avocado-framework/avocado

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72.0 Once upon a time in Holywood
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The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 70.0,
AKA "Once upon a time in Holywood", is now available!

Release documentation: `Avocado 72.0
<http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/72.0/>`_

Users/Test Writers
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* The new ``vmimage`` command allows a user to list the virtual
  machine images downloaded by means of :mod:`avocado.utils.vmimage`
  or download new images via the ``avocado vmimage get`` command.

* The tags feature (see :ref:`categorizing-tests`) now supports an
  extended character set, adding ``.`` and ``-`` to the allowed
  characters.  A tag such as ``:avocado: tags=machine:s390-ccw-virtio``
  is now valid.
  
* The still experimental "N(ext) Runner", introduced on version 71.0,
  can now run most Avocado Instrumented tests, and possibly any test
  who implements a matching ``avocado-runner-$(TEST_TYPE)`` script
  that conforms to the expected interface.

Bug Fixes
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* A bug introduced in version 71.0 rendered
  :mod:`avocado.utils.archive` incapable of handling LZMA (also known
  as ``xz``) archives was fixed.

* A Python 3 (bytes versus text) related issue with
  :func:`avocado.utils.cpu.get_cpu_vendor_name` has been fixed.

Utility APIs
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* :mod:`avocado.utils.ssh` now allows password based authentication,
  in addition to public key based authentication.

* :func:`avocado.utils.path.usable_ro_dir` will no longer create a
  directory, but will just check for its existence and the right
  level of access.

* :func:`avocado.utils.archive.compress` and
  :func:`avocado.utils.archive.uncompress` and now supports LZMA
  compressed files transparently.

* The :mod:`avocado.utils.vmimage` now has providers for the CirrOS
  cloud images.

Internal Changes
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* Package build fixes for Fedora 31 and Fedora 32.

* Increased test coverage of mux-suite and the yaml-loader features.

* A number of pylint checks were added, including w0201, w1505, w1509,
  w0402 and w1113.

For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/71.0...72.0>`_.