v12.6.0

Deprecated

• Deprecate colorsEnabled format option in favour of environment variables (#2729)

v12.5.0

Added

• Allow external plugins (see documentation) (#2715)

v12.4.0

Added

• Allow loading config files in TypeScript format (#2709)

Changed

• Compress report content with gzip before publishing (#2687)

v12.3.0

Added

• Add support for Node.js 25.x (#2704)
• Support named BeforeAll/AfterAll hooks (#2661)
• Emit messages for test run hooks (#2644)
• Emit messages for suggestions (#2703)

Changed

• Render a more test case-centric HTML report (react-components/#396)

v12.2.0

Added

• Export configuration types (#2598)
• Add support for execution sharding (#2303) by @agologan

Fixed

• Revert pretty formatter to 1.x.x version (#2629)

v12.1.0

Added

• Include updated pretty formatter (#2592)

v12.0.0

This is a major release and contains some breaking changes. See the entries below, and https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/blob/main/UPGRADING.md#1200 for specifics on how to migrate where needed.

Added

• Allow comments inside descriptions (cucumber/gherkin#334)
• Add original error to After and AfterStep hook parameters (#2572)
• Add support for Node.js 24.x (#2588)

Changed

• Redesigned HTML formatter header (cucumber/react-components#381)

Removed

• BREAKING CHANGE: Remove support for Node.js 18.x (#2588)
• BREAKING CHANGE: Remove support for Node.js 23.x (#2588)
• BREAKING CHANGE: Remove publishQuiet option (#2587)

v11.3.0

Changed

• Improve error handling in publish plugin (#2526)

v11.2.0

Added

• junit formatter now includes timestamp attribute (junit-xml-formatter#45)
• Hook message now includes type (#2463)
• TestRunStarted message now includes id; TestCase and TestRunFinished messages reference it in testRunStartedId (#2463)

Fixed

• Enable world proxy in parameter transformers (#2465)

v11.1.1

Fixed

• Correctly report error in publish plugin (#2454)
• Reverse AfterAll execution order (#2456)