Jasmine Core 7.0.0 Release Notes

Summary

This is a major release that includes breaking changes as well as new features. In addition to these release notes, you may find the upgrade guide helpful.

Changes to supported environments

• Added Node 26.
• Dropped Safari 16 and 17.
• Dropped Firefox 102, 115, and 128 (old ESRs).

Breaking changes

• A redesigned module system

  • Most private APIs are no longer exposed.
  • jasmineRequire is no longer exposed.

• A redesigned boot process

  • boot and noGlobals have been removed.
  • The core instance is automatically created.
  • In browsers, globals are automatically created.
  • In Node, globals are not automatically created. Call the exported installGlobals function to create them. If you're using the jasmine package, this is done for you by default.
  • In Node, the same instance is returned every time jasmine-core is imported. If you need to do multiple consecutive independent test runs, call the exported reset function to reset all state and configuration between runs.

• Monkey patching is blocked. This does not affect globals (describe, expect, etc.) or properties that are explicitly documented as writeable. Those can still be overwritten.

• HtmlReporter, HtmlSpecFilter, and jsApiReporter, which were deprecated in 6.0, have been removed.

• notApplicable function and corresponding spec result status †

  This is similar to pending except for the intent and how it's reported. notApplicable is meant for specs that are never expected to pass in the current environment/configuration/etc.

New features

• Pretty-printing of DOM NodeList instances †
• safariYieldStrategy: "time" is now the default.
• Add "Temporarily disabled with xdescribe" pending reason to specs disabled with xdescribe
  • Merges #2107 from @Aryannaik-max
  • Fixes #2709

Bug fixes

• Don't call hasOwnProperty on user provided objects †
• Fix excess skipping of timeouts/intervals when clearTimeout or clearInterval is called from a timer callback †
• Show correct mark for pending specs in HTML reporter †
• Remove unused hideDisabled config option and checkbox

Deprecations

• The forbidDuplicateNames config option is deprecated. The next major version will unconditionally require unique spec/suite names.
• The safariYieldStrategy: "count" setting is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please open a bug report if removing it causes problems.

† New since 7.0.0-pre.2

This version has been tested in the following environments.

Environment	Supported versions
Node	20**, 22, 24, 26
Safari	26.5**
Chrome	150*
Firefox	140, 153*
Edge	151*

* Evergreen browser. Each version of Jasmine is tested against the latest version available at release time.

** Supported on a best-effort basis. Support for these versions may be dropped if it becomes impractical, and bugs affecting only these versions may not be treated as release blockers.

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