84.0 The Intouchables¶

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¶

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.

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 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.

avocado.utils.pci now accommodates newer slot names.
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).
avocado.utils.ssh.Session now contains a avocado.utils.ssh.Session.cleanup_master() method and a :property:`avocado.utils.ssh.Session.control_master` property.

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.

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.