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67.0 A Beautiful Mind
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The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado version
67.0, AKA "A Beautiful Mind", is now available!
Release documentation: `Avocado 67.0
`_
The major changes introduced on this version are listed below,
roughly categorized into major topics and intended audience:
Users/Test Writers
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* The :mod:`avocado.utils.archive` module now supports the handling
of gzip files that are not compressed tarballs.
* The xunit output now names the job after the Avocado job results
directory. This should make the correlation of results displayed in
UIs such as Jenkins and the complete Avocado results much easier.
* A number of improvements to the :mod:`avocado.utils.lv_utils` module
now allows users to choose if they want or not to use ramdisks, and
allows for a more concise experience when creating Thin Provisioning
LVs.
* New utility function in the :mod:`avocado.utils.genio` that
allows for easy matching of patterns in files. See
:func:`avocado.utils.is_pattern_in_file` for more information.
* New utility functions are available to deal with filesystems, such
as :func:`avocado.utils.disk.get_available_filesystems` and
:func:`avocado.utils.disk.get_filesystem_type`.
* The test filtering mechanism using tags now support "key:val"
assignments for further categorization. See :ref:`tags_keyval` for
more details.
* The :class:`Avocado Test class ` now exposes
the :attr:`tags ` to the test. The
test may use that information, for instance, to decide on default
behavior.
* The :func:`avocado.utils.process.kill_process_tree` now supports
waiting a given timeout, and returns the PIDs of all process that
had signals delivered to.
* The :func:`avocado.utils.network.is_port_free` utility function now
supports IPv6 in addition to IPv4, as well as UDP in addition to TCP.
Bug Fixes
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* Fixed the lack of initialization of the logging system that would,
on some unittests, cause an infinity recursion.
Internal Changes
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* The template engine that powers the HTML report has been replaced,
and now jinja2 is being used and pystache has been dropped. The
reason is the lack of activity in the pystache project, and lack of
Python 3.7 support.
* A number of refactors and improvements on the selftests have
increased the number of test to the 650 mark.
* The mechanism used to list selftests to be run is now the same
when running tests in serial or in parallel mode, and is exposed
in the ``selftests/list`` script.
For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
`_.
Release Meeting
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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
`_.