Hello everyone, Right on the heels of the 54.0 release, the Avocado team would like to apologize for a mistake that made into that version. The following change, as documented on 54.0 has been **reverted** on this 54.1 release.
* Test ID format Avocado has been using for a while received a minor tweak, to allow for better serialization into some filesystem types, such as Microsoft Windows' ones. Basically, the character that precedes the variant name, a separator, used to be ``;``, which is not allowed on some filesystems. Now, a ``+`` character is used. A Test ID ``sleeptest.py:SleepTest.test;short-beaf`` on a previous Avocado version is now ``sleeptest.py:SleepTest.test+short-beaf``. The reason for the revert and the new release, is that the actual character causing trouble in Windows filesystems was "lost in translation". The culprit was the ``:`` character, and not ``;``. This means that the Variant ID separator character change was unnecessary, and another fix is necessary. Release Notes ============= Since we host the release notes alongside our official documentation, please refer to the following link for the complete information about this release: http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes/54_1.html Installing Avocado ================== Instructions are available in our documentation on how to install either with packages or from source: http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/54.1/GetStartedGuide.html#installing-avocado Updated RPM packages are available for EPEL 7, Fedora 26 and 25. Happy hacking and testing! -- Cleber Rosa [ Sr Software Engineer - Virtualization Team - Red Hat ] [ Avocado Test Framework - avocado-framework.github.io ] [ 7ABB 96EB 8B46 B94D 5E0F E9BB 657E 8D33 A5F2 09F3 ]
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