FIXED:

• issue #1270: v1.3.2: Broke Python 2.7 support (submitted by: silent-observer)

CHANGED:

• Recursive discovery and import in steps directory is now disabled by default.
  An expert user can enable this feature again (if he/she knows what he/she is doing).
  RELATED TO: #1210 -- Multiple, nested steps directories under steps directory.

  • REASON: Too many problems w/ Python packages using relative-imports in the steps directory.
  • BEST PRACTICE: Put a Python package or step-library on the Python search path, but not in the steps directory.

DOCUMENTATION:

• RTFD: Enable PDF output format again (for download).
• Improve command-line option descriptions (show: value).
• Use "confval" directive for config-file parameters.
• api: Add "Configuration" class description.
• Include changes from pull #1258
• Fix more deadlinks in docs

DEVELOP:

• behave4cmd0: Update version info to v1.3.1
• behave4cmd0.command_shell: Cleanup of BEHAVE_CMD value usage.

CI:

• Update to python-version: "3.14.0-rc.2" (was: "3.14.0-rc.1")
• Update actions/checkout to v5 (was: v4).
• Use astral-sh/setup-uv@v6 (was: v3).

FIXED:

• issue #1255: ImportError: cannot import name 'asynccontextmanager' not found in python 3.6 (submitted by: rzuckerm)
• issue #1239: AmbiguousStep error on step import with "re" step-matcher (submitted by: VolodymyrDan00)

DOCUMENTATION:

• Appendix: Add section with description of "Runners" extension point.
• Appendix: Add section with "Cucumber-Expressions".
• pull #1256: docs: userdata (provided by: Therdel, fixes: #1234)
• issue #1234: userdata_defines configuration file parameter is not up to date (submitted by: vvavrychuk)

• Gherkin v6 support
• Native support for cucumber-expressions as step matcher
• Native support for async-steps
• Support for tag-expressions v2
• Distinguish in outcome between failures (assert-failed) and errors (unexpected exceptions at runtime)
• Improved captured-output support
• Improved logging support and log-to-file support
• And many things more ...

CHANGELOG:

• v1.3.0
• v1.2.7 (part of: v1.3.0)

HINT:

• Last release with Python 2.7 support

• FIX #1251: Installation with pip does not install dependencies

ENHANCEMENTS:

• async-steps: Support async-step functions directly
• async-steps: Add test from PR #1249 (provided by: jeteve)
• ActiveTags: Add support to override an enabled active-tag
• Feature: Improved capture support
• issue #1246 ScenarioOutline: Placeholders in Examples.tags
• Improve logging support, simplify logging to file (releated to; issue #948)
• Support for Python 3.13

CHANGES:

• In behave: Replace assert statements w/ require statements/calls
• FIX: Spelling mistakes w/ codespell

FIXED:

• issue #1233: RuntimeError: Event loop is closed" in asyncio streams
• issue #1231: TypeConverter Error causes Formatter Error
• issue #1214

CLEANUP:

• @async.coroutine decorator: Remove in docs, tests, features, steps

DEVELOP:

• Add basic support to use "uv"

• Status: Distinguish between failures and errors
• Pending steps
• Support for cucumber-expressions
• Use StepNotImplementedError (was: NotImplementedError)
• ADDED: steps.code formatter -- Shows steps with code-section.
• ...

ISSUES:

• issue #1047: Step type is inherited for generic step if possible (submitted by: zettseb)
• ...

BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE:

• parser: No longer strips trailing colon from steps with text/table section.

behave:

• CLEANUP: configuration -- tag_expression_protocol, show_bad_formats()
• CLEANUP: configuration -- Refactor internals to make it more readable
• REFACTOR: behave.matchers (StepMatcherFactory, ...)
• NEW: behave.api.step_matchers
• UPDATE: gherkin-languages.json / behave.i14n (language=be was added)
• Use assertpy as assert-matcher (in some cases)
• FIXED #1116: behave erroring in pretty format in pyproject.toml
• FIXED #1120: Logging ignoring level set in setup_logging (submitted by: j7an)

behave4cmd0:

• Modularize steps into multiple modules
  (environment_steps, filesystem_steps, workdir_steps)

For details, see CHANGES.rst.