1.37.0

Release date

11 July 2025

Features

• Bi-Directional Contract Testing

  • A new comparison engine delivers up to 100× faster performance than the previous engine.
  • Support added for configurable behavior.

• Stub server updates

  • Now supports the Pact specification up to version 4.
  • Includes additional configuration options.

• OpenTelemetry support

  • Added native OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation for enhanced observability in on-premise environments.
  • This allows you to monitor API performance, troubleshoot issues faster, and integrate PactFlow into existing observability stacks.
  • See the OpenTelemetry guide for setup instructions and details.

• Minor updates

  • Added ability to delete an integration in the HAL relations and expose it in the HAL Explorer.

Fixes

• Improved support for URI-encoded paths in BDC for OpenAPI.
• Stripped Byte Order Mark (BOM) from provider contracts if present.
• Fixed an intermittent 401 error triggered by auth_ext_script custom extension.

Pact Broker Updates

The following updates from the Pact Broker have been incorporated into this release:

Features

• Added deployed-environments to Pacticipant and tag version responses
  #804 | commit
  #803 | commit
• Added tag_versions endpoint
  commit
• Added deployed-environments to /participants/$name/versions
  #801 | commit
• Added /pacts/provider/{provider}/provider-states API to group provider states by consumer #790 | commit

Bug Fixes

• Refactored integration queries to eliminate duplicate rows
  #806 | commit
• De-duplicated non-unique provider states
  #789 | commit
• Explicitly ordered label lists by name
  commit

Migration notes

No migration steps are required for this release.