Release Mink 1.7.2 or 1.8

[klausi]

After #720 it would be cool to get a new Mink release so that we can have a concrete version number in Drupal's composer.json.

Currently https://www.drupal.org/node/2808085 uses a git commit hash which is not ideal and people are hesitant to move forward with it.

Any timeline for releasing the next version?

[catch56]

Just bumping this. We're in the process of releasing Drupal 8.3.0 - the alpha is today. And this is the only dependency that's on a commit hash at the moment. Still a couple of weeks to fix that if a new Mink release was tagged.

[sanpii]

To release #747 it should be nice to have a new release :)

[anavarre]

Drupal 8.5.0-alpha1 is around the corner. @stof could you please tag a new release?

[Nek-]

This is becoming a serious issue. Ping @everzet

[RolfBabijn]

Bumping this thread into 2019.

[shehi]

symfony/css-selector release v4 and now this package is not installable with latest Symfony ecosystem, unless we lower minimal stability to "dev". Please release new version.

[shehi]

@dunglas , are you able to make a release for this package? @everzet seems to be nowhere.

[greg-1-anderson]

Over in minkphp/MinkSelenium2Driver#313, there is a discussion about the problems that Drupal is having as a result of using a dev-release, to work around the lack of a stable tag. We have the same problem with this repository: Drupal is still using 1.7.x-dev, and has been since Drupal 8.3.0 was released in 2017. When the 1.7.x branch alias in this repository is changed to 1.8.x, every stable Drupal tag since 8.3.0 will break.

We could begin to prepare to repair the looming damage if someone could tag a534fe7 as 1.7.2 or 1.8.0.

[aik099]

@greg-1-anderson , I agree with 1.7.2. If all tests are green, then we only need to prepare a changelog.

[greg-1-anderson]

@aik099: I converted a git log (minus trivial changes) into a rough changelog:

1.7.2 / 2019-09-XX
==================

Bug fixes:

* DriverInterface#getValue() can return null
* Modify response[Contains|NotContains] to use strpos vs preg_match
* Fix compatibility with PHP 7.2
* Allow Symfony 4.
* Optimize the splitting of XPath unions
* Allow pipes (|) in attributes by implementing better XPath parsing
* Auto-start session only upon 1st "->visit(...)" method call

Testsuite:

* Don't install PHPUnit 8.0
* Fix PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 builds
* Objects with __toString() can be asserted.
* Add testing on PHP 7.2
* Add compatibility with PHPUnit 6
* Remove the driver testsuite

Misc:

* Rename boolean type in lowercase
* Suggest chrome-mink-driver as fast JS-enabled alternative to selenium
* Use ! operator instead of === false
* Improved variable names and simplified quote logic
* Changed method visibility to private and variable name to camle case

Could make that a PR if you'd like.

[aik099]

@greg-1-anderson , yes, please send a PR where I'll indicate what parts of change log file should be adjusted.

[greg-1-anderson]

@aik099 Created #786

[stof]

1.8.0 is finally released (as well as releases of BrowserKitDriver and Selenium2Driver).