# Changelog

## Unreleased

only add here if you are working on a PR

### Breaking Changes

### Added

### Fixed
- Fixed grammar in duration message to use singular "second" when appropriate (e.g., "Took 1 second" instead of "Took 1 seconds")

## 5.5.0 - 2025-10-30

## Added
- allow writing to a different runtime log for minitest

## 5.4.0 - 2025-08-01

### Added
- Rake tasks will prioritize the `PARALLEL_RAILS_ENV` value over the default `test` environment

## 5.3.1 - 2025-07-23

### Fixed
- The `--multiply-processes` option was being parsed into `options[:multiply-processes]` but was being referenced as `options[:multiply]` in the code

## 5.3.0 - 2025-05-30

### Added
- The `--exec-args` option, which allows users to run shell commands in parallel with test files as arguments

## 5.2.0 - 2025-05-08

### Added
- The `specify-groups` option supports reading from STDIN when set to `-`

## 5.1.0 - 2025-03-09

### Fixed
- Restored jruby support by restoring ruby 3.1 support

## 5.0.1 - 2025-03-05

### Fixed
- Fix Cucumber failures logger when a runner doesn't have any failed examples

## 5.0.0 - 2025-03-01

### Breaking Changes
- dropped ruby 3.0 and 3.1, added ruby 3.4

## 4.10.1 - 2025-03-01

### Fixed

- reverted determine_number_of_processes rename since that broke dependencies

## 4.10.0 - 2025-02-28

### Added

- Allow processor multiplier (flag: `-m` or `--multiply-processes`) to be set via the environment variable `PARALLEL_TEST_MULTIPLY_PROCESSES`

## 4.9.1 - 2025-02-19

### Fixed

- Fix output of Cucumber failures logger. Previously, an event handler inherited from `Cucumber::Formatter::Rerun` would improperly join failures (e.g. `feature/one.feature:1feature/two.feature:1`). Now failures are separated with a single space.

## 4.9.0 - 2025-01-09

### Fixed

- check ActiveRecord version instead of Rails

## 4.8.0 - 2025-01-03

### Added

- add --test-file-limit option for huge windows setups that breaks command length limit

## 4.7.2 - 2024-09-09

### Fixed

- Restore support for passing custom command lines as PARALLEL_TESTS_EXECUTABLE.
- dropped ruby 2.7 support

## 4.7.1 - 2024-04-25

### Added

- Restored the `--verbose-process-command` and `--verbose-rerun-command` options, removed in version 4.0.0.
See [#952](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/952).
`--verbose-command` continues to be supported and is equivalent to set the 2 options above.

## 4.7.0 - 2024-04-23

### Added
- Added `--failure-exit-code [INT]` flag to specify a custom exit code when tests fail. This option allows users to define a specific exit code that the test suite should return if any tests fail.

## 4.6.1 - 2024-04-03

### Fixed
- The `--allow-duplicates` flag now runs duplicate tests in different groups

## 4.6.0 - 2024-03-25

## Added
- Add `--allow-duplicates` flag to support re-running 1 spec multiple times

## 4.5.2 - 2024-02-16

### Fixed
- do not crash when a pid file was already deleted when trying to delete it

## 4.5.1 - 2024-02-16

### Fixed

Rails 5.2 and gherkin fixes

## 4.5.0 - 2024-02-06

### Added
- Support for running tasks against individual databases in a multi-database setup with Rails >= 6.1 ([#930](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/930))

## 4.4.0 - 2023-12-24

### Added

- Sort the output of `runtime_logger` for RSpec to show slowest tests first
- Add new `ParallelTests::RSpec::VerboseLogger` to output detailed
  information about each example and it's process as it starts and finishes.

## 4.3.0 - 2023-10-08

### Added

- Support for RSpec turnip feature files.

## 4.2.2 - 2023-09-05

### Breaking Changes

- Drop support for RSpec 2.

### Added

- Document unexpected behavior where the `--only-group` flag will also set a
  grouping strategy.

## 4.2.1 - 2023-05-05

### Fixed

- Fix $TEST_ENV_NUMBER replacing code to not affect all processes (#905)
- Remove duplicate raise codes. (#897)

## 4.2.0 - 2023-02-06

### Fixed

- Avoid double sending int while also not breaking debugging [#891](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/891)

## 4.1.0 - 2023-01-14

### Fixed

- Avoid double sending of SIGINT to subprocesses [#889](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/889)

## 4.0.0 - 2022-11-05

### Breaking Changes
- The `--verbose-process-command` and `--verbose-rerun-command` are combined into `--verbose-command`. See [#884](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/884).
- Drop ruby 2.6 support

## 3.13.0 - 2022-09-23

### Changed

- Drop support for ruby 2.5

## v3.12.1 - 2022-09-12

### Fixed

- `--quiet` no longer prints 'Using recorded test runtime'

## v3.12.0 - 2022-08-30

### Fixed

- Grouping by scenarios now works for tests that are nested under Rules.

## 3.11.0 - 2022-05-27

### Changed

- Raise a custom `RuntimeLogTooSmallError` exception when the runtime log is too
  small instead of a generic `RuntimeError`.

## 3.10.1 - 2022-05-23

### Fixed

- Running rake tasks with number of processes or extra args

## 3.10.0 - 2022-05-23

### Added

- Changed Rake subtasks to always use the same Rake executable as the parent
  process.

## 3.9.1 - 2022-05-23

### Fixed

- Fixed `NoMethodError` exception when running Rake task `parallel:setup`.

## 3.9.0 - 2022-05-22

### Added

- Subprocesses execute without a shell.

## 3.8.1 - 2022-03-28

### Added

- Support Ruby 2.5 / 2.6

## 3.8.0 - 2022-03-26

### Breaking Changes

- Drop support for ruby 2.5 / 2.6

### Added

- Tested on ruby 3.0 and 3.1

### Fixed

- Added Rails 7.0 to fixtures
- Fixes deprecation warning around the usage of `ActiveRecord::Base.schema_format` and deprecation in Rails 7.1

## v3.7.1 - 2021-08-14

### Breaking Changes

- None

### Added

- None

### Fixed

- All cucumber options are now pushed to the end of the command invocation
  - Fixes an issue where the `--retry` flag wouldn't work correctly

## v3.7.0 - 2021-04-08

### Breaking Changes

- None

### Added

- Added `--highest-exit-status` option to return the highest exit status to allow sub-processes to send things other than 1

### Fixed

- None

## v3.6.0 - 2021-03-25

### Breaking Changes

- Drop ruby 2.4 support

### Added

- Run default test folder if no arguments are passed.

### Fixed

- None

## v3.5.1 - 2021-03-07

### Breaking Changes

- None

### Added

- None

### Fixed

- Do not use db:structure for rails 6.1

## v3.5.0 - 2021-02-24

### Breaking Changes

- None

### Added

- Add support for specifying exactly how isolated processes run tests with 'specify-groups' option.
- Refactorings for rubocop

### Fixed

- None

## v3.4.0 - 2020-12-24

### Breaking Changes

- None

### Added

- Colorize summarized RSpec results.([#787](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/787)).

### Fixed

- replace deprecated db:structure by db:schema (#801).

## 3.3.0 - 2020-09-16

### Added

- Added support for multiple isolated processes.

## 3.2.0 - 2020-08-27

### Breaking Changes

- RAILS_ENV cannot be specified for rake tasks (#776).

### Added

- None

### Fixed

- Rake tasks will no longer run against development environment when using a Spring-ified rake binstub (#776).

## 3.1.0 - 2020-07-23

### Added

- `--fail-fast` stops all groups if one group fails. Can be used to stop all groups if one test failed by using `fail-fast` in the test-framework too (for example rspec via `--test-options '--fail-fast'` or in `.rspec_parallel`).

## 3.0.0 - 2020-06-10

### Breaking Changes

- The `--group-by` flag with value `steps` and `features` now requires end users to add the `cuke_modeler` gem to their Gemfile (#762).

### Added

- Cucumber 4 support (#762)

### Fixed

- Fix a bundler deprecation when running specs (#761)
- remove name override logic that never worked (#758)

### Dependencies

- Drop ruby 2.3 support (#760)
- Drop ruby 2.2 support (#759)

## 2.32.0 - 2020-03-15

### Fixed
- Calculate unknown runtimes lazily when running tests grouped by runtime ([#750](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/750)).

## 2.31.0 - 2020-01-31

### Fixed
- File paths passed from the CLI are now cleaned (consecutive slashes and useless dots removed) ([#748](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/748)).

## 2.30.1 - 2020-01-14

### Added
- Add project metadata to gemspec ([#739](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/739)).

## Fixed
- Fix bundler deprecation warning related to `bundle show`) ([#744](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/744)).
- Fix numerous flakey tests ([#736](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/736), [#741](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/741)).

## 2.30.0 - 2019-12-10

### Added
- Support db:structure:dump and load structure in parallel ([#732](ht.tps://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/732)).
- Add note to the README about using the spring-commands-parallel-tests gem to automatically patch and enable Spring ([#731](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/731)).

### Fixed
- Refactor logic in the `parallel:prepare` task ([#737](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/737)).
- Update README to use :sql schema format.
- Fix loading of the `version` file when using a local git repo with Bundler ([#730](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/730)).

## 2.29.2 - 2019-08-06

### Fixed
- Eliminate some ruby warnings relating to ambiguous arguments, unused variables, a redefined method, and uninitialized instance variables ([#712](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/712)).

## 2.29.1 - 2019-06-13

### Fixed
- Fix NameError due to not requiring `shellwords` ([#707](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/707)).

## 2.29.0 - 2019-05-04

### Added
- `--verbose-process-command`, which prints the command that will be executed by each process before it begins ([#697](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/697/files)).
- `--verbose-rerun-command`, which prints the command executed by that process after a process fails ([#697](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/697/files)).

## 2.28.0 - 2019-02-07

### Added
- `exclude-pattern`, which excludes tests matching the passed in regex pattern ([#682](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/682), [#683](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/683)).

## 2.27.1 - 2019-01-01

### Changed
- `simulate_output_for_ci` now outputs dots (`.`) even after the first parallel thread finishes ([#673](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/673)).

### Fixed
- Typo in CLI options ([#672](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/672)).

## 2.27.0 - 2018-11-09

### Added
- Support for new Cucumber tag expressions syntax ([#668](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/668)).

## 2.26.2 - 2018-10-29

### Added
- `db:test:purge` is now `db:purge` so it can be used in any environment, not just the `test` environment. This change is backwards compatible. ([#665](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/665)).
- Tests against Rails 5.1 and 5.2 ([#663])(https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/663)).

## 2.26.0 - 2018-10-25

### Fixed
- Update formatter to use Cucumber events API instead of deprecated API ([#664](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/664))

## 2.25.0 - 2018-10-24

### Fixed
- Commands and their respective outputs are now grouped together when using the `verbose` and `serialize-output` flags together ([#660](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/660)).

### Dependencies
- Dropped support for MiniTest 4 and Test-Unit ([#662](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/662)).
- Dropped support for Ruby 2.1 ([#659](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/659))

## 2.24.0 - 2018-10-24

### Fixed
- Improve accuracy when recording example times ([#661](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/661)).

### Dependencies
- Dropped support for Ruby 2.0 ([#661](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/661)).

## 2.23.0 - 2018-09-14

### Added
- Rake task now passes through additional arguments to the CLI ([#656](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests/pull/656)).


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