jest 19.0.0

• Breaking Change: Added a version for snapshots.
• Breaking Change: Removed the mocksPattern configuration option, it never worked correctly.
• Breaking Change: Renamed testPathDirs to roots to avoid confusion when configuring Jest.
• Breaking Change: Updated printing of React elements to cause fewer changes when props change.
• Breaking Change: Updated snapshot format to properly escape data.
• Fixed --color to be recognized correctly again.
• Fixed babel-plugin-jest-hoist to work properly with type annotations in tests.
• Fixed behavior for console.log calls and fixed a memory leak (#2539).
• Fixed cache directory path for Jest to avoid ENAMETOOLONG errors.
• Fixed change events to be emitted in jest-haste-map's watch mode. This fixes issues with Jest's new watch mode and react-native-packager.
• Fixed cli arguments to be used when loading the config from file, they were previously ignored.
• Fixed Jest to load json files that include a BOM.
• Fixed Jest to throw errors instead of ignoring invalid cli options.
• Fixed mocking behavior for virtual modules.
• Fixed mocking behavior with transitive dependencies.
• Fixed support for asymmetric matchers in toMatchObject.
• Fixed test interruption and --bail behavior.
• Fixed watch mode to clean up worker processes when a test run gets interrupted.
• Fixed whitespace to be highlighted in snapshots and assertion errors.
• Improved babel-jest plugin: babel is loaded lazily, istanbul comments are only added when coverage is used.
• Improved error for invalid transform config.
• Improved moduleNameMapper to not overwrite mocks when many patterns map to the same file.
• Improved printing of skipped tests in verbose mode.
• Improved resolution code in jest-resolve.
• Improved to only show patch marks in assertion errors when the comparison results in large objects.
• New --collectCoverageFrom cli argument.
• New --coverageDirectory cli argument.
• New expect.addSnapshotSerializer to add custom snapshot serializers for tests.
• New jest.spyOn.
• New testMatch configuration option that accepts glob patterns.
• New eslint-plugin-jest with no-disabled-tests, no-focuses-tests and no-identical-title rules and default configuration and globals.
• New expect.stringContaining asymmetric matcher.
• New feature to make manual mocks with nested folders work. For example __mocks__/react-native/Library/Text.js will now work as expected.
• New feature to re-run tests through the notification when using --notify.
• New jest-phabricator package to integrate Jest code coverage in phabriactor.
• New jest-validate package to improve configuration errors, help with suggestions of correct configuration and to be adopted in other libraries.
• New pretty-printing for asymmetric matchers.
• New RSS feed for Jest's blog.
• New way to provide a reducer to extract haste module ids.
• New website, new documentation, new color scheme and new homepage.
• Rewritten watch mode for instant feedback, better code quality and to build new features on top of it (#2362).

jest 18.1.0

• Fixed console.log and fake timer behavior in node 7.3.
• Updated istanbul-api.
• Updated jest-diff equality error message.
• Disabled arrow keys when entering a pattern in watch mode to prevent broken behavior. Will be improved in a future release.
• Moved asymmetric matchers and equality functionality from Jasmine into jest-matchers.
• Removed jasmine and jest-snapshot dependency from jest-matchers.
• Removed unused global context variable.
• Show a better error message if the config is invalid JSON.
• Highlight trailing whitespace in assertion diffs and snapshots.
• Jest now uses micromatch instead of minimatch.
• Added -h as alias for --help.

jest 18.0.0

See https://jestjs.io/blog/2016/12/15/2016-in-jest

• The testResultsProcessor function is now required to return the modified results.
• Removed pit and mockImpl. Use it or mockImplementation instead.
• Fixed re-running tests when --bail is used together with --watch.
• pretty-format is now merged into Jest.
• require('v8') now works properly in a test context.
• Jest now clears the entire scrollback in watch mode.
• Added expect.any, expect.anything, expect.objectContaining, expect.arrayContaining, expect.stringMatching.
• Properly resolve snapshotSerializers, setupFiles, transform, testRunner and testResultsProcessor instead of using path.resolve.
• --testResultsProcessor is now exposed through the cli.
• Renamed --jsonOutputFile to --outputFile.
• Added jest-editor-support for vscode and Nuclide integration.
• Fixed test.concurrent unhandled promise rejections.
• The Jest website is now auto-deployed when merging into main.
• Updated testRegex to include test.js and spec.js files.
• Fixes for babel-plugin-jest-hoist when using jest.mock with three arguments.
• The JSON global in jest-environment-node now comes from the vm context instead of the parent context.
• Jest does not print stack traces from babel any longer.
• Fake timers are reset when FakeTimers.useTimers() is called.
• Usage of Jest in watch mode can be hidden through JEST_HIDE_USAGE.
• Added expect.assertions(number) which will ensure that a specified amount of assertions is made in one test.
• Added .toMatchSnapshot(?string) feature to give snapshots a name.
• Escape regex in snapshots.
• jest-react-native was deprecated and now forwards react-native.
• Added .toMatchObject matcher.
• Further improve printing of large objects.
• Fixed NaN% Failed in the OS notification when using --notify.
• The first test run without cached timings will now use separate processes instead of running in band.
• Added .toHaveProperty matcher.
• Fixed Map/Set comparisons.
• test.concurrent now works with --testNamePattern.

jest 17.0.3

• Improved file-watching feature in jest-haste-map.
• Added .toHaveLength matcher.
• Improved .toContain matcher.

jest 17.0.2

• Fixed performance regression in module resolution.

jest 17.0.1

• Fixed pretty printing of big objects.
• Fixed resolution of .native.js files in react-native projects.

jest 17.0.0

• Added expect.extend.
• Properly resolve modules with platform extensions on react-native.
• Added support for custom snapshots serializers.
• Updated to Jasmine 2.5.2.
• Big diffs are now collapsed by default in snapshots and assertions. Added --expand (or -e) to show the full diff.
• Replaced scriptPreprocessor with the new transform option.
• Added jest.resetAllMocks which replaces jest.clearAllMocks.
• Fixes for react-native preset.
• Fixes for global built in objects in jest-environment-node.
• Create mock objects in the vm context instead of the parent context.
• .babelrc is now part of the transform cache key in babel-jest.
• Fixes for docblock parsing with haste modules.
• Exit with the proper code when the coverage threshold is not reached.
• Implemented file watching in jest-haste-map.
• --json now includes information about individual tests inside a file.