotation

4.8.26 - 2016-05-17

Fixed

Fixed phpunit-mock-objects/#301: PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockBuilder::getMock() calls PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase::getMock() with more arguments than accepted

4.8.25 - 2016-05-10

Fixed

Fixed #2112: Output is html entity encoded when ran through phpdbg
Fixed #2158: Failure to run tests in separate processes if a file included into main process contains constant definition

4.8.24 - 2016-03-14

Fixed

Fixed #1959: Prophecy errors are not handled correctly
Fixed #2039: TestDox does not handle snake_case test methods properly
Fixed #2109: Process isolation leaks global variable

4.8.23 - 2016-02-11

Fixed

Fixed #2072: Paths in XML configuration file were not handled correctly when they have whitespace around them

4.8.22 - 2016-02-02

Fixed

Fixed #2050: PHPUnit_Util_XML::load() raises exception with empty message when XML string is empty
Fixed a bug in PHPUnit_Runner_Version::series()

4.8.21 - 2015-12-12

Changed

Reverted the changes introduced in PHPUnit 4.8.20 as the only thing the new version constraint in composer.json achieved was locking PHP 7 users to PHPUnit 4.8.19

4.8.20 - 2015-12-10

Changed

Changed PHP version constraint in composer.json to prevent installing PHPUnit 4.8 on PHP 7
phpunit.phar will now refuse to work on PHP 7

4.8.19 - 2015-11-30

Fixed

Fixed #1955: Process isolation fails when running tests with phpdbg -qrr

4.8.18 - 2015-11-11

Changed

DbUnit 1.4 is bundled again in the PHAR distribution

4.8.17 - 2015-11-10

Fixed

Fixed #1935: PHP_CodeCoverage_Exception not handled properly
Fixed #1948: Unable to use PHAR due to unsupported signature error

Changed

DbUnit >= 2.0.2 is now bundled in the PHAR distribution

4.8.16 - 2015-10-23

Added

Implemented #1925: Provide a library-only PHAR

4.8.15 - 2015-10-22

Fixed

The backup of global state is now properly restored when changes to global state are disallowed
The __PHPUNIT_PHAR__ constant is now properly set when the PHPUnit PHAR is used as a library

4.8.14 - 2015-10-17

Fixed

Fixed #1892: --coverage-text does not honor color settings

4.8.13 - 2015-10-14

Added

Added the --self-upgrade commandline switch for upgrading a PHPUnit PHAR to the latest version

Changed

The --self-update commandline switch now updates a PHPUnit PHAR to the latest version within the same release series

4.8.12 - 2015-10-12

Changed

Merged #1893: Removed workaround for phpab bug

4.8.11 - 2015-10-07

Fixed

Merged #1885: Fixed handling of PHP configuration settings for process isolation
Fixed #1857: @covers and @uses should only take a single word
Fixed #1879: assertEqualXMLStructure() cannot compare nodes with an ID
Fixed #1898: @covers and @uses cannot be used for namespaced functions
Fixed #1901: --self-update updates to PHPUnit 5, even on PHP < 5.6

4.8.10 - 2015-10-01

Fixed

Merged #1884: Avoid passing Error to onNotSuccessfulTest() on PHP 7

4.8.9 - 2015-09-20

Fixed

Fixed regression introduced in PHPUnit 4.8.8

4.8.8 - 2015-09-19

Fixed

Fixed #1860: Not well-formed XML strings are always considered equal by PHPUnit_Framework_Assert::assertXmlStringEqualsXmlString()

4.8.7 - 2015-09-14

New PHAR release due to updated dependencies

4.8.6 - 2015-08-24

Fixed

Fixed #1835: Skipped test reported as errored since PHPUnit 4.7.4

4.8.5 - 2015-08-19

Fixed

Fixed #1831: PHAR manifest is missing

4.8.4 - 2015-08-15

Fixed

Fixed #1823: Columns attribute in XML configuration file is ignored

4.8.3 - 2015-08-10

Changed

PHPUnit now exits early during bootstrap when an unsupported version of PHP is used

4.8.2 - 2015-08-07

Fixed

Fixed #1816: PHPUnit 4.8.1 shows "4.8.0" as version number

4.8.1 - 2015-08-07

Fixed

Fixed #1815: phpunit --self-update does not work in PHPUnit 4.8.0

4.8.0 - 2015-08-07

Added

Added --check-version commandline switch to check whether the current version of PHPUnit is used (PHAR only)
Added --no-coverage commandline switch to ignore code coverage configuration from the configuration file
Implemented #1663: The Crap4J report's threshold is now configurable
Merged #1728: Implemented the @testWith annotation as "syntactic sugar" for data providers
Merged #1739: Added support to the commandline test runner for using options after arguments

Changed

Made the argument check of assertContains() and assertNotContains() more strict to prevent undefined behavior such as #1808
Changed the name of the default group from __nogroup__ to default