🎉 Gradle 9.4.0-rc-1 is out! https://docs.gradle.org/9.4.0-rc-1/release-notes.html

We see tons of

Please remove path-based exclude patterns when running only class-based tests.

e.g

Exclude pattern 'org.elasticsearch.smoketest.MlWithSecurityIT.test {yaml=ml/sparse_vector_search/Test sparse_vector search with query vector and pruning config}' is path-based, but no non-class-based tests were found. Please remove path-based exclude patterns when running only class-based tests.

for our own yaml file based tests. I think this is related to https://docs.gradle.org/9.4.0-rc-1/release-notes.html#non-class-based-testing and a potential backwards compatibility?

Do I understand right that you have what can be interpreted as path elements in test names and Gradle wrongly assume you are doing path filtering? If that's the case, please file an issue, this is for sure wrong behavior.

I think so