The Book of Eli
The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 93.0,
AKA "The Book of Eli", is now available!
Release documentation: Avocado 93.0 <http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/93.0/>
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Users/Test Writers
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The
dict_variants
plugin now allows the configuration of the
keys that will determine the variant ID. -
The legacy runner (
--test-runner=runner
) is being dismantled.
In this release, the following features have removed:-
The
PYTHON_UNITTEST
test type -
The
--external-runner
feature and its underlying test type. -
The
ROBOT
test type -
The
GOLANG
test type
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When using the Job API, test suites can be enabled or disabled.
Having a disabled test suite means it won't be executed. This eases
the creation of custom jobs where the user can choose to run a
subset of suites.
Bug Fixes
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The :mod:
avocado.core.job
code was using the root logger, instead
of the logger at theavocado
namespace. -
The automatic status server was very prone to failures due to
AF_UNIX
's limitation on the length of paths, because it was
created inside a job's result directory. Now it's created on the
base system temporary directory, which makes it very hard to exceed
the path length limit. -
The :mod:
avocado.utils.vmimage
library received the following
improvements:-
Ubuntu's provider now properly handles the version number when it
compares versions with trailing zeroes. -
Ubuntu and OpenSUSE providers can now fetch the best (latest)
version available when no version is given. -
OpenSUSE provider will now use OpenStack images starting from
version 15.3, due to the other images having been discontinued.
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The
variants.json
file, saved at thejobdata
directory
inside a job's result directory, now takes into consideration the
possible multiple suites in a job. The files are now named after
named with a numeric suffix and, if a name was given to the suite, a
name suffix as well. -
The serialization of the job configuration file, also saved in the
jobdata
directory, has been updated to supportset
data
types. -
avocado replay
executions with a--show
(which takes a set
of builtin loggers) now work properly due to the previous fix. -
Various fixes to the
runnable-run
interface behavior of all
shipped runners (detected as part of an improvement in functional
test coverage). -
When using the Job API, some code paths would still resort to using
the legacy runner. -
nrunner
based jobs (the default) can now run from Python egg
based deployments (meaning zero installation steps are required). -
The
resultsdb
plugin is now pinned to a known working version
due to a broken release. -
Test parameters given with the command line argument
-p
are now
internally converted into variants values. This fixes the issue
with those parameters not being displayed in theresults.html
files.
Utility APIs
- The new method
avocado.utils.network.interfaces.NetworkInterface.is_bond
that
allows users to check if a given interface is a bonding device.
Misc Changes
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A few portability improvements for macOS systems.
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Misc documentation improvements.
Internal Changes
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The RPM packages can now be built without the execution of tests.
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The spawner plugin interface now define two different types of
implementations, with the new one being a spawner that is capable of
deploying itself to the environments that will run the tasks. -
Avocado is now also being tested under Python 3.11.
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Various CI improvements.