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<title>catch3/docs, branch build/bcr</title>
<subtitle>Progmasoft Catch3: an independently maintained C++17 test framework with a parallel runner, property checks, snapshots and structured results.</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/'/>
<entry>
<title>Prepare the Bazel Central Registry entry as progmasoft_catch3</title>
<updated>2026-11-15T20:08:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-15T20:08:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/commit/?id=67c3ef401b34716f7214374ff0d6c24b3c50a149'/>
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- MODULE.bazel names the module progmasoft_catch3, the name it has in
  the registry, with bazel_compatibility &gt;=8.0.0; //tools:version finds
  the version under the new name.
- .bcr/ holds the templates publish-to-bcr fills: metadata, source (the
  GitHub archive of the catch3-* tag) and the presubmit, which runs the
  test module on Debian, Ubuntu, macOS (x86-64 and arm64) and Windows
  with Bazel 8.x and 9.x.
- tests/Progmasoft/BazelModule is a module that depends on Catch3 as a
  user's does, through //:catch3_main and through //:catch3 with its
  own main. The root ignores it; Bazel Builds tests it with Bazel 8.x
  and 9.x on Ubuntu and Windows.
- Publish to BCR runs when a catch3-* release is published, or by hand
  for a tag, and opens the registry pull request from the fork of the
  maintainer, without attestations.
- The integration guide says how a module depends on progmasoft_catch3.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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- MODULE.bazel names the module progmasoft_catch3, the name it has in
  the registry, with bazel_compatibility &gt;=8.0.0; //tools:version finds
  the version under the new name.
- .bcr/ holds the templates publish-to-bcr fills: metadata, source (the
  GitHub archive of the catch3-* tag) and the presubmit, which runs the
  test module on Debian, Ubuntu, macOS (x86-64 and arm64) and Windows
  with Bazel 8.x and 9.x.
- tests/Progmasoft/BazelModule is a module that depends on Catch3 as a
  user's does, through //:catch3_main and through //:catch3 with its
  own main. The root ignores it; Bazel Builds tests it with Bazel 8.x
  and 9.x on Ubuntu and Windows.
- Publish to BCR runs when a catch3-* release is published, or by hand
  for a tag, and opens the registry pull request from the fork of the
  maintainer, without attestations.
- The integration guide says how a module depends on progmasoft_catch3.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License Catch3's Progmasoft files under LGPL-3.0-or-later</title>
<updated>2026-11-15T11:01:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-15T11:01:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/commit/?id=5c865488e762dec616a0c483d0fc07250123c387'/>
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Every Progmasoft-authored file moves from MPL-2.0 WITH
AdditionRef-Progmasoft-Exception-2.0 to LGPL-3.0-or-later, from 0.5.0
on. Catch2-originated files keep BSL-1.0, and the vendored yyjson and
pugixml keep MIT.

- LICENSES/ holds the LGPL-3.0 text and the GPL-3.0 text it builds on,
  both as published by the FSF; the MPL-2.0 and Progmasoft Exception
  texts go, since no file uses them any more.
- Five files that came from Catch2 and were rewritten by Progmasoft
  (.clang-format, the issue and pull request templates, SECURITY.md)
  keep Catch2's notice next to Progmasoft's and say
  LGPL-3.0-or-later AND BSL-1.0.
- //tools:check expects the new header of Progmasoft files; the
  amalgamation notes say LGPL-3.0-or-later and the amalgamated files
  are regenerated; meson's project license is BSL-1.0 and
  LGPL-3.0-or-later.
- README gains a License section; LICENSES/README.md, contributing.md
  and progmasoft-catch3.md describe the new split and that releases
  before 0.5.0 keep the license they were published under.

Every commit to Progmasoft's files since the fork is the maintainer's.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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Every Progmasoft-authored file moves from MPL-2.0 WITH
AdditionRef-Progmasoft-Exception-2.0 to LGPL-3.0-or-later, from 0.5.0
on. Catch2-originated files keep BSL-1.0, and the vendored yyjson and
pugixml keep MIT.

- LICENSES/ holds the LGPL-3.0 text and the GPL-3.0 text it builds on,
  both as published by the FSF; the MPL-2.0 and Progmasoft Exception
  texts go, since no file uses them any more.
- Five files that came from Catch2 and were rewritten by Progmasoft
  (.clang-format, the issue and pull request templates, SECURITY.md)
  keep Catch2's notice next to Progmasoft's and say
  LGPL-3.0-or-later AND BSL-1.0.
- //tools:check expects the new header of Progmasoft files; the
  amalgamation notes say LGPL-3.0-or-later and the amalgamated files
  are regenerated; meson's project license is BSL-1.0 and
  LGPL-3.0-or-later.
- README gains a License section; LICENSES/README.md, contributing.md
  and progmasoft-catch3.md describe the new split and that releases
  before 0.5.0 keep the license they were published under.

Every commit to Progmasoft's files since the fork is the maintainer's.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Release Catch3 0.4.0</title>
<updated>2026-11-15T09:17:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-15T09:17:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/commit/?id=6f4d3fa3328d6fb78f9a41f45282c11758872c9c'/>
<id>6f4d3fa3328d6fb78f9a41f45282c11758872c9c</id>
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Every place that states the version says 0.4.0, written by
bazelisk run //tools:version -- 0.4.0, and the single-file distribution
carries it. The release notes describe the release: per-test coverage
with --coverage, secret-looking variables withheld from workers unless
--pass-env names them, the repository tools in C++17 under Bazel, and
versions with three numbers again.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
</content>
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<pre>
Every place that states the version says 0.4.0, written by
bazelisk run //tools:version -- 0.4.0, and the single-file distribution
carries it. The release notes describe the release: per-test coverage
with --coverage, secret-looking variables withheld from workers unless
--pass-env names them, the repository tools in C++17 under Bazel, and
versions with three numbers again.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Number versions MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH in the version tool</title>
<updated>2026-11-14T19:03:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-14T19:03:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/commit/?id=2d21d2e0f9c6e0789e9c55d6cba611234dc61a60'/>
<id>2d21d2e0f9c6e0789e9c55d6cba611234dc61a60</id>
<content type='text'>
Progmasoft repositories use Semantic Versioning since 2026-11-12, but
//tools:version still knew the four-number counters: given 0.4.0 it
wrote 0.4.0.0 everywhere, and --next stepped the fourth number.

- A Version is three numbers; ParseVersion takes exactly three, without
  leading zeros, and FormatVersion writes three.
- --next is the next patch release. It also follows a four-number
  version as the rule says: the fourth number goes and the patch rises,
  so 0.3.0.2 is followed by 0.3.1.
- ReleaseNotesOf finds a section by the version it was published as.
  Its fallback for "D = 0" read the fourth element of what is now a
  three-element array; it is gone.
- Tests for the new parsing, NextPatch and release-note lookup;
  docs/contributing.md and the tool's usage say what the tool does.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
</content>
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<pre>
Progmasoft repositories use Semantic Versioning since 2026-11-12, but
//tools:version still knew the four-number counters: given 0.4.0 it
wrote 0.4.0.0 everywhere, and --next stepped the fourth number.

- A Version is three numbers; ParseVersion takes exactly three, without
  leading zeros, and FormatVersion writes three.
- --next is the next patch release. It also follows a four-number
  version as the rule says: the fourth number goes and the patch rises,
  so 0.3.0.2 is followed by 0.3.1.
- ReleaseNotesOf finds a section by the version it was published as.
  Its fallback for "D = 0" read the fourth element of what is now a
  three-element array; it is gone.
- Tests for the new parsing, NextPatch and release-note lookup;
  docs/contributing.md and the tool's usage say what the tool does.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'devel' into feature/per-test-coverage</title>
<updated>2026-11-13T20:24:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-13T20:24:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/commit/?id=826735e00bfac9967a7979eae5a42cb49eac851b'/>
<id>826735e00bfac9967a7979eae5a42cb49eac851b</id>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix the coverage review findings: branches, stale reports, exit status</title>
<updated>2026-11-13T18:55:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-13T18:55:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/commit/?id=454cca9b63991416f4d9bd1ca350f1ae14e278e7'/>
<id>454cca9b63991416f4d9bd1ca350f1ae14e278e7</id>
<content type='text'>
- gcov is run with --branch-probabilities; without it the JSON has no
  branches, so GCC runs had none in coverage.json and coverage.lcov.
- PrepareCoverageDirectory also removes coverage.json, coverage.lcov and
  coverage.profdata of an earlier run, so a run that writes no reports
  leaves none to be read as its own.
- WriteCoverageReports returns notes and failures apart. A profile the
  tools cannot read or a report that cannot be written counts as a missing
  report and fails a run whose tests passed; no profiles or missing tools
  stay notes. The paths are announced only for the reports written.
- ProfiledAttempt takes the last attempt whose profile exists, so a final
  retry or repeat that crashed before writing one no longer hides the
  coverage of the attempt before it.
- The per-test llvm-profdata/llvm-cov and gcov runs use as many threads
  as the run had workers; results keep the order of the tests.

Tests: earlier reports removed and no failure without profiles; an
attempt without a profile gives way to an earlier one; the fixture gains a
branch taken one way, checked in the combined LCOV for both LLVM and gcov.
Amalgamation regenerated.
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<pre>
- gcov is run with --branch-probabilities; without it the JSON has no
  branches, so GCC runs had none in coverage.json and coverage.lcov.
- PrepareCoverageDirectory also removes coverage.json, coverage.lcov and
  coverage.profdata of an earlier run, so a run that writes no reports
  leaves none to be read as its own.
- WriteCoverageReports returns notes and failures apart. A profile the
  tools cannot read or a report that cannot be written counts as a missing
  report and fails a run whose tests passed; no profiles or missing tools
  stay notes. The paths are announced only for the reports written.
- ProfiledAttempt takes the last attempt whose profile exists, so a final
  retry or repeat that crashed before writing one no longer hides the
  coverage of the attempt before it.
- The per-test llvm-profdata/llvm-cov and gcov runs use as many threads
  as the run had workers; results keep the order of the tests.

Tests: earlier reports removed and no failure without profiles; an
attempt without a profile gives way to an earlier one; the fixture gains a
branch taken one way, checked in the combined LCOV for both LLVM and gcov.
Amalgamation regenerated.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Name the style guide Progmasoft Core C++ Coding Guidelines</title>
<updated>2026-11-13T14:24:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-13T14:24:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/commit/?id=32edb5095ff950503eff95310654fc1070f2213a'/>
<id>32edb5095ff950503eff95310654fc1070f2213a</id>
<content type='text'>
Progmasoft/progmasoft-cpp renamed its guide from Progmasoft C++ Style.
The comments of .clang-format and the contributing guide use the new name; no rule or setting
changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Progmasoft/progmasoft-cpp renamed its guide from Progmasoft C++ Style.
The comments of .clang-format and the contributing guide use the new name; no rule or setting
changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Keep per-test coverage with --coverage (roadmap step 4)</title>
<updated>2026-11-13T04:46:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-13T04:46:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/commit/?id=17248837a78462596809f902dd47cf113a39670b'/>
<id>17248837a78462596809f902dd47cf113a39670b</id>
<content type='text'>
--coverage=DIR runs every attempt in a process of its own and keeps the
coverage of each test, for binaries built with LLVM source-based
coverage (Clang: -fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping) or gcov
(GCC: --coverage).

How it works:

- The scheduler gives each attempt a fresh worker, as --isolate does,
  and sets LLVM_PROFILE_FILE and GCOV_PREFIX for it: the profile the
  process writes at exit is then the coverage of that one test, in
  DIR/profiles/t&lt;index&gt;-a&lt;attempt&gt;.profraw or a .gcov directory. Each
  runtime reads its own variable, so no symbol of either runtime is
  looked up: weak references would not pull them out of their static
  archives, and Mach-O does not allow undefined weak symbols.
- A process that runs other tests first (bisection) writes beside the
  profiles, never into one. The attempt records its profile, also in
  the JSON results.
- The profiles of an earlier run are removed when the run starts,
  because gcov adds to the .gcda files it finds.
- After the run, CoverageReport reads the last profile of every test:
  llvm-profdata and llvm-cov (PATH, xcrun on macOS, or
  CATCH3_LLVM_PROFDATA / CATCH3_LLVM_COV) export LCOV, gcov (or
  CATCH3_GCOV) writes JSON next to a copy of the .gcno. The result is
  DIR/coverage.json, the files, lines and branches each test reached,
  and DIR/coverage.lcov for the whole run. Without the tools the
  profiles stay and the run says so.
- --coverage with --in-process or --break is refused.

Tests: option parsing, LCOV reading and writing, gcov JSON, and an
integration test on CoverageFixture, a binary CMake builds with the
coverage flags of Clang or GCC: two tests reach different lines, each
map holds only its own, the LCOV report holds both, and a stale profile
of an earlier run is gone. Locally all 84 CTest tests pass with Clang,
and the coverage tests pass with GCC (built with
CATCH3_ENABLE_WERROR=OFF: Catch3 does not build with GCC's warnings as
errors, before and after this change).

CI: the Linux jobs install LLVM's coverage tools, a new job checks the
gcov path with GCC, and CATCH3_COVERAGE_REQUIRE_MAP turns a missing map
into a failure on Linux and macOS instead of a skip. MSVC has no
source-based coverage, so its builds skip those tests; the roadmap
lists step 4 as in progress until Windows with clang-cl is tested.
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--coverage=DIR runs every attempt in a process of its own and keeps the
coverage of each test, for binaries built with LLVM source-based
coverage (Clang: -fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping) or gcov
(GCC: --coverage).

How it works:

- The scheduler gives each attempt a fresh worker, as --isolate does,
  and sets LLVM_PROFILE_FILE and GCOV_PREFIX for it: the profile the
  process writes at exit is then the coverage of that one test, in
  DIR/profiles/t&lt;index&gt;-a&lt;attempt&gt;.profraw or a .gcov directory. Each
  runtime reads its own variable, so no symbol of either runtime is
  looked up: weak references would not pull them out of their static
  archives, and Mach-O does not allow undefined weak symbols.
- A process that runs other tests first (bisection) writes beside the
  profiles, never into one. The attempt records its profile, also in
  the JSON results.
- The profiles of an earlier run are removed when the run starts,
  because gcov adds to the .gcda files it finds.
- After the run, CoverageReport reads the last profile of every test:
  llvm-profdata and llvm-cov (PATH, xcrun on macOS, or
  CATCH3_LLVM_PROFDATA / CATCH3_LLVM_COV) export LCOV, gcov (or
  CATCH3_GCOV) writes JSON next to a copy of the .gcno. The result is
  DIR/coverage.json, the files, lines and branches each test reached,
  and DIR/coverage.lcov for the whole run. Without the tools the
  profiles stay and the run says so.
- --coverage with --in-process or --break is refused.

Tests: option parsing, LCOV reading and writing, gcov JSON, and an
integration test on CoverageFixture, a binary CMake builds with the
coverage flags of Clang or GCC: two tests reach different lines, each
map holds only its own, the LCOV report holds both, and a stale profile
of an earlier run is gone. Locally all 84 CTest tests pass with Clang,
and the coverage tests pass with GCC (built with
CATCH3_ENABLE_WERROR=OFF: Catch3 does not build with GCC's warnings as
errors, before and after this change).

CI: the Linux jobs install LLVM's coverage tools, a new job checks the
gcov path with GCC, and CATCH3_COVERAGE_REQUIRE_MAP turns a missing map
into a failure on Linux and macOS instead of a skip. MSVC has no
source-based coverage, so its builds skip those tests; the roadmap
lists step 4 as in progress until Windows with clang-cl is tested.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Withhold secret-looking variables from the processes the runner starts</title>
<updated>2026-11-05T15:30:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-05T15:30:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/commit/?id=89b4769c35986444a0297ad0806a584c7181c85c'/>
<id>89b4769c35986444a0297ad0806a584c7181c85c</id>
<content type='text'>
Workers and the other processes the runner starts copied its whole
environment, tokens and passwords included. ChildProcess::Start now
leaves out every variable whose name contains, in any case, TOKEN,
SECRET, PASSWORD, PASSWD, CREDENTIAL, API_KEY, APIKEY, PRIVATE_KEY or
ACCESS_KEY (IsSecretVariable), unless ChildOptions::keptEnvironment
names it; names compare without case on Windows.

--pass-env=NAME, repeatable, and "pass-env" in catch3.json keep a
variable for the tests. The runner itself still starts with the whole
environment, so code that runs before the first worker sees it;
docs/progmasoft-runner.md says so.

A runner test starts the shell's environment listing with a secret and
a plain variable set, sees only the plain one, and sees the secret once
it is kept.
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Workers and the other processes the runner starts copied its whole
environment, tokens and passwords included. ChildProcess::Start now
leaves out every variable whose name contains, in any case, TOKEN,
SECRET, PASSWORD, PASSWD, CREDENTIAL, API_KEY, APIKEY, PRIVATE_KEY or
ACCESS_KEY (IsSecretVariable), unless ChildOptions::keptEnvironment
names it; names compare without case on Windows.

--pass-env=NAME, repeatable, and "pass-env" in catch3.json keep a
variable for the tests. The runner itself still starts with the whole
environment, so code that runs before the first worker sees it;
docs/progmasoft-runner.md says so.

A runner test starts the shell's environment listing with a secret and
a plain variable set, sees only the plain one, and sees the secret once
it is kept.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge devel into feature/cpp-tools</title>
<updated>2026-11-01T21:16:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-01T21:16:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.progmasoft.com/catch3/commit/?id=3ed0fd930371823b6d44ae64d00dbd79e421a552'/>
<id>3ed0fd930371823b6d44ae64d00dbd79e421a552</id>
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