Release Candidate for specs2 5.0.0 on Scala3!

This blog post describes the context for this new release. Some more or less experimental features are gone, some functionalities (mocks, cats, scalaz) have moved to other libraries and some features still need to be implemented before the final version

Maintenance release

This release updates a few dependencies and properly escapes the ex option when it is not a regular expression.

Maintenance release

This release fixes a few issues with the specs2.files runner (see #935)

Maintenance release

This release removes the dependency of scala-xml from specs2-core (because it was needed there) and updates a few other dependencies:

• scala compiler
• cats-effects
• cats-core
• scalacheck
• shapeless
• hamcrest
• junit

Maintenance release

Improvements

• guide #834 added a note about trait inheritance for contexts

Fixes

• allow parameters to be injected in ScalaJS specifications
• moved scala and scalaz future matchers to the JVM

Maintenance release

Fixes

• #757 fixed the instantiation of objects (by @xuwei_k)

Maintenance release

Fixes

• #822 catch fatal errors in executions
• #818 changed the implementation for beCloseTo with significant figures

Maintenance release

Fixes

• project release a clean 4.9.2 for ScalaJS 1.0
• more complete implementation of Classes for ScalaJS

Maintenance release

Fixes

• core fixed the instantiation of specification objects with ScalaJS

ScalaJS 1.0 release

Improvements

• core upgraded ScalaJS to 1.0
• core #809 upgraded scala versions (by @xuwei-k)
• mock #808 upgraded mockito-core to 3.3.0
• guide - added an example on using noShrink in the user guide

Fixes

• core #749 special-case Option for quoting values
• core #798 proper fix for possible regex match failures in SpecificationFinder when trying to find specification class names