catch2/docs/release-notes.md

1.6.1

Features/ Changes:

• Catch now supports breaking into debugger on Linux

Fixes:

• Generators no longer leak memory (generators are still unsupported in general)
• JUnit reporter now reports UTC timestamps, instead of "tbd"
• CHECK_THAT macro is now properly defined as CATCH_CHECK_THAT when using CATCH_ prefixed macros

Other:

• Types with overloaded && operator are no longer evaluated twice when used in an assertion macro.
• The use of __COUNTER__ is supressed when Catch is parsed by CLion
  • This change is not active when compiling a binary
• Approval tests can now be run on Windows
• CMake will now warn if a file is present in the include folder but not is not enumerated as part of the project
• Catch now defines NOMINMAX and WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN before including windows.h
  • This can be disabled if needed, see documentation for details.

Older versions

Release notes were not maintained prior to v1.6.0, but you should be able to work them out from the Git history

1.6.0

Cmake/ projects:

• Moved CMakeLists.txt to root, made it friendlier for CLion and generating XCode and VS projects, and removed the manually maintained XCode and VS projects.

Features/ Changes:

• Approx now supports >= and <=
• Can now use \ to escape chars in test names on command line
• Standardize C++11 feature toggles

Fixes:

• Blue shell colour
• Missing argument to CATCH_CHECK_THROWS
• Don't encode extended ASCII in XML
• use std::shuffle on more compilers (fixes deprecation warning/error)
• Use __COUNTER__ more consistently (where available)

Other:

• Tweaks and changes to scripts - particularly for Approval test - to make them more portable

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