Gherkin Laravel Package

Fixed

• Reinstate support for tag filter expressions without a leading @ (e.g. wip&&~slow instead of [@wip](https://github.com/wip)&&~[@slow](https://github.com/slow)). This syntax was never officially supported, but previously worked and was broken by 4.16.0. We have temporarily fixed this, but it is deprecated and will be removed in the next major version. By @acoulton in #407

Changed

• Further improvements to parser parity when the experimental gherkin-32 compatibility mode is enabled:
  • Parse descriptions (instead of multiline titles) for all describable nodes by @acoulton in #361
  • Unescape escaped delimiters within doc strings by @stof in #393
  • Retain the @ prefix when parsing tags by @acoulton in #400
  • Trim unicode padding from table cells by @stof in #405

Fixed

• Fix the implementation of the default dialect for the keywords provider by @stof in #404

Internal

• Add Stringable to classes implementing __toString() by @acoulton in #402
• Fix cucumber variant assertions to include inherited properties by @acoulton in #394
• Update cucumber/gherkin parity tests to 37.0.0 by @behat-gherkin-updater[bot] in #397 and #398
• update_cucumber script should not fail on manually created releases by @acoulton in #396
• Add funding links and information by @acoulton in #401

Changed

• Added a new ParserInterface and deprecated extending the core Lexer, Parser and Node classes by @acoulton in #354
• Deprecate the CucumberNDJsonAstLoader (which was only intended for internal use by our tests) by @stof in #356
• By default, the parser ignores invalid language tags (e.g. #language:no-such) and falls back to the default language (e.g. en). Previously, the resultant FeatureNode::getLanguage() would return the original invalid value from the feature file - it will now return the language that was actually used for parsing. By @stof in #350

Added

• Introduce a DialectProviderInterface matching the modern cucumber API. This will replace the existing Keywords API in a future major release. By @stof in #350
• Introduce configurable GherkinCompatibilityMode to control how gherkin files are parsed. In the default legacy mode, there is no change to parsing. In the new experimental gherkin-32 mode, files will in future be parsed consistently with the official cucumber/gherkin parsers. This mode is not yet complete - in this first release:
  • Whitespace within description nodes will not be trimmed by @acoulton in #349
  • Invalid language tags will cause an exception by @stof in #357
  • Step keywords will not be trimmed by @stof in #360
  • Language tags can include whitespace by @acoulton in #358
  • \n literals in table cells will be parsed as newlines by @stof in #359 and #391
• Improved translations for ru (Russian) and af (Afrikaans) from cucumber/gherkin in #381 and #386
• Support PHP 8.5 by @acoulton in #388

Fixed

• Improve phpdoc / phpstan type-hinting of the lexer and parser by @uuf6429 in #344 and @stof in #363
• Handle race conditions when creating cache directory by @uuf6429 in #373
• Throw if Loader->load() called with unsupported resource by @uuf6429 in #372
• Use default file cache key if behat/gherkin version is unknown by @uuf6429 in #370

Internal

• Enable PHPStan level 10 and resolve remaining warnings by @uuf6429 in #368
• Remove duplication and improve robustness in filesystem operations by @uuf6429 in #365 and #367
• Explicitly cover expected departures from cucumber gherkin parsing with tests by @acoulton in #392
• Update cucumber/gherkin parity tests to v36.0.0 in #355, #376 #378, #381, #385, #386 and #387
• Fixes and improvements to the cucumber update CI job by @acoulton in #374, #375, #379 and #380
• Minor coding style fixes by @acoulton in #377 and #383
• Minor code improvements to Lexer/Parser implementation by @uuf6429 in #352
• Minor code improvements to TableNode by @uuf6429 in #366
• Add native typehints where this does not break BC by @stof in #353
• Fix typo of a PHPStan alias type by @uuf6429 in #371
• Fix github actions workflow job name by @uuf6429 in #369

Changed

• Throw ParserException if file ends with tags by @acoulton in #313
• Throw ParserException if Background comes after first Scenario by @acoulton in #343
• For compatibility with the official cucumber/gherkin parsers, we now accept some gherkin syntax that would previously have triggered a ParserException. Users may wish to consider running a tool like gherkin-lint in CI to detect incomplete feature files or valid-but-unusual gherkin syntax. The specific changes are:
  • Parse Scenario and Scenario Outline as synonyms depending on the presence (or not) of an Examples: keyword. by @acoulton in #316 and #324
  • Do not throw on some unexpected Feature / Language tags by @acoulton in #323
  • Do not throw on .feature file that does not contain a Feature by @acoulton in #340
  • Ignore content after table right-hand | (instead of throwing) by @acoulton in #341
• Remove the line length from the NewLine token value by @stof in #338
• Added precise PHPStan type information by @stof in #332, #333, #339 and #334

Internal

• Make private props readonly; fix tests by @uuf6429 in #319
• Use the Yaml::parseFile API to handle Yaml files by @stof in #335
• test: Make CucumberND name reading consistent by @uuf6429 in #309
• test: Use vfsStream to simplify / improve filesystem-related tests by @uuf6429 in #298
• test: Handle optional tableHeader when loading NDJson examples by @uuf6429 in #294
• test: Refactor valid ParserExceptionsTest examples into cucumber/gherkin testdata by @acoulton in #322
• test: Compare step arguments when checking gherkin parity by @acoulton in #325
• test: Use a custom object comparator to ignore the keywordType of StepNode by @stof in #331
• ci: Add conventional title to gherkin update, error on missing asserts by @acoulton in #314
• Assert that preg_split does not fail when splitting a table row by @stof in #337
• Add assertions in the parser to reflect the structure of tokens by @stof in #342
• style: Define and change phpdoc order coding style by @uuf6429 in #345

Changed

• Files have been moved to flatten paths into a PSR-4 structure (instead of the previous PSR-0). This may affect users who are requiring files directly rather than using the composer autoloader as expected. See the 4.12.0 release for the new CachedArrayKeywords::withDefaultKeywords()to use thei18n.php` file without depending on paths to other files in this repo. By @uuf6429 in #288

Added

• ExampleTableNode now implements TaggedNodeInterface. Also refactored node tag handling methods. By @uuf6429 in #289
• Improve some exceptions thrown when parsing invalid feature files. Also increased test coverage. By @uuf6429 in #295
• New translations for amh (Amharic), be (Belarusian) and ml (Malayalam) from cucumber/gherkin in #306
• Improved translations / whitespace for ga (Irish), it (Italian), ja (Japanese), ka (Georgian) and ko (Korean) from cucumber/gherkin in #306

Internal

• Fix & improve automatic CI updates to newer cucumber/gherkin test data and translations. By @acoulton in #300, #302, #304, #305
• Update code style and resolve PHPStan warnings (up to level 9) in tests and CI scripts. By @uuf6429 in #296, #297 and #307
• Make tests that expect exceptions more explicit by @uuf6429 in #310
• Improve CI workflows and integrate Codecov reporting by @uuf6429 in #299 and #301
• Refactor tag filtering implementation by @uuf6429 in #308
• Update cucumber/gherkin parity tests to v32.1.1 in #306

Changed

• Gherkin::VERSION is deprecated and will not be updated, use the composer runtime API if you need to identify the running version. This also changes the value used to namespace cached feature files. by @acoulton in #279

Added

• Provide CachedArrayKeywords::withDefaultKeywords() to create an instance without an external dependency on the path to the i18n.php file in this repo. NOTE that paths to source files will change in the next Gherkin release - use the new constructor to avoid any impact. by @carlos-granados in #290

Internal

• Upgrade to phpunit 10 by @uuf6429 in #275
• Remove redundant files by @uuf6429 in #278
• Update documentation by @uuf6429 in #274
• Adopt PHP CS Fixer and apply code styles by @uuf6429 in #277
• Add PHPStan and improve / fix docblock annotations and type-safety within methods to achieve level 5 by @uuf6429 in #276, #281, #282, and #287

Changed

• Drop support for PHP < 8.1, Symfony < 5.4 and Symfony 6.0 - 6.3. In future we will drop support for PHP and symfony versions as they reach EOL. by @acoulton in #272
• Deprecated ExampleNode::getTitle() and ScenarioNode::getTitle() in favour of new methods with clearer meaning. by @uuf6429 in #271

Added

• Added (ExampleNode|ScenarioNode)::getName() to access human-readable names for examples and scenarios, and ExampleNode::getExampleText() for the string content of the example table row. by @uuf6429 in #271

Internal

• Enable dependabot for github actions workflows by @jrfnl in #261

Changed

• ⚠ Backslashes in feature files must now be escaped
  Gherkin syntax treats \ as an escape character, which must be escaped (\\) to use it as a literal value. Historically, this was not being parsed correctly. This release fixes that bug, but means that if your scenarios currently use unescaped \ you will need to replace each one with \\ to achieve the same parsed result. By @everzet in 5a0836d.

Added

• Symfony 6 and 7 thanks to @tacman in #257
• PHP 8.4 support thanks to @heiglandreas in #258 and @jrfnl in #262

Fixed

• Fix exception when filter string is empty thanks to @magikid in #251

Internal

• Sync teststuite with Cucumber 24.1.0
• Fix PHPUnit 10 deprecation messages
• A lot of great CI work by @heiglandreas and @jrfnl

Note: 4.10.0 was actually released by @everzet on 2024-10-19, but just as a bare git tag - I've just marked it up as an official github release to avoid confusion,

What's Changed

• Simplify the boolean condition for the tag matching by @stof in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/219
• Remove symfony phpunit bridge by @ciaranmcnulty in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/220
• Ignore the bin folder in archives by @stof in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/226
• Cast table node exceptions into ParserExceptions when throwing by @ciaranmcnulty in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/216
• Cucumber changelog in PRs and using correct hash by @ciaranmcnulty in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/225
• Support alternative docstrings format (```) by @ciaranmcnulty in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/214
• Fix DocBlocks (Boolean -> bool) by @simonhammes in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/237
• Tag parsing by @ciaranmcnulty in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/215
• Remove test - cucumber added an example with Rule which is not supported by @ciaranmcnulty in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/239
• Add PHP 8.1 support by @javer in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/242
• Fix main branch alias version by @mvorisek in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/244

New Contributors

• @simonhammes made their first contribution in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/237
• @javer made their first contribution in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/242
• @mvorisek made their first contribution in https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/244

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/compare/v4.8.0...v4.9.0

• Drop support for PHP before version 7.2

• Refactored comments parsing to avoid Maximum function nesting level errors

• Issue where Scenario Outline title was not populated into Examples
• Updated translations from cucumber 16.0.0

• Fixes issue parsing comments before scenarios when following an Examples table

• Provides better messages for TableNode construct errors
• Now allows single character steps
• Supports multiple Example Tables with tags