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3.13.6

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Bug Fixes:

Change RSpec::Support::HunkGenerator to autoload rather than manual require, avoids a load order issue. (Jon Rowe, #249)

3.13.5

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Bug Fixes:

Fix regression in RSpec::Support::MethodSignature where positional argument arity confused a check for keyword arguments, meaning a hash would be wrongly detected as keyword arguments when it should have been a positional argument. (Malcolm O'Hare, #121)

3.13.4

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Bug Fixes:

Fix homepage link in gemspec. (Jon Rowe)

3.13.3 / 2025-04-30

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Bug Fixes:

Support for changes in diff-lcs and Ruby 3.4 in spec helpers. (Jon Rowe, #164 etc)

3.13.2 / 2024-12-02

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No changes. Released during the monorepo migration to test release processes, but accidentally contained no changes.

3.13.1 / 2024-02-23

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Bug Fixes:

Exclude ruby internal require warnings from RSpec::Support::CallerFilter#first_non_rspec_line. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#593)

3.13.0 / 2024-02-04

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Enchancements

Add RubyFeatures#supports_syntax_suggest?. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#571)

Bug Fixes:

Allow string keys for keyword arguments during verification of method signatures, (but only on Ruby 3+). (@malcolmohare, rspec/rspec-support#591)

3.12.2 / 2024-02-04

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Bug Fixes:

Properly surface errors from in_sub_process. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#575)
Add magic comment for freezing string literals. (Josh Nichols, rspec/rspec-support#586)

3.12.1 / 2023-06-26

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Fix RSpec::Support.thread_local_data to be Thread local but not Fiber local. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#581)

3.12.0 / 2022-10-26

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Add RSpec::Support::RubyFeatures.distincts_kw_args_from_positional_hash? (Jean byroot Boussier, rspec/rspec-support#535)

3.11.1 / 2022-09-12

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Bug Fixes:

Fix ripper detection on TruffleRuby. (Brandon Fish, rspec/rspec-support#541)

3.11.0 / 2022-02-09

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No changes. Released to support other RSpec releases.

3.10.3 / 2021-11-03

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Bug Fixes:

Use Mutex#owned? to allow RSpec::Support::ReentrantMutex to work in nested Fibers on Ruby 3.0 and later. (Benoit Daloze, rspec/rspec-support#503, rspec/rspec-support#504)
Support end-less methods in RSpec::Support::Source::Token so that RSpec won't hang when an end-less method raises an error. (Yuji Nakayama, rspec/rspec-support#505)

3.10.2 / 2021-01-28

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Bug Fixes:

Fix issue with RSpec::Support.define_optimized_require_for_rspec on JRuby 9.1.17.0 (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#492)

3.10.1 / 2020-12-27

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Bug Fixes:

Fix deprecation expectations to fail correctly when asserting on messages. (Phil Pirozhkov, rspec/rspec-support#453)

3.10.0 / 2020-10-30

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No changes. Released to support other RSpec releases.

3.9.4 / 2020-10-23

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Bug Fixes:

Flag ripper as supported on Truffle Ruby. (Brandon Fish, rspec/rspec-support#427)
Prevent stubbing File.read from breaking source extraction. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#431)

3.9.3 / 2020-05-02

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Bug Fixes:

Mark ripper as unsupported on Truffle Ruby. (Brandon Fish, rspec/rspec-support#395)
Mark ripper as unsupported on JRuby 9.2.0.0. (Brian Hawley, rspec/rspec-support#400)
Capture Mutex.new for our RSpec::Support:Mutex in order to allow stubbing Mutex.new. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#411)

3.9.2 / 2019-12-30

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Bug Fixes:

Remove unneeded eval. (Matijs van Zuijlen, rspec/rspec-support#394)

3.9.1 / 2019-12-28

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Bug Fixes:

Remove warning caused by keyword arguments on Ruby 2.7.0. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#392)

3.9.0 / 2019-10-07

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Version 3.9.0 was released to allow other RSpec gems to release 3.9.0.

3.8.3 / 2019-10-02

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Bug Fixes:

Escape \r when outputting strings inside arrays. (Tomita Masahiro, Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#378)
Ensure that optional hash arguments are recognised correctly vs keyword arguments. (Evgeni Dzhelyov, rspec/rspec-support#366)

3.8.2 / 2019-06-10

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Bug Fixes:

Ensure that an empty hash is recognised as empty keyword arguments when applicable. (Thomas Walpole, rspec/rspec-support#375)
Ensure that diffing truthy values produce diffs consistently. (Lucas Nestor, rspec/rspec-support#377)

3.8.1 / 2019-03-03

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Bug Fixes:

Ensure that inspecting a SimpleDelegator based object works regardless of visibility of the __getobj__ method. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#369)

3.8.0 / 2018-08-04

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Bug Fixes:

Order hash keys before diffing to improve diff accuracy when using mocked calls. (James Crisp, rspec/rspec-support#334)

3.7.1 / 2018-01-29

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Bug Fixes:

Fix source extraction logic so that it does not trigger a SystemStackError when processing deeply nested example groups. (Craig Bass, rspec/rspec-support#343)

3.7.0 / 2017-10-17

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Enhancements:

Improve compatibility with --enable-frozen-string-literal option on Ruby 2.3+. (Pat Allan, rspec/rspec-support#320)
Add Support.class_of for extracting class of any object. (Yuji Nakayama, rspec/rspec-support#325)

Bug Fixes:

Fix recursive const support to not blow up when given buggy classes that raise odd errors from #to_str. (Myron Marston, rspec/rspec-support#317)

3.6.0 / 2017-05-04

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Enhancements:

Import Source classes from rspec-core. (Yuji Nakayama, rspec/rspec-support#315)

3.6.0.beta2 / 2016-12-12

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No user-facing changes.

3.6.0.beta1 / 2016-10-09

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Bug Fixes:

Prevent truncated formatted object output from mangling console codes. (rspec/rspec-support#294, Anson Kelly)

3.5.0 / 2016-07-01

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No user facing changes since beta4

3.5.0.beta4 / 2016-06-05

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Enhancements:

Improve MethodSignature to better support keyword arguments. (rspec/rspec-support#250, Rob Smith).

3.5.0.beta3 / 2016-04-02

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Bug Fixes:

Fix EncodedString to properly handle the behavior of String#split on JRuby when the string contains invalid bytes. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#268)
Fix ObjectFormatter so that formatting objects that don't respond to #inspect (such as BasicObject) does not cause NoMethodError. (Yuji Nakayama, rspec/rspec-support#269)
Fix ObjectFormatter so that formatting recursive array or hash does not cause SystemStackError. (Yuji Nakayama, rspec/rspec-support#270, rspec/rspec-support#272)

3.5.0.beta2 / 2016-03-10

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3.5.0.beta1 / 2016-02-06

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Enhancements:

Improve formatting of objects by allowing truncation to a pre-configured length. (Liam M, rspec/rspec-support#256)

3.4.1 / 2015-11-20

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Bug Fixes:

Fix RSpec::Support::RubyFeature.ripper_supported? so it returns false on Rubinius since the Rubinius team has no plans to support it. This prevents rspec-core from trying to load and use ripper to extract failure snippets. (Aaron Stone, rspec/rspec-support#251)

Changes:

Remove VersionChecker in favor of ComparableVersion. (Yuji Nakayama, rspec/rspec-support#266)

3.4.0 / 2015-11-11

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Enhancements:

Improve formatting of Delegator based objects (e.g. SimpleDelegator) in failure messages and diffs. (Andrew Horner, rspec/rspec-support#215)
Add ComparableVersion. (Yuji Nakayama, rspec/rspec-support#245)
Add Ripper support detection. (Yuji Nakayama, rspec/rspec-support#245)

Bug Fixes:

Work around bug in JRuby that reports that attr_writer methods have no parameters, causing RSpec's verifying doubles to wrongly fail when mocking or stubbing a writer method on JRuby. (Myron Marston, rspec/rspec-support#225)

3.3.0 / 2015-06-12

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Enhancements:

Improve formatting of arrays and hashes in failure messages so they use our custom formatting of matchers, time objects, etc. (Myron Marston, Nicholas Chmielewski, rspec/rspec-support#205)
Use improved formatting for diffs as well. (Nicholas Chmielewski, rspec/rspec-support#205)

Bug Fixes:

Fix FuzzyMatcher so that it checks expected == actual rather than actual == expected, which avoids errors in situations where the actual object's == is improperly implemented to assume that only objects of the same type will be given. This allows rspec-mocks' anything to match against objects with buggy == definitions. (Myron Marston, rspec/rspec-support#193)

3.2.2 / 2015-02-23

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Bug Fixes:

Fix an encoding issue with EncodedString#split when encountering an invalid byte string. (Benjamin Fleischer, rspec/rspec-support#1760)

3.2.1 / 2015-02-04

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Bug Fixes:

Fix RSpec::CallerFilter to work on Rubinius 2.2. (Myron Marston, rspec/rspec-support#169)

3.2.0 / 2015-02-03

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Enhancements:

Add extra Ruby type detection. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#133)
Make differ instance re-usable. (Alexey Fedorov, rspec/rspec-support#160)

Bug Fixes:

Do not consider [] and {} to match when performing fuzzy matching. (Myron Marston, rspec/rspec-support#157)

3.1.2 / 2014-10-08

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Bug Fixes:

Fix method signature to not blow up with a NoMethodError on 1.8.7 when verifying against an RSpec matcher. (Myron Marston, rspec/rspec-support#116)

3.1.1 / 2014-09-26

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Bug Fixes:

Fix RSpec::Support::DirectoryMaker (used by rspec --init and rails generate rspec:install) so that it detects absolute paths on Windows properly. (Scott Archer, rspec/rspec-support#107, rspec/rspec-support#108, rspec/rspec-support#109) (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#110)

3.1.0 / 2014-09-04

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Bug Fixes:

Fix FuzzyMatcher so that it does not wrongly match a struct against an array. (Myron Marston, rspec/rspec-support#97)
Prevent infinitely recursing #flatten methods from causing the differ to hang. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#101)

3.0.4 / 2014-08-14

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Bug Fixes:

Fix FuzzyMatcher so that it does not silence ArgumentError raised from broken implementations of ==. (Myron Marston, rspec/rspec-support#94)

3.0.3 / 2014-07-21

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Bug Fixes:

Fix regression in Support#method_handle_for where proxy objects with method delegated would wrongly not return a method handle. (Jon Rowe, rspec/rspec-support#90)
Properly detect Module#prepend support in Ruby 2.1+ (Ben Langfeld, rspec/rspec-support#91)
Fix rspec/support/warnings.rb so it can be loaded and used in isolation. (Myron Marston, rspec/rspec-support#93)

3.0.2 / 2014-06-20

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Revert BlockSignature change from 3.0.1 because of a ruby bug that caused it to change the block's behavior (https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9967). (Myron Marston, rspec-mocksrspec/rspec-support#721)

3.0.1 / 2014-06-19

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Fix BlockSignature so that it correctly differentiates between required and optional block args. (Myron Marston, rspec-mocksrspec/rspec-support#714)

Bug Fixes:

Issue message when :replacement is passed to RSpec.warn_with. (Jon Rowe)

3.0.0.beta1 / 2013-11-07

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Initial release.

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