From b955473533ba75a1ad116c17e893325e4193fba3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Bruhin <git@the-compiler.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 22:37:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add 2.8.2 release annoucement.

---
 doc/en/announce/index.rst         |  1 +
 doc/en/announce/release-2.8.2.rst | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/en/announce/release-2.8.2.rst

diff --git a/doc/en/announce/index.rst b/doc/en/announce/index.rst
index b5c0228d7..4c849c970 100644
--- a/doc/en/announce/index.rst
+++ b/doc/en/announce/index.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Release announcements
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
+   release-2.8.2
    release-2.7.2
    release-2.7.1
    release-2.7.0
diff --git a/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.2.rst b/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.2.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d70286161
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+pytest-2.8.2: bug fixes
+=======================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.8.1.
+
+See below for the changes and see docs at:
+
+    http://pytest.org
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to all who contributed to this release, among them:
+
+    Bruno Oliveira
+    Demian Brecht
+    Florian Bruhin
+    Ionel Cristian Mărieș
+    Raphael Pierzina
+    Ronny Pfannschmidt
+    holger krekel
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.8.2 (compared to 2.7.2)
+-----------------------------
+
+- fix #1085: proper handling of encoding errors when passing encoded byte
+  strings to pytest.parametrize in Python 2.
+  Thanks Themanwithoutaplan for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- fix #1087: handling SystemError when passing empty byte strings to
+  pytest.parametrize in Python 3.
+  Thanks Paul Kehrer for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- fix #995: fixed internal error when filtering tracebacks where one entry
+  was generated by an exec() statement.
+  Thanks Daniel Hahler, Ashley C Straw, Philippe Gauthier and Pavel Savchenko
+  for contributing and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.