avocado-framework/avocado

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63.0 Greed in the Sun
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The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado version
63.0, AKA "Greed in the Sun", is now available!

Release documentation: `Avocado 63.0
<http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/63.0/>`_

The major changes introduced on this version are listed below,
roughly categorized into major topics and intended audience:

Users/Test Writers
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* Including test logs in TAP plugin is disabled by default and can be
  enabled using ``--tap-include-logs``.

* Performance is improved for the TAP plugin by only using ``fsync()``
  after writes of important content, instead of doing it for all content,
  including the logs from tests.

* The command line options ``--filter-by-tags`` and
  ``--filter-by-tags-include-empty`` are now white listed for the
  remote runner plugin.

* The remote runner plugin will now respect ``~/.ssh/config``
  configuration.

* The asset fetcher, available to a test via
  :meth:`avocado.core.Test.fetch_asset`, will prevent clashes from
  downloaded files with the same name (when no hash is given), by
  using a directory named after the hash of the location.

* The identification of PCI bridge devices in :mod:`avocado.utils.pci`
  is now more precise by using its class.

* A smarter wait, instead of a sleep, is now used on
  :mod:`avocado.utils.multipath`.

Bug Fixes
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* The recording of output, used by the output check functionality, is
  done as text, via a ``RawFileHandler`` logger.  Now, instead of failing
  to encode data (depending on its content) and crashing, data is escaped
  using the ``xmlcharrefreplace`` handling.

* Avocado won't crash on systems without the ``less`` binary to be used
  as the paginator.

Internal Changes
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* Self tests load failures are now caught on Python 3.4 environments
  (a workaround was needed due to Python 3.4 specific behavior, not
  necessary for 3.5+).

* Various build fixes related to the new Fabric packages and naming
  conventions.

* The :mod:`avocado.core.loader` module now makes use of better named
  symbolic values (based on enums), such as
  :attr:`avocado.core.loader.DiscoverMode.DEFAULT`.

For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/62.0...63.0>`_.

Release Meeting
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The Avocado release meetings are now open to the community via
Hangouts on Air.  The meetings are recorded and made available on the
`Avocado Test Framework YouTube channel
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-RVZ_HFTbEztDM7wNY4NfA>`_.

For this release, you can watch the meeting on `this link
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0I_ukaLQLE>`_.

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| Sprint theme: https://trello.com/c/EqauNWfL/1349-sprint-theme-greed-in-the-sun-1964