Ok, so what about Codeception 3.0?

In 3.0 release we didn't break a lot of stuff. We tried, but probably we just leave that for next major release.

So we do not bump supported PHP version. We are still **PHP 5.6+ compatible**, just because testing should be available for everyone. We still support all major frameworks and we keep PHPUnit 6, and PHPUnit 7 compatibility.

We say thank you to our core contributor **@Naktibalda** to bring PHPUnit 8 support without breaking compatibilitiy.

That was huge job, and if you look into our `codeception/phpunit-wrapper` project you will understand why.

We also decided to drop some of old modules, which we hope no one uses. Here they are

If you need them, just copy their code from the 2.5 branch and create a custom helper. However, we won't support them any longer.

If you use multi-session testing and `$I->haveFriend` commands, you will see your tests fail. `Friend` methods no longer included into `Codeception\Actor` class, so you should add them manually. In your `AcceptanceTester` class (or other class which uses multi session testing) include `Codeception\Lib\Actor\Shared` trait:

We also disabled conditional assertions for new setups (as people regularly misuse them), so if you want to use `canSee` methods you will need to enable them. We will take a look on that in next sections of this post.

M-m-m... Now the most tasty thing. Yes, we wouldn't do the major release without new features. Thanks to sponsorship from **Seravo** we could finish some features we had in our roadmap.

This feature was backported from our friendly project [CodeceptJS](https://codecept.io).

It brings a new full featured REPL interface into a test, so you could pause test execution and fire different commands into console.

Learn more about using interactive shell in our [updated Getting Started guide](https://codeception.com/docs/02-GettingStarted#Interactive-Pause)

Those features were introduced to make browser testing less painful. In the world full of JavaScript and Single Page Applications, you can no longer rely on single `click`, or `fillField` commands. Sometimes you need to retry action few times to make perform it.