### 2.11.1 / 2012-07-18
[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.11.0...v2.11.1)

Bug fixes

* Fix the way we autoload RSpec::Matchers so that custom matchers can be
  defined before rspec-core has been configured to definitely use
  rspec-expectations. (Myron Marston)
* Fix typo in --help message printed for -e option. (Jo Liss)
* Fix ruby warnings. (Myron Marston)
* Ignore mock expectation failures when the example has already failed.
  Mock expectation failures have always been ignored in this situation,
  but due to my changes in 27059bf1 it was printing a confusing message.
  (Myron Marston).

### 2.11.0 / 2012-07-07
[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.10.1...v2.11.0)

Enhancements

* Support multiple `--example` options. (Daniel Doubrovkine @dblock)
* Named subject e.g. `subject(:article) { Article.new }`
    * see [http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2012/05/13/spec-smell-explicit-use-of-subject/](http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2012/05/13/spec-smell-explicit-use-of-subject/)
      for background.
    * thanks to Bradley Schaefer for suggesting it and Avdi Grimm for almost
      suggesting it.
* `config.mock_with` and `config.expect_with` yield custom config object to a
  block if given
    * aids decoupling from rspec-core's configuation
* `include_context` and `include_examples` support a block, which gets eval'd
  in the current context (vs the nested context generated by `it_behaves_like`).
* Add `config.order = 'random'` to the `spec_helper.rb` generated by `rspec
  --init`.
* Delay the loading of DRb (Myron Marston).
* Limit monkey patching of `describe` onto just the objects that need it rather
  than every object in the system (Myron Marston).

Bug fixes

* Support alternative path separators. For example, on Windows, you can now do
  this: `rspec spec\subdir`. (Jarmo Pertman @jarmo)
* When an example raises an error and an after or around hook does as
  well, print out the hook error. Previously, the error was silenced and
  the user got no feedback about what happened. (Myron Marston)
* `--require` and `-I` are merged among different configuration sources (Andy
  Lindeman)
* Delegate to mocha methods instead of aliasing them in mocha adapter.

### 2.10.1 / 2012-05-19
[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.10.0...v2.10.1)

Bug fixes

* `RSpec.reset` properly reinits configuration and world
* Call `to_s` before `split` on exception messages that might not always be
  Strings (slyphon)

### 2.10.0 / 2012-05-03
[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.9.0...v2.10.0)

Enhancements

* Add `prepend_before` and `append_after` hooks (preethiramdev)
    * intended for extension libs
    * restores rspec-1 behavior
* Reporting of profiled examples (moro)
    * Report the total amount of time taken for the top slowest examples.
    * Report what percentage the slowest examples took from the total runtime.

Bug fixes

* Properly parse `SPEC_OPTS` options.
* `example.description` returns the location of the example if there is no
  explicit description or matcher-generated description.
* RDoc fixes (Grzegorz Świrski)
* Do not modify example ancestry when dumping errors (Michael Grosser)

### 2.9.0 / 2012-03-17
[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.8.0...v2.9.0)

Enhancements

* Support for "X minutes X seconds" spec run duration in formatter. (uzzz)
* Strip whitespace from group and example names in doc formatter.
* Removed spork-0.9 shim. If you're using spork-0.8.x, you'll need to upgrade
  to 0.9.0.

Bug fixes

* Restore `--full_backtrace` option
* Ensure that values passed to `config.filter_run` are respected when running
  over DRb (using spork).
* Ensure shared example groups are reset after a run (as example groups are).
* Remove `rescue false` from calls to filters represented as Procs
* Ensure `described_class` gets the closest constant (pyromaniac)
* In "autorun", don't run the specs in the `at_exit` hook if there was an
  exception (most likely due to a SyntaxError). (sunaku)
* Don't extend groups with modules already used to extend ancestor groups.
* `its` correctly memoizes nil or false values (Yamada Masaki)

### 2.8.0 / 2012-01-04

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.8.0.rc2...v2.8.0)

Bug fixes

* For metadata filtering, restore passing the entire array to the proc, rather
  than each item in the array (weidenfreak)
* Ensure each spec file is loaded only once
    * Fixes a bug that caused all the examples in a file to be run when
      referenced twice with line numbers in a command, e.g.
        * `rspec path/to/file:37 path/to/file:42`

### 2.8.0.rc2 / 2011-12-19

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.8.0.rc1...v2.8.0.rc2)

Enhancments

* new `--init` command (Peter Schröder)
    * generates `spec/spec_helper.rb`
    * deletes obsolete files (on confirmation)
    * merged with and deprecates `--configure` command, which generated
      `.rspec`
* use `require_relative` when available (Ian Leitch)
* `include_context` and `include_examples` accept params (Calvin Bascom)
* print the time for every example in the html formatter (Richie Vos)
* several tasty refactoring niblets (Sasha)
* `it "does something", :x => [:foo,'bar',/baz/] (Ivan Neverov)
    * supports matching n command line tag values with an example or group

### 2.8.0.rc1 / 2011-11-06

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.7.1...v2.8.0.rc1)

Enhancements

* `--order` (Justin Ko)
    * run examples in random order: `--order rand`
    * specify the seed: `--order rand:123`
* `--seed SEED`
    * equivalent of `--order rand:SEED`
* SharedContext supports `let` (David Chelimsky)
* Filter improvements (David Chelimsky)
    * override opposing tags from the command line
    * override RSpec.configure tags from the command line
    * `--line_number 37` overrides all other filters
    * `path/to/file.rb:37` overrides all other filters
    * refactor: consolidate filter management in a FilterManger object
* Eliminate Ruby warnings (Matijs van Zuijlen)
* Make reporter.report an API (David Chelimsky)
    * supports extension tools like interative_rspec

Changes

* change `config.color_enabled` (getter/setter/predicate) to `color` to align
  with `--[no]-color` CLI option.
    * `color_enabled` is still supported for now, but will likley be deprecated
      in a 2.x release so we can remove it in 3.0.

Bug fixes

* Make sure the `bar` in `--tag foo:bar` makes it to DRb (Aaron Gibralter)
* Fix bug where full descriptions of groups nested 3 deep  were repeated.
* Restore report of time to run to start after files are loaded.
    * fixes bug where run times were cumalitive in spork
    * fixes compatibility with time-series metrics
* Don't error out when `config.mock_with` or `expect_with` is re-specifying the
  current config (Myron Marston)

* Deprecations
    * :alias option on `configuration.add_setting`. Use `:alias_with` on the
      original setting declaration instead.

### 2.7.1 / 2011-10-20

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.7.0...v2.7.1)

Bug fixes

* tell autotest the correct place to find the rspec executable

### 2.7.0 / 2011-10-16

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.6.4...v2.7.0)

NOTE: RSpec's release policy dictates that there should not be any backward
incompatible changes in minor releases, but we're making an exception to
release a change to how RSpec interacts with other command line tools.

As of 2.7.0, you must explicity `require "rspec/autorun"` unless you use the
`rspec` command (which already does this for you).

Enhancements

* Add `example.exception` (David Chelimsky)
* `--default_path` command line option (Justin Ko)
* support multiple `--line_number` options (David J. Hamilton)
    * also supports `path/to/file.rb:5:9` (runs examples on lines 5 and 9)
* Allow classes/modules to be used as shared example group identifiers (Arthur
  Gunn)
* Friendly error message when shared context cannot be found (Sławosz
  Sławiński)
* Clear formatters when resetting config (John Bintz)
* Add `xspecify` and xexample as temp-pending methods (David Chelimsky)
* Add `--no-drb` option (Iain Hecker)
* Provide more accurate run time by registering start time before code is
  loaded (David Chelimsky)
    * reverted in 2.8.0
* Rake task default pattern finds specs in symlinked dirs (Kelly Felkins)
* Rake task no longer does anything to invoke bundler since Bundler already
  handles it for us. Thanks to Andre Arko for the tip.
* Add `--failure-exit-code` option (Chris Griego)

Bug fixes

* Include `Rake::DSL` to remove deprecation warnings in Rake > 0.8.7 (Pivotal
  Casebook)
* Only eval `let` block once even if it returns `nil` (Adam Meehan)
* Fix `--pattern` option (wasn't being recognized) (David Chelimsky)
* Only implicitly `require "rspec/autorun"` with the `rspec` command (David
  Chelimsky)
* Ensure that rspec's `at_exit` defines the exit code (Daniel Doubrovkine)
* Show the correct snippet in the HTML and TextMate formatters (Brian Faherty)

### 2.6.4 / 2011-06-06

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.6.3...v2.6.4)

NOTE: RSpec's release policy dictates that there should not be new
functionality in patch releases, but this minor enhancement slipped in by
accident.  As it doesn't add a new API, we decided to leave it in rather than
roll back this release.

Enhancements

* Add summary of commands to run individual failed examples.

Bug fixes

* Support exclusion filters in DRb. (Yann Lugrin)
* Fix --example escaping when run over DRb. (Elliot Winkler)
* Use standard ANSI codes for color formatting so colors work in a wider set of
  color schemes.

### 2.6.3 / 2011-05-24

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.6.2...v2.6.3)

Bug fixes

* Explicitly convert exit code to integer, avoiding TypeError when return
  value of run is IO object proxied by `DRb::DRbObject` (Julian Scheid)
* Clarify behavior of `--example` command line option
* Build using a rubygems-1.6.2 to avoid downstream yaml parsing error

### 2.6.2 / 2011-05-21

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.6.1...v2.6.2)

Bug fixes

* Warn rather than raise when HOME env var is not defined
* Properly merge command-line exclusions with default :if and :unless (joshcooper)

### 2.6.1 / 2011-05-19

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.6.0...v2.6.1)

Bug fixes

* Don't extend nil when filters are nil
* `require 'rspec/autorun'` when running rcov.

### 2.6.0 / 2011-05-12

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.5.1...v2.6.0)

Enhancements

* `shared_context` (Damian Nurzynski)
    * extend groups matching specific metadata with:
        * method definitions
        * subject declarations
        * let/let! declarations
        * etc (anything you can do in a group)
* `its([:key])` works for any subject with #[]. (Peter Jaros)
* `treat_symbols_as_metadata_keys_with_true_values` (Myron Marston)
* Print a deprecation warning when you configure RSpec after defining an
  example.  All configuration should happen before any examples are defined.
  (Myron Marston)
* Pass the exit status of a DRb run to the invoking process. This causes specs
  run via DRb to not just return true or false. (Ilkka Laukkanen)
* Refactoring of `ConfigurationOptions#parse_options` (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)
* Report excluded filters in runner output (tip from andyl)
* Clean up messages for filters/tags.
* Restore --pattern/-P command line option from rspec-1
* Support false as well as true in config.full_backtrace= (Andreas Tolf
  Tolfsen)

Bug fixes

* Don't stumble over an exception without a message (Hans Hasselberg)
* Remove non-ascii characters from comments that were choking rcov (Geoffrey
  Byers)
* Fixed backtrace so it doesn't include lines from before the autorun at_exit
  hook (Myron Marston)
* Include RSpec::Matchers when first example group is defined, rather than just
  before running the examples.  This works around an obscure bug in ruby 1.9
  that can cause infinite recursion. (Myron Marston)
* Don't send `example_group_[started|finished]` to formatters for empty groups.
* Get specs passing on jruby (Sidu Ponnappa)
* Fix bug where mixing nested groups and outer-level examples gave
  unpredictable :line_number behavior (Artur Małecki)
* Regexp.escape the argument to --example (tip from Elliot Winkler)
* Correctly pass/fail pending block with message expectations
* CommandLine returns exit status (0/1) instead of true/false
* Create path to formatter output file if it doesn't exist (marekj).


### 2.5.1 / 2011-02-06

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.5.0...v2.5.1)

NOTE: this release breaks compatibility with rspec/autotest/bundler
integration, but does so in order to greatly simplify it.

With this release, if you want the generated autotest command to include
'bundle exec', require Autotest's bundler plugin in a .autotest file in the
project's root directory or in your home directory:

    require "autotest/bundler"

Now you can just type 'autotest' on the commmand line and it will work as you expect.

If you don't want 'bundle exec', there is nothing you have to do.

### 2.5.0 / 2011-02-05

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.4.0...v2.5.0)

Enhancements

* Autotest::Rspec2 parses command line args passed to autotest after '--'
* --skip-bundler option for autotest command
* Autotest regexp fixes (Jon Rowe)
* Add filters to html and textmate formatters (Daniel Quimper)
* Explicit passing of block (need for JRuby 1.6) (John Firebaugh)

Bug fixes

* fix dom IDs in HTML formatter (Brian Faherty)
* fix bug with --drb + formatters when not running in drb
* include --tag options in drb args (monocle)
* fix regression so now SPEC_OPTS take precedence over CLI options again (Roman
  Chernyatchik)
* only call its(:attribute) once (failing example from Brian Dunn)
* fix bizarre bug where rspec would hang after String.alias :to_int :to_i
  (Damian Nurzynski)

Deprecations

* implicit inclusion of 'bundle exec' when Gemfile present (use autotest's
  bundler plugin instead)

### 2.4.0 / 2011-01-02

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.3.1...v2.4.0)

Enhancements

* start the debugger on -d so the stack trace is visible when it stops
  (Clifford Heath)
* apply hook filtering to examples as well as groups (Myron Marston)
* support multiple formatters, each with their own output
* show exception classes in failure messages unless they come from RSpec
  matchers or message expectations
* before(:all) { pending } sets all examples to pending

Bug fixes

* fix bug due to change in behavior of reject in Ruby 1.9.3-dev (Shota
  Fukumori)
* fix bug when running in jruby: be explicit about passing block to super (John
  Firebaugh)
* rake task doesn't choke on paths with quotes (Janmejay Singh)
* restore --options option from rspec-1
* require 'ostruct' to fix bug with its([key]) (Kim Burgestrand)
* --configure option generates .rspec file instead of autotest/discover.rb

### 2.3.1 / 2010-12-16

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.3.0...v2.3.1)

Bug fixes

* send debugger warning message to $stdout if RSpec.configuration.error_stream
  has not been defined yet.
* HTML Formatter _finally_ properly displays nested groups (Jarmo Pertman)
* eliminate some warnings when running RSpec's own suite (Jarmo Pertman)

### 2.3.0 / 2010-12-12

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.2.1...v2.3.0)

Enhancements

* tell autotest to use "rspec2" if it sees a .rspec file in the project's root
  directory
    * replaces the need for ./autotest/discover.rb, which will not work with
      all versions of ZenTest and/or autotest
* config.expect_with
    * :rspec          # => rspec/expectations
    * :stdlib         # => test/unit/assertions
    * :rspec, :stdlib # => both

Bug fixes

* fix dev Gemfile to work on non-mac-os machines (Lake Denman)
* ensure explicit subject is only eval'd once (Laszlo Bacsi)

### 2.2.1 / 2010-11-28

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.2.0...v2.2.1)

Bug fixes
* alias_method instead of override Kernel#method_missing (John Wilger)
* changed --autotest to --tty in generated command (MIKAMI Yoshiyuki)
* revert change to debugger (had introduced conflict with Rails)
    * also restored --debugger/-debug option

### 2.2.0 / 2010-11-28

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.1.0...v2.2.0)

Deprecations/changes

* --debug/-d on command line is deprecated and now has no effect
* win32console is now ignored; Windows users must use ANSICON for color support
  (Bosko Ivanisevic)

Enhancements

* When developing locally rspec-core now works with the rspec-dev setup or your
  local gems
* Raise exception with helpful message when rspec-1 is loaded alongside rspec-2
  (Justin Ko)
* debugger statements _just work_ as long as ruby-debug is installed
  * otherwise you get warned, but not fired
* Expose example.metadata in around hooks
* Performance improvments (much faster now)

Bug fixes

* Make sure --fail-fast makes it across drb
* Pass -Ilib:spec to rcov

### 2.1.0 / 2010-11-07

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.0.1...v2.1.0)

Enhancments

* Add skip_bundler option to rake task to tell rake task to ignore the presence
  of a Gemfile (jfelchner)
* Add gemfile option to rake task to tell rake task what Gemfile to look for
  (defaults to 'Gemfile')
* Allow passing caller trace into Metadata to support extensions (Glenn
  Vanderburg)
* Add deprecation warning for Spec::Runner.configure to aid upgrade from
  RSpec-1
* Add deprecated Spec::Rake::SpecTask to aid upgrade from RSpec-1
* Add 'autospec' command with helpful message to aid upgrade from RSpec-1
* Add support for filtering with tags on CLI (Lailson Bandeira)
* Add a helpful message about RUBYOPT when require fails in bin/rspec (slyphon)
* Add "-Ilib" to the default rcov options (Tianyi Cui)
* Make the expectation framework configurable (default rspec, of course)
  (Justin Ko)
* Add 'pending' to be conditional (Myron Marston)
* Add explicit support for :if and :unless as metadata keys for conditional run
  of examples (Myron Marston)
* Add --fail-fast command line option (Jeff Kreeftmeijer)

Bug fixes

* Eliminate stack overflow with "subject { self }"
* Require 'rspec/core' in the Raketask (ensures it required when running rcov)

### 2.0.1 / 2010-10-18

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.0.0...v2.0.1)

Bug fixes

* Restore color when using spork + autotest
* Pending examples without docstrings render the correct message (Josep M.
  Bach)
* Fixed bug where a failure in a spec file ending in anything but _spec.rb
  would fail in a confusing way.
* Support backtrace lines from erb templates in html formatter (Alex Crichton)

### 2.0.0 / 2010-10-10

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.0.0.rc...v2.0.0)

RSpec-1 compatibility

* Rake task uses ENV["SPEC"] as file list if present

Bug fixes

* Bug Fix: optparse --out foo.txt (Leonardo Bessa)
* Suppress color codes for non-tty output (except autotest)

### 2.0.0.rc / 2010-10-05

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.0.0.beta.22...v2.0.0.rc)

Enhancements

* implicitly require unknown formatters so you don't have to require the file
  explicitly on the commmand line (Michael Grosser)
* add --out/-o option to assign output target
* added fail_fast configuration option to abort on first failure
* support a Hash subject (its([:key]) { should == value }) (Josep M. Bach)

Bug fixes

* Explicitly require rspec version to fix broken rdoc task (Hans de Graaff)
* Ignore backtrace lines that come from other languages, like Java or
  Javascript (Charles Lowell)
* Rake task now does what is expected when setting (or not setting)
  fail_on_error and verbose
* Fix bug in which before/after(:all) hooks were running on excluded nested
  groups (Myron Marston)
* Fix before(:all) error handling so that it fails examples in nested groups,
  too (Myron Marston)

### 2.0.0.beta.22 / 2010-09-12

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.0.0.beta.20...v2.0.0.beta.22)

Enhancements

* removed at_exit hook
* CTRL-C stops the run (almost) immediately
    * first it cleans things up by running the appropriate after(:all) and
      after(:suite) hooks
    * then it reports on any examples that have already run
* cleaned up rake task
    * generate correct task under variety of conditions
    * options are more consistent
    * deprecated redundant options
* run 'bundle exec autotest' when Gemfile is present
* support ERB in .rspec options files (Justin Ko)
* depend on bundler for development tasks (Myron Marston)
* add example_group_finished to formatters and reporter (Roman Chernyatchik)

Bug fixes

* support paths with spaces when using autotest (Andreas Neuhaus)
* fix module_exec with ruby 1.8.6 (Myron Marston)
* remove context method from top-level
    * was conflicting with irb, for example
* errors in before(:all) are now reported correctly (Chad Humphries)

Removals

* removed -o --options-file command line option
    * use ./.rspec and ~/.rspec