What's Changed

Breaking Changes

• Renamed RespectingRuntimeTypes and RespectingDeclaredTypes to better clarify their purpose by @dennisdoomen in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2866
• Renamed ExcludingNestedObjects to WithoutRecursing to better describe its purpose by @dennisdoomen in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2876
• Remove support for HttpResponseMessage assertions by @ITaluone in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2909
• Redesign Configuration, Services and AssertionOptions by @dennisdoomen in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2901

Fixes

• Properly report the path even if custom mapping is used by @dennisdoomen in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2860
• GlobalConfiguration.TestFramework did not reconfigure the run-time test framework being used. by @dennisdoomen in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2918

Documentation

• Remove release notes from 8.0.0 that were backported to 6.12.x or 7.0.0 by @jnyrup in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2908

Others

• Bumped Nuke to v9 by @dennisdoomen in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2865
• Bump the nuke group with 2 updates by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2871
• Bump Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.CodeCoverage from 17.12.6 to 17.13.1 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2873
• Bump System.Collections.Immutable and System.Reflection.Metadata by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2872
• Bump the mstest group with 2 updates by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2870
• Bump cspell from 8.16.0 to 8.16.1 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2868
• Bump Verify.Xunit from 28.3.2 to 28.4.0 in the xunit group by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2869
• The CodeQL build needed the .NET 8.0 SDK by @dennisdoomen in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2877
• Bump JetBrains/qodana-action from 2024.2 to 2024.3 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2885
• Bump Meziantou.Analyzer from 2.0.180 to 2.0.182 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2883
• Bump cspell from 8.16.1 to 8.17.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2882
• Bump PublicApiGenerator from 11.1.0 to 11.2.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2881
• Bump Verify.Xunit from 28.4.0 to 28.5.0 in the xunit group by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2879
• Bump NUnit from 4.2.2 to 4.3.0 in the nunit group by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2880
• Suppress Qodana warnings about awaiting a void method. by @dennisdoomen in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2886
• Rollback Qodana version to solve a conflict with PolySharp by @dennisdoomen in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2889
• Upgrade MSTest for UWP.Specs by @jnyrup in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2888
• Bump PolySharp from 1.14.1 to 1.15.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2884
• Downgrade System.Collections.Immutable to 1.5.0 by @jnyrup in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2890
• Ignore updates to System.Collections.Immutable by @jnyrup in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2891
• Bump cspell from 8.17.0 to 8.17.1 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2893
• Bump TUnit from 0.4.1 to 0.5.6 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2897
• Bump PublicApiGenerator from 11.2.0 to 11.3.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2896
• Bump Roslynator.Analyzers from 4.12.9 to 4.12.10 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2898
• Bump LibGit2Sharp from 0.30.0 to 0.31.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2895
• Bump the xunit group with 3 updates by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2894
• Update Nugets by @jnyrup in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2899
• CI backports to main by @jnyrup in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2900
• Bump Verify.Xunit from 28.6.0 to 28.7.0 in the xunit group by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2902
• Bump Meziantou.Analyzer from 2.0.182 to 2.0.183 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2906
• Bump TUnit from 0.5.6 to 0.5.28 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2905
• Bump NUnit from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 in the nunit group by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2904
• Bump the mstest group with 2 updates by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2903
• Update MSTest for UWP by @jnyrup in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2907
• Bump NUnit from 4.3.1 to 4.3.2 in the nunit group by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2910
• Bump TUnit from 0.5.28 to 0.6.15 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2912
• Bump Meziantou.Analyzer from 2.0.183 to 2.0.184 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2911
• Bump Reflectify from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2913
• Bump Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.TrxReport from 1.4.3 to 1.5.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2914
• Upmerge main to develop by @jnyrup in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2915
• Bump coverlet.collector from 6.0.2 to 6.0.3 by @dependabot in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2917
• Remove chill by @jnyrup in https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2916

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/compare/8.0.0-alpha.1...8.0.0-rc.1