The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 94.0,
AKA "Gran Torino", is now available!

Users/Test Writers

The Podman Spawner now deploys Avocado inside a container using
Python eggs. This is a significant change from previous versions in
the sense that all test types supported by Avocado's nrunner
architecture in the default installation are now supported on a
container (this includes avocado-instrumented, tap, etc).
A results plugin for Beaker <https://beaker-project.org>_ is
now available and works out of the box without any manual
configuration needed.
The AVOCADO_VERSION and AVOCADO_TEST_WORKDIR are now
available to exec-test tests run under the nrunner
architecture.
nrunner task identifiers can now be configured as a format
string that utilizes the attributes of the runnable. This allows
users to define how test results will be named and presented.
The --output-check-record has been dropped for the legacy
runner. A similar feature is planned to be added to the nrunner
architecture.

Bug Fixes

Objects that could not be serialized as JSON were causing crashes
during job runs.

mod:avocado.utils.network removed deprecated modules and methods.
mod:avocado.utils.vmimage now uses https://cloud.debian.org for
obtaining Debian Cloud images.

A Blue Print for a new architecture responsible for handling the
tasks dependencies has been approved
More work towards the elimination of root logger usage

Spanwers now better cooperate with runners with regards to the
output directory, avoiding duplicate directories and unnecessary
data copies.
CodeCoverage CI jobs will run only once (on Python 3.10)
The selftests/check.py script now allows for the inclusion
(--select) or exclusion (--skip) of major test groups to be
run
The import style used throughout Avocado has switched from relative
to absolute imports