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Release Announcement for PHPUnit 4.7.0
The PHPUnit development team announces the immediate availability of PHPUnit 4.7.0. This release adds new features and fixes bugs. A detailed list of changes is available here.
- The HTML code coverage report now uses different shades of green depending on whether a line of code is covered by large tests (light green), medium tests (medium green), or small tests (dark green)
- Support for the
--INI--section of PHPT tests was added
- Tests not annotated with
@small,@medium, or@largeare no longer treated as being annotated with@small - To be consistent with the printing of PHP runtime information, the configuration file used is only printed in verbose mode
- A warning is now printed when code coverage data is collected but no whitelist is configured
We distribute a PHP Archive (PHAR) that contains everything you need in order to use PHPUnit. Simply download it from here, make it executable, and put it into your $PATH, for instance.
Alternatively, you may use Composer to download and install PHPUnit as well as its dependencies.
PHPUnit 4.7 requires PHP 5.3.3; using the latest version of PHP is highly recommended. The documentation has a detailed list of the PHP extensions that are required to use PHPUnit.
The goal of our release process is to deliver new features into the hands of our users every two months. The following releases are currently in development:
- PHPUnit 4.8 is the current beta release series of PHPUnit. It will become stable on August 7, 2015 and will be last release series of PHPUnit to support PHP 5.3, PHP 5.4, and PHP 5.5.
- PHPUnit 5.0 is the current alpha release series of PHPUnit. It will become stable on October 2, 2015 and will only be supported on PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.
According to our release process, PHPUnit must be compatible with all versions of PHP that are actively supported by the PHP project.
Active support for PHP 5.4 ended on September 14, 2014 and active support for PHP 5.5 will end on June 20, 2015. The active support for PHP 5.3 already ended on July 11, 2013. By the time PHPUnit 4.8 will be released, the only actively supported version of PHP will be PHP 5.6.
The next version after PHPUnit 4.8 will not support PHP 5.3, PHP 5.4, and PHP 5.5 anymore. As PHPUnit follows Semantic Versioning the major version number must be incremented when the minimum required version of PHP is increased.
Functionality that is marked as deprecated in PHPUnit 4 will be removed in PHPUnit 5. This includes the following features
- The
assertSelectCount(),assertSelectRegExp(),assertSelectEquals(),assertTag(),assertNotTag()assertions - The
--strictcommandline switch and thestrictconfiguration file setting - The configuration file settings related to PHPUnit_Selenium
Following our release process, PHPUnit 4.8 will receive bug fixes until August 7, 2016.