Release Notes

GoogleTest will not accept patches of new features to the v1.12.x branch.
We recommend building GoogleTest from the latest commit instead.
Exceptional critical bug fixes may be considered.

C++ Language Support

• This will be the last release to support C++11. Future releases will require at least C++14.

Mocking

• Support for move-only values to Return (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/5126f7166109666a9c0534021fb1a3038659494c)

Matchers

• New matchers
  • WhenBase64Unescaped (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/652ec31f9f53ab34af1257e5e2783d77e872ed45)
• ResultOf() now has a 3-arg overload that takes a description string for better error messages (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/0e402173c97aea7a00749e825b194bfede4f2e45)

Build & Test

• CMake minimum increased to 3.5
• Bazel users that build GoogleTest using the Abseil library as a dependency now also require a dependency on RE2 (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/e33c2b24ca3e13df961ed369f7ed21e4cfcf9eec)
• Bazel users that build GoogleTest using the Abseil library now use the Abseil library to parse all command-line flags (https://github.com/google/googletest/commit/25dcdc7e8bfac8967f20fb2c0a628f5cf442188d)

Patches

58d77fa8070e8cec2dc1ed015d66b454c8d78850 - Fixes the version number in CMakeLists.txt (#3911)