Releases

1. ▸▾2.8.67 Oct 2014

   Robot Framework 2.8.6 is a new minor release with lots of enhancements and bug fixes. It was released on Tuesday October 7, 2014.

   Robot Framework 2.8.6

   Robot Framework 2.8.6 is a new minor release with lots of enhancements and bug fixes. It was released on Tuesday October 7, 2014.

   Questions and comments related to the release can be sent to the robotframework-users and possible bugs submitted to the issue tracker.

   If you have pip just run pip install --update robotframework. Otherwise see installation instructions.

   Most important enhancements

   • Support for more general merging results with Rebot (#1687).
   • Improved logfiles with collapse all (#1478), new icons (#1808), and elapsed time on header row (#1796).
   • Recommendations for not found variables (#1804) and keywords (#888).

   Backwards incompatible changes

   • We have removed the old external tools from the distribution. Issue #1754 lists where the tools have moved.
   • Support for variables in named arguments and kwarg names (#1793) may possibly cause problems in some cases. See the comments here for details.
   • install.py script has been removed (#1753).

   Acknowledgements

   Many thanks to Guy Kisel (@guykisel) for contributing these new features:

   • BuiltIn.Log pprint support (#1666).
   • New pattern matching keywords in Collections (#1724).
   • Keyword/variable not found recommendations (#888 and #1804).

   Also thanks to everyone else who has contributed with bug reports, feature requests, patches, and fixes.

   Full list of fixes and enhancements

   ID	Type	Priority	Summary
   #1748	bug	high	XML: Parsing file with comments fails when using lxml
   #1759	bug	high	Variable refering to itself crashes the execution
   #1687	enhancement	high	Support more general merging results with Rebot
   #1768	enhancement	high	Set up CI
   #1779	enhancement	high	Add INSTALL.rst to project root
   #1741	bug	medium	Documentation of new DateTime library is not included in User Guide package
   #1764	bug	medium	DateTime: Default timestamp can contain .1000 milliseconds while it should only use three digit precision
   #1784	bug	medium	XML library: Element in no namespace assigned to parent element namespace
   #1794	bug	medium	Repeat Keyword does not continue if failure is continuable
   #1806	bug	medium	Log: Back button broken when opening test or suite using link
   #1816	bug	medium	In plaint text files `
   #1478	enhancement	medium	Log: Support Collapse All in addition to Expand All
   #1666	enhancement	medium	BuiltIn.Log: Use pprint.pformat to format the message when repr=True
   #1724	enhancement	medium	Collections: New keywords for matching list items using glob/regexp patterns optionally case/space sensitively
   #1735	enhancement	medium	String: Keywords to convert strings to uppercase and lowercase
   #1749	enhancement	medium	XML: New keywords to set/remove text/tag/attribute of several elements in one call
   #1754	enhancement	medium	Remove tools distributed with the framework
   #1789	enhancement	medium	Better introduction on PyPI
   #1793	enhancement	medium	Support variables in named arguments and kwarg names (e.g. ${hello}=world)
   #1796	enhancement	medium	Log: Elapsed time to be visible on suite, test and keyword headers
   #1799	enhancement	medium	Remote: Support for timeouts to avoid hanging connections
   #1802	enhancement	medium	Doc formatting: New inline style code
   #1804	enhancement	medium	Variable suggestions when variable matching failed
   #1807	enhancement	medium	Support for stopping execution on error (--ExitOnError)
   #1810	enhancement	medium	Better packaging infrastructure
   #888	enhancement	medium	Keyword suggestions when keyword matching failed
   #1738	bug	low	Process: Arguments to Run/Start Process should be converted to strings when necessary
   #1739	bug	low	BuiltIn.Convert to Hex/Octal add 'L' suffix when input is bigger than sys.maxint
   #1767	bug	low	HTML special characters shown in escaped format in statistic table pop-ups
   #1771	bug	low	Using keyword with dot in name using long format (e.g. MyLib.Keyword.with.dot) fails
   #1797	bug	low	Libdoc outputs don't handle incoming links where spaces are encodes as +
   #1813	bug	low	Warning about custom keyword overriding standard keyword is not linked to executed keyword
   #1814	bug	low	Warning about custom keyword overriding standard keyword contains conflicting library names when importing using WITH NAME syntax
   #1753	enhancement	low	Remove non-needed install.py script
   #1766	enhancement	low	Rename/convert RF's own acceptance tests from .txt and .html to .robot
   #1795	enhancement	low	BuiltIn: Bad error message if keyword evaluating expression (e.g. Evaluate, Should Be True) is used with an empty string
   #1808	enhancement	low	Log: Consistent icons

   Altogether 37 issues. See on issue tracker.