4.12 Release

[gaffa]

Hi!
As I did not know where else to ask I am opening an issue for this. I am wondering what is holding back the 4.12 release and when it is going to be released. If anyone can provide me with a public maven repository containing a beta-release I would be grateful as well as I would like to use some of the features in our build soon.
Regards, Henning.

[Tibor17]

@gaffa
Download mvn snapshot
https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/junit/junit/4.12-SNAPSHOT

(link should be used only for uploads)

[gaffa]

Thank you. Thats great. I am going to use that repository in one of our bigger projects to use the features. If I find any problems with anything I will submit issues.

[Tibor17]

Pls do not download too frequently. Just cache it in your local repo and check from time to time what's new.

Submit issues, that's always helpful before making the release if somebody can check it out.

[gaffa]

Alright. We can do that as well if you are worried about load or traffic. Good that you are saying it as I was not expecting that.

[neoscaler]

Any news on the 4.12 release, it's now 11 month ago?! I would really appreciate the category inheritance.

[kcooney]

I think we're just looking for someone to step up and do all the tasks related to the release.

[pholser]

Anything I can do to help? I'd like to see 4.12 released so as to get on with a release of junit.contrib's rendition of Theories, which is a dependency of junit-quickcheck, which I'd also like to release sooner rather than later.

[kcooney]

@pholser it would be really helpful for someone to organize the release notes for 4.12. Maybe add sections to the top for major features, minor features and bug fixes.

I wasn't involved in the 4.11 release, so I don't know what the other steps are. Perhaps someone in @junit-team/junit-committers can chime in.

[pholser]

@junit-team/junit-committers Sure, I can do that. Pull req for release note changes to follow, hopefully not too long.

[kcooney]

@pholser the release notes are on the wiki, so you don't need a pull

[pholser]

Ah yes. Thanks!

[stefanbirkner]

@pholser Do you want support for organizing the release notes. I could spend some time on it.

[pholser]

@stefanbirkner Sure -- was going to take a swing at it this evening; would you mind to have a look after I'm finished?

[pholser]

@junit-team/junit-committers I've edited the 4.12 release notes wiki entry. I took the approach of organizing the changes mentioned there by general JUnit feature category (e.g. rules, theories, assertions), taking a cue from another wiki page. Have a look and tweak as you see fit.

[kcooney]

@pholser I like it.

Reviewing the release notes, I don't see any mention of Noel's work on inclusion and exclusion filters. I'm not sure if it's worth the time for someone to go through two years of commit history to see what else is missing :-/

[pholser]

@kcooney True, that. Perhaps someone more familiar with the changes would be willing to summarize them and update the notes? @stefanbirkner, would you be able to help with documenting the inclusion/exclusion filters, and any stray features/bug fixes that didn't make it to the release notes?

[pholser]

@kcooney @stefanbirkner @dsaff I think I've done about as much as I'm comfortable with re: the release notes for 4.12. Anything else that I could do to help the 4.12 release along?

[stefanbirkner]

@pholser No it's our part to release 4.12. Thanks for your help.

[ceefour]

Yay :-) 👍

[pholser]

@stefanbirkner No worries, thanks. We're eager to see 4.12 in play soon.

[nhuray]

Great I'm waiting for this release for a long time. I'm particularly interested by Theories improvements !

[marcphilipp]

There now is a public beta release (4.12-beta-1). Get it from Maven central or GitHub.

[kcooney]

@marcphilipp should we do one more RC and then do the release? r4.12-beta-2 is missing #1000 (which is an incompatible change from r4.12-beta-2 but compatible with 4.12)

[marcphilipp]

Ok, one more RC... ;-)

[UrsMetz]

Should the clarification for the JavaDoc of TemporaryFolder, cf. @kcooney's comment in #1001, be included in 4.12? Is somebody already taking care of this?

[kcooney]

I personally would not want to wait for any pull requests that haven't been created. The only reason I am suggesting a new RC is to fix a compatibility issue with 4.11.

I would be happy not merging any more pull requests, and commit to do a bug fix release in 3 months.

[marcphilipp]

I would be ok with fixing the Javadoc if a pull request is ready to be merged within the next few days. I won't have time to release beta-3 before the weekend anyway.

@UrsMetz Do you have time to take care of that?

[UrsMetz]

@marcphilipp I think I could have a pull request ready by tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

[marcphilipp]

SGTM!

[kcooney]

@marcphilipp sent you a pull for the (hopefully) final update to the release notes

[marcphilipp]

I've added a few comments over at #1024.

[marcphilipp]

4.12 is released. 🎆

[npathai]

Yayyy..