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, along with numerous other improvements and bug

fixes.

Although the class API has not changed since Hamcrest 1.3, the way that the

project is packaged has changed. Refer to the [Hamcrest Distributables](http://hamcrest.org/JavaHamcrest/distributables.html)

documentation for more information.

* TBD

This version was the first release after migrating from the old Google Code hosting to GitHub.

* Upgraded to Java 7

* Build with Gradle

* Publish a single jar java-hamcrest-x.x.x.x.jar

* Removed deprecated methods from previous release

* Improve mismatch description of hasItem/hasItems

* General improvements to mismatch descriptions

* Several JavaDoc improvements and corrections

* 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