Nimble v9.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-10-03 // over 2 years ago
  • 🚀 Nimble v9 has been released! 🎉

    👍 The new major version requires Swift 5.2 / Xcode 11.4 at least, which also supports Swift 5.3 / Xcode 12 as well.

    🚀 Changes since v9.0.0-rc.3

    💥 BREAKING CHANGES

    • 🏗 Make beCloseTo matcher generic to fix a build error when used with allPass matcher on Swift 5.3 #832

    👌 Improvements

    • 👌 Support ARM based Macs (Apple Silicon) #827 (Thanks @mRs-)
    • ⬆️ Upgrade Project Format to Xcode 11.4-compatible #828

    💥 BREAKING CHANGES

    • ⬆️ Bump Swift requirement to 5.2 (Xcode 11.4) #689, #692, #701, #728
    • 👉 Make throwAssertion and throwError matchers generic and usable with non-void closures #698
    • Replaced TimeInterval with DispatchTimeInterval #718 (Thanks @wongzigii)
    • 🗄 Deprecate Matcher-to-Predicate migration-path features as planned in the Deprecation Roadmap #745, #746
    • ➕ Add label to the second associated value of ExpectationMessage.expectedCustomValueTo for readability and understandability #751
    • 👀 Make raiseException generic and usable with non-void closures #752
    • Replace NMBMatcher return types with NMBPredicate #757
    • 🚚 Move most of Objective-C matchers from NMBObjCMatcher to NMBPredicate #761
    • 👀 Convert Objective-C raiseException matcher to NMBPredicate #762
    • Convert Objective-C beCloseTo matcher to NMBPredicate #764
    • Convert Objective-C matchers' return types from id<NMBMatcher> to NMBPredicate #765
    • 🗄 Deprecate NMBObjCMatcher which is not used inside Nimble anymore #767
    • 👉 Make postNotifications generic and usable with non-void closures #819
    • ⬆️ Bump minimum iOS version to 9.0 #825
    • [API BREAKING] Modify expect overloads to fix Swift 5.3 incompatibility #824
    • 🏗 Make beCloseTo matcher generic to fix a build error when used with allPass matcher on Swift 5.3 #832

    ➕ Additions

    • ➕ Add elementsEqual(_:by:) matcher using a predicate closure #695
    • 🤡 Implement assertion chaining #742, #750 (Thanks @mockersf)
    • ➕ Add beginWith(prefix:) matcher for sequence prefixes #719 (Thanks @Skoti)
    • 👌 Support passing NSExceptionName to raiseException matcher #776
    • ➕ Add postDistributedNotifications matcher for testing DistributedNotificationCenter #786 (Thanks @fabianmuecke)
    • Rename postNotifications(_:fromNotificationCenter:) to postNotifications(_:from:) #788

    👌 Improvements

    • ⚡️ Update CwlPreconditionTesting to 2.0.0 #681, #706
    • 🚚 [gardening] Move operators into types where possible #699
    • ✅ [CI] Parallel platform testing #700
    • 🛠 Fix a swiftlint violation #726 (Thanks @chunkyguy)
    • Enable module stability #732
    • 👕 [CI] Use norio-nomura/action-swiftlint for running SwiftLint #735
    • ✅ [CI] Test the latest Swift Development Snapshot #738
    • ➕ Add default message to Predicate's convenience factory methods #743
    • ✅ Simplify RaisesExceptionTest #748
    • ✅ Enable parallel testing in Xcode #749
    • Add -Xlinker -no_application_extension to OTHER_LDFLAGS at project level #759
    • [gardening] Use guard where appropriate #763
    • Simplify generic parameters #768
    • 🔨 Refactor message creation for errors and exceptions #769
    • ⬇️ Reduce Foundation import #770
    • 👷 Tweak CI #771
    • ✂ Remove now-unnecessary compiler version check #772
    • Unify some #if canImport(Darwin) conditional compilations #773
    • ⚡️ bundle update --bundler && bundle update #774
    • 🐧 [Stringers] Remove Linux-related workaround in NSNumber.testDescription #777
    • 🐧 Utilize as NSString bridging on Linux as well #778
    • 🐧 Utilize as NSArray bridging on Linux as well #779
    • 🐧 Utilize as NSDictionary bridging on Linux as well #780
    • ⬇️ Reduce #if canImport(Darwin) usages in tests #781
    • Remove SUPPORT_IMPLICIT_BRIDGING_CONVERSION conditional compilation #782
    • 👉 Use as bridging for NSNumber #783
    • ✂ Remove unused ExpectationMessage.sampleMessage #654
    • 🔨 Refactor beEmpty matcher and add tests #785
    • 🔨 Refactor postNotifications matchers #787
    • Create dependabot.yml #804
    • ⬆️ Bump cocoapods from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3 #805
    • ✅ Set ENABLE_TESTING_SEARCH_PATHS to YES #803
    • 🏗 Test building for tvOS with Xcode-SwiftPM integration #818
    • ➕ Add DSL tests for expect variants #823
    • 👌 Support ARM based Macs (Apple Silicon) #827 (Thanks @mRs-)
    • ⬆️ Upgrade Project Format to Xcode 11.4-compatible #828

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • 🛠 Fix elementsEqual matcher constraint to match with the Swift standard library equivalent #693
    • ✅ Stop using method swizzling for registering CurrentTestCaseTracker to XCTestObservationCenter #741
    • 🚚 [tvOS] Remove CwlCatchException.h from public headers #760
    • 🚚 [tvOS] Remove CwlMachBadInstructionHandler.h from public headers #766
    • Disambiguate postNotifications overloads #794
    • ✅ Switch back to use +[NSObject load] for registering CurrentTestCaseTracker #815

    📄 Docs

    • Unpin the cocoapods instructions from Nimble 6.0.0 in the README #717 (Thanks @intiocean)
    • 🛠 Fix README.md code example on Notifications #722 (Thanks @yanamura)
    • Fix indent in ISSUE_TEMPLATE and PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE #744
    • Reflect TimeInterval-to-DispatchTimeInterval changes to README #754
    • ⚡️ Update README to align with Matcher deprecation #758

Previous changes from v9.0.0-rc.3

  • 💥 BREAKING CHANGES

    • 👉 Make postNotifications generic and usable with non-void closures #819
    • ⬆️ Bump minimum iOS version to 9.0 #825
    • [API BREAKING] Modify expect overloads to fix Swift 5.3 incompatibility #824

    👌 Improvements

    • ✅ Set ENABLE_TESTING_SEARCH_PATHS to YES #803
    • 🏗 Test building for tvOS with Xcode-SwiftPM integration #818
    • ➕ Add DSL tests for expect variants #823