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# 2024-10-01

This release introduces the ability to disable Spring Boot dependency injection (`@MockBean`) in favor of other dependency injection mechanisms, such as Mockito's `@InjectMocks` and `@Mock`. To disable Spring Boot dependency injection, uncheck the 'Use Spring Boot to write tests' option in the plugin settings or pass the `--no-spring-boot-tests` option to the CLI. This feature can be beneficial when the unit test suite does not require loading a Spring context.

## Important Notices

### Changes to Default Settings

* **Descriptive Test Naming**: In a future release, Cover will default to writing tests which use descriptive Given-When-Then-style names. For more details on Descriptive Test Naming (beta), please refer to the [IntelliJ Plugin documentation](https://docs.diffblue.com/features/cover-plugin/cover-plugin-settings/test-naming) or the [Cover CLI documentation](https://docs.diffblue.com/features/cover-cli/commands-and-arguments).

## Enhancements

* Cover now supports JUnit Jupiter 5.11.1. \[Ref: TG-22087]
* Cover now writes tests which assert on `Iterator` objects. \[Ref: TG-22079]
* Cover now supports Maven 3.9.9. \[Ref: TG-22039]
* CLI: Cover now provides the ability to specify which modules to run CLI commands on via the `--include-modules` option or `DIFFBLUE_INCLUDE_MODULES` environment variable. \[Ref: TG-22019]
* Cover now provides improved messaging related to interactions with the project's build system. \[Ref: TG-21996]
* Reports: Metric labels have been adjusted to be more consistent and accurate. \[Ref: TG-21710]
* Reports: Improved overview cards, providing new metrics for manual test count, total lines of code, covered and uncovered lines. \[Ref: TG-21708]
* Reports: Updated logo and color scheme. \[Ref: TG-21700]
* Cover now provides an option to disable Spring Boot dependency injection (`@MockBean`) in favor of other dependency injection mechanisms, such as Mockito's `@InjectMocks` and `@Mock`. \[Ref: TG-21467]
* CLI & Reports: Cover now provides improved remediation advice when a JaCoCo report cannot be produced to due non-compiling tests. \[Ref: TG-19166]

## Resolved Issues

* Resolved an issue which caused Cover to produce broken Javadoc links to default constructors with Descriptive Test Naming enabled. \[Ref: TG-22012]
* Resolved an issue which, in some circumstances, caused Cover to write tests which assert on an internal `PrintWriter` object. \[Ref: TG-21959]
* Resolved an issue which caused Cover to report `F009` (Internal Error) when it failed to create a Spring context due to missing Spring beans. \[Ref: TG-21931]

## Known Issues

* Plugin: Cover incorrectly provides a menu option to write tests for a test file. \[Ref: TG-17163]
* Cover supports Open JDK and Oracle JDK; results with other JDKs may differ due to the variability in their implementations of Java. \[Ref: TG-19345]
* Cover may encounter an `F009: Internal error` while writing tests using Mockito 5. To avoid this issue use an earlier version of Mockito. \[Ref: TG-19610]
* Reports: Cover only counts Java code towards the total line count metrics. Kotlin code is not currently included. \[Ref: TG-22088]
* Reports: Total lines of code metric can incorrectly count a multi-line comment at the end of a line of code, resulting in fewer than expected lines counted. \[Ref: TG-22089]
* Reports: Following an upgrade, the 'Total Lines of Code' card may show 0 until a new reports bundle has been uploaded. \[Ref: TG-22094]
* In some circumstances, Cover may write more simplistic tests with less meaningful assertions when Spring Boot dependency injection is disabled. \[Ref: TG-22102]
* In some circumstances, Cover will still write Spring Boot tests when Spring Boot dependency injection is disabled. \[Ref: TG-22103]
* Cover may write failing TestNG tests when Spring Boot dependency injection is disabled. \[Ref: TG-22107]