Changes in PHPUnit 9.6

All notable changes of the PHPUnit 9.6 release series are documented in this file using the Keep a CHANGELOG principles.

9.6.20 - 2024-07-10

Changed

Updated dependencies (so that users that install using Composer's --prefer-lowest CLI option also get recent versions)

9.6.19 - 2024-04-05

Changed

The namespaces of dependencies are now prefixed with PHPUnitPHAR instead of just PHPUnit for the PHAR distribution of PHPUnit

9.6.18 - 2024-03-21

Changed

#5763: Release nullable type changes for PHPUnit 9.6

9.6.17 - 2024-02-23

Changed

Improve output of --check-version CLI option
Improve description of --check-version CLI option
Show help for --manifest, --sbom, and --composer-lock when the PHAR is used

Fixed

#5712: Update dependencies for PHAR distribution of PHPUnit 9.6

9.6.16 - 2024-01-19

Changed

Make PHAR build reproducible (the only remaining differences were in the timestamps for the files in the PHAR)

Fixed

#5516: Assertions that use the LogicalNot constraint (assertNotEquals(), assertStringNotContainsString(), ...) can generate confusing failure messages
#5666: --no-extensions CLI option does not work
#5673: Confusing error message when migration of a configuration is requested that does not need to be migrated

9.6.15 - 2023-12-01

Fixed

#5596: PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase has @internal annotation in PHAR

9.6.14 - 2023-12-01

Added

#5577: --composer-lock CLI option for PHAR binary that displays the composer.lock used to build the PHAR

9.6.13 - 2023-09-19

Changed

The child processes used for process isolation now use temporary files to communicate their result to the parent process

9.6.12 - 2023-09-12

Changed

#5508: Generate code coverage report in PHP format as first in list to avoid serializing cache data

9.6.11 - 2023-08-19

Added

#5478: assertObjectHasProperty() and assertObjectNotHasProperty()

9.6.10 - 2023-07-10

Changed

#5419: Allow empty <extensions> element in XML configuration

9.6.9 - 2023-06-11

Fixed

#5405: XML configuration migration does not migrate whitelist/file elements
Always use X.Y.Z version number (and not just X.Y) of PHPUnit's version when checking whether a PHAR-distributed extension is compatible

9.6.8 - 2023-05-11

Fixed

#5345: No stack trace shown for previous exceptions during bootstrap

9.6.7 - 2023-04-14

Fixed

Tests that have @doesNotPerformAssertions do not contribute to code coverage

9.6.6 - 2023-03-27

Fixed

#5270: GlobalState::getIniSettingsAsString() generates code that triggers warnings

9.6.5 - 2023-03-09

Changed

Backported the HTML and CSS improvements made to the --testdox-html from PHPUnit 10

Fixed

#5205: Wrong default value for optional parameter of PHPUnit\Util\Test::parseTestMethodAnnotations() causes ReflectionException

9.6.4 - 2023-02-27

Fixed

#5186: SBOM does not validate

9.6.3 - 2023-02-04

Fixed

#5164: markTestSkipped() not handled correctly when called in "before first test" method

9.6.2 - 2023-02-04

Fixed

#4618: Support for generators in assertCount() etc. is not marked as deprecated in PHPUnit 9.6

9.6.1 - 2023-02-03

Fixed

#5073: --no-extensions CLI option only prevents extension PHARs from being loaded
#5160: Deprecate assertClassHasAttribute(), assertClassNotHasAttribute(), assertClassHasStaticAttribute(), assertClassNotHasStaticAttribute(), assertObjectHasAttribute(), assertObjectNotHasAttribute(), classHasAttribute(), classHasStaticAttribute(), and objectHasAttribute()

9.6.0 - 2023-02-03

Changed

#5062: Deprecate expectDeprecation(), expectDeprecationMessage(), expectDeprecationMessageMatches(), expectError(), expectErrorMessage(), expectErrorMessageMatches(), expectNotice(), expectNoticeMessage(), expectNoticeMessageMatches(), expectWarning(), expectWarningMessage(), and expectWarningMessageMatches()
#5063: Deprecate withConsecutive()
#5064: Deprecate PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase::getMockClass()
#5132: Deprecate Test suffix for abstract test case classes