Added

• Support providing multiple paths for features to run by @marmichalski in #1611
• Add editorUrl option to provide clickable links to IDEs in CLI output by @carlos-granados in #1638
• Add removePrefix option to trim printed paths in CLI output @carlos-granados in #1644
• Add line number of last executed step in JUnit by @magnetik in #1608

Fixed

• Relaxed constraints on nikic/php-parser and composer/xdebug-handler dependencies to allow wider use of newer Behat releases by @acoulton in #1650 and #1649

Internal

• Add Rector and standardise namespace imports by @carlos-granados in #1640
• Update expected output in tests to reflect new gherkin translations by @acoulton in #1635
• Remove start signs in docs to improve copy/paste by @yosmanyga in #1647

Changed

• Remove dependency on file location in Gherkin package. The (internal) service container parameters gherkin.paths.lib
  and gherkin.paths.i18n are no longer defined or used. Minimum behat/gherkin version is now ^4.12.0.
  By @carlos-granados in #1604, backported from 3.20.0 to fix errors for users stuck on 3.16.0 due to
  dependency conflicts.

Changed

• Suggested method names for new step definitions will no longer be transliterated to ASCII. Users working in languages whose characters are mostly outside the allowed UTF-8 range will see generic stepDefinitionX names. We have provided an extension point for custom suggestion implementations, and would consider providing an official extension. If this affects you, please open a discussion on the Behat repository. By @acoulton in #1633
• The behat/transliterator package is no longer required and will shortly be archived.

Internal

• Update all code style to Symfony coding style (with small variations) by @carlos-granados in #1628

Fixed

• ExceptionPresenter was causing a TypeError when constructed with a null $basePath by @acoulton in #1631

Fixed

• JUnit formatter options were being lost when converting config to PHP by @acoulton in #1622
• Contexts with constructor arguments were not properly converted to PHP configuration by @acoulton in #1619

Added

• New CLI and configuration option to print all paths as absolute paths by @carlos-granados in #1620
• Expose PHP configuration interface for tester and error_reporting options by @acoulton in #1626
• Improve config conversion to PHP to generate class references instead of string names; reference extensions by their fully qualified class names; convert output_verbosity values to constants; and convert tester and error_reporting configuration to PHP by @acoulton in #1619, #1623 and #1626

Internal

• Refactor features for configurable tester / error_reporting options by @acoulton in #1625

Changed

• Remove dependency on file location in Gherkin package. The (internal) service container parameters gherkin.paths.lib and gherkin.paths.i18n are no longer defined or used. Minimum behat/gherkin version is now ^4.12.0. By @carlos-granados in #1604.

Added

• --allow-no-tests CLI option to pass even if no specifications found by @Kingdutch in #1420
• --convert-config CLI option to convert the yaml config to php by @carlos-granados in #1605

Internal

• Apply PSR-12 and PER-CS2.0 code styles by @carlos-granados in #1599 and #1606

Changed

• Remove internal wrappers for PSR Container interfaces - may affect projects using container-interop/container-interop < 1.2.0 (released in 2017, package now deprecated and unsupported by behat since 2021). By @acoulton in #1584
• Remove legacy Symfony event dispatchers - these were internal wrappers to support symfony <5 and >=5, both now redundant. By @carlos-granados in #1585

Added

• Add option to print unused definitions by @carlos-granados in #1594 and #1597
• Support transforming named column(s) in any table by @carlos-granados in #1593

Fixed

• Allow unicode characters in table transformations by @carlos-granados in #1595

Internal

• Use real files instead of generated files in local tests by @carlos-granados in #1544
• Adopt PHP CS Fixer and apply PSR2 styles by @carlos-granados in #1592
• Migrate from Psalm to PHPStan and improve internal type safety by @carlos-granados in #1583, #1589 and #1590 and by @stof in #1591

Fixed

• Fix handling of show_output option when used with a custom formatter that does not define it by @carlos-granados in
  #1587

Changed

• Add new methods to the Behat\Hook\Hook and Behat\Step\Definition interfaces used internally by step definition attributes by @carlos-granados in #1573

Added

• Add show_output formatter option to control if/when to display stdout generated during tests by @carlos-granados in #1576

Fixed

• Do not disable xdebug if there is an active debugging connection by @carlos-granados in #1581
• Inherit step definition attributes on methods extended from parent Context by @fmatsos in #1567

Internal

• Add PHPStan and improve / fix docblock annotations and type-safety within methods to achieve level 3 by @carlos-granados in #1571, #1573 and #1578 and by @stof in #1575
• Use annotations rather than attributes for step definitions in Behat's own feature suites by @fmatsos in #1564
• Remove composer dev dependency on legacy herrera-io/box by @acoulton in #1580
• Do not run ci builds if only markdown files have changed by @codisart in #1582

Changed

• Use attributes rather than annotations when generating suggested Context snippets by @fmatsos in #1549 and #1569
• Disable Xdebug unless --xdebug is specified on the CLI, to improve performance by @carlos-granados in #1560

Added

• 🥳 Support configuring Behat with a PHP file and helper objects / methods - see the docs
  by @loic425 in #1537, #1538, #1550, #1547, #1540, #1546, #1556, #1557 and #1558.
• Display location of hook failure in progress printer by @carlos-granados in #1526
• Print failed hooks summary at the end of the pretty format by @carlos-granados in #1530
• Print <failure> nodes for all hook failures in the junit output by @carlos-granados in #1536
• Add the #[Transform] attribute, equivalent to the @Transform annotation by @carlos-granados in #1545
• Allow using the --narrative filter on the command line by @carlos-granados in #1559

Fixed

• Show more meaningful message if no output_path is specified for the junit formatter by @carlos-granados in #1533
• Fix error from the JUnit printer if scenario has no title by @mvhirsch in #1525
• Fix naming of suggested methods when generating regex snippets for steps defined with single quotes by @carlos-granados in #1524

Internal

• Improve / fix docblock annotations and type-safety within methods to achieve Psalm level 6
  by @carlos-granados in #1554, #1562, #1566, #1568 and #1570.
• Improve failure output of Behat's own tests with unexpected status code or output by @jdeniau in #1532
• Remove redundant tests for hook failures in junit formatter by @carlos-granados in #1543
• Update .editorconfig indent size to 2 for feature files by @carlos-granados in #1528
• Update static analysis to use Psalm v5 by @carlos-granados in #1548
• Remove tagging of tests that require PHP8, as these now always run by @carlos-granados in #1551
• Add composer scripts for testing tools by @carlos-granados in #1555