69.1 LTS

The Avocado team is proud to present a minor release in the 69.0 LTS (Long Term Stability) series, version 69.1 LTS, is now available!

LTS Release

For more information on what a LTS release means, please read RFC: Long Term Stability.

Upgrading from 69.0 to 69.1

Upgrading should be smooth, and there are no additional instructions besides the steps on the installation method used. For instance, if using pip, it should be as simple as:

$ pip install avocado-framework==69.1

Changes from 69.0

Bug Fixes

  • The second time Avocado crashes, a “crash” directory is created to hold the backtrace. On a subsequent crash, if the directory already exists, an exception would be raised for the failed attempted to create an existing directory, confusing users on the nature of the crash. Now a proper handling for the possibly existing directory is in place.
  • The CIT Varianter plugin was returning variants in an invalid form to the runner. This caused the plugin to fail when actually used to run tests. A functional test has also been aded to avoid a regression here.
  • The avocado.utils.distro module now properly detects RHEL 8 systems.
  • The safeloader would fail to identify Python module names when a relative import was used. This means that the experience with $ avocado list and $ avocado run would suffer when trying to list and run tests that either directly or indirectly imported modules containing a relative import such as from . import foo.
  • The avocado.utils.vmimage can now find Fedora images for s390x.
  • avocado list will now show the contents of the “key:val” tags.
  • The Avocado test loader will correctly apply filters with multiple “key:val” tags.

Utility APIs

Complete list of changes

For a complete list of changes between the last LTS release (69.0) and this release, please check out the Avocado commit changelog.