[Avocado-devel] Avocado release 54.1: House of Cards (minor release)

[Cleber Rosa]

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 ]
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