Changes in PHPUnit 8.5

All notable changes of the PHPUnit 8.5 release series are documented in this file using the Keep a CHANGELOG principles.

8.5.9 - 2020-MM-DD

Fixed

#4470: Infinite recursion when --static-backup --strict-global-state is used

8.5.8 - 2020-06-22

Fixed

#4312: Fix for #4299 breaks backward compatibility

8.5.7 - 2020-06-21

Fixed

#4299: "No tests executed" does not always result in exit code 1
#4306: Exceptions during code coverage driver initialization are not handled correctly

8.5.6 - 2020-06-15

Fixed

#4211: phpdbg_*() functions are scoped to PHPUnit\phpdbg_*()

8.5.5 - 2020-05-22

Fixed

#4033: Unexpected behaviour when $GLOBALS is deleted

8.5.4 - 2020-04-23

Changed

Changed how PHPUnit\TextUI\Command passes warnings to PHPUnit\TextUI\TestRunner

8.5.3 - 2020-03-31

Fixed

#4017: Do not suggest refactoring to something that is also deprecated
#4133: expectExceptionMessageRegExp() has been removed in PHPUnit 9 without a deprecation warning being given in PHPUnit 8
#4139: Cannot double interfaces that declare a constructor with PHP 8
#4144: Empty objects are converted to empty arrays in JSON comparison failure diff

8.5.2 - 2020-01-08

Removed

eval-stdin.php has been removed, it was not used anymore since PHPUnit 7.2.7

8.5.1 - 2019-12-25

Changed

eval-stdin.php can now only be executed with cli and phpdbg

Fixed

#3983: Deprecation warning given too eagerly

8.5.0 - 2019-12-06

Added

#3911: Support combined use of addMethods() and onlyMethods()
#3949: Introduce specialized assertions assertFileEqualsCanonicalizing(), assertFileEqualsIgnoringCase(), assertStringEqualsFileCanonicalizing(), assertStringEqualsFileIgnoringCase(), assertFileNotEqualsCanonicalizing(), assertFileNotEqualsIgnoringCase(), assertStringNotEqualsFileCanonicalizing(), and assertStringNotEqualsFileIgnoringCase() as alternative to using assertFileEquals() etc. with optional parameters

Changed

#3860: Deprecate invoking PHPUnit commandline test runner with just a class name
#3950: Deprecate optional parameters of assertFileEquals() etc.
#3955: Deprecate support for doubling multiple interfaces

Fixed

#3953: Code Coverage for test executed in isolation does not work when the PHAR is used
#3967: Cannot double interface that extends interface that extends \Throwable
#3968: Test class run in a separate PHP process are passing when exit called inside