61.0 Seven Pounds¶
The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado version 60.0, AKA “Seven Pounds”, is now available!
Release documentation: Avocado 61.0
The major changes introduced on this version are listed below, roughly categorized into major topics and intended audience:
Users/Test Writers¶
The
xunitresult plugin can now limit the amount of output generated by individual tests that will make into the XML based output file. This is intended for situations where tests can generate prohibitive amounts of output that can render the file too large to be reused elsewhere (such as imported by Jenkins).SIMPLE tests can also finish with
SKIPORWARNstatus, depending on the output produced, and the Avocado test runner configuration. It now supports patterns that span across multiple lines. For more information, refer to test_type_simple_status.Simple bytes and “unicode strings” utility functions have been added to
avocado.utils.astring, and can be used by extension and test writers that need consistent results across Python major versions.All of core Avocado and all but one plugin (
yaml-to-mux) now have all their tests enabled on Python 3. This means that for virtually all use cases, the experience of Python 3 users should be on par to the Python 2 experience. Please refer to https://trello.com/c/Q8QVmj8E/1254-bug-non-ascii-character-breaks-yaml2mux and https://trello.com/c/eFY9Vw1R/1282-python-3-functional-tests-checklist for the outstanding issues.
Bug Fixes¶
The TAP plugin was omitting the output generated by the test from its own output. Now, that functionality is back, and commented out output will be shown after the
okornot oklines.Packaging issues which prevented proper use of RPM packages installations, due to the lack dependencies, were fixed. Now, on both Python 2 and 3 packages, the right dependencies should be fulfilled.
Replaying jobs that use the “YAML loader” is now possible. The fix was the implementation of the
fingerprintmethod, previously missing from theavocado.core.tree.TreeNodeEnvOnlyclass.
Internal Changes¶
The
glibtest loader plugin won’t attempt to execute test references to list the glib tests, unless the test reference is an executable file.Files created after the test name, which include the
;character, will now be properly mapped to a filesystem safe_;A number of improvements to the code quality, as a result of having more “warning” checks enabled on our lint check.
A significant reduction in the default timeout used when waiting for hotplug operations on memory devices, as part of the utility module
avocado.utils.memory.Improved support for non-ASCII input, including the internal use of “unicode” string types for
avocado.utils.process.run()and similar functions. The command parameter given to those functions are now expected to be “unicode” strings.
For more information, please check out the complete Avocado changelog.
Release Meeting¶
The Avocado release meetings are now open to the community via Hangouts on Air. The meetings are recorded and made available on the Avocado Test Framework YouTube channel.
For this release, you can watch the meeting on this link.