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Cucumber.js v8.0.0-rc.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-10-19 // over 2 years ago

  • ➕ Added

    • ➕ Add wrapPromiseWithTimeout to public API (#1566)
    • ➕ Add support for user code as native ES modules
    • BeforeStep and AfterStep hook functions now have access to the pickleStep in their argument object
    • 📚 --config option to the CLI. It allows you to specify a configuration file other than cucumber.js (see [documentation](./docs/profiles.md#using-another-file-than-cucumberjs)) #1794

    🔄 Changed

    • Relative paths for custom snippet syntaxes must begin with . (#1640)
    • Absolute paths for custom formatters and snippet syntaxes must be a valid file:// URL
    • 🐎 Use performance timers for test case duration measurement #1793

    🛠 Fixed

    • 👍 Allow targeting same file multiple times (#1708)
    • When running with --dry-run, undefined or ambiguous steps no longer cause the process to exit with code 1 (#1814)
    • When running the --help command, it now shows all available formatters under the --format option #1798

    ✂ Removed

    • ⬇️ Drop support for Node.js 10 and 15, add support for Node.js 16
    • ✂ Remove deprecated --retryTagFilter option (the correct option is --retry-tag-filter) (#1713)
    • ✂ Remove validation that step definition functions are not generators
    • ✂ Remove --predictable-ids option (was only used for internal testing)