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Hi everyone! Right on time for the holidays, Avocado reaches the end
of Sprint 31, and together with it, we're very happy to announce a brand
new release! This version brings stability fixes and improvements to
both Avocado and Avocado-VT, some new features and a major redesign of
our plugin architecture.

For Avocado the main changes are:

  • It's now possible to register callback functions to be executed when
    all tests finish, that is, at the end of a particular job[1].
  • The software manager utility library received a lot of love on the
    Debian side of things. If you're writing tests that install software
    packages on Debian systems, you may be in for some nice treats and
    much more reliable results.
  • Passing malformed commands (such as ones that can not be properly
    split by the standard shlex library) to the process utility library
    is now better dealt with.
  • The test runner code received some refactors and it's a lot easier
    to follow. If you want to understand how the Avocado test runner
    communicates with the processes that run the test themselves, you
    may have a much better code reading experience now.
  • Updated inspektor to the latest and greatest, so that our code is
    kept is shiny and good looking (and performing) as possible.
  • Fixes to the utility GIT library when using a specific local branch
    name.
  • Changes that allow our selftest suite to run properly on virtualenvs.
  • Proper installation requirements definition for Python 2.6 systems.
  • A completely new plugin architecture[2]. Now we offload all plugin
    discovery and loading to the Stevedore library. Avocado now defines
    precise (and simpler) interfaces for plugin writers. Please be aware
    that the public and documented interfaces for plugins, at the
    moment, allows adding new commands to the avocado command line app,
    or adding new options to existing commands. Other functionality can
    be achived by "abusing" the core avocado API from within
    plugins. Our goal is to expand the interfaces so that other areas of
    the framework can be extended just as easily.

For a complete list of changes please check the Avocado changelog[3].

Avocado-VT received just too many fixes and improvements to
list. Please refer to the changelog[4] for more information.

Install avocado

Instructions are available in our documentation on how to install
either with packages or from source[5].

Within a couple of hours, updated RPM packages will be available in
the project repos for Fedora 22, Fedora 23, EPEL 6 and EPEL 7.

Happy hacking and testing!

[1] http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/0.31.0/ReferenceGuide.html#job-cleanup
[2] http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/0.31.0/Plugins.html
[3] 0.30.0...0.31.0
[4] avocado-framework/avocado-vt@0.30.0...0.31.0
[5] http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/0.31.0/GetStartedGuide.html

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