72.0 Once upon a time in Holywood

The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 70.0, AKA “Once upon a time in Holywood”, is now available!

Release documentation: Avocado 72.0

Users/Test Writers

The new vmimage command allows a user to list the virtual machine images downloaded by means of avocado.utils.vmimage or download new images via the avocado vmimage get command.
The tags feature (see Categorizing tests) now supports an extended character set, adding . and - to the allowed characters. A tag such as :avocado: tags=machine:s390-ccw-virtio is now valid.
The still experimental “N(ext) Runner”, introduced on version 71.0, can now run most Avocado Instrumented tests, and possibly any test who implements a matching avocado-runner-$(TEST_TYPE) script that conforms to the expected interface.

A bug introduced in version 71.0 rendered avocado.utils.archive incapable of handling LZMA (also known as xz) archives was fixed.
A Python 3 (bytes versus text) related issue with avocado.utils.cpu.get_cpu_vendor_name() has been fixed.

avocado.utils.ssh now allows password based authentication, in addition to public key based authentication.
avocado.utils.path.usable_ro_dir() will no longer create a directory, but will just check for its existence and the right level of access.
avocado.utils.archive.compress() and avocado.utils.archive.uncompress() and now supports LZMA compressed files transparently.
The avocado.utils.vmimage now has providers for the CirrOS cloud images.

Package build fixes for Fedora 31 and Fedora 32.
Increased test coverage of mux-suite and the yaml-loader features.
A number of pylint checks were added, including w0201, w1505, w1509, w0402 and w1113.

For more information, please check out the complete Avocado changelog.