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

Bug fixes

* fail fast when an `exactly` or `at_most` expectation is exceeded 

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

Enhancements

* Support order constraints across objects (preethiramdev)

Bug fixes

* Allow a `as_null_object` to be passed to `with`
* Pass proc to block passed to stub (Aubrey Rhodes)
* Initialize child message expectation args to match any args (#109 -
  preethiramdev)

### 2.8.0 / 2012-01-04

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

No changes for this release. Just releasing with the other rspec gems.

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

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

No changes for this release. Just releasing with the other rspec gems.

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

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/compare/v2.7.0...v2.8.0.rc1)

Enhancements

* Eliminate Ruby warnings (Matijs van Zuijlen)

### 2.7.0 / 2011-10-16

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/compare/v2.6.0...v2.7.0)

Enhancements

* Use `__send__` rather than `send` (alextk)
* Add support for `any_instance.stub_chain` (Sidu Ponnappa)
* Add support for `any_instance` argument matching based on `with` (Sidu
  Ponnappa and Andy Lindeman)

Changes

* Check for `failure_message_for_should` or `failure_message` instead of
  `description` to detect a matcher (Tibor Claassen)

Bug fixes

* pass a hash to `any_instance.stub`. (Justin Ko)
* allow `to_ary` to be called without raising `NoMethodError` (Mikhail
  Dieterle)
* `any_instance` properly restores private methods (Sidu Ponnappa)

### 2.6.0 / 2011-05-12

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/compare/v2.5.0...v2.6.0)

Enhancements

* Add support for `any_instance.stub` and `any_instance.should_receive` (Sidu
  Ponnappa and Andy Lindeman)

Bug fixes

* fix bug in which multiple chains with shared messages ending in hashes failed
  to return the correct value

### 2.5.0 / 2011-02-05

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

Bug fixes

* message expectation counts now work in combination with a stub (Damian
  Nurzynski)
* fix failure message when message received with incorrect args (Josep M.
  Bach)

### 2.4.0 / 2011-01-02

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/compare/v2.3.0...v2.4.0)

No functional changes in this release, which was made to align with the
rspec-core-2.4.0 release.

### 2.3.0 / 2010-12-12

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/compare/v2.2.0...v2.3.0)

Bug fixes

* Fix our Marshal extension so that it does not interfere with objects that
  have their own `@mock_proxy` instance variable. (Myron Marston)

### 2.2.0 / 2010-11-28

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

Enhancements

* Added "rspec/mocks/standalone" for exploring the rspec-mocks in irb.

Bug fix

* Eliminate warning on splat args without parens (Gioele Barabucci)
* Fix bug where `obj.should_receive(:foo).with(stub.as_null_object)` would pass
  with a false positive.

### 2.1.0 / 2010-11-07

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

Bug fixes

* Fix serialization of stubbed object (Josep M Bach)

### 2.0.0 / 2010-10-10

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

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

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

Enhancements

* support passing a block to an expectation block (Nicolas Braem)
    * `obj.should_receive(:msg) {|&block| ... }`

Bug fixes

* Fix YAML serialization of stub (Myron Marston)
* Fix rdoc rake task (Hans de Graaff)

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

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

Bug fixes

* fixed regression that broke `obj.stub_chain(:a, :b => :c)`
* fixed regression that broke `obj.stub_chain(:a, :b) { :c }`
* `respond_to?` always returns true when using `as_null_object`