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 (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/489283524e3726b7adb9692763c2fb61b235d41a)
• Now using GitHub pages (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/1a5a78b9a9c6c285a7897a411cb96bb2ab36d277, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/d9c309fdab807b716c2cf4d4a42989b8c34f712a, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/c3fc92f0b7ad49ce59d804dc644dcb5ecbc0c29c)
• Added Bazel quickstart (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/32ad3c8c36382165274385a28a23addbea581f5d)
• Added CMake quickstart (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/d4e3b8cedf4f57922efa586cb3c796c8fee2d3f3)

Mocking

• MOCK_METHOD now handles noexcept correctly (https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/2498)
• MOCK_METHOD now supports ref-qualifiers (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/d89b36302116233b8c6377e6e891083f41ee51c5)
• MOCK_METHOD now supports returning function pointers (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/1f9edcd9698162b48d94e1ef2e6a2ab7ab4e6c56)
• DoAll now accepts move-only arguments (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/48ec64092a38621210ecd835fde61d76861269c1)
• MockFunction can now be used for mocking std::function (https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/2350)
• MockFunction is now templated for use with other function classes, besides std::function (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/662fe38e44900c007eccb65a5d2ea19df7bd520e)
• ACTION macros now support more than 10 arguments (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/63713e1ce49019da205daa1ca91b73fcfc9b333f)

Matchers

• New matchers
  • IsNan (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/bbe4b7363bbaa7c9e07dbacde11602a4c69504d3)
  • FieldsAre (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/a4621888650aaae118de93f9faf8ef5a18cab303)
  • Pointer (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/a02a591605dfef9addde49634bf010dbe8f95c50)
  • Address (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/e5644f5f12ff3d5b2232dabc1c5ea272a52e8155)
  • Throws and ThrowsMessage (https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/2904)
• New actions
  • ReturnRoundRobin (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/37f322783175a66c11785d17fc153477b0777753)
• Added Matcher<std::string_view> specialization that internally stores a string instead of string_view (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/6f5fd0d7199b9a19faa9f499ecc266e6ae0329e7)
• String matchers now accept string_view input (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/13a433a94dd9c7e55907d7a9b75f44ff82f309eb)
• DoubleNearPredFormat matcher now fails on impractically small epsilons (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/b5687db554a295e697f5d459cf6d3f343d2ca179)
• Truly matcher now explains failures (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/0c400f67fcf305869c5fb113dd296eca266c9725)
• Matchers can now be implemented without extending MatcherInterface (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/c13c27a513ecd1cbf5700a45fe590e85e8ae6770)
• Added output messages for skipped tests (https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/2517, https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/2767)

Behavior

• New flags
  • --gtest_brief shows only test failures in output (https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/2751)
  • --gtest_fail_fast stops test execution on first failure (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/1ced315a483f4ecac21893ce6ceeb502afb82eff)
• Failures in SetUpTestSuite and TearDownTestSuite now cause tests to fail rather than log (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/9ed99c6c837ae1cbfcabd36959fc802ebb5ae07f)
• Uninstantiated TEST_P and TYPED_TEST_P now fail unless allowlisted using GTEST_ALLOW_UNINSTANTIATED_PARAMETERIZED_TEST (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/d442089d53cecbba59b2d8f35d06eac01f1e46da, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/a13a0626188b4e7d22d63a4c9fcfe9f441c81e4a, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/0b024bd91a14a77a7e7d6072ccd88e09c86ddeaa, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/3e79d366e380ec85b7de9409211b184bc8529655, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/ec94d9f24c92a5090fda5567156d6dde99cdbf31)

Output

• Added specialized printing for std::any, std::optional, and std::variant (https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/2742)
• Added recursive printing for std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/6b2e74905e9a7e70c7d1017ee0dfe5a8e88a1300)
• Printing incomplete types is now supported (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/f8304d762e0ed119d3d1c72deb1976dc80029db5)
• Start timestamps in XML/JSON output now use millisecond precision (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/af1e75ce0b3429d70790c049d8dbb0aae3e2480f)
• Added more structured information about test suite to XML/JSON output on environment failures (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/ac1d60c2b5ae62a06eca1d2c0f9d6dc92cda8711)

Build & Test

• CMake minimum increased to 2.8.12 (https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/3094)
• GoogleTest is now using Kokoro CI instead of Travis and AppVeyor

Misc

• Removed support for GTEST_HAS_STD_STRING (https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/2456)
• Replaced pump code generation with variadic templates (https://github.com/google/googletest/pull/2388, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/d8eeb9760afcab45dbdd887c2b6d106887c1739d, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/4b9c1691c4b7f01fbd9d37d86c88cdad298d48e9, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/fbf67a70d07543f40832d0cd7a58f304bc6ab1d1, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/41b5f149ab306e96b5b2faf523505d75acffd98a, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/710f9c11ca79e578bb38d98d10ab9b70d41d5e07, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/997c36c1881105bd7ce482a1ec93759badf64ce6, https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/59dea67b815a046122d77113d5c6df1df66076bb)