Changes to rspec-core listed below. There are no functional changes to rspec-mocks or rspec-expectations for this release. Happy New Year! Cheers, David ### rspec-core-2.4.0 / 2011-01-02 [full changelog](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/compare/v2.3.1...v2.4.0) * Enhancements * start the debugger on -d so the stack trace is visible when it stops (Clifford Heath) * apply hook filtering to examples as well as groups (Myron Marston) * support multiple formatters, each with their own output * show exception classes in failure messages unless they come from RSpec matchers or message expectations * before(:all) { pending } sets all examples to pending * Bug fixes * fix bug due to change in behavior of reject in Ruby 1.9.3-dev (Shota Fukumori) * fix bug when running in jruby: be explicit about passing block to super (John Firebaugh) * rake task doesn''t choke on paths with quotes (Janmejay Singh) * restore --options option from rspec-1 * require ''ostruct'' to fix bug with its([key]) (Kim Burgestrand) * --configure option generates .rspec file instead of autotest/discover.rb