docs/source/releases/69_0.rst
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69.0 The King's Choice
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The Avocado team is proud to present another LTS (Long Term Stability)
release: Avocado 69.0, AKA "The King's Choice", is now available!
Release documentation: `Avocado 69.0
<http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/69.0/>`_
LTS Release
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For more information on what a LTS release means, please read
:ref:`rfc-long-term-stability`.
For a complete list of changes from the last LTS release to this one,
please refer to :ref:`69.0 LTS <lts_69_0>`.
The major changes introduced on this version (when compared to 68.0)
are listed below, roughly categorized into major topics and intended
audience:
Bug Fixes
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* INSTRUMENTED tests would not send content to the test's individual
log files when the logger name was not ``avocado.test``. Now tests
can declare and use their own logger (with their own names) and the
content will be directed to the test's own log files.
* The JSON result plugin would store empty failure data as a string
representation of Python's ``None``, instead of JSON's own ``null``.
Because the JSON file is used internally between the local and remote
runners, the Human UI would show a ``"None"`` "failure" reason
when tests succeeded.
Internal Changes
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* Document the Copr repo, including the repository build status for
our packages on our README and Getting Started pages.
* Documentation improvements with a more accurate list of available
plugins.
* Deployment checks for a setup of Avocado and Avocado-VT installed via
PIP from the latest sources were added.
* Deployment checks for a setup of Avocado and Avocado-VT installed via
the Copr repository packages were added.
* Reliability improvements for the unittest
``selftests.test_utils.ProcessTest.test_process_start``.
* Skip the unittest ``selftests.test_utils_network`` when the Python
netifaces library is not available.
For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/68.0...69.0>`_.