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Expand Up @@ -7,6 +7,55 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
This project follows the [Behat release and version support policies]
(https://docs.behat.org/en/latest/releases.html).

# [4.15.0] - 2025-11-03

### Changed

* Added a new ParserInterface and deprecated extending the core Lexer, Parser and Node classes by @acoulton in [#354](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/354)
* Deprecate the CucumberNDJsonAstLoader (which was only intended for internal use by our tests) by @stof in [#356](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/356)

### Added

* Introduce a DialectProviderInterface matching the modern cucumber API. This will replace the existing Keywords API in
a future major release. By @stof in [#350](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/350)
* Introduce configurable `GherkinCompatibilityMode` to control how gherkin files are parsed. In the default `legacy` mode,
there is no change to parsing. In the new **experimental** `gherkin-32` mode, files will in future be parsed
consistently with the official cucumber/gherkin parsers. This mode is not yet complete - in this first release:
- Whitespace within description nodes will not be trimmed by @acoulton in [#349](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/349)
- Invalid language tags will cause an exception by @stof in [#357](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/357)
- Step keywords will not be trimmed by @stof in [#360](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/360)
- Language tags can include whitespace by @acoulton in [#358](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/358)
- `\n` literals in table cells will be parsed as newlines by @stof in [#359](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/359)
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I would suggest merging #391 and including it in the same release, as I discovered that the wrong handling of escaping in table cells could lead to some issues there. An escaped backslash follow by a n would start being broken by that change, while it was parsed fine before.

* Improved translations for `ru` (Russian) and `af` (Afrikaans) from cucumber/gherkin in [#381](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/381)
and [#386](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/386)
* Support PHP 8.5 by @acoulton in [#388](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/388)

### Fixed

* Improve phpdoc / phpstan type-hinting of the lexer and parser by @uuf6429 in [#344](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/344)
and @stof in [#363](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/363)
* Handle race conditions when creating cache directory by @uuf6429 in [#373](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/373)
* Throw if Loader->load() called with unsupported resource by @uuf6429 in [#372](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/372)
* Use default file cache key if `behat/gherkin` version is unknown by @uuf6429 in [#370](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/370)

### Internal

* Enable PHPStan level 10 and resolve remaining warnings by @uuf6429 in [#368](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/368)
* Remove duplication and improve robustness in filesystem operations by @uuf6429 in [#365](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/365)
and [#367](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/367)
* Update cucumber/gherkin parity tests to v36.0.0 in [#355](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/355), [#376](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/376)
[#378](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/378), [#381](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/381), [#385](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/385)
[#386](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/386) and [#387](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/387)
* Fixes and improvements to the cucumber update CI job by @acoulton in [#374](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/374),
[#375](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/375), [#379](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/379)
and [#380](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/380)
* Minor coding style fixes by @acoulton in [#377](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/377) and [#383](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/383)
* Minor code improvements to Lexer/Parser implementation by @uuf6429 in [#352](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/352)
* Minor code improvements to TableNode by @uuf6429 in [#366](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/366)
* Add native typehints where this does not break BC by @stof in [#353](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/353)
* Fix typo of a PHPStan alias type by @uuf6429 in [#371](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/371)
* Fix github actions workflow job name by @uuf6429 in [#369](https://github.com/Behat/Gherkin/pull/369)

# [4.14.0] - 2025-05-23

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