### 2.10.1 / 2012-05-19
[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.10.0...v2.10.1)
Bug fixes
* `RSpec.reset` properly reinits configuration and world
* Call `to_s` before `split` on exception messages that might not always be
Strings (slyphon)
### 2.10.0 / 2012-05-03
[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.9.0...v2.10.0)
Enhancements
* Add `prepend_before` and `append_after` hooks (preethiramdev)
* intended for extension libs
* restores rspec-1 behavior
* Reporting of profiled examples (moro)
* Report the total amount of time taken for the top slowest examples.
* Report what percentage the slowest examples took from the total runtime.
Bug fixes
* Properly parse `SPEC_OPTS` options.
* `example.description` returns the location of the example if there is no
explicit description or matcher-generated description.
* RDoc fixes (Grzegorz Świrski)
* Do not modify example ancestry when dumping errors (Michael Grosser)
### 2.9.0 / 2012-03-17
[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.8.0...v2.9.0)
Enhancements
* Support for "X minutes X seconds" spec run duration in formatter. (uzzz)
* Strip whitespace from group and example names in doc formatter.
* Removed spork-0.9 shim. If you're using spork-0.8.x, you'll need to upgrade
to 0.9.0.
Bug fixes
* Restore `--full_backtrace` option
* Ensure that values passed to `config.filter_run` are respected when running
over DRb (using spork).
* Ensure shared example groups are reset after a run (as example groups are).
* Remove `rescue false` from calls to filters represented as Procs
* Ensure described_class gets the closest constant (pyromaniac)
* In "autorun", don't run the specs in the at_exit hook if there was an
exception (most likely due to a SyntaxError). (sunaku)
* Don't extend groups with modules already used to extend ancestor groups.
* `its` correctly memoizes nil or false values (Yamada Masaki)
2.8.0 / 2012-01-04
full changelog
Bug fixes
* For metadata filtering, restore passing the entire array to the proc, rather
than each item in the array (weidenfreak)
* Ensure each spec file is loaded only once
* Fixes a bug that caused all the examples in a file to be run when referenced
twice with line numbers in a command, e.g.
rspec path/to/file:37 path/to/file:42
2.8.0.rc2 / 2011-12-19
full changelog
Enhancments
* new --init command (Peter Schr«Óder)
- generates spec/spec_helper.rb
- deletes obsolete files (on confirmation)
- merged with and deprecates --configure command, which generated .rspec
* use require_relative when available (Ian Leitch)
* include_context and include_examples accept params (Calvin Bascom)
* print the time for every example in the html formatter (Richie Vos)
* several tasty refactoring niblets (Sasha)
* `it "does something", :x => :foo,'bar',/baz/
* supports matching n command line tag values with an example or group
2.8.0.rc1 / 2011-11-06
full changelog
Enhancements
* --order (Justin Ko)
- run examples in random order: --order rand
- specify the seed: --order rand:123
* --seed SEED
- equivalent of --order rand:SEED
* SharedContext supports let (David Chelimsky)
* Filter improvements (David Chelimsky)
- override opposing tags from the command line
- override RSpec.configure tags from the command line
- --line_number 37 overrides all other filters
- path/to/file.rb:37 overrides all other filters
- refactor: consolidate filter management in a FilterManger object
* Eliminate Ruby warnings (Matijs van Zuijlen)
* Make reporter.report an API (David Chelimsky)
* supports extension tools like interative_rspec
Changes
* change config.color_enabled (getter/setter/predicate) to color to align with
--[no]-color CLI option.
* color_enabled is still supported for now, but will likley be deprecated in a
2.x release so we can remove it in 3.0.
Bug fixes
* Make sure the bar in --tag foo:bar makes it to DRb (Aaron Gibralter)
* Fix bug where full descriptions of groups nested 3 deep were repeated.
* Restore report of time to run to start after files are loaded.
- fixes bug where run times were cumalitive in spork
- fixes compatibility with time-series metrics
* Don't error out when config.mock_with or expect_with is re-specifying the
current config (Myron Marston)
* Deprecations
- :alias option on configuration.add_setting. Use :alias_with on the
original setting declaration instead.
