Robot Framework 7.0 is a new major release with highly enhanced listener interface
+(#3296), native VAR syntax for creating variables (#3761), support for
+mixing embedded and normal arguments with library keywords (#4710), JSON
+result format (#4847) and various other enhancements and bug fixes.
Robot Framework 7.0 was released on Thursday January 11, 2024. Questions and comments
+related to the release can be sent to the #devel channel on Robot Framework Slack
+and possible bugs submitted to the issue tracker.
VAR syntax-tag syntaxIf you have pip installed, just run
++pip install --upgrade robotframework ++
to install the latest available stable release or use
++pip install robotframework==7.0 ++
to install exactly this version. Alternatively you can download the package +from PyPI and install it manually. For more details and other installation +approaches, see the installation instructions.
+ +++ +If you are interested to learn more about the new features in Robot Framework 7.0, +join the RoboCon conference in February, 2024. Pekka Klärck, Robot Framework +lead developer, will go through the key features briefly in the onsite conference +in Helsinki and more thoroughly in the online edition.
+The conference has also dozens of other great talks, workshops and a lot of +possibilities to meet other community members as well as developers of various +tools and libraries in the ecosystem. All profits from the conference will be +used for future Robot Framework development.
+
Robot Framework's listener interface is a very powerful mechanism to get +notifications about various events during execution and it also allows modifying +data and results on the fly. It is not typically directly used by normal Robot +Framework users, but they are likely to use tools that use it internally. +The listener API has been significantly enhanced making it possible +to create even more powerful and interesting tools in the future.
+ +The major limitation with the listener API has been that the listener +API version 2 only supports getting notifications, not making modifications, +and that the more powerful listener API version 3 has only supported suites +and tests/tasks.
+The biggest enhancement in the whole Robot Framework 7.0 is that the listener +version 3 has been extended to support also keywords and control structures (#3296). +For example, a listener having the following methods prints information +about started keywords and ended WHILE loops:
+
+from robot import result, running
+
+
+def start_keyword(data: running.Keyword, result: result.Keyword):
+ print(f"Keyword '{result.full_name}' used on line {data.lineno} started.")
+
+
+def end_while(data: running.While, result: result.While):
+ print(f"WHILE loop on line {data.lineno} ended with status {result.status} "
+ f"after {len(result.body)} iterations.")
+
+With keyword calls it is possible to also get more information about the actually +executed keyword. For example, the following listener prints some information +about the executed keyword and the library it belongs to:
+
+from robot.running import Keyword as KeywordData, LibraryKeyword
+from robot.result import Keyword as KeywordResult
+
+
+def start_library_keyword(data: KeywordData,
+ implementation: LibraryKeyword,
+ result: KeywordResult):
+ library = implementation.owner
+ print(f"Keyword '{implementation.name}' is implemented in library "
+ f"'{library.name}' at '{implementation.source}' on line "
+ f"{implementation.lineno}. The library has {library.scope.name} "
+ f"scope and the current instance is {library.instance}.")
+
+As the above example already illustrated, it is even possible to get an access to
+the actual library instance. This means that listeners can inspect the library
+state and also modify it. With user keywords it is even possible to modify
+the keyword itself or, via the owner resource file, any other keyword in
+the resource file.
Listeners can also modify results if needed. Possible use cases include hiding +sensitive information and adding more details to results based on external sources.
+Notice that although listener can change status of any executed keyword or control +structure, that does not directly affect the status of the executed test. In general +listeners cannot directly fail keywords so that execution would stop or handle +failures so that execution would continue. This kind of functionality may be +added in the future if there are needs.
+The new listener version 3 methods are so powerful and versatile that going them +through thoroughly in these release notes is not possible. For more examples, you +can see the acceptance tests using the methods in various interesting and even +crazy ways.
+ +Earlier listeners always needed to specify the API version they used with the
+ROBOT_LISTENER_API_VERSION attribute. Now that the listener version 3 got
+the new methods, it is considered so much more powerful than the version 2
+that it was made the default listener version (#4910).
The listener version 2 continues to work, but using it requires specifying +the listener version as earlier. The are no plans to deprecate the listener +version 2, but we nevertheless highly recommend using the version 3 whenever +possible.
+ +SELFListeners are typically enabled from the command line, but libraries
+can register listeners as well. Often libraries themselves want to act
+as listeners, and that has earlier required using self.ROBOT_LIBRARY_LISTENER = self
+in the __init__ method. Robot Framework 7.0 makes it possible to use string
+SELF (case-insensitive) for this purpose as well (#4910), which means
+that a listener can be specified as a class attribute and not only in __init__.
+This is especially convenient when using the @library decorator:
+from robot.api.deco import keyword, library
+
+
+@library(listener='SELF')
+class Example:
+
+ def start_suite(self, data, result):
+ ...
+
+ @keyword
+ def example(self, arg):
+ ...
+
+
+Modifying keyword call arguments programmatically has been made more convenient
+(#5000). This enhancement eases modifying arguments using the new listener
+version 3 start/end_keyword methods.
pathlib.Path objectsListeners have methods like output_file and log_file that are called when
+result files are ready so that they get the file path as an argument. Earlier
+paths were strings, but nowadays listener version 3 methods get them as
+more convenient pathlib.Path objects.
VAR syntaxThe new VAR syntax (#3761) makes it possible to create local variables
+as well as global, suite and test/task scoped variables dynamically during
+execution. The motivation is to have a more convenient syntax than using
+the Set Variable keyword for creating local variables and to unify
+the syntax for creating variables in different scopes. Except for the mandatory
+VAR marker, the syntax is also the same as when creating variables in the
+Variables section. The syntax is best explained with examples:
+*** Test Cases ***
+Example
+ # Create a local variable `${local}` with a value `value`.
+ VAR ${local} value
+
+ # Create a variable that is available throughout the whole suite.
+ # Supported scopes are GLOBAL, SUITE, TEST, TASK and LOCAL (default).
+ VAR ${suite} value scope=SUITE
+
+ # Validate created variables.
+ Should Be Equal ${local} value
+ Should Be Equal ${suite} value
+
+Example continued
+ # Suite level variables are seen also by subsequent tests.
+ Should Be Equal ${suite} value
+
+When creating ${scalar} variables having long values, it is possible to split
+the value to multiple lines. Lines are joined together with a space by default,
+but that can be changed with the separator configuration option. Similarly as
+in the Variables section, it is possible to create also @{list} and &{dict}
+variables. Unlike in the Variables section, variables can be created conditionally
+using IF/ELSE structures:
+*** Test Cases ***
+Long value
+ VAR ${long}
+ ... This value is rather long.
+ ... It has been split to multiple lines.
+ ... Parts will be joined together with a space.
+
+Multiline
+ VAR ${multiline}
+ ... First line.
+ ... Second line.
+ ... Last line.
+ ... separator=\n
+
+List
+ # Creates a list with three items.
+ VAR @{list} a b c
+
+Dictionary
+ # Creates a dictionary with two items.
+ VAR &{dict} key=value second=item
+
+Normal IF
+ IF 1 > 0
+ VAR ${x} true value
+ ELSE
+ VAR ${x} false value
+ END
+
+Inline IF
+ IF 1 > 0 VAR ${x} true value ELSE VAR ${x} false value
+
+
+User keywords got support to use both embedded and normal arguments in Robot +Framework 6.1 (#4234) and now that support has been added also to library keywords +(#4710). The syntax works so, that if a function or method implementing a keyword +accepts more arguments than there are embedded arguments, the remaining arguments +can be passed in as normal arguments. This is illustrated by the following example +keyword:
+
+@keyword('Number of ${animals} should be')
+def example(animals, count):
+ ...
+
+The above keyword could be used like this:
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+Example
+ Number of horses should be 2
+ Number of horses should be count=2
+ Number of dogs should be 3
+
+
+Robot Framework 6.1 added support to convert test/task data to JSON and back +and Robot Framework 7.0 extends the JSON serialization support to execution results +(#4847). One of the core use cases for data serialization was making it easy to +transfer data between process and machines, and now it is also easy to pass results +back.
+Also the built-in Rebot tool that is used for post-processing results supports
+JSON files both in output and in input. Creating JSON output files is done using
+the normal --output option so that the specified file has a .json extension:
+rebot --output output.json output.xml ++
When reading output files, JSON files are automatically recognized by +the extension:
++rebot output.json +rebot output1.json output2.json ++
When combining or merging results, it is possible to mix JSON and XML files:
++rebot output1.xml output2.json +rebot --merge original.xml rerun.json ++
The JSON output file structure is documented in the result.json schema file.
The plan is to enhance the support for JSON output files in the future so that +they could be created already during execution. For more details see issue #3423.
+ +Automatic argument conversion is a very powerful feature that library developers +can use to avoid converting arguments manually and to get more useful Libdoc +documentation. There are two important new enhancements to it.
+ +LiteralIn Python, the Literal type makes it possible to type arguments so that type
+checkers accept only certain values. For example, this function only accepts
+strings x, y and z:
+def example(arg: Literal['x', 'y', 'z']):
+ ...
+
+Robot Framework has been enhanced so that it validates that an argument having
+a Literal type can only be used with the specified values (#4633). For
+example, using a keyword with the above implementation with a value xxx would
+fail.
In addition to validation, arguments are also converted. For example, if an
+argument accepts Literal[-1, 0, 1], used arguments are converted to
+integers and then validated. In addition to that, string matching is case, space,
+underscore and hyphen insensitive. In all cases exact matches have a precedence
+and the argument that is passed to the keyword is guaranteed to be in the exact
+format used with Literal.
Literal conversion is in many ways similar to Enum conversion that Robot
+Framework has supported for long time. Enum conversion has benefits like
+being able to use a custom documentation and it is typically better when using
+the same type multiple times. In simple cases being able to just use
+arg: Literal[...] without defining a new type is very convenient, though.
'list[int]' and 'int | float'Python's type hinting syntax has evolved so that generic types can be parameterized
+like list[int] (new in Python 3.9) and unions written as int | float
+(new in Python 3.10). Using these constructs with older Python versions causes
+errors, but Python type checkers support also "stringified" type hints like
+'list[int]' and 'int | float' that work regardless the Python version.
Support for stringified generics and unions has now been added also to +Robot Framework's argument conversion (#4711). For example, +the following typing now also works with Python 3.8:
+
+def example(a: 'list[int]', b: 'int | float'):
+ ...
+
+These stringified types are also compatible with the Remote library API and other +scenarios where using actual types is not possible.
+ +-tag syntaxIndividual tests and keywords can nowadays remove tags that have been set in
+the Settings section with Test Tags or Keyword Tags settings by using
+the -tag syntax with their own [Tags] setting (#4374). For example,
+tests T1 and T3 below get tags all and most, and test T2 gets
+tags all and one:
+*** Settings ***
+Test Tags all most
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+T1
+ No Operation
+T2
+ [Tags] one -most
+ No Operation
+T3
+ No Operation
+
+With tests it is possible to get the same effect by using the Default Tags
+setting and overriding it where needed. That syntax is, however, considered
+deprecated (#4365) and using the new -tag syntax is recommended. With
+keywords there was no similar functionality earlier.
Dynamic and hybrid libraries nowadays support asynchronous execution.
+In practice the special methods like get_keyword_names and run_keyword
+can be implemented as async methods (#4803).
Async support was added to the normal static library API in Robot Framework +6.1 (#4089). A bug related to handling asynchronous keywords if execution +is stopped gracefully has also been fixed (#4808).
+ +Timestamps used in the result model and stored to the output.xml file used custom
+format like 20231107 19:57:01.123 earlier. Non-standard formats are seldom
+a good idea, and in this case parsing the custom format turned out to be slow
+as well.
Nowadays the result model stores timestamps as standard datetime objects and
+elapsed times as a timedelta (#4258). This makes creating timestamps and
+operating with them more convenient and considerably faster. The new objects can
+be accessed via start_time, end_time and elapsed_time attributes that were
+added as forward compatibility already in Robot Framework 6.1 (#4765).
+Old information is still available via the old starttime, endtime and
+elapsedtime attributes, so this change is fully backwards compatible.
The timestamp format in output.xml has also been changed from the custom
+YYYYMMDD HH:MM:SS.mmm format to ISO 8601 compatible
+YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.mmmmmm. Using a standard format makes it
+easier to process output.xml files, but this change also has big positive
+performance effect. Now that the result model stores timestamps as datetime
+objects, formatting and parsing them with the available isoformat() and
+fromisoformat() methods is very fast compared to custom formatting and parsing.
A related change is that instead of storing start and end times of each executed +item in output.xml, we nowadays store their start and elapsed times. Elapsed times +are represented as floats denoting seconds. Having elapsed times directly available +is a lot more convenient than calculating them based on start and end times. +Storing start and elapsed times also takes less space than storing start and end times.
+As the result of these changes, times are available in the result model and in +output.xml in higher precision than earlier. Earlier times were stored in millisecond +granularity, but nowadays they use microseconds. Logs and reports still use milliseconds, +but that can be changed in the future if there are needs.
+Changes to output.xml are backwards incompatible and affect all external tools +that process timestamps. This is discussed more in Changes to output.xml +section below along with other output.xml changes.
+ +Report and log got a new dark mode (#3725). It is enabled automatically based +on browser and operating system preferences, but there is also a toggle to +switch between the modes.
+ +Robot Framework 7.0 requires Python 3.8 or newer (#4294). The last version +that supports Python 3.6 and 3.7 is Robot Framework 6.1.1.
+ +The output.xml file has changed in different ways making Robot Framework 7.0 +incompatible with external tools processing output.xml files until these tools +are updated. We try to avoid this kind of breaking changes, but in this case +especially the changes to timestamps were considered so important that we +eventually would have needed to do them anyway.
+Due to the changes being relatively big, it can take some time before external
+tools are updated. To allow users to take Robot Framework 7.0 into use also
+if they depend on an incompatible tool, it is possible to use the new
+--legacy-output option both as part of execution and with the Rebot tool
+to generate output.xml files that are compatible with older versions.
The biggest changes in output.xml are related to timestamps (#4258).
+With earlier versions start and end times of executed items, as well as timestamps
+of the logged messages, were stored using a custom YYYYMMDD HH:MM:SS.mmm format,
+but nowadays the format is ISO 8601 compatible YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.mmmmmm.
+In addition to that, instead of saving start and end times to starttime and
+endtime attributes and message times to timestamp, start and elapsed times
+are now stored to start and elapsed attributes and message times to time.
Examples:
+
+<!-- Old format -->
+<msg timestamp="20231108 15:36:34.278" level="INFO">Hello world!</msg>
+<status status="PASS" starttime="20231108 15:37:35.046" endtime="20231108 15:37:35.046"/>
+
+<!-- New format -->
+<msg time="2023-11-08T15:36:34.278343" level="INFO">Hello world!</msg>
+<status status="PASS" start="2023-11-08T15:37:35.046153" elapsed="0.000161"/>
+
+The new format is standard compliant, contains more detailed times, makes the elapsed
+time directly available and makes the <status> elements over 10% shorter.
+These are all great benefits, but we are still sorry for all the extra work
+this causes for those developing tools that process output.xml files.
How keyword names are stored in output.xml has changed slightly (#4884).
+With each executed keywords we store both the name of the keyword and the name
+of the library or resource file containing it. Earlier the latter was stored to
+attribute library also with resource files, but nowadays the attribute is generic
+owner. In addition to owner being a better name in general, it also
+matches the new owner attribute keywords in the result model have.
Another change is that the original name stored with keywords using embedded
+arguments is nowadays in source_name attribute when it used to be in sourcename.
+This change was done to make the attribute consistent with the attribute in
+the result model.
Examples:
+
+<!-- Old format -->
+<kw name="Log" library="BuiltIn">...</kw>
+<kw name="Number of horses should be" sourcename="Number of ${animals} should be" library="my_resource">...</kw>
+
+<!-- New format -->
+<kw name="Log" owner="BuiltIn">...</kw>
+<kw name="Number of horses should be" source_name="Number of ${animals} should be" owner="my_resource">...</kw>
+
+
+Nowadays keywords and control structures can have a message. Messages are represented
+as the text of the <status> element, and they have been present already earlier with
+tests and suites. Related to this, control structured cannot anymore have <doc>.
+(#4883)
These changes should not cause problems for tools processing output.xml files, +but storing messages with each failed keyword and control structure may +increase the output.xml size.
+ +The output.xml schema has been updated and can be found via +https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework/tree/master/doc/schema/.
+ +There have been some changes to the result model that unfortunately affect +external tools using it. The main motivation for these changes has been +cleaning up the model before creating a JSON representation for it (#4847).
+ +The biggest changes are related to keyword names (#4884). Earlier Keyword
+objects had a name attribute that contained the full keyword name like
+BuiltIn.Log. The actual keyword name and the name of the library or resource
+file that the keyword belonged to were in kwname and libname attributes,
+respectively. In addition to these, keywords using embedded arguments also had
+a sourcename attribute containing the original keyword name.
Due to reasons explained in #4884, the following changes have been made +in Robot Framework 7.0:
+kwname is renamed to name. This is consistent with the execution side Keyword.libname is renamed to generic owner.full_name is introduced to replace the old name.sourcename is renamed to source_name.kwname, libname and sourcename are preserved as properties. They are considered
+deprecated, but accessing them does not cause a deprecation warning yet.The backwards incompatible part of this change is changing the meaning of the
+name attribute. It used to be a read-only property yielding the full name
+like BuiltIn.Log, but now it is a normal attribute that contains just the actual
+keyword name like Log. All other old attributes have been preserved as properties
+and code using them does not need to be updated immediately.
The following attributes that were deprecated already in Robot Framework 4.0 +have been removed (#4846):
+TestSuite.keywords. Use TestSuite.setup and TestSuite.teardown instead.TestCase.keywords. Use TestCase.body, TestCase.setup and TestCase.teardown instead.Keyword.keywords. Use Keyword.body and Keyword.teardown instead.Keyword.children. Use Keyword.body and Keyword.teardown instead.TestCase.critical. The whole criticality concept has been removed.Additionally, TestSuite.keywords and TestCase.keywords have been removed
+from the execution model.
There have been some changes also to the parsing model:
+The node representing the deprecated [Return] setting has been renamed from
+Return to ReturnSetting. At the same time, the node representing the
+RETURN statement has been renamed from ReturnStatement to Return (#4939).
To ease transition, ReturnSetting has existed as an alias for Return starting
+from Robot Framework 6.1 (#4656) and ReturnStatement is preserved as an alias
+now. In addition to that, the ModelVisitor base class has special handling for
+visit_ReturnSetting and visit_ReturnStatement visitor methods so that they work
+correctly with ReturnSetting and ReturnStatement with Robot Framework 6.1 and
+newer. Issue #4939 explains this in more detail and has a concrete example
+how to support also older Robot Framework versions.
The node representing the Test Tags setting as well as the deprecated
+Force Tags setting has been renamed from ForceTags to TestTags (#4385).
+ModelVisitor has special handling for the visit_ForceTags method so
+that it will continue to work also after the change.
The token type used with AS (or WITH NAME) in library imports has been changed
+to Token.AS (#4375). Token.WITH_NAME still exists as an alias for Token.AS.
Statement type and tokens have been moved from _fields to _attributes (#4912).
+This may affect debugging the model.
The following deprecated constructs have been removed from Libdoc spec files (#4667):
+datatypes have been removed from XML or JSON spec files. They were deprecated in
+favor of typedocs already in Robot Framework 5.0 (#4160).<type> elements.
+The name is available as the name attribute of <type> elements since
+Robot Framework 6.1 (#4538).types and typedocs attributes have been removed from arguments in JSON specs.
+The type attribute introduced in RF 6.1 (#4538) needs to be used instead.Libdoc schema files have been updated and can be found via +https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework/tree/master/doc/schema/.
+ +--suite, --test and --includeThere are two changes related to selecting tests:
+--test and --include together, tests matching either of them
+are selected (#4721). Earlier tests need to match both options to be selected.--suite parent.suite,
+the given name must match the full suite name (#4720). Earlier it was enough if
+the prefix matched the closest parent or parents.stdin argument used with Process library keyword
+has been changed from subprocess.PIPE to None (#4103). This change ought
+to avoid processes hanging in some cases. Those who depend on the old behavior
+need to use stdin=PIPE explicitly to enable that.type, type[param],
+type[p1, p2] or t1 | t2 (#4711). Using other formats will cause errors taking
+keywords into use. In practice problems occur if the special characters [, ], ,
+and | occur in unexpected places. For example, arg: "Hello, world!" will cause
+an error due to the comma.datetime, date and timedelta objects are sent over the Remote interface
+differently than earlier (#4784). They all used to be converted to strings, but
+nowadays datetime is sent as-is, date is converted to datetime and sent like
+that, and timedelta is converted to a float by using timedelta.total_seconds().collections.abc.ByteString has been removed (#4983).
+The reason is that ByteString is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.14.
+It has not been too often needed, but if you happen to use it, you can change
+arg: ByteString to arg: bytes | bytearray and the functionality
+stays exactly the same.output_file
+and log_file have been changed from strings to pathlib.Path objects (#4988).
+Most of the time both kinds of paths work interchangeably, so this change is unlikely
+to cause issues. If you need to handle these paths as strings, they can be converted
+by using str(path).robot.utils.normalize does not anymore support bytes (#4936).accept_plain_values argument has been removed from the
+timestr_to_secs utility function (#4861).[Return] settingThe [Return] setting for specifying the return value from user keywords has
+been "loudly" deprecated (#4876). It has been "silently" deprecated since
+Robot Framework 5.0 when the much more versatile RETURN setting was introduced
+(#4078), but now using it will cause a deprecation warning. The plan is to
+preserve the [Return] setting at least until Robot Framework 8.0.
If you have lot of data that uses [Return], the easiest way to update it is
+using the Robotidy tool that can convert [Return] to RETURN automatically.
+If you have data that is executed also with Robot Framework versions that do
+not support RETURN, you can use the Return From Keyword keyword instead.
+That keyword will eventually be deprecated and removed as well, though.
Using singular section headers like *** Test Case *** or *** Setting ***
+nowadays causes a deprecation warning (#4432). They were silently deprecated
+in Robot Framework 6.0 for reasons explained in issue #4431.
For.variables, ForHeader.variables, Try.variable and
+ExceptHeader.variable attributes have been deprecated in favor of the new assign
+attribute (#4708).For.variables and TryBranch.variable have been
+deprecated in favor of the new assign attribute (#4708).FOR were earlier modeled so that they
+looked like keywords. Nowadays they are considered totally different objects and
+their keyword specific attributes name, kwnane, libname, doc, args,
+assign, tags and timeout have been deprecated (#4846).starttime, endtime and elapsed time attributes in the result model have been
+silently deprecated (#4258). Accessing them does not yet cause a deprecation
+warning, but users are recommended to use start_time, end_time and
+elapsed_time attributes that are available since Robot Framework 6.1.kwname, libname and sourcename attributes used by the Keyword object
+in the result model have been silently deprecated (#4884). New code should use
+name, owner and source_name instead.FOR IN ZIP loops with lists having different lengths without explicitly
+using mode=SHORTEST has been deprecated (#4685). The strict mode where lengths
+must match will be the default mode in the future.robot.utils package that are no longer used
+by Robot Framework itself, including the whole Python 2/3 compatibility layer,
+have been deprecated (#4501). If you need some of these utils, you can copy
+their code to your own tool or library. This change may affect existing
+libraries and tools in the ecosystem.case_insensitive and whitespace_insensitive arguments used by some
+Collections and String library keywords have been deprecated in favor of
+ignore_case and ignore_whitespace. The new arguments were added for
+consistency reasons (#4954) and the old arguments will continue to work
+for the time being.elapsed_time_to_string utility function
+has been deprecated (#4862).Robot Framework development is sponsored by the Robot Framework Foundation +and its over 60 member organizations. If your organization is using Robot Framework +and benefiting from it, consider joining the foundation to support its +development as well.
+Robot Framework 7.0 team funded by the foundation consists of Pekka Klärck and +Janne Härkönen (part time). +In addition to work done by them, the community has provided some great contributions:
+Run Keyword so that the name of the executed keyword contains a variable
+(#4659).DotDict equality comparisons (#4956) and
+helped finalizing the dark mode support (#3725).robot.api package (#4841).ModelVisitor (#4934).Big thanks to Robot Framework Foundation, to community members listed above, and to +everyone else who has tested preview releases, submitted bug reports, proposed +enhancements, debugged problems, or otherwise helped with Robot Framework 7.0 +development.
+See you at RoboCon 2024 either onsite or online!
+| ID | +Type | +Priority | +Summary | +
|---|---|---|---|
| #3296 | +enhancement | +critical | +Support keywords and control structures with listener version 3 | +
| #3761 | +enhancement | +critical | +Native VAR syntax to create variables inside tests and keywords |
+
| #4294 | +enhancement | +critical | +Drop Python 3.6 and 3.7 support | +
| #4710 | +enhancement | +critical | +Support library keywords with both embedded and normal arguments | +
| #4847 | +enhancement | +critical | +Support JSON serialization with result model | +
| #4659 | +bug | +high | +Performance regression when using Run Keyword and keyword name contains a variable |
+
| #4921 | +bug | +high | +Log levels don't work correctly with robot:flatten |
+
| #3725 | +enhancement | +high | +Support dark theme with report and log | +
| #4258 | +enhancement | +high | +Change timestamps from custom strings to datetime in result model and to ISO 8601 format in output.xml |
+
| #4374 | +enhancement | +high | +Support removing tags set globally by using -tag syntax with [Tags] setting |
+
| #4633 | +enhancement | +high | +Automatic argument conversion and validation for Literal |
+
| #4711 | +enhancement | +high | +Support type aliases in formats 'list[int]' and 'int | float' in argument conversion |
+
| #4803 | +enhancement | +high | +Async support to dynamic and hybrid library APIs | +
| #4808 | +bug | +medium | +Async keywords are not stopped when execution is stopped gracefully | +
| #4859 | +bug | +medium | +Parsing errors in reStructuredText files have no source | +
| #4880 | +bug | +medium | +Initially empty test fails even if pre-run modifier adds content to it | +
| #4886 | +bug | +medium | +Set Variable If is slow if it has several conditions |
+
| #4898 | +bug | +medium | +Resolving special variables can fail with confusing message | +
| #4915 | +bug | +medium | +cached_property attributes are called when importing library |
+
| #4924 | +bug | +medium | +WHILE on_limit missing from listener v2 attributes |
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| #4926 | +bug | +medium | +WHILE and TRY content are not removed with --removekeywords all |
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| #4945 | +bug | +medium | +TypedDict with forward references do not work in argument conversion |
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| #4956 | +bug | +medium | +DotDict behaves inconsistent on equality checks. x == y != not x != y and not x != y == not x == y |
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| #4964 | +bug | +medium | +Variables set using Set Suite Variable with children=True cannot be properly overwritten |
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| #4980 | +bug | +medium | +DateTime library uses deprecated datetime.utcnow() |
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| #4999 | +bug | +medium | +XML Library: Double namespace during Element To String | +
| #5005 | +bug | +medium | +Log Variables should not consume iterables |
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| #3017 | +enhancement | +medium | +Add return type to Libdoc specs and HTML output | +
| #4103 | +enhancement | +medium | +Process: Change the default stdin behavior from subprocess.PIPE to None |
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| #4302 | +enhancement | +medium | +Remove Reserved library |
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| #4343 | +enhancement | +medium | +Collections: Support case-insensitive list and dictionary comparisons | +
| #4375 | +enhancement | +medium | +Change token type of AS (or WITH NAME) used with library imports to Token.AS |
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| #4385 | +enhancement | +medium | +Change the parsing model object produced by Test Tags (and Force Tags) to TestTags |
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| #4432 | +enhancement | +medium | +Loudly deprecate singular section headers | +
| #4501 | +enhancement | +medium | +Loudly deprecate old Python 2/3 compatibility layer and other deprecated utils | +
| #4524 | +enhancement | +medium | +Loudly deprecate variables used as embedded arguments not matching custom patterns | +
| #4545 | +enhancement | +medium | +Support creating assigned variable name based on another variable like ${${var}} = Keyword |
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| #4667 | +enhancement | +medium | +Remove deprecated constructs from Libdoc spec files | +
| #4685 | +enhancement | +medium | +Deprecate SHORTEST mode being default with FOR IN ZIP loops |
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| #4708 | +enhancement | +medium | +Use assing, not variable, with FOR and TRY/EXCEPT model objects when referring to assigned variables |
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| #4720 | +enhancement | +medium | +Require --suite parent.suite to match the full suite name |
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| #4721 | +enhancement | +medium | +Change behavior of --test and --include so that they are cumulative |
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| #4747 | +enhancement | +medium | +Support [Setup] with user keywords |
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| #4784 | +enhancement | +medium | +Remote: Enhance datetime, date and timedelta conversion |
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| #4841 | +enhancement | +medium | +Add typing to all modules under robot.api |
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| #4846 | +enhancement | +medium | +Result model: Loudly deprecate not needed attributes and remove already deprecated ones | +
| #4872 | +enhancement | +medium | +Control continue-on-failure mode by using recursive and non-recursive tags together | +
| #4876 | +enhancement | +medium | +Loudly deprecate [Return] setting |
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| #4877 | +enhancement | +medium | +XML: Support ignoring element order with Elements Should Be Equal |
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| #4883 | +enhancement | +medium | +Result model: Add message to keywords and control structures and remove doc from controls |
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| #4884 | +enhancement | +medium | +Result model: Enhance storing keyword name | +
| #4896 | +enhancement | +medium | +Support separator=<value> configuration option with scalar variables in Variables section |
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| #4903 | +enhancement | +medium | +Support argument conversion and named arguments with dynamic variable files | +
| #4905 | +enhancement | +medium | +Support creating variable name based on another variable like ${${VAR}} in Variables section |
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| #4910 | +enhancement | +medium | +Make listener v3 the default listener API | +
| #4912 | +enhancement | +medium | +Parsing model: Move type and tokens from _fields to _attributes |
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| #4930 | +enhancement | +medium | +BuiltIn: New Reset Log Level keyword for resetting the log level to the original value |
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| #4939 | +enhancement | +medium | +Parsing model: Rename Return to ReturnSetting and ReturnStatement to Return |
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| #4942 | +enhancement | +medium | +Add public argument conversion API for libraries and other tools | +
| #4952 | +enhancement | +medium | +Collections: Make ignore_order and ignore_keys recursive |
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| #4960 | +enhancement | +medium | +Support integer conversion with strings representing whole number floats like '1.0' and '2e10' |
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| #4976 | +enhancement | +medium | +Support string SELF (case-insenstive) when library registers itself as listener |
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| #4979 | +enhancement | +medium | +Add robot.result.TestSuite.to/from_xml methods |
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| #4982 | +enhancement | +medium | +DateTime: Support datetime.date as an input format with date related keywords |
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| #4983 | +enhancement | +medium | +Type conversion: Remove support for deprecated ByteString |
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| #5000 | +enhancement | +medium | +Nicer API for setting keyword call arguments programmatically | +
| #4934 | +--- | +medium | +Enhance performance of visiting parsing model | +
| #4621 | +bug | +low | +OperatingSystem library docs have broken link / title | +
| #4798 | +bug | +low | +--removekeywords passed doesn't remove test setup and teardown |
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| #4867 | +bug | +low | +Original order of dictionaries is not preserved when they are pretty printed in log messages | +
| #4870 | +bug | +low | +User keyword teardown missing from running model JSON schema | +
| #4904 | +bug | +low | +Importing static variable file with arguments does not fail | +
| #4913 | +bug | +low | +Trace log level logs arguments twice for embedded arguments | +
| #4927 | +bug | +low | +WARN level missing from the log level selector in log.html | +
| #4967 | +bug | +low | +Variables are not resolved in keyword name in WUKS error message | +
| #4861 | +enhancement | +low | +Remove deprecated accept_plain_values from timestr_to_secs utility function |
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| #4862 | +enhancement | +low | +Deprecate elapsed_time_to_string accepting time as milliseconds |
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| #4864 | +enhancement | +low | +Process: Make warning about processes hanging if output buffers get full more visible | +
| #4885 | +enhancement | +low | +Add full_name to replace longname to suite and test objects |
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| #4900 | +enhancement | +low | +Make keywords and control structures in log look more like original data | +
| #4922 | +enhancement | +low | +Change the log level of Set Log Level message from INFO to DEBUG |
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| #4933 | +enhancement | +low | +Type conversion: Ignore hyphens when matching enum members | +
| #4935 | +enhancement | +low | +Use casefold, not lower, when comparing strings case-insensitively |
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| #4936 | +enhancement | +low | +Remove bytes support from robot.utils.normalize function |
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| #4954 | +enhancement | +low | +Collections and String: Add ignore_case as alias for case_insensitive |
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| #4958 | +enhancement | +low | +Document robot_running and dry_run_active properties of the BuiltIn library in the User Guide |
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| #4975 | +enhancement | +low | +Support times and x suffixes with WHILE limit to make it more compatible with Wait Until Keyword Succeeds |
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| #4988 | +enhancement | +low | +Change paths passed to listener v3 methods to pathlib.Path instances |
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