avocado-framework/avocado

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86.0 The Dig
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The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 86.0,
AKA "The Dig", is now available!

Release documentation: `Avocado 86.0
<http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/86.0/>`_

Users/Test Writers
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* The ``avocado assets`` command now introduces two new different
  subcommands: ``list`` and ``purge``.  Both allow listing and
  purging of assets based on their sizes or the number of days
  since they have been last accessed.  For more information
  please refer to :ref:`managing-assets`.

Bug Fixes
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* The ``avocado replay`` command was calling pre/post plugins twice
  after a change delegated that responsibility to
  :meth:`avocado.core.job.Job.run`.

* The ``testlog`` plugin wasn't able to show the log location for
  tests executed via the ``avocado-runner-avocado-instrumented``
  runner (for the nrunner architecture`) and this is now fixed.

* The ``avocado-runner-avocado-instrumented`` was producing duplicate
  log entries because of Avocado's log handler for the
  :class:`avocado.core.test.Test` was previously configured to
  propagate the logged messages.

Utility APIs
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* The :mod:`avocado.utils.cpu` now makes available a mapping of
  vendor names to the data that matches in ``/proc/cpuinfo`` on
  that vendor's CPUs (:data:`avocado.utils.cpu.VENDORS_MAP`).
  This allows users to have visibility about the logic used to
  determine the vendor's name, and  overwrite it if needed.

* Various documentation improvements for the
  :mod:`avocado.core.multipath` module.

Internal Changes
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* The :class:`avocado.core.test.Test` class no longer require to
  be given an :class:`avocado.core.job.Job` as an argument.  This
  breaks (in a good way) the circular relationship between those,
  and opens up the possibility for deprecation of legacy code.

* A number of lint checks were added.

* Remove unnecessary compatibility code for Python 3.4 and earlier.

Misc Changes
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For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/85.0...86.0>`_.