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73.0 Pulp Fiction
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The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 73.0,
AKA "Pulp Fiction", is now available!

Release documentation: `Avocado 73.0
<http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/73.0/>`_

Users/Test Writers
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* ``INSTRUMENTED`` tests using the
  :func:`avocado.core.test.Test.fetch_asset` can take advantage of
  plugins that will attempt to download (and cache) assets before the
  test execution.  This should make the overall test execution more
  reliable, and give better test execution times as the download
  time will be excluded.  Users can also manually execute the
  ``avocado assets`` command to manually fetch assets from tests.

* The still experimental "N(ext) Runner" support for Avocado
  Instrumented tests is more complete and supports tag filtering and
  passing tags to the tests.

* A new architecture for "finding" tests has been introduced as an
  alternative to the :mod:`avocado.core.loader` code.  It's based
  around the :mod:`avocado.core.resolver`, and it's currently used in
  the still experimental "N(ext) Runner".  It currently supports tests
  of the following types: ``avocado-instrumented``, ``exec-test``,
  ``glib``, ``golang``, ``python-unittest`` and ``robot``.  You can
  experiment it by running ``avocado nlist``, similarly to how ``avocado
  list`` is used.

* Avocado ``sysinfo`` feature file will now work out of the box on
  ``pip`` based installations.  Previously, it would require
  configuration files tweaks to adjust installation paths.

* A massive documentation overhaul, now designed around guides to
  different target audiences.  The "User's Guide", "Test Writer's
  Guide" and "Contributor's Guide" can be easily found as first lever
  sections contain curated content for those audiences.

Bug Fixes
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* Content supposed to be UI only could leak into TAP files, making
  them invalid.

* Avocado's ``sysinfo`` feature will now run commands without a
  shell, resulting in more proper captured output, without shell
  related content.

* :func:`avocado.utils.process.SubProcess.send_signal` will now send a
  signal to itself correctly even when using ``sudo`` mode.

Utility APIs
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* The :mod:`avocado.utils.vmimage` library now allows a user to
  define the ``qemu-img`` binary that will be used for creating
  snapshot images via the :data:`avocado.utils.vmimage.QEMU_IMG`
  variable.

* The :mod:`avocado.utils.configure_network` module introduced
  a number of utilities, including MTU configuration support,
  a method for validating network among peers, IPv6 support, etc.

* The :func:`avocado.utils.configure_network.set_ip` function now
  supports different interface types through a ``interface_type``
  parameter, while still defaulting to ``Ethernet``.

Internal Changes
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* Package support for Enterprise Linux 8.

* Increased CI coverage, having tests now run on four different
  hardware architectures: amd64 (x86_64), arm64 (aarch64), ppc64le and
  s390x.

* Packit support adding extended CI coverage, with RPM packages being
  built for Pull Requests and results shown on GitHub.

* Pylint checks for w0703 were enabled.

* Runners, such as the remote runner, vm runner, docker runner, and
  the default local runner now conform to a "runner" interface and
  can be seen as proper plugins with ``avocado plugins``.

* Avocado's configuration parser will now treat values with relative
  paths as a special value, and evaluate their content in relation
  to the Python's distribution directory where Avocado is installed.

For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/72.0...73.0>`_.