Pest v4.5.0 introduces a flaky() method and --flaky CLI option for automatically retrying unstable tests, a toBeCasedCorrectly architecture assertion, and a --only-covered coverage filter.

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Pest v4.5.0 introduces first-class support for flaky test retries via a new `flaky()` modifier and `--flaky` CLI flag, allowing intermittently failing tests to be automatically retried (default 3 times) before being reported as failures. The release also adds a `toBeCasedCorrectly()` architecture assertion that catches namespace/file path casing mismatches — a common source of class-not-found errors on Linux servers after local development on macOS or Windows. A new `--only-covered` option filters coverage output to show only files with actual coverage. Several bug fixes address dataset inheritance, parallel testing, trait detection, and Unicode filename handling.

Flaky Test Retries in Pest v4.5.0