Cucumber Files

Changed

• Added dependencies that will no longer be part of the ruby stdlib (jeromeag)
• NB: This change has also facilitated a tweak to some output messages to include new fields such as testRunStartedId for full changes and expectations of what will be new check the [messages](https://github.com/cucumber/messages/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#2700 (luke-hill)
• Updated cucumber-compatibility-kit to v18
• Changed compatibility testing to fully lean on external assets instead of duplicating them (luke-hill)
• Permit usage of latest versions of all cucumber internal gems
• The auto-generation of all placeholder pending steps has been refactored (There should be no visible changes but the code is now refactored to work using newer ruby standards)
• The #text? method for checking Differences in multi-line text is now deprecated (Users should lean on an appropriate testing library for this)
• Cucumber.use_legacy_autoloader that was intended as a stop-gap for v4/v5 is now deprecated (People that need to rely on procedural loading / reloading of files should use method invocations) (luke-hill)
• The backtrace filtering logic has been changed (There should be no visible changes but the code is now refactored to use newer, less procedural ruby)

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where a change to one example in compatibility testing wasn't fully adhered to (luke-hill)
• Fixed Ruby 3.4+ issue where error backtraces weren't being formatted. (#1771 orien)
• Fix some problematic specs that were leaking state and showcasing an issue on JRuby (#1783 luke-hill)

Removed

• StepDefinitionLight associated methods. The class itself is present but deprecated
• Webrick Proc handling aliases that were long redundant
• Associated legacy scripts for updating dependencies that are no longer used
• Tag Expressions using legacy syntax that were handled / sanitized are no longer done so (This applies to both regular usage and internal testing)
• Removed support for Ruby 2.7 and 3.0 (Minimum ruby is now 3.1) (luke-hill)
• Unindentation support for snippet generator / tests (Heredocs are much better now) (luke-hill)