catch2/docs/release-notes.md

1.7.0

Features/ Changes:

• Catch now runs significantly faster for passing tests
  • Microbenchmark focused on Catch's overhead went from ~3.4s to ~0.7s.
  • Real world test using JSON for Modern C++'s test suite went from ~6m 25s to ~4m 14s.
• Catch can now run specific sections within test cases.
  • For now the support is only basic (no wildcards or tags), for details see the documentation.
• Catch now supports SEH on Windows as well as signals on Linux.
  • After receiving a signal, Catch reports failing assertion and then passes the signal onto the previous handler.
• Approx can be used to compare values against strong typedefs (available in C++11 mode only).
  • Strong typedefs mean types that are explicitly convertible to double.
• CHECK macro no longer stops executing section if an exception happens.
• Certain characters (space, tab, etc) are now pretty printed.
  • This means that a char c = ' '; REQUIRE(c == '\t'); would be printed as ' ' == '\t', instead of == 9.

Fixes:

• Text formatting no longer attempts to access out-of-bounds characters under certain conditions.
• THROW family of assertions no longer trigger -Wunused-value on expressions containing explicit cast.
• Breaking into debugger under OS X works again and no longer required DEBUG to be defined.
• Compilation no longer breaks under certain compiler if a lambda is used inside assertion macro.

Other:

• Catch's CMakeLists now defines install command.
• Catch's CMakeLists now generates projects with warnings enabled.

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

1.6.1

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.

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

---

Home