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Robot Framework 7.5 is a new feature release with major enhancements to the library documentation tool Libdoc, enhanced console logging configuration, several other enhancements and various bug fixes. This beta release contains most of the planned features, but some new functionality will still be added before the final release targeted for end of July, 2026.

For more details, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.4.2 is the last planned bug fix release in the Robot Framework 7.4.x series. It contains some bug fixes as well as documentation enhancements. The most important change is the deprecation of the built-in Testdoc tool in favor of the external Testdoc tool.

For more details, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.4.1 is the first bug fix release in the Robot Framework 7.4.x series. It fixes all reported regressions in Robot Framework 7.4.

For more details, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.4 is a feature release with support for secret variables, typed standard library keywords, enhancements to working with bytes and various other features and fixes.

Robot Framework 7.4 was released on Friday December 12, 2025. For more information, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.4 is a feature release with support for secret variables, typed standard library keywords, enhancements to working with bytes and various other features and fixes.

Robot Framework 7.4 release candidate 2 was released on Tuesday December 9, 2025. For more information, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.4 is a feature release with support for secret variables, typed standard library keywords, enhancements to working with bytes and various other features and fixes.

Robot Framework 7.4 release candidate 1 was released on Tuesday December 2, 2025. For more information, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.4 is a feature release with support for secret variables and various other enhancements and bug fixes. This beta release contains the majority of the planned features and it is especially targeted for users interested to test the aforementioned secret variables.

Robot Framework 7.4 beta 2 was released on Saturday November 8, 2025. For more information, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.4 is a feature release with support for secret variables and various other enhancements and bug fixes. This beta release contains the majority of the planned features and it is especially targeted for users interested to test the aforementioned secret variables.

Robot Framework 7.4 beta 1 was released on Tuesday October 7, 2025. For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.3.2 is the second and the last planned bug fix release in the Robot Framework 7.3.x series. It fixes few regressions in earlier RF 7.3.x releases as well as some issues affecting also earlier releases.

For more details, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.3.1 is the first bug fix release in the Robot Framework 7.3.x series. It fixes all reported regressions in Robot Framework 7.3.

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Robot Framework 7.3 is a feature release with variable type conversion, enhancements and fixes related to timeouts, official Python 3.14 compatibility and various other exciting new features and high priority bug fixes.

Robot Framework 7.3 was released on Friday May 30, 2025. For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.3 is a feature release with variable type conversion, enhancements and fixes related to timeouts, official Python 3.14 compatibility and various other exciting new features and high priority bug fixes. This release candidate contains all planned code changes.

Robot Framework 7.3 release candidate 3 was released on Wednesday May 21, 2025, and the final release is targeted for Tuesday May 27, 2025. For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.3 is a feature release with variable type conversion, enhancements and fixes related to timeouts, official Python 3.14 compatibility and various other exciting new features and high priority bug fixes. This release candidate contains all planned code changes.

Robot Framework 7.3 release candidate 2 was released on Monday May 19, 2025, and the final release is targeted for Thursday May 22, 2025. For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.3 is a feature release with variable type conversion, enhancements and fixes related to timeouts, and various other exciting new features and high priority bug fixes. This release candidate contains all planned code changes.

Robot Framework 7.3 release candidate 1 was released on Thursday May 8, 2025, and the final release is targeted for Thursday May 15, 2025. For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.2.2 is the second and the last planned bug fix release in the Robot Framework 7.2.x series. It fixes a mistake made when releasing Robot Framework 7.2.1. See the full release notes for more information.

Robot Framework 7.2.1 is the first bug fix release in the Robot Framework 7.2.x series. It fixes all reported regressions in Robot Framework 7.2 as well as some issues affecting also earlier versions.

For more details about fixes in Robot Framework 7.2.1, see the full release notes.

Unfortunately the there was a mistake in the build process that required creating an immediate Robot Framework 7.2.2 release.

Robot Framework 7.2 is a feature release with JSON output support (#3423), GROUP syntax for grouping keywords and control structures (#5257), new Libdoc technology (#4304) including translations (#3676), and various other enhancements and fixes.

Robot Framework 7.2 was released on Tuesday January 14, 2025. For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.2 is a feature release with JSON output support (#3423), GROUP syntax for grouping keywords and control structures (#5257), new Libdoc technology (#4304) including translations (#3676), and various other enhancements and fixes. This release candidate contains all planned changes, but new Libdoc translations can still be added before the final release and possible bugs will be fixed.

Robot Framework 7.2 release candidate 1 was released on Tuesday December 31, 2024, and the final release is targeted for Tuesday January 14, 2025. For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.2 is a feature release with JSON output support (#3423), GROUP syntax for grouping keywords and control structures (#5257), new Libdoc technology (#4304) including translations (#3676), and various other enhancements and fixes. This beta release contains most of the planned features, but some changes are still possible before the release candidate.

Robot Framework 7.2 was released on Wednesday December 18, 2024. For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.1.1 is the first and also the only planned bug fix release in the Robot Framework 7.1.x series. It fixes all reported regressions as well as some issues affecting also earlier versions.

Robot Framework 7.1.1 was released on Saturday October 19, 2024. For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.1 is a feature release with enhancements, for example, to listeners and to the VAR syntax that was introduced in Robot Framework 7.0. For more information see the release notes.

Robot Framework 7.1 is a feature release with enhancements, for example, to listeners and to the new VAR syntax. Robot Framework 7.1 release candidate 2 contains all planned features and other changes. For details see the release notes.

Robot Framework 7.1 is a feature release with enhancements, for example, to listeners and to the new VAR syntax. Robot Framework 7.1 release candidate 1 contains all planned features and other changes. For details see the release notes.

Robot Framework 7.0.1 is the first and the only planned bug fix release in the Robot Framework 7.0.x series. It fixes all reported regressions as well as some issues affecting also earlier versions. The only bigger enhancement it contains is the new Japanese localization (#5069).

Robot Framework 7.0.1 was released on Monday June 10, 2024. For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.0.1 is the first and the only planned bug fix release in the Robot Framework 7.0.x series. It fixes all reported regressions as well as some issues affecting also earlier versions. The only bigger enhancement it contains is the new Japanese localization (#5069).

Robot Framework 7.0.1 release candidate 2 was released on Friday June 7, 2024. It is especially targeted for users who have reported issues so that they can verify that fixes work properly. The final Robot Framework 7.0 version is planned to be released on Monday June 10, 2024.

Robot Framework 7.0 is a new major release with 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. For more details about everything that's new and enhanced, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.0 is a new major release with 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 requires Python 3.8 or newer (#4294).

Robot Framework 7.0 rc 3 was released on Monday January 8, 2024, with all features and fixes planned to be included in the final release. It is targeted for anyone interested to see how they can use the interesting new features and how backwards incompatible changes and deprecations possibly affect their tests, tasks, tools and libraries. The target date for the final release is Wednesday January 10, 2024.

For more details, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.0 is a new major release with 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 requires Python 3.8 or newer (#4294).

Robot Framework 7.0 rc 2 was released on Thursday January 4, 2024, with all features and fixes planned to be included in the final release. It is targeted for anyone interested to see how they can use the interesting new features and how backwards incompatible changes and deprecations possibly affect their tests, tasks, tools and libraries. The target date for the final release is Wednesday January 10, 2024.

For more details, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.0 is a new major release with 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 requires Python 3.8 or newer (#4294).

Robot Framework 7.0 rc 1 was released on Thursday December 21, 2023, with all features and fixes planned to be included in the final release. It is targeted for anyone interested to see how they can use the interesting new features and how backwards incompatible changes and deprecations possibly affect their tests, tasks, tools and libraries. The target date for the final release is Monday January 8, 2024.

For more details, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.0 is a new major release with enhanced listener interface (#3296), native VAR syntax for creating variables (#3761), support for mixing embedded and normal arguments with library keywords (#4710) and various other enhancements and bug fixes. Robot Framework 7.0 requires Python 3.8 or newer (#4294).

Robot Framework 7.0 beta 1 was released on Friday December 15, 2023. It is targeted for anyone interested to see how they can use the interesting new features and how backwards incompatible changes and deprecations possibly affect their tests, tasks, tools and libraries.

For more details, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.0 is a new major release with native VAR syntax for creating variables (#3761), support for mixing embedded and normal arguments with library keywords (#4710) and various other enhancements and bug fixes. Robot Framework 7.0 requires Python 3.8 or newer (#4294).

Robot Framework 7.0 alpha 2 was released on Wednesday November 22, 2023. It is especially targeted for external tool developers for testing how backwards incompatible changes and deprecations possibly affect their tools. We can still make adjustments or even revert problematic changes before the final release.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 7.0 is a new major release with native VAR syntax for creating variables (#3761), support for mixing embedded and normal arguments with library keywords (#4710) and various other enhancements and bug fixes. Robot Framework 7.0 requires Python 3.8 or newer (#4294).

Robot Framework 7.0 alpha 1 was released on Thursday November 9, 2023. It is especially targeted for external tool developers for testing how backwards incompatible changes and deprecations possibly affect their tools. We can still make adjustments or even revert problematic changes before the final release.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 6.1.1 is the first bug fix release in the Robot Framework 6.1 series.

For more information see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 6.1 is a new feature release with support for converting Robot Framework data to JSON and back, a new external parser API, possibility to mix embedded and normal arguments, and various other interesting new features both for normal users and for external tool developers.

For more details, see the full release notes. Release packages can be found at PyPI.

Robot Framework 6.1 is a new feature release with support for converting Robot Framework data to JSON and back, a new external parser API, possibility to mix embedded and normal arguments, and various other interesting new features both for normal users and for external tool developers. This release candidate contains all planned fixes and features. We hope that all Robot Framework users could test it in their environments to help us find possible regressions before the final release.

For more details, see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 6.1 is a new feature release with support for converting Robot Framework data to JSON and back, a new external parser API, and various other interesting new features both for normal users and for external tool developers. This beta release is especially targeted for tool developers interested to test the new APIs. It also contains all planned backwards incompatible changes and deprecated features, and everyone interested to make sure their tests, tasks or tools are compatible, should test it in their environment.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 6.1 is a new feature release with support for converting Robot Framework data to JSON and back as well as various other interesting new features both for normal users and for external tool developers. This first alpha release is especially targeted for those interested to test JSON serialization. It also contains all planned backwards incompatible changes and deprecated features, so everyone interested to make sure their tests, tasks or tools are compatible, should test it in their environment.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 6.0.2 is the second and also the last maintenance release in the RF 6.0 series. It does not contain any high priority fixes or enhancements and was released mainly to make it possible to fully concentrate on Robot Framework 6.1.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 6.0.1 is the first bug fix release in the RF 6.0 series. It mainly fixes a bug in using localized BDD prefixes consisting of more than one word (#4515) as well as a regression related to the library search order (#4516).

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 6.0 is a new major release that starts Robot Framework's localization efforts. In addition to that, it contains several nice enhancements related to, for example, automatic argument conversion and using embedded arguments. Initially it had version 5.1 and was considered a feature release, but it grow so big that we decided to call it a major release instead.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 6.0 is a new major release that starts Robot Framework's localization efforts. In addition to that, it contains several nice enhancements related to, for example, automatic argument conversion and using embedded arguments. Robot Framework 6.0 rc 2 is the second and hopefully the last release candidate containing all features and fixes planned to be included in the final release.

Robot Framework 6.0 was initially labeled Robot Framework 5.1 and considered a feature release. In the end it grow so big that we decided to make it a major release instead.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 6.0 is a new major release that starts Robot Framework's localization efforts. In addition to that, it contains several nice enhancements related to, for example, automatic argument conversion and using embedded arguments. Robot Framework 6.0 rc 1 is the first and hopefully also the last release candidate containing all features and fixes planned to be included in the final release.

Robot Framework 6.0 was initially labeled Robot Framework 5.1 and considered a feature release. In the end it grow so big that we decided to make it a major release instead.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 5.1 is a new feature release that starts Robot Framework's localization efforts and also brings in other nice enhancements. Robot Framework 5.1 preview releases are targeted especially for people interested in translations.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 5.1 is a new feature release that starts Robot Framework's localization efforts and also brings in other nice enhancements. Robot Framework 5.1 preview releases are targeted especially for people interested in translations.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 5.1 is a new feature release that starts Robot Framework's localization efforts and also brings in other nice enhancements. Robot Framework 5.1 alpha releases are targeted especially for people interested in translations.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 5.1 is a new feature release that starts Robot Framework's localization efforts and also brings in other nice enhancements. Robot Framework 5.1 alpha 1 is the first preview release targeted especially for people interested in translations.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 5.0.1 is the first and also the last planned bug fix release in the Robot Framework 5.0.x series.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 5.0.1 is the first and also the last planned bug fix release in the Robot Framework 5.0.x series. This release candidate contains all issues targeted to the final release.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 5.0 is a big new major release with lot of interesting new features such as TRY/EXCEPT, WHILE, inline IF, RETURN, BREAK and CONTINUE syntax, support for custom argument conversion in libraries and various enhancements to xUnit outputs. Robot Framework 5.0 only works with Python 3.6 or newer.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 5.0 is a big new major release with lot of interesting new features such as TRY/EXCEPT, WHILE, inline IF, RETURN, BREAK and CONTINUE syntax, support for custom argument conversion in libraries and various enhancements to xUnit outputs. Robot Framework 5.0 only works with Python 3.6 or newer.

Robot Framework 5.0 release candidate 2 contains all planned features and code changes. Please test the release candidate in your environment and report possible problems! The final release is targeted for Wednesday, March 23, 2022.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 5.0 is a big new major release with lot of interesting new features such as TRY/EXCEPT, WHILE, inline IF, RETURN, BREAK and CONTINUE syntax, support for custom argument conversion in libraries and various enhancements to xUnit outputs. Robot Framework 5.0 only works with Python 3.6 or newer. Robot Framework 5.0 beta 1 is the second preview release and contains majority of the planned new features.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 5.0 is a big new major release with lot of interesting new features such as TRY/EXCEPT, WHILE, inline IF, RETURN, BREAK and CONTINUE syntax, support for custom argument conversion in libraries and various enhancements to xUnit outputs. Robot Framework 5.0 only works with Python 3.6 or newer. Robot Framework 5.0 alpha 1 is the first preview release with all the planned new syntax implemented.

For more details see the full release notes.

Robot Framework 4.1.3 contains a fix to a regression related to parsing reStructuredText files (#4124) that was introduced in Robot Framework 4.1.2.

Robot Framework 4.1.2 contains a considerable enhancement to memory usage along with some bug fixes. It is the last planned release in the whole Robot Framework 4.x series and also the last planned release to support Python 2 that itself has not been supported since January 2020. Unfortunately this also means the end of our Jython and IronPython support, at least until they get Python 3 compatible versions released.

For more details see the full release notes.