phpunit 3.7: what happened to the @assert annotation?

I have phpunit 3.7

• In the documentation of 3.6, Appendix B, there is a @assert annotation, whereas
• In the documentation of 3.7, Appendix B, there is no @assert annotation

The official announcement mentions some new annotations (and the re-introduction of an old one previously deprecated), but it does not mention the removal of @assert. In the changelog for 3.7., @assert is not to be found on the page

When I run my code on a class using the code snippet

<?php
class MyMathClass
{
   /**
    * Add two given values together and return sum
    * @assert (1,2) == 3
    */
   public function addValues($a,$b)
   {
       return $a+$b;
   }
}

the output is

PHPUnit 3.7.1 by Sebastian Bergmann.



Time: 1 second, Memory: 4.25Mb

No tests executed!

with php 3.6.2

 phpunit MyMathClass.php
PHPUnit 3.6.12 by Sebastian Bergmann.

.

Time: 0 seconds, Memory: 2.75Mb

OK (1 test, 1 assertion)