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69.0 The King's Choice
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The Avocado team is proud to present another LTS (Long Term Stability)
release: Avocado 69.0, AKA "The King's Choice", is now available!

Release documentation: `Avocado 69.0
<http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/69.0/>`_

LTS Release
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For more information on what a LTS release means, please read
:ref:`rfc-long-term-stability`.

For a complete list of changes from the last LTS release to this one,
please refer to :ref:`69.0 LTS <lts_69_0>`.

The major changes introduced on this version (when compared to 68.0)
are listed below, roughly categorized into major topics and intended
audience:

Bug Fixes
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* INSTRUMENTED tests would not send content to the test's individual
  log files when the logger name was not ``avocado.test``.  Now tests
  can declare and use their own logger (with their own names) and the
  content will be directed to the test's own log files.

* The JSON result plugin would store empty failure data as a string
  representation of Python's ``None``, instead of JSON's own ``null``.
  Because the JSON file is used internally between the local and remote
  runners, the Human UI would show a ``"None"`` "failure" reason
  when tests succeeded.

Internal Changes
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* Document the Copr repo, including the repository build status for
  our packages on our README and Getting Started pages.

* Documentation improvements with a more accurate list of available
  plugins.

* Deployment checks for a setup of Avocado and Avocado-VT installed via
  PIP from the latest sources were added.

* Deployment checks for a setup of Avocado and Avocado-VT installed via
  the Copr repository packages were added.

* Reliability improvements for the unittest
  ``selftests.test_utils.ProcessTest.test_process_start``.

* Skip the unittest ``selftests.test_utils_network`` when the Python
  netifaces library is not available.

For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/68.0...69.0>`_.