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@tumbarumba tumbarumba released this 25 Nov 23:43
· 187 commits to master since this release

Overview

After a long hiatus without releases, this version simplifies the packaging of
Hamcrest into a single jar: hamcrest-<version>.jar. Other big changes include
Java 9 module compatibility, along with numerous other improvements and bug
fixes.

Breaking Changes

Although the class API has not changed since Hamcrest 1.3, the way that the
project is packaged has changed. Refer to the Hamcrest Distributables
documentation for more information.

Changes

  • Publish a single jar hamcrest-2.1.jar
  • Documentation updates
  • Add implementation for CharSequence length matcher
  • Fix for TypeSafeDiagnosingMatcher can't detect generic types for subclass
  • Renamed IsCollectionContaining to IsIterableContaining
  • Make Hamcrest an OSGI bundle
  • Add StringRegularExpression matcher
  • Fix StringContainsInOrder to detect if a repeated pattern is missing
  • Add ArrayAsIterableMatcher
  • Fix description for IsEqualIgnoringCase
  • Fix JavaDoc examples

Version 2.0.0.0 Changes

Version 2.1-rc1 also includes changes previous released (but un-tagged as version 2.0.0.0). These changes include:

  • Upgraded to Java 7
  • Build with Gradle
  • Publish a single jar java-hamcrest-2.0.0.0.jar
  • Removed deprecated methods from previous release
  • Improve mismatch description of hasItem/hasItems
  • General improvements to mismatch descriptions
  • Several JavaDoc improvements and corrections
  • Deprecated several matcher factory methods of the for "isXyz"
  • Fix GH issue #75 - address doclint errors reported in JDK 1.8
  • Fix GH issue #69 - Iterable contains in order is null-safe
  • Fix GH issue #59 - added equalToObject() (i.e. unchecked) method
  • Fix GH issue #25 - arrayContaining(null, null) cause NullPointerException
  • Fix GH issue #36 - string matching on regular expressions
  • Fix GH issue #8 - isCloseTo() shows wrong delta in mismatch description
  • Fix GH issue #59 - add untyped version of equalTo, named equalToObject
  • Fix GC issue #131 - Implement IsEmptyMap, IsMapWithSize
  • Fix GC issue #187 - IsArray.describeMismatchSafely() should use Matcher.describeMismatch
  • Fix GC issue #155 - Add Matcher implementation for files
  • Fix GC issue #69 - fix NPE in IsIterableContainingInOrder