NUnit Console and Engine 3.16.0

DEPRECATED RELEASE - PLEASE USE EITHER 3.15.5 OR 17.0.0 (OR HIGHER)

As part of this release we had 27 issues closed.

Further releases in the 3.x series were not anticipated after 3.15. However, since a number of new features and enhancements have been implemented, we are releasing version 3.16 of the engine and console runner.

This release incorporates support for executing tests under .NET 7.0. The runner itself is now built for .NET 4.6.2 rather than .NET 2.0. Substantial changes have been made in the location of dependencies when running under .NET Core.

Bugs

• #291 Error running tests from assembly built using VS2017 csproj file format
• #299 Attempting to target too low a framework throws exception
• #1130 v3.14 fails with target framework net461 ... net48 on linux (ArgumentException: The net-4.6.1 framework is not available.), but v3.12 works well
• #1176 Exception when targeting .NET Framework with .NET 7 installed
• #1178 Running tests with nunit3-console version 3.15.0 generates empty log files
• #1180 NUnit Engine 3.15.0 cannot load the test assembly
• #1182 Running tests using the VS Solution results in an exception if any projects target .NET Standard
• #1183 Build hangs when test spawns processes which do not terminate properly
• #1185 3.15.0 - MSI package is unable to acquire remote process agent
• #1203 NUnit Console 3.15.2: Could not load file or assembly "System.Windows.Forms"
• #1206 NUnit.Engine.NUnitEngineException when spaces in agent file path
• #1208 Inconsistencies between nunit3-console and running the project via Visual Studio
• #1217 Assembly loading deduplication
• #1225 Restore netcoreapp3.1 build to the engine package

Build

• #1118 Reorganize build output (bin) directories
• #1244 Upgrade Cake.Tool to 2.3.0
• #1246 Reduce build targets for nunit.engine.core assembly
• #1254 Get Linux build working under Azure - tests still not run
• #1255 Get MacOS build working in Azure
• #1257 Enable testing under MacOS on Azure

Enhancements

• #941 Allow netcoreapp agent to work with non-standard dotnet install locations
• #1223 Exception when previously unknown .NET Core runtime is found on machine
• #1224 Change name of NUnit Net Core Runner executable
• #1243 Upgrade our .Net 7.0 assemblies to RC 2

Features

• #1216 Add .NET 7.0 Agent
• #1232 Stop building console runner with .NET 2.0
• #1265 Update .NET 7.0 Support from RC-2 to Final Release

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NUnit Console and Engine 3.15.2

As part of this release we had 3 issues closed.

This release fixes a critical bug, which prevented the console runner from running after .NET 7.0 was installed.

NOTE: There is no 3.15.1 release because an erroneous release was uploaded to nuget.org a number of months back. That release is no longer listed but the version number is not available for reuse.

Bugs

• #1178 Running tests with nunit3-console version 3.15.0 generates empty log files
• #1193 Prevent Crash under .NET 7.0 in 3.15.1 build

Build

• #1196 Modify build script to support continued version 3 releases where needed

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NUnit Console and Engine 3.15.0

Final Release of NUnit ConsoleRunner 3.15.0. No changes from the beta1 Release.

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NUnit Console and Engine 3.15.0-beta1

As part of this release we had 17 issues closed.

Beta release of version 3.15.0 of the Console Runner. Both the standard runner and the dotnet CLI command are now able to run tests under .Net 6.0.

Version 3.15.0 is planned to be the final release in the 3.x series.

Build

• #1017 Should we change 'master' to 'main'?
• #1026 Make NUnit.Engine.Internal.Tests.PathUtilTests_Windows.SamePathOrUnder work under ubuntu-latest
• #1087 Switch all engine tests to NUnitLite
• #1094 CreateDraftRelease command should run locally without a release branch
• #1095 Allow single-letter options for cake script
• #1096 Symbol package validation failing for NUnit.ConsoleRunner.NetCore
• #1108 Generate AssemblyInfo files from csproj
• #1112 Use VS2022 for CI Build
• #1125 Save results of each package test separately

Enhancement

• #1050 More discrete logging

Features

• #1044 Agent for .NET 6.0
• #1123 NETCORE Console Runner should target .NET 6.0

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NUnit Console and Engine 3.14.0

As part of this release we had 7 issues closed.

This release features a new agent for tests targeting .NET 5.0. In addition, automation of our publication and release process is now complete from creation of a draft release through releasing to production on GitHub. While this doesn't impact users directly, it will allow us to speed up the introduction of new features in coming releases.

Bugs

• #1012 Automatically roll-forward if no .NET Core 3.1 runtime available
• #1090 Test of --debug-agent option fails under linux Debug configuration

Build

• #570 Where are the checksums for your downloads?
• #1057 Automate all package publication and release
• #1075 Separate nunit.engine.core.tests from nunit.engine.tests
• #1084 Eliminate Packaging on Azure

Feature

• #1048 Agent for Net 5.0

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NUnit Console and Engine 3.13.2

As part of this release we had 3 issues closed.

This is another build-only milestone. The previous release, 3.13.1, required some intervention in order to complete correctly. The build fixes in this one are intended to allow publishing and release to run to completion.

There are no user-facing fixes or improvements in this release.

Build

• #1077 Don't push non-chocolatey packages to chocolatey!
• #1078 Don't publish -pre builds to MyGet
• #1080 Add --nopush option to the build

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NUnit Console and Engine 3.13.1

As part of this release we had 9 issues closed.

This release is entirely made up of improvements to the build process and is being released in order to test that process. There are no user-facing bug fixes or improvements in this release as compared to 3.13.0.

Build

• #1029 Use newer cake version to avoid special handling of -SymbolPackageFormat snupkg
• #1047 Upgrade Cake to version 1.3
• #1059 Upgrade Cake to 2.0.0 and use Cake.Tool so we can build on all platforms
• #1061 Use GitVersion to determine package version to be produced
• #1062 Let PackageDefinition build the package itself
• #1064 Publish dev builds to MyGet using the Cake script
• #1065 Publish to chocolatey and nuget automatically for production releases.
• #1070 Automatically generate the release notes for a draft release on GitHub using GitReleaseManager.
• #1072 Automatically upload assets and perform the release on GitHub using GitReleaseManager.

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NUnit Console and Engine 3.13

This is the first release of the NUnit Console Runner, which allows running of both .NET Framework and .NET Core tests, either separately or in combination. The Console runner executes under the .NET Framework but is able to launch .NET Core agents and communicate with them over a TCP connection.

A second major feature is the availability of preemptive cancellation when the normal approach of requesting the test run to terminate itself doesn't work. This is an engine feature, available to any runners supporting cancellation.

See the Release Notes for a full list of changes.

Note: Packages will be available on nuget.org and chocolatey.org shortly. Release notes are in process.

.NET Core NUnit Console 3.12.0-beta2

This Beta release of the .NET Core NUnit console contains some fixes to extension loading, and the ability to use the runner as a .NET Core Tool. The .NET Core Console remains in Beta due to some unresolved dependency loading and framework targeting issues - contributions to fix these issues would be welcomed.

The .NET Core Console is a separate executable to the original version, and can be found in either the .zip file download, or the new NUnit.ConsoleRunner.NetCore NuGet package. Our longer-term aim is to create a single console which is able to run both .NET Core and .NET Framework tests.

See the Release Notes for a full list of changes.

NUnit Console and Engine 3.12

This release contains various improvements to running tests on .NET Core and Mono, and changes to extension loading logic to allow the Engine to better support extensions which target multiple platforms. There are additionally a number of fixes to issues that were identified with 3.12 Beta 1. Please also be aware that this will be the last version of the NUnit Engine to support .NET Standard 1.6.

The .NET Core Console remains in Beta due to some unresolved dependency loading and framework targeting issues - contributions to
fix these issues would be very welcome.

Code contributions in this release were included from Charlie Poole, Chris Maddock, Christian Bay, Eberhard Beilharz, Ed Ball, Joseph Musser, Manohar Singh, Mattias Cavigelli and Mikkel Nylander Bundgaard. Thank you to all those who contributed both in code, and otherwise.

See the Release Notes for a full list of changes.