96.0 Nueve reinas

The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 96.0, AKA "Nueve reinas", is now available!

Release documentation: Avocado 96.0

Users/Test Writers

Plugins can now have a builtin priority in relation to other plugins of the same type that will affect its execution order <plugins_execution_order>. This is in addition to the configurable plugins.$type.order settings.
Avocado will now print a more descriptive list of tests that finished with a particular status at the end of the job (FAIL and ERROR by default).

Bug Fixes

Python logging streams other than the ones in the avocado.* namespace will now be saved to the debug.log files when set with --store-logging-stream option.

Utility APIs

The avocado.utils.cloudinit now allows for a finer grained usage of the functionality in avocado.utils.cloudinit.PhoneHomeServer.
The avocado.utils.network.ports fixed some wrong premises regarding the availability of open ports for different protocols (such as a free TCP versus a free UDP port).

Internal Changes

Modernization of Python code with a switch to f-strings.
A avocado.core.nrunner.Task's set of requirements are now calleddependencies** instead.
The dependencies of a avocado.core.nrunner.Task are now tracked on the more suitable avocado.core.task.runtime.RuntimeTask.
SRPMs for packit builds are now built in COPR.

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