gcovr 4.0
This release represents a huge amount of refactoring and under-the-hood improvements. Most users should not experience any regressions, although there are lots of smaller incompatible changes.
Highlights:
⭐ Gcovr now runs perfectly on Python 3 (Python 3.5+ recommended).
⭐ Filters are no longer restricted on Windows. The filter syntax was changed to use forward slashes everywhere, so a filter like -f 'src/.*\.cpp' will now behave identically on all platforms.
You can pip install gcovr the most recent release from PyPI.
Breaking changes:
- This release drops support for Python 2.6. (#250)
- PIP is the only supported installation method.
- No longer encoding-agnostic under Python 2.7. If your source files do not use the system encoding (probably UTF-8), you will have to specify a --source-encoding. (#148, #156, #256)
- Filters now use forward slashes as path separators, even on Windows. (#191, #257)
- Filters are no longer normalized into pseudo-paths. This could change the interpretation of filters in some edge cases.
Improvements and new features:
- Improved --help output. (#236)
- Parse the GCC 8 gcov format. (#226, #228)
- New --source-encoding option, which fixes decoding under Python 3. (#256)
- New --gcov-ignore-parse-errors flag. By default, gcovr will now abort upon parse errors. (#228)
- Detect the error when gcov cannot create its output files (#243, #244)
- Add -j flag to run gcov processes in parallel. (#3, #36, #239)
- The --html-details flag now implies --html. (#93, #211)
- The --html output can now be used without an --output filename (#223)
- The docs are now managed with Sphinx. (#235, #248, #249, #252, #253)
- New --html-title option to change the title of the HTML report. (#261, #263)
- New options --html-medium-threshold and --html-high-threshold to customize the color legend. (#261, #264)
Internal changes: