103.0 - Sound of Freedom

103.0 - Sound of Freedom

The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 103.0,
AKA "Sound of Freedom", is now available!

Release documentation: http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/103.0/

Users/Test Writers

• The remote spawner is a new optional plugin that makes use of remote
  aexpect (https://github.com/avocado-framework/aexpect/) sessions
  (to remote hosts or equivalently remote containers behind remote hosts
  forwarded via specific ports) as slots to schedule test runs on.

• The format of test log messages have been reverted to more closely
  match previous LTS (92.x) format like line number and Python module
  name (see #5721).

• The avocado-instrumented runner used to have an internal timeout
  of 24 hours that users might not have intended to use or respect.
  This internal timeout has been removed and configuration such as
  task.timeout.running or --job-timeout are the timeout users
  should worry about (see #5394).

• The json result file now contains the actual start and end time
  of tests in a format based on :func:time.time (see
  #5768).

• The avocado jobs list command now presents a sorted list of jobs
  based on the modification of the results file (see a956ff0.

• If the status server is manually configured (that is,
  --status-server-disable-auto is set), and either the URI
  (--status-server-uri or the listen address is given
  (--status-server-listen) the other will automatically be set to
  the same value for convenience (see
  #5748).

• Python 3.12 is now formally supported (see
  #5789).

• Resolvers can now choose to report a resolution result of type
  :data:avocado.core.resolver.ReferenceResolutionResult.CORRUPT, which
  can be used when the reference seems to be accurate to the resolver in
  question, but something is broken in the resolved entity (such as a
  corrupt test file. See
  #5710.

• When running avocado-instrumented tests with a timeout
  defined, it's possible to set a timeout_factor parameter that
  will either extend or shorten the actual timeout for that execution
  (see #5820).

Utility Modules

• The :meth:avocado.utils.ssh.Session.cmd now supports setting a
  timeout for the command execution (see
  #5775).

• The :mod:avocado.utils.distro module added specific detection for
  CentOS Stream (see #5667).

• The :mod:avocado.utils.distro module improved detection for
  Amazon Linux (see https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues/5668>.

Bug Fixes

• The loader for avocado-instrumented tests could end up using the
  wrong Python module if a module of the same name existed elsewhere
  in the import path. Now, the actual path of the Python file
  containing the test (given in the modulePath parameter) is used
  explicitly by the Python module importer (see
  #5686).

• When :ref:dependencies <managing-requirements> are not fulfilled,
  test results would be missing, instead of being clearly shown as
  CANCEL (see #5667).

• :func:avocado.utils.path.init_dir would raise
  :class:FileExistsError if the directory already existed, usually
  causing crashes on its users (see #5746 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/5746>__).

• The :ref:whiteboard <saving-test-generated-custom-data> file was
  being created with duplicate content because of the legacy runner
  implementation, which is now removed (see #5770 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues/5770>__).

• The avocado jobs show command now presents the correct time
  tests have ended (see #5762 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/5762/commits/b7ec30e69b2a51f97eb97ee445b12997366b5652>__).

• The :func:avocado.utils.download.url_open function used to
  misleadingly says that a URL had been retrieved at a stage where
  only a response was obtained. It now presents an accurate message
  (see #5742 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues/5742>__).

• The Podman Spawner had a race condition where the state of the
  container (and thus the task) would not take into account the
  transition from "created" to "running" (see #5783 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/5783>__).

• Avocado has re-enabled stdout and stderr files for
  avocado-instrumented files (see #5779 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues/5779>__).

• The Spawner interface and implementations now properly checks if the
  termination of a task was successful or not. The statemachine uses
  that information to let users know of situations where a task could
  not be terminated (see #5788 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/5788>__).

• The tearDown() of avocado-instrumented now gets called
  properly if a test times out (see #5795 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/5795>__).

• The Process Spawner now properly handles a situation where, during
  the termination of a task, the process itself finishes before the
  spawner has the chance to do so (see #5805 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/5805>__).

• When interrupting avocado-instrumented tests, the tearDown()
  will be called to allow for cleanups. If an error occurred during
  the execution of tearDown() the status of the test would change
  to ERROR (instead of keeping its original INTERRUPT status
  (see #5801 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues/5801>__).

• The HTML result plugin was not properly filtering tests based on
  their status (see #5828 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues/5828>__).

• The testlogs plugin was not showing tests with all "not ok"
  statuses and was showing test names instead of test IDs which are
  unique in a suite (see #5827 <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues/5827>__).

Additional information

For more information, please check out the complete
Avocado changelog <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/102.0...103.0>_.

For more information on the actual issues addressed, please check out
the milestone information <https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/milestone/29?closed=1>_.

For more information on the release codename, please refer to IMDb <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7599146>_.