Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

10.0.0 - 2026-06-11

Changed

• [NET] - Upgraded Test project dependencies and adjusted test code due to breaking changes in MSTest v4.
• BREAKING CHANGE: [JavaScript] Switch to ESM (#280)

9.1.0 - 2026-02-17

Changed

• [JavaScript] Expose named export and type (#251)

9.0.0 - 2026-01-25

Changed

• [Java] Set release version to 17 (#220)

8.1.0 - 2025-11-26

Added

• [.NET] Add a .NET implementation

Fixed

• Render the empty tag expression as an empty string (#222)
• Improve error message for missing operands (#221)

8.0.0 - 2025-10-14

Fixed

• [Perl] Fix building release artifacts (#214)

Removed

• [Python] Dropped support for end-of-life Python versions from 2 to 3.9 (#215)

7.0.0 - 2025-10-03

Changed

• [Ruby] Minimum ruby version is now bumped from 2.3 to 2.6 (With minor refactors to the parser) (#204)
• [Ruby] Speed up Parser#parse by removing redundant nil safety check
• [Python] PEP 639 licence metadata specification (#211)

6.2.0 - 2025-05-25

Added

• [PHP] Add new implementation (#194)

6.1.2 - 2025-01-29

Added

• [All] Run CI testing only for relevant areas of the codebase (#186)
• [Python] Extended documentation and type hints within docstrings (#182)
• [Ruby] Support the testing in CI on later rubies (#185)

6.1.1 - 2024-10-28

Changed

• [Python] Use the new action cucumber/action-publish-pypi in release process (#147 #172 #178)
• [Ruby] Fixed up remaining simple cops and began to reduce complexity of code (#158)

6.1.0 - 2024-01-10

Added

• [Python] Support the feature of escaping also in Python (#144)

Fixed

• [Python] Added workflow to release to Pypi (#145, #146, #20)
• [Ruby] Fixed up around 75% of all rubocop offenses (#138)

6.0.0 - 2023-10-13

Added

• [Ruby] Initial rubocop gems and basic compliance added (More work to come) (#133)

Changed

• [Ruby] Minimum ruby version is now bumped from 1.9 to 2.3 (#133)

Fixed

• [Perl] Include README.md and LICENSE in the release tarball (by ehuelsmann)

5.0.6 - 2023-08-13

Fixed

• [Perl] Fixed test failures when running tests out-of-tree by restricting testdata based tests to run in development only (ehuelsmann)

5.0.5 - 2023-08-11

Fixed

• [Perl] Fixed inclusion of CHANGELOG.md causing release to fail(ehuelsmann)

5.0.4 - 2023-08-10

Fixed

• [Perl] Corrected working directory for CPAN upload action (ehuelsmann)

5.0.3 - 2023-08-10

Fixed

• [Perl] Fixed CPAN upload in release process (ehuelsmann)

5.0.2 - 2023-07-15

Added

• [Python] Make tests pass against shared test data (except: backslash-escaped) (#18 jenisys)

Fixed

• Not.to_string() conversion has unneeded double-parenthesis if binary operator is contained (#94 jenisys)

5.0.1 - 2023-01-03

Fixed

• [Java] Fix scm and project urls

5.0.0 - 2023-01-02

Added

• [JavaScript] Support for EcmaScript modules (aka ESM). (#5)
• [Java] Enabled reproducible builds

Changed

• Only allow escape character \ in front of (, ), \ or whitespace. Throw error otherwise. (#17)

Deprecated

Fixed

• [Perl] Fixed missing dependency as well as new syntax in the tests (#15 ehuelsmann)
• Document escaping. (#16, #17)
• [Ruby, Perl] Empty expression evaluates to true
• [Go] Fix module name (#82)

Removed

4.1.0 - 2021-10-08

Added

• [Perl] Add new implementation (#1782 ehuelsmann)

Fixed

• [Go, JavaScript, Java, Ruby] Support backslash-escape in tag expressions (#1778 yusuke-noda)

4.0.2 - 2021-09-13

Fixed

• [Python] Remove call to deprecated 2to3 library causing pip install to fail (#1736 krisgesling)

4.0.0 - 2021-09-02

Changed

• [Go] Move module paths to point to monorepo (#1550)

3.0.1 - 2021-03-31

Fixed

• Previous release 3.0.0 did not publish to npm for some reason. Re-releasing.

3.0.0 - 2020-06-11

Added

• [Java] Enable consumers to find our version at runtime using clazz.getPackage().getImplementationVersion() by upgrading to cucumber-parent:2.1.0 (#976 aslakhellesoy)

Changed

• [Java] Updated TagExpressionParser to use a static method to parse a tag expression and return an Expression object to the user.
• [Java] Reduced public API to the bare minimum required.
• [Java] Added more informative error messages for TagExpressionParser through the TagExpressionException. (#1005 cyocum

2.0.4 - 2020-01-10

Changed

• [JavaScript] changed module name to @cucumber/tag-expressions

2.0.3 - 2019-12-10

Changed

• [Java] Upgrades to cucumber-parent:2.0.2
• [Ruby] Renamed gem to tag-expressions

Removed

• [Ruby] Removed tag-expressions executable

2.0.2 - 2019-07-15

Fixed

• Fix incomplete 2.0.1 release

2.0.1 - 2019-07-15

Fixed

• Fix incomplete 2.0.0 release

2.0.0 - 2019-07-10

Added

• [Go] New implementation. (#339 charlierudolph)

Changed

• [JavaScript] Changed API to return a parse function rather than a class with a parse method.
• [JavaScript] Refactored to TypeScript

Fixed

• Documentation links now point to new website (cucumber.io) (#560 luke-hill)

Removed

• [Java] OSGi support has been removed. (#412 aslakhellesoy)

1.1.1 - 2017-12-01

Fixed

• [Java] Fix OSGI exported package (#309 by mpkorstanje)

1.1.0 - 2017-11-28

Added

• [Ruby] Added tag-expressions command-line tool for tag expressions (#282 by aslakhellesoy)
• Escape special chars in tags (#286 #285 by link89)

Fixed

• Don't support RPN (#304 by aslakhellesoy)
• Parse empty tag expressions (always evaluates to true) (#296 by aslakhellesoy)

1.0.1 - 2017-05-28

Fixed

• [JavaScript](#76 #78 #104 by charlierudolph)
• [Java] Make the jar a bundle to support OSGi (#99 by brasmusson)
• Add a changelog (#213 by aslakhellesoy)

1.0.0 - 2016-09-01

Added

• First stable release!