# XState 5.25.0

- Product: XState (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/xstate)
- Vendor: Stately
- Date: 2025-12-10
- Version: 5.25.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/statelyai/xstate/releases/tag/xstate%405.25.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/xstate/releases/5.25.0

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- **added** — Add partial descriptor support to assertEvent() to match events with types that start with a specified prefix using wildcard notation
- **fixed** — Fix a bug in Cordova when iterating an empty Map

###### Minor Changes

-   [#5422](https://github.com/statelyai/xstate/pull/5422) [`329297b`](https://github.com/statelyai/xstate/commit/329297b3bf859668ed1dfc260c14e773a0413fd4) Thanks [@davidkpiano](https://github.com/davidkpiano)! - Add partial descriptor support to `assertEvent(…)`

    ```ts
    // Matches any event with a type that starts with `FEEDBACK.`
    assertEvent(event, 'FEEDBACK.*');
    ```

###### Patch Changes

-   [#5420](https://github.com/statelyai/xstate/pull/5420) [`2eb8274`](https://github.com/statelyai/xstate/commit/2eb82745dbdf4ac8dfbcc3c426ed4d81c732844b) Thanks [@assertnotnull](https://github.com/assertnotnull)! - Fix a bug in Cordova when iterating an empty Map