97.0 Dopesick

The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 97.0, AKA “Dopesick”, is now available!

Release documentation: Avocado 97.0

Users/Test Writers

  • Test results files (in a job’s result directory) can now be accessed by their result status. For instance, assuming the latest job results are stored in ~/avocado/job-results/latest (the default location), users can find the results for tests that ended in FAIL at ~/avocado/job-results/latest/test-results/by-status/FAIL.

  • The legacy runner plugin has been completely removed. This was in the making since version 92.0 (LTS), with features being removed since then, but now the runner plugin (and thus the --test-runner=runner option) can no longer be used.

  • Sysinfo collection “per-test” command line options have been removed, given that it was knowingly not behaving properly. It’s expected that it will be restored once GitHub issue 3877 is finalized.

  • The --failfast feature now acts on any “not OK” result (currently ERROR, FAIL and INTERRUPTED). Previously, it would only act (that is, abort the job) upon a FAIL test result.

Bug Fixes

  • A condition that would favor the configuration given to the job, instead of the more specific configuration given to the suite, was fixed.

  • A condition in which the PYTHONPATH with egg-related path information would not be used when spawning tasks was fixed.

  • Tests of type exec-test with a URI pointing to a file on the current working directory (that is, without an absolute directory prefix or a directory component to it) were not properly executed (“No such file or directory” was given). This is now fixed.

  • A condition that could crash Avocado when a suite name wasn’t a filesystem safe name has been fixed.

Internal Changes

  • A large part of nrunner was, since its inception, implemented as a standalone module (avocado/core/nrunner.py) that depended on nothing but Python itself. The reason behind this characteristic is that deployment was extremely simple on environments such as containers or other minimalist environments, but it also imposed some obvious limitations. With the deployment strategy recently having switched to Python eggs, this is no longer necessary. Thus, avocado/core/nrunner.py has been split into finer grained, and much more Pythonic modules.

  • The remaining instances of legacy string formatting have been converted to f-strings.

  • A much more comprehensive “interface” tests for runners was added, including the introduction of a JSON Schema based mechanism. Coverage was also introduced for commands such as runnable-run-recipe, task-run and task-run-recipe.

  • Runners will now be called with nothing but the configuration they mean to use. Before this, all of the Avocado settings (around 170 of them) where given to the runners through the -c command line option. This resulted in runner’s command lines and recipe files that were very hard to type and/or understand. Runners now have to declare the specific Avocado settings that they intend to use.

  • Packit builds on CI now also include EPEL-8 and EPEL-9.

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For more information, please check out the complete Avocado changelog.