googletest 1.8 release

Created on 16 Sep 2015 · 21Comments · Source: google/googletest

There hasn't been an official release of gtest since 2013. Since then support for movable objects has been added (ByMove, etc.) as well as other stuff I'm sure.

Is there any plan for an official release?

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samkellett

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When are you planning to update 1.8 changelog? Thanks.

abozkurt on 30 Nov 2016

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Soon!

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Sam Kellett [email protected]
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There hasn't been an official release of gtest since 2013. Since then
support for movable objects has been added (ByMove, etc.) as well as other
stuff I'm sure.

Is there any plan for an official release?

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BillyDonahue on 16 Sep 2015

How soon we talking?! :smile:

samkellett on 16 Sep 2015

It's a Q4 goal, so before 2016.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Sam Kellett [email protected]
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How soon we talking?! [image: :smile:]

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BillyDonahue on 16 Sep 2015

That's awesome! Cheers for all the hard work

samkellett on 17 Sep 2015

Cool, do you have any update on the roadmap? I understand 1.8 will support C++11/14 ?

jupp0r on 26 Nov 2015

v1.8 will not be C++11/14 capable.
It will just be a snapshot of what's basically trunk right now.

When we have v1.8.0, we will have something relatively modern that people
can use even if they are stuck without a C++11 compiler. So they'll be
happy for a while while we go off into the future.

After v1.8.0 is tagged and released, we'll start breaking some
backward-compatibility with pre-11 compilers in head.
This applies to user support as well as the internals. If you look at the
implementation internals for googletest and googlemock, you'll see a lot of
places where C++11 would have saved us a lot of complexity and workarounds.

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Cool, do you have any update on the roadmap? I understand 1.8 will support
C++11/14 ?

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BillyDonahue on 26 Nov 2015

Thanks for the clarification.

jupp0r on 26 Nov 2015

2015-Q4 has passed :_)

xor-gate on 6 Jan 2016

Working on it!

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2015-Q4 has passed :_)

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BillyDonahue on 6 Jan 2016

Any update? I would like to bring this package to Arch Linux but the last release is too old. Any chance to see a new release (well at least -rc release) in the nearest future?

anatol on 29 Jan 2016

What's blocking this?

dcow on 24 Mar 2016

There's no blocker, just need the time to work on it.

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What's blocking this?

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BillyDonahue on 24 Mar 2016

The lack of a recent release does have minor downsides.

eelstork on 4 Jun 2016

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The googlemock cockbook says that googlemock supports move-constructible return types, but this (as far as I can see) is not supported in the latest official release. Maybe the cookbook should be made clearer, denoting the experimental\non-release features, and giving workarounds for current official releases.

liav-teichner on 16 Jun 2016

Looks like gtest v 1.8.0 _does_ now exist - but I see no information on what is new in this release. Unless I'm hallucinating (always possible :-)) the CHANGES file in the 1.8.0 download lists what is new in 1.7.0, not what is new in 1.8.0.
Can anyone point me to details of the 1.7.0 -> 1.8.0 changes ?
Thanks.

Gordon-Mc on 23 Sep 2016

Related to #855

KindDragon on 23 Sep 2016

Can anyone point me to details of the 1.7.0 -> 1.8.0 changes ?

https://github.com/google/googletest/compare/release-1.7.0...release-1.8.0
548 commits

KindDragon on 23 Sep 2016

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548 commits is a bit much to consume... :cry: Perhaps you could produce some bullet point release notes to help point out what is new / improved / changed in 1.8?