ArchUnit 1.5.0

Enhancements

Core

• Support Java 27 / class file major version 71 (#1618)
• Improve descriptions of JavaAccess.Predicates.originOwner and JavaAccess.Predicates.targetOwner (#1603; thanks to @StefanGraeber 👋)
• Expose information on sealed classes via JavaClass: isSealed() and getPermittedSubclasses() (#1677)
• Consider dependencies from caught exceptions (#1555; thanks to @bannmann 👋)
• ImportOption.DoNotIncludeTests and OnlyIncludeTests consider tests in custom Gradle source sets (#1660; thanks to @Develop-KIM 👋)

Lang

• ArchConditions offers new ArchCondition<JavaClass> haveAnyDependenciesThat(DescribedPredicate<Dependency>) (#1580; thanks to @wakingrufus 👋)

Library

• ArchitectureMetrics.lakosMetrics is computed much more performantly (#1629; thanks to @ThanosTsiamis 👋)
• TextFileBasedViolationStore is now thread-safe under parallel test execution (#1656; thanks to @kelunik 👋)
• ModuleDependency now provides stable descriptions (#1648; thanks to @DragonFSKY 👋)

JUnit

• archunit-junit6 supports ArchUnit with JUnit 6 (#1556, #1658, #1659; many thanks to @arukiidou & @schulzjo-tng 👋)
• AnalyzeClasses supports individual classes (#1569; thanks to @TheManWhoStaresAtCode 👋)
• Preparation: archunit-junit:0.9.0 (which was renamed with ArchUnit 0.9.0) now relocates to archunit-junit4:0.9.0 (#1673; thanks to @schulzjo-tng 👋) – will be published after #1684 🙈

Documentation

• Document Priority (#1671; thanks to @TheManWhoStaresAtCode 👋)
• Document Package Identifiers in User Guide (#1672; thanks to @TheManWhoStaresAtCode 👋)

Internal Improvements

• Text files now use UNIX line breaks (#1602, #1611; thanks to @StefanGraeber 👋)
• Update Gradle from 8 to 9; build & test with JDK 25 (#1550, and also #1612, #1619)
• Separate integration tests by JUnit version (#1636; many thanks to @schulzjo-tng 👋)
• Replace junit-dataprovider with junit-jupiter-params (#1655)
• ArchUnit releases now update Maven examples (and Gradle wrapper) of ArchUnit-Examples (#1450)
• Avoid managing hamcrest dependency (#1467; thanks to @TheManWhoStaresAtCode 👋)

ArchUnit 1.4.2

Enhancements

Core

• DescribedPredicate#negate() returns a DescribedPredicate (#1484)
• New JavaCodeUnit.Predicates.anyParameterThat and JavaCodeUnit.Predicates.allParameters (#1498; thanks to @mkhl 👏)
• Support Java 26 / class file major version 70 (#1544)

ArchUnit 1.3.2

Enhancements

(backported from ArchUnit 1.4.1)

Core

• Support Java 25 / class file major version 69 (backported from #1440)
• Avoid deprecated sun.misc.Unsafe::objectFieldOffset from (relocated) com.google.guava:guava (backported from #1440)

ArchUnit 1.4.1

Enhancements

Core

• Support Java 25 / class file major version 69 (#1440)

Library

• Support priorities in SlicesRuleDefinition (#1436; thanks to @guesshe 👏)
• Ignore synthetic bridge methods in ProxyRules (#1443)

Documentation

• Improve documentation of slices rule (#1454)

Internal improvements

• Reduce memory footprint of ClassFileImporterSlowTest (#1446 / #1440)

ArchUnit 1.3.1

Enhancements

(backported from ArchUnit 1.4.0)

Core

• Support Java 24 / class file major version 68 (backported from #1364)

ArchUnit 1.4.0

Enhancements

Core

• Support Java 24 / class file major version 68 (#1364)

Lang

• Improve performance for transitive dependency checks (#1381; thanks to @To6i 👏)

Library

• New GeneralCodingRules.OLD_DATE_AND_TIME_CLASSES_SHOULD_NOT_BE_USED (#1385; thanks to @Bukama 👏)
• Improve GeneralCodingRules.testClassesShouldResideInTheSamePackageAsImplementation to not fail for classes with no tests in their packages (#1368; thanks to @krzysztof-owczarek 👏)

JUnit

• Fix failure when junit.testFilter is used (#1361; thanks to @Sparkymann 👏)
• Enable @AnalyzeClasses annotation to be used as meta annotation (#1300; thanks to @mathze 👏)

Documentation

• Fix user guide describing wrong default behavior of @AnalyzeClasses (#1406)
• Clarify Slices documentation (#1366; thanks to @mipo256 👏)

Internal improvements

• Run tests with JUnit Platform to pave the way to migrate to JUnit 5 (#1294)
• Update Gradle Wrapper from 7.6 to 8.12 (#1392)
• Extend CI to run tests with JDK 21 (#1408)

ArchUnit 1.1.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix ArchUnit importer being unable to import classes from Spring Boot Nested jars (see #1224)

ArchUnit 1.2.2

Bug Fixes

• Fix ArchUnit importer being unable to import classes from Spring Boot Nested jars (see #1224)

ArchUnit 1.3.0

Bug Fixes

• Fix ArchUnit importer being unable to import classes from Spring Boot Nested jars (see #1224)
• Fix OnionArchitecture losing withOptionalLayers() on description override (see #1185)
• Fix JavaType.getAllInvolvedRawTypes() recursing infinitely for recursive type definitions (see #1237)
• Fix @ArchTest fields in base classes of @ArchIgnored classes not being ignored (see #1277)

Enhancements

Core

• Add support for Java 23 (see #1275; thanks a lot to @hankem)
• New method JavaType.traverseSignature(..) to examine parts of a type signature more conveniently (see 8456198 of #1276)

Lang

• Make handling specific violating object types with ViolationHandler more convenient (see #1251)

Library

• Jakarta EE annotations are now considered in GeneralCodingRules.NO_CLASSES_SHOULD_USE_FIELD_INJECTION (see #1285; thanks a lot to @hankem)
• PlantUML rules now ignore dependencies between unparsable objects (e.g. a database instead of a regular component) (see #1132; thanks a lot to @tfij)
• PlantUML rules now optionally support the component keyword in component [Example] <<..example..>> (see #1223; thanks a lot to @tfij)

JUnit

• @ArchTests included via ArchTests.in(..) now report their full "inclusion path" in the test report (see #452, #1279)
• Specific @ArchTest rules can now be executed by setting the ArchUnit property junit.testFilter=rule_field_name / setting the system property -Darchunit.junit.testFilter=... (compare the user guide; see #1280)

Further Acknowledgement

• Thanks a lot to @hankem for improving the user guide (see #1221)

ArchUnit 1.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash on importing inner classes that use += string concatenation on outer class private field (see #1146, #1194)