v8.3.1

Fixed

• Export IConfiguration type on API entry point (#2064)

v8.3.0

Added

• Add willBeRetried to the parameter passed to After hook functions (#2045)

Changed

• defineStep is now deprecated and will eventually be removed; use the appropriate Given/When/Then keyword to define your step (#2044)

Fixed

• Prevent outputting ANSI escapes to stderr if it can't display them (#2035)

v8.2.2

Changed

• Use latest HTML formatter with better handling for scenario outlines

v8.2.1

Fixed

• Fix return type of step hook function to allow async functions (#2038)

v8.2.0

Changed

• Fix issues with colored output, support FORCE_COLOR environment variable as an override (#2026)

v8.1.2

Added

• Explicit support for Node.js 18 (#2007)

Fixed

• Re-add cucumber-js bin file for backwards compatibility (#2008)

v8.1.1

Fixed

• Capture dependency on @cucumber/message-streams to satisfy peer requirement from @cucumber/gherkin-streams (#2006)

v8.1.0

Added

• Add support for named hooks (see documentation) (#1994)
• Add generics support for world parameters type in world-related interfaces and classes (see documentation) (#1968 #2002)

Changed

• Rename the cucumber-js binary's underlying file to be cucumber.js, so it doesn't fall foul of Node.js module conventions and plays nicely with ESM loaders (see documentation) (#1993)

Fixed

• Correctly escape backslashes in generated expressions for snippets (#1324 #1995)

v8.0.0

Changed

• Emit a warning when using a Node.js version that's untested with Cucumber (#1959)

Fixed

• Allow file:// URLs to be used as formatter/snippet paths in options (#1963 #1920)
• Allow custom formatters to rely on --require-module transpilers (#1985)

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How to upgrade from 7.x.x: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/blob/main/UPGRADING.md

Full changelog including release candidates: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

v8.0.0-rc.3

Added

• Cucumber Expressions now support a wider array of parameter types (see documentation)
• Improved styling and usability on report from html formatter
• Support for customising work assignment when running in parallel (#1044 #1588)
• Add a new option to --format-options: printAttachments (see documentation) (#1136 #1721)
• Support for configuration to be objects instead of argv strings, and for configuration files in ESM and JSON formats (#1952)
• New API for running Cucumber programmatically (see documentation) (#1955)

Changed

• Switch from colors to chalk for terminal coloring (#1895)

Deprecated

• parseGherkinMessageStream is deprecated in favour of loadSources (#1957)

Fixed

• Warn users who are on an unsupported node version (#1922)
• Allow formatters to finish when a Gherkin parse error is encountered (#1404 #1951)

Removed

• getConfiguration, initializeFormatters and getSupportCodeLibrary methods removed from Cli class in favour of new API