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Fri, 30. Oct 2020

XMLUnit for Java 2.8.0 and XMLUnit.NET 2.9.0 Released

Both releases are mostly bugfix releases. Unfortunately both are going to break backwards compatibility for some people.

All modules of XMLUnit for Java now require Java7 as a minimum and the optional JAXB dependency has been updated to use the Jakarta XML Binding API. XMLUnit.NET has made ISource disposable which is going to break custom implementations.

Details for XMLUnit for Java 2.8.0

changed optional JAXB dependency to use Jakarta XML Binding API PR #186 by @endrejeges
bumped the bytebuddy dependency to 1.10.10 for the AssertJ module in the hope it would help with #188 - and change its scope from provided to compile time, which should finally fix the issue.
added a new extractingText method to MultipleNodeAssert to make it possible to write AssertJ assertions against the textual content of nodes more easily. Issue #192 and PR #193 by @keesvandieren
changed the minimum Java version required from Java 6 to Java 7 for all modules (it has already been Java 7 for the AssertJ module before).
DefaultNodeMatcher with multiple ElementSelectors could fail to find the best matches as the order of ElementSelectors should select them. #197
Input builder now supports java.nio.file.Path #196
It is now possible to specify a custom TransformerFactory for DefaultComparisonFormatter. #195

Details for XMLUnit.NET 2.9.0

ISource now extends IDisposable to allow releasing unmanaged resources used when building sources from files or URIs. This change is backwards incompatible if you are providing ISource implementations of your own. #33.
DefaultNodeMatcher with multiple ElementSelectors could fail to find the best matches as the order of ElementSelectors should select them. Issue similar to xmlunit/#197

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