Release Notes

GoogleTest will not accept patches of new features to v1.11.0.
We recommend building GoogleTest from the latest commit instead.
Exceptional critical bug fixes may be considered.

Documentation

• Contents significantly updated
• Files moved into docs (4892835)
• Now using GitHub pages (1a5a78b, d9c309f, c3fc92f)
• Added Bazel quickstart (32ad3c8)
• Added CMake quickstart (d4e3b8c)

Mocking

• MOCK_METHOD now handles noexcept correctly (#2498)
• MOCK_METHOD now supports ref-qualifiers (d89b363)
• MOCK_METHOD now supports returning function pointers (1f9edcd)
• DoAll now accepts move-only arguments (48ec640)
• MockFunction can now be used for mocking std::function (#2350)
• MockFunction is now templated for use with other function classes, besides std::function (662fe38)
• ACTION macros now support more than 10 arguments (63713e1)

Matchers

• New matchers
  • IsNan (bbe4b73)
  • FieldsAre (a462188)
  • Pointer (a02a591)
  • Address (e5644f5)
  • Throws and ThrowsMessage (#2904)
• New actions
  • ReturnRoundRobin (37f3227)
• Added Matcher<std::string_view> specialization that internally stores a string instead of string_view (6f5fd0d)
• String matchers now accept string_view input (13a433a)
• DoubleNearPredFormat matcher now fails on impractically small epsilons (b5687db)
• Truly matcher now explains failures (0c400f6)
• Matchers can now be implemented without extending MatcherInterface (c13c27a)
• Added output messages for skipped tests (#2517, #2767)

Behavior

• New flags
  • --gtest_brief shows only test failures in output (#2751)
  • --gtest_fail_fast stops test execution on first failure (1ced315)
• Failures in SetUpTestSuite and TearDownTestSuite now cause tests to fail rather than log (9ed99c6)
• Uninstantiated TEST_P and TYPED_TEST_P now fail unless allowlisted using GTEST_ALLOW_UNINSTANTIATED_PARAMETERIZED_TEST (d442089, a13a062, 0b024bd, 3e79d36, ec94d9f)

Output

• Added specialized printing for std::any, std::optional, and std::variant (#2742)
• Added recursive printing for std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr (6b2e749)
• Printing incomplete types is now supported (f8304d7)
• Start timestamps in XML/JSON output now use millisecond precision (af1e75c)
• Added more structured information about test suite to XML/JSON output on environment failures (ac1d60c)

Build & Test

• CMake minimum increased to 2.8.12 (#3094)
• GoogleTest is now using Kokoro CI instead of Travis and AppVeyor

Misc

• Removed support for GTEST_HAS_STD_STRING (#2456)
• Replaced pump code generation with variadic templates (#2388, d8eeb97, 4b9c169, fbf67a7, 41b5f14, 710f9c1, 997c36c, 59dea67)