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v1.3.0

• Gherkin v6 support
• Native support for cucumber-expressions as step matcher
• Native support for async-steps
• Support for tag-expressions v2
• Distinguish in outcome between failures (assert-failed) and errors (unexpected exceptions at runtime)
• Improved captured-output support
• Improved logging support and log-to-file support
• And many things more ...

CHANGELOG:

• v1.3.0
• v1.2.7 (part of: v1.3.0)

HINT:

• Last release with Python 2.7 support

v1.2.7.dev8

• FIX #1251: Installation with pip does not install dependencies

v1.2.7.dev7

ENHANCEMENTS:

• async-steps: Support async-step functions directly
• async-steps: Add test from PR #1249 (provided by: jeteve)
• ActiveTags: Add support to override an enabled active-tag
• Feature: Improved capture support
• issue #1246 ScenarioOutline: Placeholders in Examples.tags
• Improve logging support, simplify logging to file (releated to; issue #948)
• Support for Python 3.13

CHANGES:

• In behave: Replace assert statements w/ require statements/calls
• FIX: Spelling mistakes w/ codespell

FIXED:

• issue #1233: RuntimeError: Event loop is closed" in asyncio streams
• issue #1231: TypeConverter Error causes Formatter Error
• issue #1214

CLEANUP:

• @​async.coroutine decorator: Remove in docs, tests, features, steps

DEVELOP:

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Version: 1.3.0 (2025-08-04)

BASED ON: Version 1.2.7 changes

GOALS:

• Will be released on https://pypi.org
• Include all changes from behave v1.2.7 development
• Last version minor version with Python 2.7 support
• tag-expressions v2: Enabled by default ("strict" mode: only v2 supported).
• tag-expressions v1: Disabled by default (in "strict" mode). BUT: Can be enabled via config-file parameter in "any" mode (supports: v1 and v2).

Version: 1.2.7 (part of: 1.3.0)

BACKWARD-INCOMPATIBLE:

• Replace old-style tag-expressions with cucumber-tag-expressions_ as tag-expressions v2.

  HINTS:

  • DEPRECATING: tag-expressions v1 (old-style)
  • BUT: Currently, tag-expression version is automatically detected (and used).

• CLI: Cleanup command-line short-options that are seldom used (short-options for: --no-skipped (-k), --no-multiline (-m), --no-source (-s)).

• parser: No longer strips trailing colon from steps with text/table section.

• Undefined steps need to use StepNotImplementedError (was: NotImplementedError)

GOALS:

• Improve support for Windows (continued)
• FIX: Unicode problems on Windows (in behave-1.2.6)
• FIX: Regression test problems on Windows (in behave-1.2.6)

DEVELOPMENT:

• Renamed default branch of Git repository to "main" (was: "master").
• Use github-actions as CI/CD pipeline (and remove Travis as CI).
• CI: Remove python.version=2.7 for CI pipeline (reason: No longer supported by Github Actions, date: 2023-07).
• ADDED: pyproject.toml support (hint: "setup.py" will become DEPRECATED soon)

CLEANUPS:

• CLI: Remove unused option --expand

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• 85fe9db BUMP-VERSION: 1.3.0
• 5239ced CLEANUP: Fix linter warnings (with ruff-check).
• 5c3f770 FIX #1252: Encoding problem in any formatter
• 5adfd10 UPDATE: gherkin-languages.json
• 05bce17 CI: Bump experimental Python version: 3.14.0-rc.1 (was: beta.4)
• 3504ef6 BUMP-VERSION: 1.2.7.dev9 (was: 1.2.7.dev8)
• f622524 CLEANUP: Remove disabled, obsolete TOML dependency section
• 3e3ef3b Remove toml extra from installation instructions
• 231240b BUMP-VERSION: 1.2.7.dev8 (was: 1.2.7.dev7)
• b8b23bc FIX #1251: Installation with pip does not install dependencies
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