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84.0 The Intouchables
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The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 84.0,
AKA "The Intouchables", is now available!

Release documentation: `Avocado 84.0
<http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/84.0/>`_

Users/Test Writers
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* Yaml To Mux plugin now properly supports ``None`` values.

* Command line options related to results, such as
  ``--json-job-result``, ``--tap-job-result``, ``--xunit-job-result``
  and ``--html-job-result`` are now "proper boolean" options (such as
  ``--disable-json-job-result``, ``--disable-xunit-job-result``, etc).

* Pre and Post (job) plugins are now respected in when used with the
  Job API.

* Support for ``avocado list`` "extra information" has been restored.
  This is used in Avocado-VT loaders.  They will be removed (again)
  for good after its usage is deprecated and removed in Avocado-VT.

Bug Fixes
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* The ``run.dict_variants`` setting is now properly registered in an
  ``Init`` plugin.

* The nrunner implementation for ``exec`` and ``exec-test`` suffered
  from a limitation to the amount of output it could collect.  It was
  related the size of the PIPE used internally by the Python
  :mod:`subprocess` module.  This limitation has been now lifted.

* The nrunner status server can be configured with the maximum buffer
  size that it uses.

* The ``avocado-instrumented`` nrunner runner now covers all valid
  test status.

* The nrunner status server socket is now properly closed, which
  allows multiple test suites in a job to not conflict.

* The nrunner status server now properly handles the ``asyncio``
  API under Python 3.6.

Utility APIs
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* :mod:`avocado.utils.pci` now accommodates newer slot names.

* :mod:`avocado.utils.memory` now properly handles the 16GB hugepages
  with both the HASH and Radix MMU (by removing the check in case
  Radix is used).

* :class:`avocado.utils.ssh.Session` now contains a
  :meth:`avocado.utils.ssh.Session.cleanup_master` method and a
  :property:`avocado.utils.ssh.Session.control_master` property.

Internal Changes
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* Yaml To Mux documentation updates regarding the data types and null
  values.

* Release documentation now include the Fedora/EPEL refresh steps.

* BP000 is included and approved.

* The ``Makefile`` now works on systems such as Fedora 33 because
  a bad substitution was fixed.

* Only enough ``nrunner`` workers to deal with the number of tasks
  in a suite are created and started.

* All nrunner based runners are now checked with a basic interface
  test.

* The same check script (``selftests/check.py``) is now used run under
  RPM builds.

Misc Changes
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* The contrib scripts to run the KVM unit tests was updated and
  supports the nrunner and skip exit codes.

For more information, please check out the complete
`Avocado changelog
<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/83.0...84.0>`_.