4.0.0

• Introduce profiles to support multiple launch configurations
  • -p|--profile option
• Internal engine enhancements
• Replace redundant multi scoped data caches with one single scoped cache
• Manage settings internally without exposing them as system properties
• Manage implicits at lifecycle level using boundary level caching
• Require Java 17+ instead of Java 11+
• Use logback instead of log4j for logging
• Support empty literal in DSLs wherever blank is accepted
• Make all input data read only by default
• Add --repl option to open REPL regardless of batch and feature options
• Change ignore placeholder syntax in template matcher from !{} to @{*}
• Add @{**} placeholder to template matcher to support ignoring multiple lines
• Print gwen launch arguments on startup
• Synchronise system process bindings when resolving value from output stream
• Do not permit scope attribute on results file configuration when logging with annoation or DSL
• Only log results file records if results format is specified in launch options
• Skip logging to result file if the scope or status don't match
  • and disable calling step when logged via DSL
• Log unresolved field value if interpolation fails during result file logging
• Support relative file locations in @Import and @Examples annotations
• Load all associative meta if features are specified with --repl option
• Auto discover associative meta only
• Update dependencies
  • Update scala from v3.5.0 to v3.5.2
  • Update gherkin from v29.0.0 to v30.0.0
  • Update jline from v3.26.3 to v3.27.1
  • Update logback-core from v1.5.9 to v1.5.12
  • Update logback-classic from v1.5.9 to v1.5.12
  • Update jackson-databind from v2.17.2 to v2.18.1
• Add settings(s):
  • gwen.input.data.readOnly
• Add implicit variable(s):
  • gwen.profile.name
• Add environment variable(s)
  • GWEN_PROFILE
• Add DSL step(s):
  • I attach "<filepath>"
    • For attaching files to Gwen reports (where the name of the attachment will be the name of the file)
  • I log record to <resultsFileId> file
    • For explicitly logging records to configured results files
• Raise deprecations as errors by default instead of logging them as warnings

  Setting	Old default	New default
  gwen.logLevel.deprecations	warn	error

• Deprecated Settings	Use this instead
  gwen.cli.options.batch	gwen.launch.options.batch
  gwen.cli.options.format	gwen.launch.options.format
  gwen.cli.options.inputData	gwen.launch.options.inputData
  gwen.cli.options.dryRun	gwen.launch.options.dryRun
  gwen.cli.options.features	gwen.launch.options.features
  gwen.cli.options.parallel	gwen.launch.options.parallel
  gwen.cli.options.meta	gwen.launch.options.meta
  gwen.cli.options.report	gwen.launch.options.report
  gwen.cli.options.tags	gwen.launch.options.tags
  Removed Settings	Use this instead
  :-----------------------------	:--------------------------
  gwen.auto.discover.data.csv	`-i
  gwen.auto.discover.data.json	`-i
  gwen.auto.discover.meta	`-m
  gwen.associative.meta	This is now always on

• Deprecated Implicit values	Use this instead
  gwen.eval.status.keyword	gwen.feature.eval.status.keyword
  gwen.eval.status.keyword.upperCased	gwen.feature.eval.status.keyword.upperCased
  gwen.eval.status.keyword.lowerCased	gwen.feature.eval.status.keyword.lowerCased
  gwen.eval.status.keyword.isPassed	gwen.feature.eval.status.keyword.isPassed
  gwen.eval.status.keyword.isFailed	gwen.feature.eval.status.keyword.isFailed
  gwen.eval.status.message	gwen.feature.eval.status.message
  gwen.eval.status.message.escaped	gwen.feature.eval.status.message.escaped
  gwen.eval.status.message.csvEscaped	gwen.feature.eval.status.message.csvEscaped
  gwen.eval.duration	gwen.feature.eval.duration
  gwen.eval.duration.msecs	gwen.feature.eval.duration.msecs
  gwen.eval.duration.secs	gwen.feature.eval.duration.secs
  data record number	gwen.data.record.number
  data.record.number	gwen.data.record.number
  data.record.index	gwen.data.record.index
  record.number	gwen.table.record.number
  record.index	gwen.table.record.index
  iteration.number	gwen.iteration.number
  iteration.index	gwen.iteration.index

• Drop deprecated features:
  • Gwen Workspaces warning
  • -p|--properties option
  • Report portal integration
  • Matrix tables
  • Core DSL steps
    • I wait <duration> second[s] when <element> is <actioned>
    • I wait until <condition> when <element> is <actioned>
  • Core DSL steps in favour of base step with @Timeout and @Delay annotations
    • <step> <until|while> <condition> using <delay> <delayUnit> delay
    • <step> <until|while> <condition> using <timeout> <timeoutUnit> timeout
    • <step> <until|while> <condition> using <delay> <delayUnit> delay and <timeout> <timeoutUnit> timeout
    • <step> <until|while> <condition> using no delay and <timeout> <timeoutUnit> timeout
    • <step> <until|while> <condition> using no delay
    • <step> <until|while> <condition> using no delay and <timeout> <timeoutUnit> timeout