avocado-framework/avocado

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83.0 Crime and Punishment
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The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 83.0,
AKA "Crime and Punishment", is now available!

Release documentation: `Avocado 83.0
<http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/83.0/>`_

Users/Test Writers
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* All configuration whose namespace start with the ``runner.`` prefix
  will be forwarded to runners.  This allows centrally managed
  configuration to be sent to runners executed by different types of
  spawners.

* The ``exec-test`` runner now accepts a configuration
  (``runner.exectest.exitcodes.skip``) that will determine valid
  exit codes to be treated as ``SKIP`` test results.

* The Loader based on the YAML Multiplexer has been removed.  Users
  are advised to use Job API and multiple test suites to fulfill
  similar use cases.

* The GLib plugin has been removed.  Users are advised to use TAP
  test types instead, given that GLib's GTest framework now defaults
  to producing TAP output.

* A runner for GO, aka golang, tests, compatible with the nrunner, has
  been introduced.

* The paginator feature is now a boolean style option.  To enable it,
  use ``--enable-paginator``.

* The nrunner status server now has two different options regarding its
  URI.  The first one, ``--nrunner-status-server-listen`` determines
  the URI in which a status server will listen to.  The second one,
  ``--nrunner-status-server-uri`` determines where the results will
  be sent to.  This allows status server to be on a different network
  location than the tasks reporting to it.

* The ``avocado-software-manager`` command line application now properly
  returns exit status for failures.

* The Podman spawner now exposes command line options to set the
  container image (``--spawner-podman-image``) and the Podman binary
  (``--spawner-podman-bin``) used on an ``avocado`` invocation.

* Command line options related to results, such as
  ``--json-job-result``, ``--tap-job-result``, ``--xunit-job-result``
  and ``--html-job-result`` currently take a ``on`` or ``off``
  parameter.  That is now deprecated and a warning has been added.
  Those options will soon become "proper boolean" options (such as
  ``--enable-$type-job-result`` and/or
  ``--disable-$type-job-result``).

Bug Fixes
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* :meth:`avocado.utils.network.interfaces.NetworkInterface.is_admin_link_up` and
  :meth:`avocado.utils.network.interfaces.NetworkInterface.is_operational_link_up`
  now behave properly on interfaces based on bonding.

* The selection of an nrunner based runner, from its Python module
  name/path has been fixed.

* :mod:`avocado.utils.process` utilities that use ``sudo`` would check
  for executable permissions on the binary.  Many systems will have
  ``sudo`` with the executable bit set, but not the readable bit.  This
  is now accounted for.

* The "external runner" feature now works properly when used outside of
  a ``avocado`` command line invocation, that is, when used in a script
  based on the Job APIs.

Utility APIs
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* A new module :mod:`avocado.utils.dmesg` with utilities for interacting
  with the kernel ring buffer messages.

* A new utility :meth:`avocado.utils.linux.is_selinux_enforcing` allows
  quick check of SELinux enforcing status.

* The :mod:`avocado.utils.network.interfaces` now support configuration
  files compatible with SuSE distros.

* :meth:`avocado.utils.network.interfaces.NetworkInterface.remove_link`
  is a new utility method that allows one to delete a virtual
  interface link.

* :meth:`avocado.utils.network.hosts.Host.get_default_route_interface`
  is a new utility method that allows one to get a list of default
  routes interfaces.

* The :mod:`avocado.utils.cpu` library now properly handles s390x z13
  family of CPUs.

* The :mod:`avocado.utils.pmem` library introduced a number of new
  utility methods, adding support for daxctl operations such as
  offline-memory, online-memory and reconfigure-device.

Internal Changes
================

* The safeloader has been migrated from using :mod:`imp` (deprecated)
  to the more modern :mod:`importlib`.

* Instead of using hardcoded ``..`` to refer to the parent directory,
  portability was improved by switching to :func:`os.path.pardir`.

* Runners based on the :mod:`avocado.core.nrunner` module, when called
  on the command line, can now omit the ``--kind`` parameter, if
  information can be gathered from the executable name.

* Avocado's ``make check`` is now based on a Job API script, found at
  ``selftests/check.py``.  It combines previously separate set of
  tests described by multiple command line executions.

* CI "smoke checks" for OS X and Windows have been introduced.  This does
  not mean, however, that Avocado is supported on those platforms.

For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/82.0...83.0>`_.