Sourced from gcovr's releases.

8.8

New features and notable changes:

• Change the breadcrumbs of in the source view of the GitHub theme. (#1328)

Bug fixes and small improvements:

• Fix removing coverage for internal functions in C sources. (#1320)
• Fix release pipeline to upload standalone applications for MacOs again. (#1321)

Internal changes:

• Add zizmor to scan pipeline for security issues. (#1318)
• Add dependabot configuration for version updates. (#1325)
• Change exclusion handling to use a data class instead of simple integers. (#1326)
• Add nox session to cleanup duplicate reference data and notify session after import. (#1327)

8.7

Breaking changes:

• Jinja2 environment for HTML report is now created with undefined=StrictUndefined to raise an error if a variable is not defined in the template. (#1282, #1283)
• Links to lines in HTML reports now use L<line> instead of a l<line>. (#1285)
• Rename config key txt-metric (string) to txt-metrics (list of strings in TOML and multiple entries in gcovr.config). Remove the deprecated aliases -b, --txt-branches and --branches. (#1302)
• Adjust column width of total count in text reports. (#1302)

New features and notable changes:

• Improve HTML report:
  • Improve wrapping of the counter in the default theme. (#1236)
  • Replace meter with div elements in the default theme (like in GitHub themes). (#1236)
  • Add jinja2 rendering for CSS files. (#1252)
  • Add new HTML themes boost.green and boost.blue. (#1248, #1271)
  • Show excluded lines, branches, ... in the summary only if there are any. (#1287)
  • Remove the branches summary and columns if there are no branches in the report, e.g all branches are excluded by patterns or comments. (#1305)
  • Replace default theme with github theme which is the new default one. If the prefix github. isn't used a warning is printed which will turn into an error in a the next version. (#1313)
• Add compare mode for JSON, text and HTML reports. (#1240, #1266)
• Stub missing line coverage for branches in LLVM source based code coverage format. (#1245)
• Add support for TOML files with --config (#1258)
• Add --fail-under-condition-or-decision with --fail-under-condition and --fail-under-decision as synonyms, change the key for the configuration file. (#1293)
• Add support for multiple metrics in one text report and add support for condition coverage. (#1302)
• Warn if a option is used which has no effect when processing tracefiles. (#1307)
• Add options to restrict where GCOV is executed to prevent generating temporary files in arbitrary directories. Write protected files are now skipped by default. (#1311)

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Sourced from gcovr's changelog.

8.8 (27 October 2026)

New features and notable changes:

• Change the breadcrumbs of in the source view of the GitHub theme. (:issue:1328)

Bug fixes and small improvements:

• Fix removing coverage for internal functions in C sources. (:issue:1320)
• Fix release pipeline to upload standalone applications for MacOs again. (:issue:1321)

Internal changes:

• Add zizmor to scan pipeline for security issues. (:issue:1318)
• Add dependabot configuration for version updates. (:issue:1325)
• Change exclusion handling to use a data class instead of simple integers. (:issue:1326)
• Add nox session to cleanup duplicate reference data and notify session after import. (:issue:1327)

.. _release_8_7:

8.7 (16 October 2026)

Known bugs:

• :ref:fix_1320

Breaking changes:

• Jinja2 environment for HTML report is now created with undefined=StrictUndefined to raise an error if a variable is not defined in the template. (:issue:1282, :issue:1283)
• Links to lines in HTML reports now use L<line> instead of a l<line>. (:issue:1285)
• Rename config key txt-metric (string) to txt-metrics (list of strings in TOML and multiple entries in gcovr.config). Remove the deprecated aliases -b, --txt-branches and --branches. (:issue:1302)
• Adjust column width of total count in text reports. (:issue:1302)

New features and notable changes:

• Improve HTML report:

  • Improve wrapping of the counter in the default theme. (:issue:1236)
  • Replace meter with div elements in the default theme (like in GitHub themes). (:issue:1236)
  • Add jinja2 rendering for CSS files. (:issue:1252)
  • Add new HTML themes boost.green and boost.blue. (:issue:1248, :issue:1271)
  • Show excluded lines, branches, ... in the summary only if there are any. (:issue:1287)
  • Remove the branches summary and columns if there are no branches in the report, e.g all branches are excluded by patterns or comments. (:issue:1305)
  • Replace default theme with github theme which is the new default one. If the prefix github.

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• 6e49f2f Bump version 8.8 (#1329)
• ff3935c Improve breadcrumbs (#1328)
• b26bf8a Clean directories after test and remove duplicate references (#1327)
• 3b4fcdf Use data class for code region (#1326)
• bde9559 Add dependabot configuration (#1325)
• a9ac1c2 Fix and improve removing of function from data (#1323)
• e063e8d Upload MacOs applications again to release (#1321)
• f67ea99 Fix removing of internal C function (#1320)
• 5ae99b1 Comment the versions of the commit hashes
• 90ac901 Add zizmor and fix pipeline security issues (#1318)
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