Release v1.8.0 · catchorg/Catch2

New features/ minor changes

Matchers have new, simpler (and documented) interface.
- Catch provides string and vector matchers.
- For details see Matchers documentation.
Changed console reporter test duration reporting format (#322)
- Old format: Some simple comparisons between doubles completed in 0.000123s
- New format: xxx.123s: Some simple comparisons between doubles (There will always be exactly 3 decimal places)
Added opt-in leak detection under MSVC + Windows (#439)
- Enable it by compiling Catch's main with CATCH_CONFIG_WINDOWS_CRTDBG
Introduced new compile-time flag, CATCH_CONFIG_FAST_COMPILE, trading features for compilation speed.
- Moves debug breaks out of tests and into implementation, speeding up test compilation time (~10% on linux).
- More changes are coming
Added TAP (Test Anything Protocol) and Automake reporters.
- These are not present in the default single-include header and need to be downloaded from GitHub separately.
- For details see documentation about integrating with build systems.
XML reporter now reports filename as part of the Section and TestCase tags.
Approx now supports an optional margin of absolute error
- It has also received new documentation.

Silenced C4312 ("conversion from int to 'ClassName *") warnings in the evaluate layer.
Fixed C4512 ("assignment operator could not be generated") warnings under VS2013.
Cygwin compatibility fixes
- Signal handling is no longer compiled by default.
- Usage of gettimeofday inside Catch should no longer cause compilation errors.
Improved -Wparentheses supression for gcc (#674)
- When compiled with gcc 4.8 or newer, the supression is localized to assertions only
- Otherwise it is supressed for the whole TU
Fixed test spec parser issue (with escapes in multiple names)