* AllOf/AnyOf: Pass the matchers to constructor using varargs ([Issue #245](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/pull/245))

* Matchers.anyOf: Fix generic bounds compatibility for JDK 11 ([Issue #256](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/256), [Issue #257](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/257))

* AssertionError message is unhelpful when match fails for byte type ([Issue #254](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/254), [Issue #255](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/255))

* Use platform specific line breaks ([PR #267](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/pull/267))

* Build now checks for consistent use of spaces ([PR #217](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/pull/217))

* Fix compatibility issue for development with Android D8 ([Issue #246](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/246))

* Fix typo in license name ([Issue #247](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/pull/247))

* 1.3 compatible constructors for string matchers ([Issue #259](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/259), [Issue #260](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/260))

* Fix for split packages with Java 9 modules ([Issue #269](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/269), [PR #270](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/pull/270))

After a long hiatus without releases, this version simplifies the packaging of

Hamcrest into a single jar: `hamcrest-<version>.jar`. Other big changes include

Java 9 module compatibility, migrating the code repository from Google Code to

GitHub, along with numerous other new features, improvements and bug fixes.

* The way that the project is packaged has changed. This may cause problems with

correctly upgrading transitive dependencies. Refer to the

[Hamcrest Distributables](http://hamcrest.org/JavaHamcrest/distributables.html)

documentation for more information, and in particular,

[Upgrading from Hamcrest 1.x](http://hamcrest.org/JavaHamcrest/distributables.html#upgrading-from-hamcrest-1.x)

* `org.hamcrest.Factory` has been removed. This was only used in old implementations

of the hamcrest build toolchain, and can safely be deleted from client code without

any effect.

* Documentation updates

* Several JavaDoc improvements and corrections

* Fix JavaDoc examples

* Upgraded to Java 7

* Build with Gradle

* Publish a single jar `hamcrest-2.1.jar`

* Publish pom-only artifacts for `hamcrest-core` and `hamcrest-library`.

* Add implementation for CharSequence length matcher

* Fix for TypeSafeDiagnosingMatcher can't detect generic types for subclass

* Make Hamcrest an OSGI bundle

* Add StringRegularExpression matcher

* Fix StringContainsInOrder to detect if a repeated pattern is missing

* Add ArrayAsIterableMatcher

* Fix description for IsEqualIgnoringCase

* Removed deprecated methods from previous release

* Improve mismatch description of hasItem/hasItems

* General improvements to mismatch descriptions

* Deprecated several matcher factory methods of the for "isXyz"

* Fix [GH issue #75](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/75) - address doclint errors reported in JDK 1.8

* Fix [GH issue #69](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/69) - Iterable contains in order is null-safe

* Fix [GH issue #59](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/59) - added equalToObject() (i.e. unchecked) method

* Fix [GH issue #25](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/25) - arrayContaining(null, null) cause NullPointerException

* Fix [GH issue #36](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/36) - string matching on regular expressions

* Fix [GH issue #8](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/8) - isCloseTo() shows wrong delta in mismatch description

* Fix [GH issue #59](https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest/issues/59) - add untyped version of equalTo, named equalToObject

* Fix [GC issue #131](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/131) - Implement IsEmptyMap, IsMapWithSize

* Fix [GC issue #187](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/187) - IsArray.describeMismatchSafely() should use Matcher.describeMismatch

* Fix [GC issue #155](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/155) - Add Matcher implementation for files

* Fix [GC issue #69](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/69) - fix NPE in IsIterableContainingInOrder

* Introduce Condition class to ease the implementation of multi-step matches

* Upgrade qdox (included in the generator) to the latest stable version

* Correct inadvertent deprecation of the Is.isA factory method

* Fix [issue #179](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/179) - AllOf does not output mismatch description

* Fix [issue #177](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/177) - Introduced closeTo matcher for BigDecimals

* Fix [issue #152](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/152) - Factory classes missing from matchers.xml

* Fix [issue #144](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/144) - OrderingComparison doesn't describe mismatch of comparables that return values other than (-1,0,1)

* Fix [issue #134](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/134) - DescribedAs does not delegate describeMismatch

* Fix [issue #106](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/106) - deprecation warning when writing custom matchers

* Fix [issue #101](https://code.google.com/archive/p/hamcrest/issues/101) - Added theInstance alias for sameInstance factory method

* Added FeatureMatcher

* distinguish between instanceOf() and any()

* Added mismatch reporting

* Added WithSamePropertyValuesAs matcher

* Moved any() from IsAnything to IsInstanceOf. It now checks the type of the matched object

* Moved MatcherAssert from integration to core

* Tightened up generics.

* Added IsMapContainingKey and IsMapContainingValue matchers to resolve a

generics bug in hasKey and hasValue static factories previously declared

in IsMapContaining (ngd)

* Added IsCollectionOnlyContaining and IsArrayOnlyContaining which matches

collections (and arrays) where all match a given matcher. E.g onlyContains(3,4,5)

or onlyContains(lessThan(9))

* text module moved to separate project, hamcrest-text-patterns

* added more colection matchers: xContainingInAnyOrder, xContainingInOrder, xWithSize

* new text Matcher: IsEmptyString

* hamcrest generator uses method return type

* Hamcrest Generator now includes JavaDoc and parameter names in generated code

by using QDox to parse the source code.

* Created hamcrest-core.jar (and removed hamcrest-api.jar).

Moved core set of matchers (and, eq, not, etc)

to this package to make it more practical for external libraries

to embed Hamcrest.

* Created CoreMatchers (static import sugar) in hamcrest-core.jar.

* StringBuilder can use any Appendable (not just StringBuffer).

* Added sensible toString() method to BaseMatcher.

* Created StringDescription.asString() alias (because toString() caused issues

with static imports).

* Relaxed isInstanceOf() matcher generic type so it can be used on any kind of

object. e.g. assertThat(someUnknownObject, isInstanceOf(String.class));

* Added any(Class<T>), null(Class<T>) and notNull(Class<T>) matchers, which returns

Matcher<T>. Helpful when the compiler struggles with type inference.

* Modified anyOf() and allOf() to accept mixed-types.

* TypeSafeMatcher.matchesSafely() is now public.

* Generator recognizes @Factory methods that return subclass of Matcher.

(Fix by David Saff)

Initial release.

* Support for namespaces in HasXPath

* Bug fix for matching empty elements with HasXPath

version = "2.2"