Cherry-pick release 5.4.2

doc/en/changelog.rst

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 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+pytest 5.4.2 (2020-05-08)
+=========================
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+Bug Fixes
+---------
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+- `#6871 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/6871>`_: Fix crash with captured output when using the :fixture:`capsysbinary fixture <capsysbinary>`.
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+- `#6924 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/6924>`_: Ensure a ``unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase`` is actually awaited.
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+- `#6925 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/6925>`_: Fix TerminalRepr instances to be hashable again.
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+- `#6947 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/6947>`_: Fix regression where functions registered with ``TestCase.addCleanup`` were not being called on test failures.
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+- `#6951 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/6951>`_: Allow users to still set the deprecated ``TerminalReporter.writer`` attribute.
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+- `#6992 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/6992>`_: Revert "tmpdir: clean up indirection via config for factories" #6767 as it breaks pytest-xdist.
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+- `#7110 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7110>`_: Fixed regression: ``asyncbase.TestCase`` tests are executed correctly again.
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+- `#7143 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7143>`_: Fix ``File.from_constructor`` so it forwards extra keyword arguments to the constructor.
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+- `#7145 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7145>`_: Classes with broken ``__getattribute__`` methods are displayed correctly during failures.
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+- `#7180 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7180>`_: Fix ``_is_setup_py`` for files encoded differently than locale.
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+
 pytest 5.4.1 (2020-03-13)
 =========================