rspec-2.6.0.rc2 is released!

We're releasing rspec-2.6.0.rc2 as a release candidate as there are some internal changes that we'd like to see put through their paces before doing a final release. Note that the changes I speak of are internal. There are no new deprecations in this release, nor any backward-incompatible changes.

There are, however, some new features that we're really excited about. Please do check it out and please do report any issues to the appropriate github issue tracker:

* [rspec-core](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues) * [rspec-expectations](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/issues) * [rspec-mocks](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues) * [rspec-rails](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues)

### rspec-core-2.6.0.rc2

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.5.1...v2.6.1.rc2)

* Enhancements   * `shared_context` (Damian Nurzynski)       * extend groups matching specific metadata with:           * method definitions           * subject declarations           * let/let! declarations           * etc (anything you can do in a group)   * `its([:key])` works for any subject with #. (Peter Jaros)   * `treat_symbols_as_metadata_keys_with_true_values` (Myron Marston)   * Print a deprecation warning when you configure RSpec after defining     an example. All configuration should happen before any examples are     defined. (Myron Marston)   * Pass the exit status of a DRb run to the invoking process. This causes     specs run via DRb to not just return true or false. (Ilkka Laukkanen)   * Refactoring of ConfigurationOptions#parse_options (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)   * Report excluded filters in runner output (tip from andyl)

* Bug fixes   * Don't stumble over an exception without a message (Hans Hasselberg)   * Remove non-ascii characters from comments that were choking rcov (Geoffrey     Byers)   * Fixed backtrace so it doesn't include lines from before the autorun at_exit     hook (Myron Marston)   * Include RSpec::Matchers when first example group is defined, rather     than just before running the examples. This works around an obscure     bug in ruby 1.9 that can cause infinite recursion. (Myron Marston)   * Don't send example_group_[started|finished] to formatters for empty groups.   * Get specs passing on jruby (Sidu Ponnappa)   * Fix bug where mixing nested groups and outer-level examples gave     unpredictable :line_number behavior (Artur Małecki)   * Regexp.escape the argument to --example (tip from Elliot Winkler)   * Correctly pass/fail pending block with message expectations

### rspec-expectations-2.6.0.rc2

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/compare/v2.5.0...v2.6.1.rc2)

* Enhancments   * `change` matcher accepts Regexps (Robert Davis)   * better descriptions for have_xxx matchers (Magnus Bergmark)

* Bug fixes   * Removed non-ascii characters that were choking rcov (Geoffrey Byers)   * change matcher dups arrays and hashes so their before/after states can be     compared correctly.   * Fix the order of inclusion of RSpec::Matchers in     Test::Unit::TestCase and MiniTest::Unit::TestCase to prevent a     SystemStackError (Myron Marston)

### rspec-mocks-2.6.0.rc2

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/compare/v2.5.0...v2.6.1.rc2)

* Enhancements   * Add support for any_instance.stub and any_instance.should_receive (Sidu     Ponnappa and Andy Lindeman)

* Bug fixes   * fix bug in which multiple chains with shared messages ending in hashes     failed to return the correct value

### rspec-rails-2.6.0.rc2

[full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/compare/v2.5.0...v2.6.1.rc2)

* Enhancments   * rails 3 shortcuts for routing specs (Joe Fiorini)   * support nested resources in generators (Tim McEwan)   * require 'rspec/rails/mocks' to use `mock_model` without requiring the whole     rails framework

* Bug fixes   * fix typo in "rake spec:statsetup" (Curtis Schofield)   * expose named routes in anonymous controller specs (Andy Lindeman)   * error when generating namespaced scaffold resources (Andy Lindeman)