Breaking changes:

• Remove not allowed attributes function-rate, functions-covered and functions-valid from cobertura report. (#671)
• Remove "noncode" entries in JSON reports. (#663)
• New option --exclude-noncode-lines to exclude noncode lines. Noncode lines are not excluded by default anymore. (#704, #705)
• Changed option --gcov-ignore-parse-errors to accept list of errors to ignore. (#701)
• Handling of gcov errors:
  • Do not ignore return code of gcov. (#653)
  • New option --gcov-ignore-errors to ignore gcov errors. Old behavior was to print a warning and continue. (#718)
• The default filename for option --cobertura is changed from coverage.xml to cobertura.xml (#721)
• Revert changes from #623 and add documentation entry Support of Keil uVision format. (#727)

New features and notable changes:

• New option --html-nested for reports that summarize subdirectories with aggregated statistics per directory. (#687)
• Accept NAN % which is used in GCOV 7.5.0 instead of an invalid value. (#651)
• New option --json-base to define a base bath used in JSON reports. (#656)
• New option --calls to report call coverage: function calls invoked/total (#666)
• New nox session to generate a portable application with pyinstaller. (#661)
• Print a warning if root directory contains symlinks. (#652)
• Change option --keep when calling gcov internaly. (#703)
• Allow annotations for never executed branches. (#711)
• Add function merge mode for same function defined in different lines. (#700)
• Update link to gcovr documentation in HTML report to point to the documentation of the used version. (#723)
• Add environment SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to set default for option --timestamp. (#729)

Bug fixes and small improvements:

• Fix option --html-tab-size feature. (#650)
• Fix alphabetical sort of html report, for when there are symlinks. (#685)
• Handle option --version before parsing the configuration file. (#696)
• Fix reports of excluded coverage. (#409, #503, #663)
• Fix handling for nonexistent source code for HTML-details and Coveralls reports. (#663)
• Exclude functions with Exclusion markers. (#713)
• Fix problem in decision parser if open block brace is on same line. (#681)
• Add Python 3.11 to test matrix. (#717)
• Fix casing of files if filesystem is case insensitive. (#694)
• Do not use realpath for DirectoryPrefixFilter to support symlinks in root directory. (#712)
• Fix deadlock if option -j is used and there are errors from gcov execution. (#721)
• Fix problem in decision parser if case is not on a single line with the break statement. (#738)
• Do not use realpath for DirectoryPrefixFilter to support symlinks in root directory. (#712)

Documentation:

• Add detailed reference for the JSON output format. (#663)

Internal changes:

• Select the option --html-theme using CSS classes. (#650)
• Change and extend cmake tests. (#676)
• Detect gcc version for running tests. (#686)
• Use scrubbed data for option --update_reference option. (#698)
• Install ninja with package manager instead of GitHub action. (#699)
• Rename the reference files coverage.xml to cobertura.xml and the test from xml to cobertura. (#719)
• Add support for clang-14 in our test suite and improve startup performance of docker image. (#731)
• Change docker image to be able to use it like the nox command itself. (#734)
• Split HTML templates into one file for each part of the page. (#735)
• Change docker image to be able to use it like the nox command itself. (#734)