Changes from v2.5 release:

• new html2lcov tool
  Capture source diff and 'baseline' coverage from lcov HTML report - suitable as input to generate differential coverage report versus 'now'. See the html2lcov documentation for details.
• new jacoco2lcov tool
  Translate JaCoCo java coverage data to lcov format - e.g., for multi-language coverage reporting or to take advantage of lcov features. See the jacoco2lcov documentation for details.
• new XS back end (on plaforms which support it).
  C++ implementation of some key types and operations - to improve execution time and memory footprint compared to pure Perl.
• various bug fixes and test coverage improvements.

Changes from previous release:

• add support for --unreachable-script callback - to filter unreachable branch and MC/DC expressions
• update llvm2lcov to support llvm/22
• generate man and HTML format documentation from RST.
• various bug fixes and test coverage improvements

Changes since v2.3.2:

• enhanced criteria.pm module, to check function, branch, and MC/DC metrics.
• enhance llvm2lcov to support llvm/21 and higher.
• various bug fixes

Changes since v2.3.1:

• Improved llvm2lcov - more complete and more correct output
• add lcovrc support for config_file = ... attribute
• various bug fixes
• improved test portability (for very old gcc versions)

Several bug fixes + regression test portability changes.

Changes in v2.3 include:

• support for Modified Condition / Decision Coverage (MC/DC) metrics - see the man pages for details
• remove deprecated lcov --diff ... feature
• various bug fixes and testcase portability fixes

Changes in lcov/2.2 include:

• Support for integrating coverage data/coverage changes during code review.
• Additional --filter options and better counting of number of times filter was applied.
• Improved callback performance
• Additional error checking, especially as related to coverage data consistency.
• Options to enable more compact HTML reports.
• Automated retry if child process dies on out-of-memory during parallel execution.
• Bug fixes

Changes in version 2.1 include:

• Support for other languages/data import from other tools - Perl and Python, in particular, as well as XML import - e.g., from cobertura.
  See perl2lcov --help, py2lcov --help, and xml2lcov --help - as well as the associated tests.

• Improved callback support. See the discussion in the genhtml man page.

• Improved error checking

• lcov regression test suite added to the release - see $LCOV_HOME/share/lcov/tests/README.md for directions on how to execute them in your environment.

• Use lcov to generate coverage reports for lcov - see the directions, above for how to run the lcov regressions and generate a coverage report.

• Performance improvements compared to lcov/2.0 - especially when dealing with very large numbers of files.

• Bug fixes.

Please report any issues you discover so that they can be fixed.

Changes in version 2.0 include:

• Support for differential coverage analysis
• Support for annotation of reports with date and owner information ("binning")
• Support for data filtering to remove artifacts such as exception branches
• Improved HTML navigation and display features
• Improved performance via parallelism
• Improved error checking and error management.

Note that version 2.0 adds new Perl module dependencies. See the README for a list of modules that need to be installed for LCOV to continue working, and hints on how to install them.

Changes in version 1.16 include:

• Option for a dark-mode color scheme
• Option to specify a target coverage rate
• Option to choose the JSON parsing module to achieve better performance
• Options to change HTML headers and footers
• Updated website links
• Multiple bug fixes