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84.0 The Intouchables
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The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 84.0,
AKA "The Intouchables", is now available!
Release documentation: `Avocado 84.0
`_
Users/Test Writers
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* Yaml To Mux plugin now properly supports ``None`` values.
* Command line options related to results, such as
``--json-job-result``, ``--tap-job-result``, ``--xunit-job-result``
and ``--html-job-result`` are now "proper boolean" options (such as
``--disable-json-job-result``, ``--disable-xunit-job-result``, etc).
* Pre and Post (job) plugins are now respected in when used with the
Job API.
* Support for ``avocado list`` "extra information" has been restored.
This is used in Avocado-VT loaders. They will be removed (again)
for good after its usage is deprecated and removed in Avocado-VT.
Bug Fixes
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* The ``run.dict_variants`` setting is now properly registered in an
``Init`` plugin.
* The nrunner implementation for ``exec`` and ``exec-test`` suffered
from a limitation to the amount of output it could collect. It was
related the size of the PIPE used internally by the Python
:mod:`subprocess` module. This limitation has been now lifted.
* The nrunner status server can be configured with the maximum buffer
size that it uses.
* The ``avocado-instrumented`` nrunner runner now covers all valid
test status.
* The nrunner status server socket is now properly closed, which
allows multiple test suites in a job to not conflict.
* The nrunner status server now properly handles the ``asyncio``
API under Python 3.6.
Utility APIs
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* :mod:`avocado.utils.pci` now accommodates newer slot names.
* :mod:`avocado.utils.memory` now properly handles the 16GB hugepages
with both the HASH and Radix MMU (by removing the check in case
Radix is used).
* :class:`avocado.utils.ssh.Session` now contains a
:meth:`avocado.utils.ssh.Session.cleanup_master` method and a
:property:`avocado.utils.ssh.Session.control_master` property.
Internal Changes
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* Yaml To Mux documentation updates regarding the data types and null
values.
* Release documentation now include the Fedora/EPEL refresh steps.
* BP000 is included and approved.
* The ``Makefile`` now works on systems such as Fedora 33 because
a bad substitution was fixed.
* Only enough ``nrunner`` workers to deal with the number of tasks
in a suite are created and started.
* All nrunner based runners are now checked with a basic interface
test.
* The same check script (``selftests/check.py``) is now used run under
RPM builds.
Misc Changes
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* The contrib scripts to run the KVM unit tests was updated and
supports the nrunner and skip exit codes.
For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
`_.