ScalaTest 1.7.2 and 1.8.RC1 released
Bill Venners
I made two ScalaTest releases this week, 1.7.2 and 1.8.RC1, for Scala
2.8.1+ and 2.9.0+.
1.7.2 fixes a bug in our sbt integration which caused a thread to
leak, and includes a small change to facilitate use with Play 2.0.
ScalaTest 1.7.2 should be binary compatible with 1.7.1, so you can
just drop it in. Info on how to get it is here:
http://www.scalatest.org/download
ScalaTest 1.8.RC1 is the first release candidate of a fairly major
release. Much of what 1.8 contains was originally planned for
ScalaTest 2.0, but since 2.0 has taken a long time to complete I
decided to release 1.7 and 1.8 as milestones on the road to 2.0.
ScalaTest 1.8.RC1 should be source compatible with ScalaTest 1.7.1
(and 1.7.2), so please let me know if something breaks for you. It is
not binary compatible, so you'll need to do a clean build, but that
should be all that's required to upgrade. Please post on
scalatest-users if you encounter a problem. ScalaDoc for the 2.9.0+
variant is here:
http://www.artima.com/docs-scalatest-1.8.RC1/
This release includes quite a few enhancements, and some bug fixes and
deprecations. Best place to see a rundown is on the release notes,
which includes links to the relevant ScalaDoc:
http://www.scalatest.org/release_notes#release18
Noteworthy are the new path traits that do nested isolation; new
functionality in org.scalatest.concurrent, including an eventually
construct, asynchronous assertions, timeouts, and time-limited tests;
and the ability to specify chosen styles for your project. Info on how
to get 1.8.RC1 is here:
http://www.scalatest.org/download#18rc1
Lastly, we're making steady progress on ScalaTest 2.0. Its main focus
is tools integration, and as a result involves not only enhancements
to ScalaTest but to the tools themselves. Work on 2.0 has been going
on in parallel with 1.7 and 1.8 and we're probably about 3/4 finished.
I'm hoping to release a 2.0.RC1 around two months after 1.8 goes
final. Stop by my talk with Dick Wall at ScalaDays next week if you'd
like to see a demo of our Eclipse integration, or check out the
IntelliJ IDEA integration end of this video:
Thanks.
Bill
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Bill Venners
Artima, Inc.
http://www.artima.com
PS. Dick Wall and I will be holding public Stairway to Scala training
courses in New York, Atlanta, and Chicago in the coming months. Info
is here: