Release 0.30.0

Sunday, December 14, 2025

🔧 New features

Failures-only mode

Focus on what matters with --failures-only, which suppresses passed, skipped, and incomplete tests:

Usage

bashunit --failures-only tests/

No-color output

Disable ANSI colors for cleaner logs in CI environments:

Flag

bashunit --no-color tests/

Environment variable

NO_COLOR=1 bashunit tests/

Human-readable test duration

Test durations are now displayed in a more readable format:

Output

✓ Passed: Fast test                            12 ms
✓ Passed: Medium test                          1.5 s
✓ Passed: Slow test                            2m 15s

Execution time is shown in minutes when tests run over 60 seconds (e.g., "2m 1s").

Multiple assertions in standalone mode

Chain multiple assertions in a single command:

Usage

bashunit assert "my_command" exit_code "0" contains "success"

🐛 Bug fixes

• Suppress stdout/stderr during set_up_before_script and tear_down_after_script (visible in verbose mode)
• Prevent .env override in strict mode tests
• Fixed internal flaky tests when running --strict

🌾 Miscellaneous

• Breaking change: --preserve-env renamed to --skip-env-file for clearer semantics
• Breaking change: BASHUNIT_PRESERVE_ENV renamed to BASHUNIT_SKIP_ENV_FILE
• Added release.sh script to automate the release process

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See the full changelog on GitHub