@cucumber/cucumber - npm Package Versions

[8.0.0-rc.2] - 2022-01-10

Added

• Export Cucumber's version number. It is now possible to retrieve the current version of Cucumber using import { version } from '@cucumber/cucumber' (#1866 #1853)

Changed

• Switched to new @cucumber/ci-environment library for CI detection (#1868)

Fixed

• Handles spaces in paths for developers working on Cucumber's own code (#1845)
• Ensure package.json can be imported by consuming projects (#1870 #1869)
• Allows for parentheses in paths for developers working on Cucumber's own code (#1735)
• Smoother onboarding for Windows developers (#1863)
• Pin colors to 1.4.0 to fix security vulnerability (#1884)
• Pin cli-table3 to 0.6.1 to fix security vulnerability (#251)

[7.3.2] - 2022-01-10

Fixed

• Pin colors to 1.4.0 to fix security vulnerability (#1884)
• Pin cli-table3 to 0.6.1 to fix security vulnerability (#251)

[8.0.0-rc.1] - 2021-10-19

Added

• Add wrapPromiseWithTimeout to public API (#1566)
• Add support for user code as native ES modules
• BeforeStep and AfterStep hook functions now have access to the pickleStep in their argument object
• --config option to the CLI. It allows you to specify a configuration file other than cucumber.js (see documentation) #1794

Changed

• Relative paths for custom snippet syntaxes must begin with . (#1640)
• Absolute paths for custom formatters and snippet syntaxes must be a valid file:// URL
• Use performance timers for test case duration measurement #1793

Fixed

• Allow targeting same file multiple times (#1708)
• When running with --dry-run, undefined or ambiguous steps no longer cause the process to exit with code 1 (#1814)
• When running the --help command, it now shows all available formatters under the --format option #1798

Removed

• Drop support for Node.js 10 and 15, add support for Node.js 16
• Remove deprecated --retryTagFilter option (the correct option is --retry-tag-filter) (#1713)
• Remove validation that step definition functions are not generators
• Remove --predictable-ids option (was only used for internal testing)

[7.3.1] - 2021-07-20

Deprecated

• Deprecate setDefinitionFunctionWrapper and step definition option wrapperOptions

Fixed

• Prevent duplicate scenario execution where the same feature is targeted in multiple line expressions (#1706)
• Fixed reports banner to point to new docs about environment variables
• Re-add color functions for use with custom formatters 1582
• IParameterTypeDefinition regexp fix 1702

[7.3.0] - 2021-06-17

Added

• Experimental support for Markdown (#1645)

Changed

• All testCase messages now emitted upfront at the start of the run (relevant for formatter authors) (#1408 #1669)
• Clarify that the JSON formatter will not be removed any time soon

Fixed

• this now has correct TypeScript type in support code functions (#1667 #1690)
• Progress bar formatter now reports total step count correctly (#1579 #1669)
• Rerun functionality will now run nothing if the rerun file is empty from the previous run (#1302 #1568)
• All messages now emitted with project-relative uris (#1534 #1672)
• Json formatter now works with tagged examples (#1621 #1651)

[7.2.1] - 2021-04-21

Fixed

• Temporarily remove ESM changes due to impact on formatters

[7.2.0] - 2021-04-20

Added

• Experimental support for native ES modules via the --esm flag (#1589)

[7.1.0] - 2021-04-06

Added

• Support attachments that are already base64-encoded via a prefix on the MIME type e.g. this.attach(base64String, 'base64:image/png') (#1552)
• Support tagged rules (cucumber#1123)

Fixed

• Fix types for hook functions so they can return e.g. 'skipped' (#1542)
• Display the response of the reports server when an error is returned before failing. (#1608)
• Remove unnecessary implicit dependency on long package (cucumber#1313)
• Remove unnecessary transitive dependencies on react etc (cucumber#1308)

[7.0.0] - 2020-12-21

Added

• Add a built in html formatter for rich HTML reports output as a standalone page (#1432)
• Add support for BeforeStep and AfterStep hooks (#1416)
• Custom formatters can now be resolved by a module name (as well as by a relative path), enabling use of Yarn PnP (#1413)

Fixed

• Wrong version in meta message #1439 #1442

Removed

• Support for running Cucumber in web browsers has been removed (#1508). This feature was increasingly difficult to support and seldom used. Node.js will now be the only support runtime for Cucumber itself; of course as before you can still use tools like WebDriver and Puppeteer to instrument testing of browser-based software. See the discussion in #1437 for more about why this change is happening.

[7.0.0-rc.0] - 2020-09-14

Added

• Add --publish option to publish reports to reports.cucumber.io #1423, #1424
• Add support for Gherkin's Rule/Example syntax
• Add transpose method to data table interface
• Add log function to world, providing a shorthand to log plain text as attachment(s)
• Now includes TypeScript type definitions, deprecating the need for @types/cucumber in TypeScript projects

Changed

• The npm module has changed name from cucumber to @cucumber/cucumber - require/import statements must be changed from cucumber to @cucumber/cucumber
• TypeScript users must rename TableDefinition to DataTable
• Drop support for Node.js 8, add support for Node.js 14
• Events are now based on cucumber-messages
• event-protocol formatter has been removed and replaced with message
• Formatters
• Remove long-deprecated typeName from options object for defineParameterType in favour of name
• CUCUMBER_TOTAL_SLAVES is now CUCUMBER_TOTAL_WORKERS
• CUCUMBER_SLAVE_ID is now CUCUMBER_WORKER_ID
• Parallel runtime environment variables renamed for inclusivity:
• Custom formatters are now loaded via the regular require paths relative to the current directory, unless it begins with a dot (e.g. --format=./relpath/to/formatter). Previously this was always loaded as a file relative to the current directory.

Deprecated

• json formatter is deprecated and will be removed in next major release. Custom formatters should migrate to use the message formatter, or the standalone JSON formatter as a stopgap.

Fixed

• don't execute BeforeAll and AfterAll hooks when in dry-run
• support correct case for --retry-tag-filter CLI argument