From c85c5d05c53b66c1be18e6eb1eebb2b8d6de9efe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: holger krekel Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 12:29:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add changelog entry for new hookwrapper mechanism --- CHANGELOG | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG index 83f63601c..cad8958d7 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -1,4 +1,17 @@ -Unreleased +2.7.0.dev +---------- + +- introduce and document new hookwrapper mechanism useful for plugins + which want to wrap the execution of certain hooks for their purposes. + This supersedes the undocumented ``__multicall__`` protocol which + pytest itself and some external plugins use. Note that pytest-2.8 + is scheduled to drop supporting the old ``__multicall__`` + and only support the hookwrapper protocol. + +- use hookwrapper mechanism in builtin pytest plugins. + + +2.6.4.dev ---------- - Improve assertion failure reporting on iterables, by using ndiff and pprint.