avocado-framework/avocado

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68.0 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado version
68.0, AKA "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", is now available!

Release documentation: `Avocado 68.0
<http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/68.0/>`_

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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* The Avocado test loader, which does not load or execute Python
  source code that may contain tests for security reasons, now
  operates in a way much more similar to the standard Python object
  inheritance model.  Before, classes containing tests that would not
  directly inherit from :class:`avocado.Test` would require a
  docstring statement (either ``:avocado: enable`` or ``:avocado:
  recursive``).  This is not necessary for most users anymore, as the
  recursive detection is now the default behavior.

* The xUnit plugin now should produce output that is more compatible
  with other implementations, specifically newer Jenkin's as well as
  Ant and Maven.  The specific change was to format the time field
  with 3 decimal places.

* A new :func:`avocado.utils.cpu.get_pid_cpus` utility function allows
  one to get all the CPUs being used by a given process and its
  threads.

* The :mod:`avocado.utils.process` module now exposes the ``timeout``
  parameter to users of the :class:`avocado.utils.process.SubProcess`
  class.  It allows users to define a timeout, and the type of signal
  that will be used to attempt to kill the process after the timeout
  is reached.

* The location of the Avocado configuration files can now be
  influenced by third parties by means of a new plugin.

* The configuration files that have been effectively parsed are now
  displayed as part of ``avocado config`` command output.

Bug Fixes
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* A bug that would crash Avocado while listing simple or "broken"
  tests has been fixed.

* A bug on the asset fetcher cache system would prevent files with the
  same name, but from different locations, to be kept in the cache
  at the same, causing overwrites and new download attempts.

* The robot framework plugin would print errors and warnings to the
  console, confusing Avocado users as to the origin and reason for
  those messages.  The plugin will now disable all robot framework
  logging operations on the console.

* Test directories won't be silently created on system wide locations
  any longer, as this is a packaging and/or installation step, and not
  an Avocado test runner runtime step.

* The :mod:`avocado.utils.ssh` module would not properly establish
  master sessions due to the lack of a ``ControlPath`` option.

* A possible infinite hang of the test runner, due to a miscalculation
  of the timeout, was fixed.

* The :func:`avocado.utils.archive.extract_lzma` now properly opens
  files in binary mode.

Internal Changes
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* An optimization and robustness improvement on the
  func:`avocado.utils.memory.read_from_meminfo` was added.

* The required version of the PyYAML library has been updated to 4.2b2
  because of CVE-2017-18342.  Even though Avocado doesn't use the
  exact piece of code that was subject to the vulnerability, it's
  better to be on the safe side.

* Rules to allow a SRPM (and consequently RPM) packages to be built
  on the COPR build service have been added.

* The documentation on the ``--mux-inject`` feature and command line
  option has been improved, showing the behavior of the ``path``
  component when inserting content and fetching parameters later
  on.

* A new test was added to cover the behavior of unittest's
  assertRaises when used in an Avocado test was added.

* A fix was added to selftests/unit/test_utils_vmimage.py to not
  depend or assume a given host architecture.

* The :class:`avocado.utils.ssh.Session` will now perform a more
  extensive check for an usable master connection, instead of relying
  on just the SSH process status code.

* The upstream and Fedora versions of the SPEC files are now virtually
  in sync.

* Building the the docs as part of the selftests now works on
  Python 3.

* The Avocado test loader, when returning Python unittest results,
  will now return a proper ordered dictionary that matches the order
  in which they were found on the source code files.

For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/67.0...68.0>`_.

Release Meeting
===============

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=LD6dPc2ptd0>`_.