[automated] Update plugin list

Co-authored-by: Bruno Oliveira <nicoddemus@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: kevin.hierro-ext <kevin.hierro-ext@clarity.ai>
Co-authored-by: Dani Sancas <lord.sancas@gmail.com>

.coveragerc

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ exclude_lines =
     ^\s*raise NotImplementedError\b
     ^\s*return NotImplemented\b
     ^\s*assert False(,|$)
+    ^\s*assert_never\(
 
     ^\s*if TYPE_CHECKING:
     ^\s*@overload( |$)

.github/workflows/backport.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+name: backport
+
+on:
+  # Note that `pull_request_target` has security implications:
+  # https://securitylab.github.com/research/github-actions-preventing-pwn-requests/
+  # In particular:
+  # - Only allow triggers that can be used only be trusted users
+  # - Don't execute any code from the target branch
+  # - Don't use cache
+  pull_request_target:
+    types: [labeled]
+
+# Set permissions at the job level.
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  backport:
+    if: startsWith(github.event.label.name, 'backport ') && github.event.pull_request.merged
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0
+        persist-credentials: true
+
+    - name: Create backport PR
+      run: |
+        set -eux
+
+        git config --global user.name "pytest bot"
+        git config --global user.email "pytestbot@gmail.com"
+
+        label='${{ github.event.label.name }}'
+        target_branch="${label#backport }"
+        backport_branch=backport-${{ github.event.number }}-to-"${target_branch}"
+        subject="[$target_branch] $(gh pr view --json title -q .title ${{ github.event.number }})"
+
+        git checkout origin/"${target_branch}" -b "${backport_branch}"
+        git cherry-pick -x --mainline 1 ${{ github.event.pull_request.merge_commit_sha }}
+        git commit --amend --message "$subject"
+        git push --set-upstream origin --force-with-lease "${backport_branch}"
+        gh pr create \
+          --base "${target_branch}" \
+          --title "${subject}" \
+          --body "Backport of PR #${{ github.event.number }} to $target_branch branch. PR created by backport workflow."
+      env:
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+name: deploy
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      # These tags are protected, see:
+      # https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/settings/tag_protection
+      - "[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+"
+      - "[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+rc[0-9]+"
+
+
+# Set permissions at the job level.
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+
+  deploy:
+    if: github.repository == 'pytest-dev/pytest'
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0
+        persist-credentials: false
+
+    - name: Set up Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: "3.7"
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install --upgrade build tox
+
+    - name: Build package
+      run: |
+        python -m build
+
+    - name: Publish package to PyPI
+      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@master
+      with:
+        user: __token__
+        password: ${{ secrets.pypi_token }}
+
+    - name: Publish GitHub release notes
+      env:
+        GH_RELEASE_NOTES_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+      run: |
+        sudo apt-get install pandoc
+        tox -e publish-gh-release-notes

.github/workflows/prepare-release-pr.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ on:
         default: 'no'
       prerelease:
         description: 'Prerelease (ex: rc1). Leave empty if not a pre-release.'
-        required: true
+        required: false
         default: ''
 
 # Set permissions at the job level.
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
-        persist-credentials: false
 
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v2
@@ -45,9 +44,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: Prepare release PR (minor/patch release)
       if: github.event.inputs.major == 'no'
       run: |
-        tox -e prepare-release-pr -- ${{ github.event.inputs.branch }} ${{ github.token }} --prerelease '${{ github.event.inputs.prerelease }}'
+        tox -e prepare-release-pr -- ${{ github.event.inputs.branch }} ${{ github.token }} --prerelease='${{ github.event.inputs.prerelease }}'
 
     - name: Prepare release PR (major release)
       if: github.event.inputs.major == 'yes'
       run: |
-        tox -e prepare-release-pr -- ${{ github.event.inputs.branch }} ${{ github.token }} --major --prerelease '${{ github.event.inputs.prerelease }}'
+        tox -e prepare-release-pr -- ${{ github.event.inputs.branch }} ${{ github.token }} --major --prerelease='${{ github.event.inputs.prerelease }}'

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-name: main
+name: test
 
 on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
       - "[0-9]+.[0-9]+.x"
+      - "test-me-*"
     tags:
       - "[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+"
       - "[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+rc[0-9]+"
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ permissions: {}
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    timeout-minutes: 30
+    timeout-minutes: 45
     permissions:
       contents: read
 
@@ -31,24 +32,26 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         name: [
-          "windows-py36",
           "windows-py37",
           "windows-py37-pluggy",
           "windows-py38",
           "windows-py39",
           "windows-py310",
+          "windows-py311",
 
-          "ubuntu-py36",
           "ubuntu-py37",
           "ubuntu-py37-pluggy",
           "ubuntu-py37-freeze",
           "ubuntu-py38",
           "ubuntu-py39",
           "ubuntu-py310",
+          "ubuntu-py311",
           "ubuntu-pypy3",
 
           "macos-py37",
           "macos-py38",
+          "macos-py39",
+          "macos-py310",
 
           "docs",
           "doctesting",
@@ -56,10 +59,6 @@ jobs:
         ]
 
         include:
-          - name: "windows-py36"
-            python: "3.6"
-            os: windows-latest
-            tox_env: "py36-xdist"
           - name: "windows-py37"
             python: "3.7"
             os: windows-latest
@@ -78,14 +77,14 @@ jobs:
             os: windows-latest
             tox_env: "py39-xdist"
           - name: "windows-py310"
-            python: "3.10-dev"
+            python: "3.10"
             os: windows-latest
             tox_env: "py310-xdist"
+          - name: "windows-py311"
+            python: "3.11-dev"
+            os: windows-latest
+            tox_env: "py311"
 
-          - name: "ubuntu-py36"
-            python: "3.6"
-            os: ubuntu-latest
-            tox_env: "py36-xdist"
           - name: "ubuntu-py37"
             python: "3.7"
             os: ubuntu-latest
@@ -108,9 +107,13 @@ jobs:
             os: ubuntu-latest
             tox_env: "py39-xdist"
           - name: "ubuntu-py310"
-            python: "3.10-dev"
+            python: "3.10"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             tox_env: "py310-xdist"
+          - name: "ubuntu-py311"
+            python: "3.11-dev"
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+            tox_env: "py311"
           - name: "ubuntu-pypy3"
             python: "pypy-3.7"
             os: ubuntu-latest
@@ -125,9 +128,17 @@ jobs:
             os: macos-latest
             tox_env: "py38-xdist"
             use_coverage: true
+          - name: "macos-py39"
+            python: "3.9"
+            os: macos-latest
+            tox_env: "py39-xdist"
+          - name: "macos-py310"
+            python: "3.10"
+            os: macos-latest
+            tox_env: "py310-xdist"
 
           - name: "plugins"
-            python: "3.7"
+            python: "3.9"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             tox_env: "plugins"
 
@@ -165,78 +176,14 @@ jobs:
       if: "matrix.use_coverage"
       run: "tox -e ${{ matrix.tox_env }}-coverage"
 
-    - name: Upload coverage
-      if: matrix.use_coverage && github.repository == 'pytest-dev/pytest'
-      env:
-        CODECOV_NAME: ${{ matrix.name }}
-      run: bash scripts/upload-coverage.sh -F GHA,${{ runner.os }}
+    - name: Generate coverage report
+      if: "matrix.use_coverage"
+      run: python -m coverage xml
 
-  linting:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
+      if: "matrix.use_coverage"
+      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2
       with:
-        persist-credentials: false
-
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
-
-    - name: set PY
-      run: echo "name=PY::$(python -c 'import hashlib, sys;print(hashlib.sha256(sys.version.encode()+sys.executable.encode()).hexdigest())')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-
-    - uses: actions/cache@v2
-      with:
-        path: ~/.cache/pre-commit
-        key: pre-commit|${{ env.PY }}|${{ hashFiles('.pre-commit-config.yaml') }}
-
-    - name: Install dependencies
-      run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install tox
-
-    - run: tox -e linting
-
-  deploy:
-    if: github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.event.ref, 'refs/tags') && github.repository == 'pytest-dev/pytest'
-
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 30
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-
-    needs: [build]
-
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-        persist-credentials: false
-
-    - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
-      with:
-        python-version: "3.7"
-
-    - name: Install dependencies
-      run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install --upgrade wheel setuptools tox
-
-    - name: Build package
-      run: |
-        python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
-
-    - name: Publish package to PyPI
-      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@master
-      with:
-        user: __token__
-        password: ${{ secrets.pypi_token }}
-
-    - name: Publish GitHub release notes
-      env:
-        GH_RELEASE_NOTES_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-      run: |
-        sudo apt-get install pandoc
-        tox -e publish-gh-release-notes
+        fail_ci_if_error: true
+        files: ./coverage.xml
+        verbose: true

.github/workflows/update-plugin-list.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ permissions: {}
 
 jobs:
   createPullRequest:
+    if: github.repository_owner == 'pytest-dev'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
       contents: write
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          pip install packaging requests tabulate[widechars]
+          pip install packaging requests tabulate[widechars] tqdm
 
       - name: Update Plugin List
         run: python scripts/update-plugin-list.py

.gitignore

@@ -53,3 +53,6 @@ coverage.xml
 
 # generated by pip
 pip-wheel-metadata/
+
+# pytest debug logs generated via --debug
+pytestdebug.log

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 repos:
 -   repo: https://github.com/psf/black
-    rev: 21.6b0
+    rev: 22.6.0
     hooks:
     -   id: black
         args: [--safe, --quiet]
 -   repo: https://github.com/asottile/blacken-docs
-    rev: v1.10.0
+    rev: v1.12.1
     hooks:
     -   id: blacken-docs
         additional_dependencies: [black==20.8b1]
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.0.1
+    rev: v4.3.0
     hooks:
     -   id: trailing-whitespace
     -   id: end-of-file-fixer
@@ -20,26 +20,34 @@ repos:
     -   id: debug-statements
         exclude: _pytest/(debugging|hookspec).py
         language_version: python3
+-   repo: https://github.com/myint/autoflake
+    rev: v1.4
+    hooks:
+    -   id: autoflake
+        name: autoflake
+        args: ["--in-place", "--remove-unused-variables", "--remove-all-unused-imports"]
+        language: python
+        files: \.py$
 -   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
-    rev: 3.9.2
+    rev: 4.0.1
     hooks:
     -   id: flake8
         language_version: python3
         additional_dependencies:
-          - flake8-typing-imports==1.9.0
+          - flake8-typing-imports==1.12.0
           - flake8-docstrings==1.5.0
 -   repo: https://github.com/asottile/reorder_python_imports
-    rev: v2.5.0
+    rev: v3.8.1
     hooks:
     -   id: reorder-python-imports
-        args: ['--application-directories=.:src', --py36-plus]
+        args: ['--application-directories=.:src', --py37-plus]
 -   repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade
-    rev: v2.19.4
+    rev: v2.37.1
     hooks:
     -   id: pyupgrade
-        args: [--py36-plus]
+        args: [--py37-plus]
 -   repo: https://github.com/asottile/setup-cfg-fmt
-    rev: v1.17.0
+    rev: v1.20.1
     hooks:
     -   id: setup-cfg-fmt
         args: [--max-py-version=3.10]
@@ -48,7 +56,7 @@ repos:
     hooks:
     -   id: python-use-type-annotations
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: v0.902
+    rev: v0.961
     hooks:
     -   id: mypy
         files: ^(src/|testing/)
@@ -58,7 +66,7 @@ repos:
           - py>=1.8.2
           - attrs>=19.2.0
           - packaging
-          - types-toml
+          - tomli
           - types-pkg_resources
 -   repo: local
     hooks:
@@ -92,7 +100,7 @@ repos:
         types: [python]
     -   id: py-path-deprecated
         name: py.path usage is deprecated
-        exclude: docs|src/_pytest/deprecated.py|testing/deprecated_test.py
+        exclude: docs|src/_pytest/deprecated.py|testing/deprecated_test.py|src/_pytest/legacypath.py
         language: pygrep
         entry: \bpy\.path\.local
         types: [python]

.readthedocs.yml

@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
 version: 2
 
 python:
-   version: 3.7
    install:
       - requirements: doc/en/requirements.txt
       - method: pip
         path: .
 
+build:
+  os: ubuntu-20.04
+  tools:
+    python: "3.9"
+  apt_packages:
+    - inkscape
+
 formats:
   - epub
   - pdf
+  - htmlzip

AUTHORS

@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ Ahn Ki-Wook
 Akiomi Kamakura
 Alan Velasco
 Alexander Johnson
+Alexander King
 Alexei Kozlenok
+Alice Purcell
 Allan Feldman
 Aly Sivji
 Amir Elkess
@@ -36,12 +38,14 @@ Anton Grinevich
 Anton Lodder
 Antony Lee
 Arel Cordero
+Arias Emmanuel
 Ariel Pillemer
 Armin Rigo
 Aron Coyle
 Aron Curzon
 Aviral Verma
 Aviv Palivoda
+Babak Keyvani
 Barney Gale
 Ben Gartner
 Ben Webb
@@ -60,9 +64,11 @@ Ceridwen
 Charles Cloud
 Charles Machalow
 Charnjit SiNGH (CCSJ)
+Cheuk Ting Ho
 Chris Lamb
 Chris NeJame
 Chris Rose
+Chris Wheeler
 Christian Boelsen
 Christian Fetzer
 Christian Neumüller
@@ -75,11 +81,13 @@ Christopher Gilling
 Claire Cecil
 Claudio Madotto
 CrazyMerlyn
+Cristian Vera
 Cyrus Maden
 Damian Skrzypczak
 Daniel Grana
 Daniel Hahler
 Daniel Nuri
+Daniel Sánchez Castelló
 Daniel Wandschneider
 Daniele Procida
 Danielle Jenkins
@@ -93,6 +101,7 @@ David Vierra
 Daw-Ran Liou
 Debi Mishra
 Denis Kirisov
+Denivy Braiam Rück
 Dhiren Serai
 Diego Russo
 Dmitry Dygalo
@@ -105,8 +114,10 @@ Edson Tadeu M. Manoel
 Eduardo Schettino
 Eli Boyarski
 Elizaveta Shashkova
+Éloi Rivard
 Endre Galaczi
 Eric Hunsberger
+Eric Liu
 Eric Siegerman
 Erik Aronesty
 Erik M. Bray
@@ -123,7 +134,9 @@ Garvit Shubham
 Gene Wood
 George Kussumoto
 Georgy Dyuldin
+Gergely Kalmár
 Gleb Nikonorov
+Graeme Smecher
 Graham Horler
 Greg Price
 Gregory Lee
@@ -132,6 +145,7 @@ Grigorii Eremeev (budulianin)
 Guido Wesdorp
 Guoqiang Zhang
 Harald Armin Massa
+Harshna
 Henk-Jaap Wagenaar
 Holger Kohr
 Hugo van Kemenade
@@ -155,6 +169,7 @@ Jeff Widman
 Jenni Rinker
 John Eddie Ayson
 John Towler
+Jon Parise
 Jon Sonesen
 Jonas Obrist
 Jordan Guymon
@@ -174,9 +189,14 @@ Katarzyna Jachim
 Katarzyna Król
 Katerina Koukiou
 Keri Volans
+Kevin C
 Kevin Cox
+Kevin Hierro Carrasco
 Kevin J. Foley
+Kian Eliasi
+Kian-Meng Ang
 Kodi B. Arfer
+Kojo Idrissa
 Kostis Anagnostopoulos
 Kristoffer Nordström
 Kyle Altendorf
@@ -220,6 +240,7 @@ Michael Goerz
 Michael Krebs
 Michael Seifert
 Michal Wajszczuk
+Michał Zięba
 Mihai Capotă
 Mike Hoyle (hoylemd)
 Mike Lundy
@@ -233,6 +254,7 @@ Nicholas Murphy
 Niclas Olofsson
 Nicolas Delaby
 Nikolay Kondratyev
+Nipunn Koorapati
 Olga Matoula
 Oleg Pidsadnyi
 Oleg Sushchenko
@@ -243,6 +265,8 @@ Ondřej Súkup
 Oscar Benjamin
 Parth Patel
 Patrick Hayes
+Paul Müller
+Paul Reece
 Pauli Virtanen
 Pavel Karateev
 Paweł Adamczak
@@ -277,6 +301,7 @@ Ruaridh Williamson
 Russel Winder
 Ryan Wooden
 Saiprasad Kale
+Samuel Colvin
 Samuel Dion-Girardeau
 Samuel Searles-Bryant
 Samuele Pedroni
@@ -301,24 +326,30 @@ Sven-Hendrik Haase
 Sylvain Marié
 Tadek Teleżyński
 Takafumi Arakaki
+Taneli Hukkinen
 Tanvi Mehta
 Tarcisio Fischer
 Tareq Alayan
+Tatiana Ovary
 Ted Xiao
+Terje Runde
 Thomas Grainger
 Thomas Hisch
 Tim Hoffmann
 Tim Strazny
+Tobias Diez
 Tom Dalton
 Tom Viner
 Tomáš Gavenčiak
 Tomer Keren
+Tony Narlock
 Tor Colvin
 Trevor Bekolay
 Tyler Goodlet
 Tzu-ping Chung
 Vasily Kuznetsov
 Victor Maryama
+Victor Rodriguez
 Victor Uriarte
 Vidar T. Fauske
 Virgil Dupras
@@ -336,7 +367,10 @@ Xixi Zhao
 Xuan Luong
 Xuecong Liao
 Yoav Caspi
+Yuval Shimon
 Zac Hatfield-Dodds
 Zachary Kneupper
+Zachary OBrien
+Zhouxin Qiu
 Zoltán Máté
 Zsolt Cserna

CONTRIBUTING.rst

@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ Fix bugs
 --------
 
 Look through the `GitHub issues for bugs <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/labels/type:%20bug>`_.
+See also the `"status: easy" issues <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/labels/status%3A%20easy>`_
+that are friendly to new contributors.
 
 :ref:`Talk <contact>` to developers to find out how you can fix specific bugs. To indicate that you are going
 to work on a particular issue, add a comment to that effect on the specific issue.
@@ -324,7 +326,7 @@ Here is a simple overview, with pytest-specific bits:
 Writing Tests
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Writing tests for plugins or for pytest itself is often done using the `pytester fixture <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/reference.html#pytester>`_, as a "black-box" test.
+Writing tests for plugins or for pytest itself is often done using the `pytester fixture <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/reference/reference.html#pytester>`_, as a "black-box" test.
 
 For example, to ensure a simple test passes you can write:
 
@@ -391,6 +393,13 @@ actual latest release). The procedure for this is:
    request, as described above. An exception to this is if the bug fix is not
    applicable to ``main`` anymore.
 
+Automatic method:
+
+Add a ``backport 1.2.x`` label to the PR you want to backport. This will create
+a backport PR against the ``1.2.x`` branch.
+
+Manual method:
+
 #. ``git checkout origin/1.2.x -b backport-XXXX`` # use the main PR number here
 
 #. Locate the merge commit on the PR, in the *merged* message, for example:

LICENSE

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2004-2021 Holger Krekel and others
+Copyright (c) 2004 Holger Krekel and others
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
 this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in

README.rst

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
     :target: https://codecov.io/gh/pytest-dev/pytest
     :alt: Code coverage Status
 
-.. image:: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/workflows/main/badge.svg
-    :target: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/actions?query=workflow%3Amain
+.. image:: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/workflows/test/badge.svg
+    :target: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/actions?query=workflow%3Atest
 
 .. image:: https://results.pre-commit.ci/badge/github/pytest-dev/pytest/main.svg
    :target: https://results.pre-commit.ci/latest/github/pytest-dev/pytest/main
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@
     :target: https://pytest.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest
     :alt: Documentation Status
 
+.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-pytest--dev-blue
+    :target: https://discord.com/invite/pytest-dev
+    :alt: Discord
+
+.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/Libera%20chat-%23pytest-orange
+    :target: https://web.libera.chat/#pytest
+    :alt: Libera chat
+
+
 The ``pytest`` framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet
 scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries.
 
@@ -79,19 +88,19 @@ Due to ``pytest``'s detailed assertion introspection, only plain ``assert`` stat
 Features
 --------
 
-- Detailed info on failing `assert statements <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/assert.html>`_ (no need to remember ``self.assert*`` names)
+- Detailed info on failing `assert statements <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/assert.html>`_ (no need to remember ``self.assert*`` names)
 
 - `Auto-discovery
-  <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/goodpractices.html#python-test-discovery>`_
+  <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/explanation/goodpractices.html#python-test-discovery>`_
   of test modules and functions
 
-- `Modular fixtures <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/fixture.html>`_ for
+- `Modular fixtures <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/explanation/fixtures.html>`_ for
   managing small or parametrized long-lived test resources
 
-- Can run `unittest <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/unittest.html>`_ (or trial),
-  `nose <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/nose.html>`_ test suites out of the box
+- Can run `unittest <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/unittest.html>`_ (or trial),
+  `nose <https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/nose.html>`_ test suites out of the box
 
-- Python 3.6+ and PyPy3
+- Python 3.7+ or PyPy3
 
 - Rich plugin architecture, with over 850+ `external plugins <https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/reference/plugin_list.html>`_ and thriving community
 
@@ -151,7 +160,7 @@ Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure.
 License
 -------
 
-Copyright Holger Krekel and others, 2004-2021.
+Copyright Holger Krekel and others, 2004.
 
 Distributed under the terms of the `MIT`_ license, pytest is free and open source software.
 

RELEASING.rst

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ breaking changes or new features.
 
 For a new minor release, first create a new maintenance branch from ``main``::
 
-     git fetch --all
+     git fetch upstream
      git branch 7.1.x upstream/main
      git push upstream 7.1.x
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Major releases
 
 1. Create a new maintenance branch from ``main``::
 
-        git fetch --all
+        git fetch upstream
         git branch 8.0.x upstream/main
         git push upstream 8.0.x
 
@@ -136,29 +136,31 @@ Both automatic and manual processes described above follow the same steps from t
 #. After all tests pass and the PR has been approved, tag the release commit
    in the ``release-MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH`` branch and push it. This will publish to PyPI::
 
-     git fetch --all
+     git fetch upstream
      git tag MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH upstream/release-MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
-     git push git@github.com:pytest-dev/pytest.git MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
+     git push upstream MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
 
    Wait for the deploy to complete, then make sure it is `available on PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/pytest>`_.
 
-#. Merge the PR.
+#. Merge the PR. **Make sure it's not squash-merged**, so that the tagged commit ends up in the main branch.
 
 #. Cherry-pick the CHANGELOG / announce files to the ``main`` branch::
 
-       git fetch --all --prune
+       git fetch upstream
        git checkout upstream/main -b cherry-pick-release
        git cherry-pick -x -m1 upstream/MAJOR.MINOR.x
 
 #. Open a PR for ``cherry-pick-release`` and merge it once CI passes. No need to wait for approvals if there were no conflicts on the previous step.
 
-#. For major and minor releases, tag the release cherry-pick merge commit in main with
+#. For major and minor releases (or the first prerelease of it), tag the release cherry-pick merge commit in main with
    a dev tag for the next feature release::
 
        git checkout main
        git pull
        git tag MAJOR.{MINOR+1}.0.dev0
-       git push git@github.com:pytest-dev/pytest.git MAJOR.{MINOR+1}.0.dev0
+       git push upstream MAJOR.{MINOR+1}.0.dev0
+
+#. For major and minor releases, change the default version in the `Read the Docs Settings <https://readthedocs.org/dashboard/pytest/advanced/>`_ to the new branch.
 
 #. Send an email announcement with the contents from::
 

changelog/10060.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+When running with ``--pdb``, ``TestCase.tearDown`` is no longer called for tests when the *class* has been skipped via ``unittest.skip`` or ``pytest.mark.skip``.

changelog/10114.trivial.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Replace `atomicwrites <https://github.com/untitaker/python-atomicwrites>`__ dependency on windows with `os.replace`.

changelog/3396.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Doctests now respect the ``--import-mode`` flag.

changelog/5105.doc.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add automatically generated :ref:`plugin-list`. The list is updated on a periodic schedule.

changelog/7259.feature.rst

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Added :meth:`cache.mkdir() <pytest.Cache.mkdir>`, which is similar to the existing :meth:`cache.makedir() <pytest.Cache.makedir>`,
-but returns a :class:`pathlib.Path` instead of a legacy ``py.path.local``.
-
-Added a ``paths`` type to :meth:`parser.addini() <pytest.Parser.addini>`,
-as in ``parser.addini("mypaths", "my paths", type="paths")``,
-which is similar to the existing ``pathlist``,
-but returns a list of :class:`pathlib.Path` instead of legacy ``py.path.local``.

changelog/7337.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+A warning is now emitted if a test function returns something other than `None`. This prevents a common mistake among beginners that expect that returning a `bool` (for example `return foo(a, b) == result`) would cause a test to pass or fail, instead of using `assert`.

changelog/7469.deprecation.rst

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-Directly constructing the following classes is now deprecated:
-
-- ``_pytest.mark.structures.Mark``
-- ``_pytest.mark.structures.MarkDecorator``
-- ``_pytest.mark.structures.MarkGenerator``
-- ``_pytest.python.Metafunc``
-- ``_pytest.runner.CallInfo``
-- ``_pytest._code.ExceptionInfo``
-- ``_pytest.config.argparsing.Parser``
-- ``_pytest.config.argparsing.OptionGroup``
-
-These have always been considered private, but now issue a deprecation warning, which may become a hard error in pytest 7.0.0.

changelog/7469.feature.rst

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-The types of objects used in pytest's API are now exported so they may be used in type annotations.
-
-The newly-exported types are:
-
-- ``pytest.Config`` for :class:`Config <pytest.Config>`.
-- ``pytest.Mark`` for :class:`marks <pytest.Mark>`.
-- ``pytest.MarkDecorator`` for :class:`mark decorators <pytest.MarkDecorator>`.
-- ``pytest.MarkGenerator`` for the :class:`pytest.mark <pytest.MarkGenerator>` singleton.
-- ``pytest.Metafunc`` for the :class:`metafunc <pytest.MarkGenerator>` argument to the :func:`pytest_generate_tests <pytest.hookspec.pytest_generate_tests>` hook.
-- ``pytest.CallInfo`` for the :class:`CallInfo <pytest.CallInfo>` type passed to various hooks.
-- ``pytest.PytestPluginManager`` for :class:`PytestPluginManager <pytest.PytestPluginManager>`.
-- ``pytest.ExceptionInfo`` for the :class:`ExceptionInfo <pytest.ExceptionInfo>` type returned from :func:`pytest.raises` and passed to various hooks.
-- ``pytest.Parser`` for the :class:`Parser <pytest.Parser>` type passed to the :func:`pytest_addoption <pytest.hookspec.pytest_addoption>` hook.
-- ``pytest.OptionGroup`` for the :class:`OptionGroup <pytest.OptionGroup>` type returned from the :func:`parser.addgroup <pytest.Parser.getgroup>` method.
-
-Constructing them directly is not supported; they are only meant for use in type annotations.
-Doing so will emit a deprecation warning, and may become a hard-error in pytest 7.0.
-
-Subclassing them is also not supported. This is not currently enforced at runtime, but is detected by type-checkers such as mypy.

changelog/7856.feature.rst

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-:ref:`--import-mode=importlib <import-modes>` now works with features that
-depend on modules being on :py:data:`sys.modules`, such as :mod:`pickle` and :mod:`dataclasses`.

changelog/8061.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed failing staticmethod test cases if they are inherited from a parent test class.

changelog/8144.feature.rst

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-The following hooks now receive an additional ``pathlib.Path`` argument, equivalent to an existing ``py.path.local`` argument:
-
-- :func:`pytest_ignore_collect <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_ignore_collect>` - The ``fspath`` parameter (equivalent to existing ``path`` parameter).
-- :func:`pytest_collect_file <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_collect_file>` - The ``fspath`` parameter (equivalent to existing ``path`` parameter).
-- :func:`pytest_pycollect_makemodule <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_pycollect_makemodule>` - The ``fspath`` parameter (equivalent to existing ``path`` parameter).
-- :func:`pytest_report_header <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_report_header>` - The ``startpath`` parameter (equivalent to existing ``startdir`` parameter).
-- :func:`pytest_report_collectionfinish <_pytest.hookspec.pytest_report_collectionfinish>` - The ``startpath`` parameter (equivalent to existing ``startdir`` parameter).

changelog/8174.trivial.rst

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-The following changes have been made to internal pytest types/functions:
-
-- The ``path`` property of ``_pytest.code.Code`` returns ``Path`` instead of ``py.path.local``.
-- The ``path`` property of ``_pytest.code.TracebackEntry`` returns ``Path`` instead of ``py.path.local``.
-- The ``_pytest.code.getfslineno()`` function returns ``Path`` instead of ``py.path.local``.
-- The ``_pytest.python.path_matches_patterns()`` function takes ``Path`` instead of ``py.path.local``.

changelog/8192.bugfix.rst

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-``testdir.makefile`` now silently accepts values which don't start with ``.`` to maintain backward compatibility with older pytest versions.
-
-``pytester.makefile`` now issues a clearer error if the ``.`` is missing in the ``ext`` argument.

changelog/8242.deprecation.rst

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Raising :class:`unittest.SkipTest` to skip collection of tests during the
-pytest collection phase is deprecated. Use :func:`pytest.skip` instead.
-
-Note: This deprecation only relates to using `unittest.SkipTest` during test
-collection. You are probably not doing that. Ordinary usage of
-:class:`unittest.SkipTest` / :meth:`unittest.TestCase.skipTest` /
-:func:`unittest.skip` in unittest test cases is fully supported.

changelog/8246.breaking.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-``--version`` now writes version information to ``stdout`` rather than ``stderr``.

changelog/8248.trivial.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Internal Restructure: let python.PyObjMixing inherit from nodes.Node to carry over typing information.

changelog/8251.deprecation.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Deprecate ``Node.fspath`` as we plan to move off `py.path.local <https://py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/path.html>`__ and switch to :mod:``pathlib``.

changelog/8251.feature.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Implement ``Node.path`` as a ``pathlib.Path``.

changelog/8258.bugfix.rst

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed issue where pytest's ``faulthandler`` support would not dump traceback on crashes
-if the :mod:`faulthandler` module was already enabled during pytest startup (using
-``python -X dev -m pytest`` for example).

changelog/8315.deprecation.rst

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Several behaviors of :meth:`Parser.addoption <pytest.Parser.addoption>` are now
-scheduled for removal in pytest 7 (deprecated since pytest 2.4.0):
-
-- ``parser.addoption(..., help=".. %default ..")`` - use ``%(default)s`` instead.
-- ``parser.addoption(..., type="int/string/float/complex")`` - use ``type=int`` etc. instead.

changelog/8317.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed an issue where illegal directory characters derived from ``getpass.getuser()`` raised an ``OSError``.

changelog/8335.improvement.rst

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Improved :func:`pytest.approx` assertion messages for sequences of numbers.
-
-The assertion messages now dumps a table with the index and the error of each diff.
-Example::
-
-    >       assert [1, 2, 3, 4] == pytest.approx([1, 3, 3, 5])
-    E       assert comparison failed for 2 values:
-    E         Index | Obtained | Expected
-    E         1     | 2        | 3 +- 3.0e-06
-    E         3     | 4        | 5 +- 5.0e-06

changelog/8337.doc.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Recommend `numpy.testing <https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/routines.testing.html>`__ module on :func:`pytest.approx` documentation.

changelog/8367.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix ``Class.from_parent`` so it forwards extra keyword arguments to the constructor.

changelog/8384.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The ``@pytest.mark.skip`` decorator now correctly handles its arguments. When the ``reason`` argument is accidentally given both positional and as a keyword (e.g. because it was confused with ``skipif``), a ``TypeError`` now occurs. Before, such tests were silently skipped, and the positional argument ignored. Additionally, ``reason`` is now documented correctly as positional or keyword (rather than keyword-only).

changelog/8394.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Use private names for internal fixtures that handle classic setup/teardown so that they don't show up with the default ``--fixtures`` invocation (but they still show up with ``--fixtures -v``).

changelog/8403.improvement.rst

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-By default, pytest will truncate long strings in assert errors so they don't clutter the output too much,
-currently at ``240`` characters by default.
-
-However, in some cases the longer output helps, or is even crucial, to diagnose a failure. Using ``-v`` will
-now increase the truncation threshold to ``2400`` characters, and ``-vv`` or higher will disable truncation entirely.

changelog/8411.trivial.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Assert the outcomes for the issue 518 test and fix the test.

changelog/8421.feature.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-:func:`pytest.approx` now works on :class:`~decimal.Decimal` within mappings/dicts and sequences/lists.

changelog/8447.deprecation.rst

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Defining a custom pytest node type which is both an item and a collector now issues a warning.
-It was never sanely supported and triggers hard to debug errors.
-
-Instead, a separate collector node should be used, which collects the item. See :ref:`non-python tests` for an example.

changelog/8456.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The :confval:`required_plugins` config option now works correctly when pre-releases of plugins are installed, rather than falsely claiming that those plugins aren't installed at all.

changelog/8464.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-``-c <config file>`` now also properly defines ``rootdir`` as the directory that contains ``<config file>``.

changelog/8494.feature.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Python 3.10 is now supported.

changelog/8503.trivial.rst

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-:meth:`pytest.MonkeyPatch.syspath_prepend` no longer fails when
-``setuptools`` is not installed.
-It now only calls :func:`pkg_resources.fixup_namespace_packages` if
-``pkg_resources`` was previously imported, because it is not needed otherwise.

changelog/8508.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Introduce multiline display for warning matching  via :py:func:`pytest.warns` and
+enhance match comparison for :py:func:`_pytest._code.ExceptionInfo.match` as returned by :py:func:`pytest.raises`.

changelog/8509.improvement.rst

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fixed issue where `TestCase.setUpClass` is not called when a test has `/` in its name since pytest 6.2.0.
-
-This refers to the path part in pytest node IDs, e.g. `TestClass::test_it` in the node ID `tests/test_file.py::TestClass::test_it`.
-
-Now, instead of assuming that the test name does not contain ``/``, it is assumed that test path does not contain ``::``. We plan to hopefully make both of these work in the future.

changelog/8548.bugfix.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Introduce fix to handle precision width in ``log-cli-format`` in turn to fix output coloring for certain formats.

changelog/8606.feature.rst

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-pytest invocations with ``--fixtures-per-test`` and ``--fixtures`` have been enabled with:
-
-- Fixture location path printed with the fixture name.
-- First section of the fixture's docstring printed under the fixture name.
-- Whole of fixture's docstring printed under the fixture name using ``--verbose`` option.

changelog/8645.improvement.rst

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Reducing confusion from `pytest.warns(None)` by:
-
-- Allowing no arguments to be passed in order to catch any exception (no argument defaults to `Warning`).
-- Emit a deprecation warning if passed `None`.

changelog/8646.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Improve :py:func:`pytest.raises`. Previously passing an empty tuple would give a confusing
+error. We now raise immediately with a more helpful message.

changelog/8655.doc.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Help text for ``--pdbcls`` more accurately reflects the option's behavior.

changelog/8761.feature.rst

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-New :ref:`version-tuple` attribute, which makes it simpler for users to do something depending on the pytest version (such as declaring hooks which are introduced in later versions).

changelog/9514.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Type-annotate ``FixtureRequest.param`` as ``Any`` as a stop gap measure until :issue:`8073` is fixed.

changelog/9741.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+On Python 3.11, use the standard library's :mod:`tomllib` to parse TOML.
+
+:mod:`tomli`` is no longer a dependency on Python 3.11.

changelog/9742.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Display assertion message without escaped newline characters with ``-vv``.

changelog/9791.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed a path handling code in ``rewrite.py`` that seems to work fine, but was incorrect and fails in some systems.

changelog/9823.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Improved error message that is shown when no collector is found for a given file.

changelog/9873.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Some coloring has been added to the short test summary.

changelog/9877.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Ensure ``caplog.get_records(when)`` returns current/correct data after invoking ``caplog.clear()``.

changelog/9883.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Normalize the help description of all command-line options.

changelog/9897.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Added shell-style wildcard support to ``testpaths``.

changelog/9906.trivial.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Made ``_pytest.compat`` re-export ``importlib_metadata`` in the eyes of type checkers.

changelog/9910.trivial.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix default encoding warning (``EncodingWarning``) in ``cacheprovider``

changelog/9917.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed string representation for :func:`pytest.approx` when used to compare tuples.

changelog/9920.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Display full crash messages in ``short test summary info``, when runng in a CI environment.

changelog/9937.doc.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Explicit note that :fixture:`tmpdir` fixture is discouraged in favour of :fixture:`tmp_path`.

changelog/9984.trivial.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Improve the error message when we attempt to access a fixture that has been
+torn down.
+Add an additional sentence to the docstring explaining when it's not a good
+idea to call getfixturevalue.

changelog/9987.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Added support for hidden configuration file by allowing ``.pytest.ini`` as an alternative to ``pytest.ini``.

doc/en/Makefile

@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ REGENDOC_ARGS := \
 
 regen: REGENDOC_FILES:=*.rst */*.rst
 regen:
-	PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 PYTEST_ADDOPTS="-pno:hypothesis -Wignore::pytest.PytestUnknownMarkWarning" COLUMNS=76 regendoc --update ${REGENDOC_FILES} ${REGENDOC_ARGS}
+# need to reset cachedir to the non-tox default
+	PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
+	PYTEST_ADDOPTS="-pno:hypothesis -p no:hypothesispytest -Wignore::pytest.PytestUnknownMarkWarning -o cache_dir=.pytest_cache" \
+	COLUMNS=76 \
+	regendoc --update ${REGENDOC_FILES} ${REGENDOC_ARGS}
 
 .PHONY: regen

doc/en/_templates/globaltoc.html

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
   <li><a href="{{ pathto('changelog') }}">Changelog</a></li>
   <li><a href="{{ pathto('contributing') }}">Contributing</a></li>
   <li><a href="{{ pathto('backwards-compatibility') }}">Backwards Compatibility</a></li>
-  <li><a href="{{ pathto('py27-py34-deprecation') }}">Python 2.7 and 3.4 Support</a></li>
   <li><a href="{{ pathto('sponsor') }}">Sponsor</a></li>
   <li><a href="{{ pathto('tidelift') }}">pytest for Enterprise</a></li>
   <li><a href="{{ pathto('license') }}">License</a></li>
@@ -30,5 +29,3 @@
 {%- endif %}
 
 <hr>
-<a href="{{ pathto('genindex') }}">Index</a>
-<hr>

doc/en/adopt.rst

@@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ Are you an enthusiastic pytest user, the local testing guru in your workplace? O
 
 We will pair experienced pytest users with open source projects, for a month's effort of getting new development teams started with pytest.
 
-In 2015 we are trying this for the first time. In February and March 2015 we will gather volunteers on both sides, in April we will do the work, and in May we will evaluate how it went. This effort is being coordinated by Brianna Laugher. If you have any questions or comments, you can raise them on the `@pytestdotorg twitter account <https://twitter.com/pytestdotorg>`_ the `issue tracker`_ or the `pytest-dev mailing list`_.
+In 2015 we are trying this for the first time. In February and March 2015 we will gather volunteers on both sides, in April we will do the work, and in May we will evaluate how it went. This effort is being coordinated by Brianna Laugher. If you have any questions or comments, you can raise them on the `@pytestdotorg twitter account <https://twitter.com/pytestdotorg>`_\, the :issue:`issue tracker <676>` or the `pytest-dev mailing list`_.
 
 
-.. _`issue tracker`: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/676
 .. _`pytest-dev mailing list`: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev
 
 

doc/en/announce/index.rst

@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Release announcements
    :maxdepth: 2
 
 
+   release-7.1.2
+   release-7.1.1
+   release-7.1.0
+   release-7.0.1
+   release-7.0.0
+   release-7.0.0rc1
+   release-6.2.5
    release-6.2.4
    release-6.2.3
    release-6.2.2

doc/en/announce/release-2.0.0.rst

@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ New Features
 
     import pytest ; pytest.main(arglist, pluginlist)
 
-  see http://pytest.org/en/stable/usage.html for details.
+  see http://pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/usage.html for details.
 
 - new and better reporting information in assert expressions
   if comparing lists, sequences or strings.
 
-  see http://pytest.org/en/stable/assert.html#newreport
+  see http://pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/assert.html#newreport
 
 - new configuration through ini-files (setup.cfg or tox.ini recognized),
   for example::
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ New Features
     norecursedirs = .hg data*  # don't ever recurse in such dirs
     addopts = -x --pyargs      # add these command line options by default
 
-  see http://pytest.org/en/stable/customize.html
+  see http://pytest.org/en/stable/reference/customize.html
 
 - improved standard unittest support.  In general py.test should now
   better be able to run custom unittest.TestCases like twisted trial

doc/en/announce/release-2.0.1.rst

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1
 - refinements to "collecting" output on non-ttys
 - refine internal plugin registration and --traceconfig output
 - introduce a mechanism to prevent/unregister plugins from the
-  command line, see http://pytest.org/en/stable/plugins.html#cmdunregister
+  command line, see http://pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/plugins.html#cmdunregister
 - activate resultlog plugin by default
 - fix regression wrt yielded tests which due to the
   collection-before-running semantics were not

doc/en/announce/release-2.1.0.rst

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ courtesy of Benjamin Peterson.  You can now safely use ``assert``
 statements in test modules without having to worry about side effects
 or python optimization ("-OO") options.  This is achieved by rewriting
 assert statements in test modules upon import, using a PEP302 hook.
-See https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/assert.html for
+See https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/assert.html for
 detailed information.  The work has been partly sponsored by my company,
 merlinux GmbH.
 

doc/en/announce/release-2.2.0.rst

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ with these improvements:
 
   - new @pytest.mark.parametrize decorator to run tests with different arguments
   - new metafunc.parametrize() API for parametrizing arguments independently
-  - see examples at http://pytest.org/en/stable/example/parametrize.html
+  - see examples at http://pytest.org/en/stable/example/how-to/parametrize.html
   - NOTE that parametrize() related APIs are still a bit experimental
     and might change in future releases.
 
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.2.0
   or through plugin hooks.  Also introduce a "--strict" option which
   will treat unregistered markers as errors
   allowing to avoid typos and maintain a well described set of markers
-  for your test suite.  See examples at http://pytest.org/en/stable/mark.html
+  for your test suite.  See examples at http://pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/mark.html
   and its links.
 - issue50: introduce "-m marker" option to select tests based on markers
   (this is a stricter and more predictable version of "-k" in that "-m"

doc/en/announce/release-2.3.0.rst

@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ re-usable fixture design.
 
 For detailed info and tutorial-style examples, see:
 
-    http://pytest.org/en/stable/fixture.html
+    http://pytest.org/en/stable/explanation/fixtures.html
 
 Moreover, there is now support for using pytest fixtures/funcargs with
 unittest-style suites, see here for examples:
 
-    http://pytest.org/en/stable/unittest.html
+    http://pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/unittest.html
 
 Besides, more unittest-test suites are now expected to "simply work"
 with pytest.

doc/en/announce/release-2.3.4.rst

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ comes with the following fixes and features:
 - yielded test functions will now have autouse-fixtures active but
   cannot accept fixtures as funcargs - it's anyway recommended to
   rather use the post-2.0 parametrize features instead of yield, see:
-  http://pytest.org/en/stable/example/parametrize.html
+  http://pytest.org/en/stable/example/how-to/parametrize.html
 - fix autouse-issue where autouse-fixtures would not be discovered
   if defined in an a/conftest.py file and tests in a/tests/test_some.py
 - fix issue226 - LIFO ordering for fixture teardowns

doc/en/announce/release-2.4.0.rst

@@ -23,14 +23,13 @@ a full list of details.  A few feature highlights:
   called if the corresponding setup method succeeded.
 
 - integrate tab-completion on command line options if you
-  have `argcomplete <https://pypi.org/project/argcomplete/>`_
-  configured.
+  have :pypi:`argcomplete` configured.
 
 - allow boolean expression directly with skipif/xfail
   if a "reason" is also specified.
 
 - a new hook ``pytest_load_initial_conftests`` allows plugins like
-  `pytest-django <https://pypi.org/project/pytest-django/>`_ to
+  :pypi:`pytest-django` to
   influence the environment before conftest files import ``django``.
 
 - reporting: color the last line red or green depending if

doc/en/announce/release-2.5.0.rst

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ clear information about the circumstances and a simple example which
 reproduces the problem.
 
 The issue tracker is of course not empty now.  We have many remaining
-"enhacement" issues which we'll hopefully can tackle in 2014 with your
+"enhancement" issues which we'll hopefully can tackle in 2014 with your
 help.
 
 For those who use older Python versions, please note that pytest is not

doc/en/announce/release-2.9.0.rst

@@ -45,29 +45,29 @@ The py.test Development Team
 **New Features**
 
 * New ``pytest.mark.skip`` mark, which unconditionally skips marked tests.
-  Thanks `@MichaelAquilina`_ for the complete PR (`#1040`_).
+  Thanks :user:`MichaelAquilina` for the complete PR (:pull:`1040`).
 
 * ``--doctest-glob`` may now be passed multiple times in the command-line.
-  Thanks `@jab`_ and `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+  Thanks :user:`jab` and :user:`nicoddemus` for the PR.
 
 * New ``-rp`` and ``-rP`` reporting options give the summary and full output
-  of passing tests, respectively. Thanks to `@codewarrior0`_ for the PR.
+  of passing tests, respectively. Thanks to :user:`codewarrior0` for the PR.
 
 * ``pytest.mark.xfail`` now has a ``strict`` option which makes ``XPASS``
   tests to fail the test suite, defaulting to ``False``. There's also a
   ``xfail_strict`` ini option that can be used to configure it project-wise.
-  Thanks `@rabbbit`_ for the request and `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR (`#1355`_).
+  Thanks :user:`rabbbit` for the request and :user:`nicoddemus` for the PR (:issue:`1355`).
 
 * ``Parser.addini`` now supports options of type ``bool``. Thanks
-  `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+  :user:`nicoddemus` for the PR.
 
 * New ``ALLOW_BYTES`` doctest option strips ``b`` prefixes from byte strings
   in doctest output (similar to ``ALLOW_UNICODE``).
-  Thanks `@jaraco`_ for the request and `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR (`#1287`_).
+  Thanks :user:`jaraco` for the request and :user:`nicoddemus` for the PR (:issue:`1287`).
 
 * give a hint on KeyboardInterrupt to use the --fulltrace option to show the errors,
-  this fixes `#1366`_.
-  Thanks to `@hpk42`_ for the report and `@RonnyPfannschmidt`_ for the PR.
+  this fixes :issue:`1366`.
+  Thanks to :user:`hpk42` for the report and :user:`RonnyPfannschmidt` for the PR.
 
 * catch IndexError exceptions when getting exception source location. This fixes
   pytest internal error for dynamically generated code (fixtures and tests)
@@ -91,69 +91,44 @@ The py.test Development Team
   `pylib <https://pylib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_.
 
 * ``pytest_enter_pdb`` now optionally receives the pytest config object.
-  Thanks `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+  Thanks :user:`nicoddemus` for the PR.
 
 * Removed code and documentation for Python 2.5 or lower versions,
   including removal of the obsolete ``_pytest.assertion.oldinterpret`` module.
-  Thanks `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR (`#1226`_).
+  Thanks :user:`nicoddemus` for the PR (:issue:`1226`).
 
 * Comparisons now always show up in full when ``CI`` or ``BUILD_NUMBER`` is
   found in the environment, even when -vv isn't used.
-  Thanks `@The-Compiler`_ for the PR.
+  Thanks :user:`The-Compiler` for the PR.
 
 * ``--lf`` and ``--ff`` now support long names: ``--last-failed`` and
   ``--failed-first`` respectively.
-  Thanks `@MichaelAquilina`_ for the PR.
+  Thanks :user:`MichaelAquilina` for the PR.
 
 * Added expected exceptions to pytest.raises fail message
 
 * Collection only displays progress ("collecting X items") when in a terminal.
   This avoids cluttering the output when using ``--color=yes`` to obtain
-  colors in CI integrations systems (`#1397`_).
+  colors in CI integrations systems (:issue:`1397`).
 
 **Bug Fixes**
 
 * The ``-s`` and ``-c`` options should now work under ``xdist``;
   ``Config.fromdictargs`` now represents its input much more faithfully.
-  Thanks to `@bukzor`_ for the complete PR (`#680`_).
+  Thanks to :user:`bukzor` for the complete PR (:issue:`680`).
 
-* Fix (`#1290`_): support Python 3.5's ``@`` operator in assertion rewriting.
-  Thanks `@Shinkenjoe`_ for report with test case and `@tomviner`_ for the PR.
+* Fix (:issue:`1290`): support Python 3.5's ``@`` operator in assertion rewriting.
+  Thanks :user:`Shinkenjoe` for report with test case and :user:`tomviner` for the PR.
 
-* Fix formatting utf-8 explanation messages (`#1379`_).
-  Thanks `@biern`_ for the PR.
+* Fix formatting utf-8 explanation messages (:issue:`1379`).
+  Thanks :user:`biern` for the PR.
 
 * Fix `traceback style docs`_ to describe all of the available options
   (auto/long/short/line/native/no), with ``auto`` being the default since v2.6.
-  Thanks `@hackebrot`_ for the PR.
+  Thanks :user:`hackebrot` for the PR.
 
-* Fix (`#1422`_): junit record_xml_property doesn't allow multiple records
+* Fix (:issue:`1422`): junit record_xml_property doesn't allow multiple records
   with same name.
 
 
-.. _`traceback style docs`: https://pytest.org/en/stable/usage.html#modifying-python-traceback-printing
-
-.. _#1422: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1422
-.. _#1379: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1379
-.. _#1366: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1366
-.. _#1040: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1040
-.. _#680: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/680
-.. _#1287: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1287
-.. _#1226: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1226
-.. _#1290: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1290
-.. _#1355: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1355
-.. _#1397: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1397
-.. _@biern: https://github.com/biern
-.. _@MichaelAquilina: https://github.com/MichaelAquilina
-.. _@bukzor: https://github.com/bukzor
-.. _@hpk42: https://github.com/hpk42
-.. _@nicoddemus: https://github.com/nicoddemus
-.. _@jab: https://github.com/jab
-.. _@codewarrior0: https://github.com/codewarrior0
-.. _@jaraco: https://github.com/jaraco
-.. _@The-Compiler: https://github.com/The-Compiler
-.. _@Shinkenjoe: https://github.com/Shinkenjoe
-.. _@tomviner: https://github.com/tomviner
-.. _@RonnyPfannschmidt: https://github.com/RonnyPfannschmidt
-.. _@rabbbit: https://github.com/rabbbit
-.. _@hackebrot: https://github.com/hackebrot
+.. _`traceback style docs`: https://pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/output.html#modifying-python-traceback-printing

doc/en/announce/release-2.9.1.rst

@@ -37,31 +37,21 @@ The py.test Development Team
 **Bug Fixes**
 
 * Improve error message when a plugin fails to load.
-  Thanks `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+  Thanks :user:`nicoddemus` for the PR.
 
-* Fix (`#1178 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1178>`_):
+* Fix (:issue:`1178`):
   ``pytest.fail`` with non-ascii characters raises an internal pytest error.
-  Thanks `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+  Thanks :user:`nicoddemus` for the PR.
 
-* Fix (`#469`_): junit parses report.nodeid incorrectly, when params IDs
-  contain ``::``. Thanks `@tomviner`_ for the PR (`#1431`_).
+* Fix (:issue:`469`): junit parses report.nodeid incorrectly, when params IDs
+  contain ``::``. Thanks :user:`tomviner` for the PR (:pull:`1431`).
 
-* Fix (`#578 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/578>`_): SyntaxErrors
+* Fix (:issue:`578`): SyntaxErrors
   containing non-ascii lines at the point of failure generated an internal
   py.test error.
-  Thanks `@asottile`_ for the report and `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+  Thanks :user:`asottile` for the report and :user:`nicoddemus` for the PR.
 
-* Fix (`#1437`_): When passing in a bytestring regex pattern to parameterize
+* Fix (:issue:`1437`): When passing in a bytestring regex pattern to parameterize
   attempt to decode it as utf-8 ignoring errors.
 
-* Fix (`#649`_): parametrized test nodes cannot be specified to run on the command line.
-
-
-.. _#1437: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1437
-.. _#469: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/469
-.. _#1431: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1431
-.. _#649: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/649
-
-.. _@asottile: https://github.com/asottile
-.. _@nicoddemus: https://github.com/nicoddemus
-.. _@tomviner: https://github.com/tomviner
+* Fix (:issue:`649`): parametrized test nodes cannot be specified to run on the command line.

doc/en/announce/release-2.9.2.rst

@@ -39,40 +39,27 @@ The py.test Development Team
 
 **Bug Fixes**
 
-* fix `#510`_: skip tests where one parameterize dimension was empty
-  thanks Alex Stapleton for the Report and `@RonnyPfannschmidt`_ for the PR
+* fix :issue:`510`: skip tests where one parameterize dimension was empty
+  thanks Alex Stapleton for the Report and :user:`RonnyPfannschmidt` for the PR
 
 * Fix Xfail does not work with condition keyword argument.
-  Thanks `@astraw38`_ for reporting the issue (`#1496`_) and `@tomviner`_
-  for PR the (`#1524`_).
+  Thanks :user:`astraw38` for reporting the issue (:issue:`1496`) and :user:`tomviner`
+  for PR the (:pull:`1524`).
 
 * Fix win32 path issue when putting custom config file with absolute path
   in ``pytest.main("-c your_absolute_path")``.
 
 * Fix maximum recursion depth detection when raised error class is not aware
   of unicode/encoded bytes.
-  Thanks `@prusse-martin`_ for the PR (`#1506`_).
+  Thanks :user:`prusse-martin` for the PR (:pull:`1506`).
 
 * Fix ``pytest.mark.skip`` mark when used in strict mode.
-  Thanks `@pquentin`_ for the PR and `@RonnyPfannschmidt`_ for
+  Thanks :user:`pquentin` for the PR and :user:`RonnyPfannschmidt` for
   showing how to fix the bug.
 
 * Minor improvements and fixes to the documentation.
-  Thanks `@omarkohl`_ for the PR.
+  Thanks :user:`omarkohl` for the PR.
 
 * Fix ``--fixtures`` to show all fixture definitions as opposed to just
   one per fixture name.
-  Thanks to `@hackebrot`_ for the PR.
-
-.. _#510: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/510
-.. _#1506: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1506
-.. _#1496: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1496
-.. _#1524: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1524
-
-.. _@astraw38: https://github.com/astraw38
-.. _@hackebrot: https://github.com/hackebrot
-.. _@omarkohl: https://github.com/omarkohl
-.. _@pquentin: https://github.com/pquentin
-.. _@prusse-martin: https://github.com/prusse-martin
-.. _@RonnyPfannschmidt: https://github.com/RonnyPfannschmidt
-.. _@tomviner: https://github.com/tomviner
+  Thanks to :user:`hackebrot` for the PR.

doc/en/announce/release-6.2.5.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+pytest-6.2.5
+=======================================
+
+pytest 6.2.5 has just been released to PyPI.
+
+This is a bug-fix release, being a drop-in replacement. To upgrade::
+
+  pip install --upgrade pytest
+
+The full changelog is available at https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html.
+
+Thanks to all of the contributors to this release:
+
+* Anthony Sottile
+* Bruno Oliveira
+* Brylie Christopher Oxley
+* Daniel Asztalos
+* Florian Bruhin
+* Jason Haugen
+* MapleCCC
+* Michał Górny
+* Miro Hrončok
+* Ran Benita
+* Ronny Pfannschmidt
+* Sylvain Bellemare
+* Thomas Güttler
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team

doc/en/announce/release-7.0.0.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+pytest-7.0.0
+=======================================
+
+The pytest team is proud to announce the 7.0.0 release!
+
+This release contains new features, improvements, bug fixes, and breaking changes, so users
+are encouraged to take a look at the CHANGELOG carefully:
+
+    https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html
+
+For complete documentation, please visit:
+
+    https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from PyPI via:
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to all of the contributors to this release:
+
+* Adam J. Stewart
+* Alexander King
+* Amin Alaee
+* Andrew Neitsch
+* Anthony Sottile
+* Ben Davies
+* Bernát Gábor
+* Brian Okken
+* Bruno Oliveira
+* Cristian Vera
+* Dan Alvizu
+* David Szotten
+* Eddie
+* Emmanuel Arias
+* Emmanuel Meric de Bellefon
+* Eric Liu
+* Florian Bruhin
+* GergelyKalmar
+* Graeme Smecher
+* Harshna
+* Hugo van Kemenade
+* Jakub Kulík
+* James Myatt
+* Jeff Rasley
+* Kale Kundert
+* Kian Meng, Ang
+* Miro Hrončok
+* Naveen-Pratap
+* Oleg Höfling
+* Olga Matoula
+* Ran Benita
+* Ronny Pfannschmidt
+* Simon K
+* Srip
+* Sören Wegener
+* Taneli Hukkinen
+* Terje Runde
+* Thomas Grainger
+* Thomas Hisch
+* William Jamir Silva
+* Yuval Shimon
+* Zac Hatfield-Dodds
+* andrewdotn
+* denivyruck
+* ericluoliu
+* oleg.hoefling
+* symonk
+* ziebam
+* Éloi Rivard
+* Éric
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team

doc/en/announce/release-7.0.0rc1.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+pytest-7.0.0rc1
+=======================================
+
+The pytest team is proud to announce the 7.0.0rc1 prerelease!
+
+This is a prerelease, not intended for production use, but to test the upcoming features and improvements
+in order to catch any major problems before the final version is released to the major public.
+
+We appreciate your help testing this out before the final release, making sure to report any
+regressions to our issue tracker:
+
+https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues
+
+When doing so, please include the string ``[prerelease]`` in the title.
+
+You can upgrade from PyPI via:
+
+    pip install pytest==7.0.0rc1
+
+Users are encouraged to take a look at the CHANGELOG carefully:
+
+    https://docs.pytest.org/en/7.0.x/changelog.html
+
+Thanks to all the contributors to this release:
+
+* Adam J. Stewart
+* Alexander King
+* Amin Alaee
+* Andrew Neitsch
+* Anthony Sottile
+* Ben Davies
+* Bernát Gábor
+* Brian Okken
+* Bruno Oliveira
+* Cristian Vera
+* David Szotten
+* Eddie
+* Emmanuel Arias
+* Emmanuel Meric de Bellefon
+* Eric Liu
+* Florian Bruhin
+* GergelyKalmar
+* Graeme Smecher
+* Harshna
+* Hugo van Kemenade
+* Jakub Kulík
+* James Myatt
+* Jeff Rasley
+* Kale Kundert
+* Miro Hrončok
+* Naveen-Pratap
+* Oleg Höfling
+* Ran Benita
+* Ronny Pfannschmidt
+* Simon K
+* Srip
+* Sören Wegener
+* Taneli Hukkinen
+* Terje Runde
+* Thomas Grainger
+* Thomas Hisch
+* William Jamir Silva
+* Zac Hatfield-Dodds
+* andrewdotn
+* denivyruck
+* ericluoliu
+* oleg.hoefling
+* symonk
+* ziebam
+* Éloi Rivard
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team

doc/en/announce/release-7.0.1.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+pytest-7.0.1
+=======================================
+
+pytest 7.0.1 has just been released to PyPI.
+
+This is a bug-fix release, being a drop-in replacement. To upgrade::
+
+  pip install --upgrade pytest
+
+The full changelog is available at https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html.
+
+Thanks to all of the contributors to this release:
+
+* Anthony Sottile
+* Bruno Oliveira
+* Ran Benita
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team

doc/en/announce/release-7.1.0.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+pytest-7.1.0
+=======================================
+
+The pytest team is proud to announce the 7.1.0 release!
+
+This release contains new features, improvements, and bug fixes,
+the full list of changes is available in the changelog:
+
+    https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html
+
+For complete documentation, please visit:
+
+    https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from PyPI via:
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to all of the contributors to this release:
+
+* Akuli
+* Andrew Svetlov
+* Anthony Sottile
+* Brett Holman
+* Bruno Oliveira
+* Chris NeJame
+* Dan Alvizu
+* Elijah DeLee
+* Emmanuel Arias
+* Fabian Egli
+* Florian Bruhin
+* Gabor Szabo
+* Hasan Ramezani
+* Hugo van Kemenade
+* Kian Meng, Ang
+* Kojo Idrissa
+* Masaru Tsuchiyama
+* Olga Matoula
+* P. L. Lim
+* Ran Benita
+* Tobias Deiminger
+* Yuval Shimon
+* eduardo naufel schettino
+* Éric
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team

doc/en/announce/release-7.1.1.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+pytest-7.1.1
+=======================================
+
+pytest 7.1.1 has just been released to PyPI.
+
+This is a bug-fix release, being a drop-in replacement. To upgrade::
+
+  pip install --upgrade pytest
+
+The full changelog is available at https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html.
+
+Thanks to all of the contributors to this release:
+
+* Ran Benita
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team

doc/en/announce/release-7.1.2.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+pytest-7.1.2
+=======================================
+
+pytest 7.1.2 has just been released to PyPI.
+
+This is a bug-fix release, being a drop-in replacement. To upgrade::
+
+  pip install --upgrade pytest
+
+The full changelog is available at https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html.
+
+Thanks to all of the contributors to this release:
+
+* Anthony Sottile
+* Bruno Oliveira
+* Hugo van Kemenade
+* Kian Eliasi
+* Ran Benita
+* Zac Hatfield-Dodds
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team

doc/en/backwards-compatibility.rst

@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ b) transitional: the old and new API don't conflict
 
    We will only start the removal of deprecated functionality in major releases (e.g. if we deprecate something in 3.0 we will start to remove it in 4.0), and keep it around for at least two minor releases (e.g. if we deprecate something in 3.9 and 4.0 is the next release, we start to remove it in 5.0, not in 4.0).
 
-   When the deprecation expires (e.g. 4.0 is released), we won't remove the deprecated functionality immediately, but will use the standard warning filters to turn them into **errors** by default. This approach makes it explicit that removal is imminent, and still gives you time to turn the deprecated feature into a warning instead of an error so it can be dealt with in your own time. In the next minor release (e.g. 4.1), the feature will be effectively removed.
+   A deprecated feature scheduled to be removed in major version X will use the warning class `PytestRemovedInXWarning` (a subclass of :class:`~pytest.PytestDeprecationwarning`).
+
+   When the deprecation expires (e.g. 4.0 is released), we won't remove the deprecated functionality immediately, but will use the standard warning filters to turn `PytestRemovedInXWarning` (e.g. `PytestRemovedIn4Warning`) into **errors** by default. This approach makes it explicit that removal is imminent, and still gives you time to turn the deprecated feature into a warning instead of an error so it can be dealt with in your own time. In the next minor release (e.g. 4.1), the feature will be effectively removed.
 
 
 c) true breakage: should only be considered when normal transition is unreasonably unsustainable and would offset important development/features by years.
@@ -30,15 +32,15 @@ c) true breakage: should only be considered when normal transition is unreasonab
 
    Examples for such upcoming changes:
 
-   * removal of ``pytest_runtest_protocol/nextitem`` - `#895`_
+   * removal of ``pytest_runtest_protocol/nextitem`` - :issue:`895`
    * rearranging of the node tree to include ``FunctionDefinition``
-   * rearranging of ``SetupState`` `#895`_
+   * rearranging of ``SetupState`` :issue:`895`
 
    True breakages must be announced first in an issue containing:
 
    * Detailed description of the change
    * Rationale
-   * Expected impact on users and plugin authors (example in `#895`_)
+   * Expected impact on users and plugin authors (example in :issue:`895`)
 
    After there's no hard *-1* on the issue it should be followed up by an initial proof-of-concept Pull Request.
 
@@ -77,4 +79,16 @@ Features currently deprecated and removed in previous releases can be found in :
 We track future deprecation and removal of features using milestones and the `deprecation <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues?q=label%3A%22type%3A+deprecation%22>`_ and `removal <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/labels/type%3A%20removal>`_ labels on GitHub.
 
 
-.. _`#895`: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/895
+Python version support
+======================
+
+Released pytest versions support all Python versions that are actively maintained at the time of the release:
+
+==============  ===================
+pytest version  min. Python version
+==============  ===================
+7.1+            3.7+
+6.2 - 7.0       3.6+
+5.0 - 6.1       3.5+
+3.3 - 4.6       2.7, 3.4+
+==============  ===================

doc/en/builtin.rst

@@ -16,8 +16,13 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
 
 .. code-block:: pytest
 
-    $ pytest -q --fixtures
-    cache
+    $ pytest  --fixtures -v
+    =========================== test session starts ============================
+    platform linux -- Python 3.x.y, pytest-7.x.y, pluggy-1.x.y -- $PYTHON_PREFIX/bin/python
+    cachedir: .pytest_cache
+    rootdir: /home/sweet/project
+    collected 0 items
+    cache -- .../_pytest/cacheprovider.py:510
         Return a cache object that can persist state between testing sessions.
 
         cache.get(key, default)
@@ -28,40 +33,41 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
 
         Values can be any object handled by the json stdlib module.
 
-    capsys
+    capsys -- .../_pytest/capture.py:878
         Enable text capturing of writes to ``sys.stdout`` and ``sys.stderr``.
 
         The captured output is made available via ``capsys.readouterr()`` method
         calls, which return a ``(out, err)`` namedtuple.
         ``out`` and ``err`` will be ``text`` objects.
 
-    capsysbinary
+    capsysbinary -- .../_pytest/capture.py:895
         Enable bytes capturing of writes to ``sys.stdout`` and ``sys.stderr``.
 
         The captured output is made available via ``capsysbinary.readouterr()``
         method calls, which return a ``(out, err)`` namedtuple.
         ``out`` and ``err`` will be ``bytes`` objects.
 
-    capfd
+    capfd -- .../_pytest/capture.py:912
         Enable text capturing of writes to file descriptors ``1`` and ``2``.
 
         The captured output is made available via ``capfd.readouterr()`` method
         calls, which return a ``(out, err)`` namedtuple.
         ``out`` and ``err`` will be ``text`` objects.
 
-    capfdbinary
+    capfdbinary -- .../_pytest/capture.py:929
         Enable bytes capturing of writes to file descriptors ``1`` and ``2``.
 
         The captured output is made available via ``capfd.readouterr()`` method
         calls, which return a ``(out, err)`` namedtuple.
         ``out`` and ``err`` will be ``byte`` objects.
 
-    doctest_namespace [session scope]
+    doctest_namespace [session scope] -- .../_pytest/doctest.py:731
         Fixture that returns a :py:class:`dict` that will be injected into the
         namespace of doctests.
 
-    pytestconfig [session scope]
-        Session-scoped fixture that returns the :class:`pytest.Config` object.
+    pytestconfig [session scope] -- .../_pytest/fixtures.py:1334
+        Session-scoped fixture that returns the session's :class:`pytest.Config`
+        object.
 
         Example::
 
@@ -69,7 +75,7 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
                 if pytestconfig.getoption("verbose") > 0:
                     ...
 
-    record_property
+    record_property -- .../_pytest/junitxml.py:282
         Add extra properties to the calling test.
 
         User properties become part of the test report and are available to the
@@ -83,13 +89,13 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
             def test_function(record_property):
                 record_property("example_key", 1)
 
-    record_xml_attribute
+    record_xml_attribute -- .../_pytest/junitxml.py:305
         Add extra xml attributes to the tag for the calling test.
 
         The fixture is callable with ``name, value``. The value is
         automatically XML-encoded.
 
-    record_testsuite_property [session scope]
+    record_testsuite_property [session scope] -- .../_pytest/junitxml.py:343
         Record a new ``<property>`` tag as child of the root ``<testsuite>``.
 
         This is suitable to writing global information regarding the entire test
@@ -108,10 +114,27 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         .. warning::
 
             Currently this fixture **does not work** with the
-            `pytest-xdist <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist>`__ plugin. See issue
-            `#7767 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7767>`__ for details.
+            `pytest-xdist <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist>`__ plugin. See
+            :issue:`7767` for details.
 
-    caplog
+    tmpdir_factory [session scope] -- .../_pytest/legacypath.py:295
+        Return a :class:`pytest.TempdirFactory` instance for the test session.
+
+    tmpdir -- .../_pytest/legacypath.py:302
+        Return a temporary directory path object which is unique to each test
+        function invocation, created as a sub directory of the base temporary
+        directory.
+
+        By default, a new base temporary directory is created each test session,
+        and old bases are removed after 3 sessions, to aid in debugging. If
+        ``--basetemp`` is used then it is cleared each session. See :ref:`base
+        temporary directory`.
+
+        The returned object is a `legacy_path`_ object.
+
+        .. _legacy_path: https://py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/path.html
+
+    caplog -- .../_pytest/logging.py:487
         Access and control log capturing.
 
         Captured logs are available through the following properties/methods::
@@ -122,7 +145,7 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         * caplog.record_tuples   -> list of (logger_name, level, message) tuples
         * caplog.clear()         -> clear captured records and formatted log output string
 
-    monkeypatch
+    monkeypatch -- .../_pytest/monkeypatch.py:29
         A convenient fixture for monkey-patching.
 
         The fixture provides these methods to modify objects, dictionaries or
@@ -132,7 +155,7 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
             monkeypatch.delattr(obj, name, raising=True)
             monkeypatch.setitem(mapping, name, value)
             monkeypatch.delitem(obj, name, raising=True)
-            monkeypatch.setenv(name, value, prepend=False)
+            monkeypatch.setenv(name, value, prepend=None)
             monkeypatch.delenv(name, raising=True)
             monkeypatch.syspath_prepend(path)
             monkeypatch.chdir(path)
@@ -141,33 +164,16 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         fixture has finished. The ``raising`` parameter determines if a KeyError
         or AttributeError will be raised if the set/deletion operation has no target.
 
-    recwarn
+    recwarn -- .../_pytest/recwarn.py:29
         Return a :class:`WarningsRecorder` instance that records all warnings emitted by test functions.
 
-        See https://docs.python.org/library/warnings.html for information
+        See https://docs.python.org/library/how-to/capture-warnings.html for information
         on warning categories.
 
-    tmpdir_factory [session scope]
-        Return a :class:`pytest.TempdirFactory` instance for the test session.
-
-    tmp_path_factory [session scope]
+    tmp_path_factory [session scope] -- .../_pytest/tmpdir.py:184
         Return a :class:`pytest.TempPathFactory` instance for the test session.
 
-    tmpdir
-        Return a temporary directory path object which is unique to each test
-        function invocation, created as a sub directory of the base temporary
-        directory.
-
-        By default, a new base temporary directory is created each test session,
-        and old bases are removed after 3 sessions, to aid in debugging. If
-        ``--basetemp`` is used then it is cleared each session. See :ref:`base
-        temporary directory`.
-
-        The returned object is a `py.path.local`_ path object.
-
-        .. _`py.path.local`: https://py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/path.html
-
-    tmp_path
+    tmp_path -- .../_pytest/tmpdir.py:199
         Return a temporary directory path object which is unique to each test
         function invocation, created as a sub directory of the base temporary
         directory.
@@ -180,7 +186,7 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         The returned object is a :class:`pathlib.Path` object.
 
 
-    no tests ran in 0.12s
+    ========================== no tests ran in 0.12s ===========================
 
 You can also interactively ask for help, e.g. by typing on the Python interactive prompt something like:
 

doc/en/conf.py

@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 import ast
 import os
+import shutil
 import sys
+from textwrap import dedent
 from typing import List
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
@@ -38,6 +40,23 @@ autodoc_member_order = "bysource"
 autodoc_typehints = "description"
 todo_include_todos = 1
 
+latex_engine = "lualatex"
+
+latex_elements = {
+    "preamble": dedent(
+        r"""
+        \directlua{
+            luaotfload.add_fallback("fallbacks", {
+                "Noto Serif CJK SC:style=Regular;",
+                "Symbola:Style=Regular;"
+            })
+        }
+
+        \setmainfont{FreeSerif}[RawFeature={fallback=fallbacks}]
+        """
+    )
+}
+
 # -- General configuration -----------------------------------------------------
 
 # If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
@@ -50,6 +69,7 @@ extensions = [
     "pygments_pytest",
     "sphinx.ext.autodoc",
     "sphinx.ext.autosummary",
+    "sphinx.ext.extlinks",
     "sphinx.ext.intersphinx",
     "sphinx.ext.todo",
     "sphinx.ext.viewcode",
@@ -57,6 +77,13 @@ extensions = [
     "sphinxcontrib_trio",
 ]
 
+# Building PDF docs on readthedocs requires inkscape for svg to pdf
+# conversion. The relevant plugin is not useful for normal HTML builds, but
+# it still raises warnings and fails CI if inkscape is not available. So
+# only use the plugin if inkscape is actually available.
+if shutil.which("inkscape"):
+    extensions.append("sphinxcontrib.inkscapeconverter")
+
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ["_templates"]
 
@@ -71,7 +98,7 @@ master_doc = "contents"
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = "pytest"
-copyright = "2015–2021, holger krekel and pytest-dev team"
+copyright = "2015, holger krekel and pytest-dev team"
 
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
@@ -123,7 +150,6 @@ pygments_style = "sphinx"
 # A list of regular expressions that match URIs that should not be checked when
 # doing a linkcheck.
 linkcheck_ignore = [
-    "https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst#new-deprecations",
     "https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/06/28/testing-in-a-cloud-delivery-cadence/",
     "http://pythontesting.net/framework/pytest-introduction/",
     r"https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/\d+",
@@ -134,6 +160,16 @@ linkcheck_ignore = [
 linkcheck_workers = 5
 
 
+_repo = "https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest"
+extlinks = {
+    "bpo": ("https://bugs.python.org/issue%s", "bpo-"),
+    "pypi": ("https://pypi.org/project/%s/", ""),
+    "issue": (f"{_repo}/issues/%s", "issue #"),
+    "pull": (f"{_repo}/pull/%s", "pull request #"),
+    "user": ("https://github.com/%s", "@"),
+}
+
+
 # -- Options for HTML output ---------------------------------------------------
 
 sys.path.append(os.path.abspath("_themes"))
@@ -211,7 +247,7 @@ html_sidebars = {
 html_domain_indices = True
 
 # If false, no index is generated.
-html_use_index = True
+html_use_index = False
 
 # If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
 # html_split_index = False
@@ -284,7 +320,9 @@ latex_domain_indices = False
 
 # One entry per manual page. List of tuples
 # (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
-man_pages = [("usage", "pytest", "pytest usage", ["holger krekel at merlinux eu"], 1)]
+man_pages = [
+    ("how-to/usage", "pytest", "pytest usage", ["holger krekel at merlinux eu"], 1)
+]
 
 
 # -- Options for Epub output ---------------------------------------------------
@@ -293,7 +331,7 @@ man_pages = [("usage", "pytest", "pytest usage", ["holger krekel at merlinux eu"
 epub_title = "pytest"
 epub_author = "holger krekel at merlinux eu"
 epub_publisher = "holger krekel at merlinux eu"
-epub_copyright = "2013-2021, holger krekel et alii"
+epub_copyright = "2013, holger krekel et alii"
 
 # The language of the text. It defaults to the language option
 # or en if the language is not set.
@@ -346,10 +384,14 @@ texinfo_documents = [
 ]
 
 
-# Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
 intersphinx_mapping = {
-    "pluggy": ("https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/en/latest", None),
+    "pluggy": ("https://pluggy.readthedocs.io/en/stable", None),
     "python": ("https://docs.python.org/3", None),
+    "numpy": ("https://numpy.org/doc/stable", None),
+    "pip": ("https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable", None),
+    "tox": ("https://tox.wiki/en/stable", None),
+    "virtualenv": ("https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable", None),
+    "setuptools": ("https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/stable", None),
 }
 
 
@@ -400,6 +442,13 @@ def setup(app: "sphinx.application.Sphinx") -> None:
         indextemplate="pair: %s; global variable interpreted by pytest",
     )
 
+    app.add_crossref_type(
+        directivename="hook",
+        rolename="hook",
+        objname="pytest hook",
+        indextemplate="pair: %s; hook",
+    )
+
     configure_logging(app)
 
     # Make Sphinx mark classes with "final" when decorated with @final.
@@ -420,3 +469,7 @@ def setup(app: "sphinx.application.Sphinx") -> None:
         )
 
     sphinx.pycode.parser.VariableCommentPicker.is_final = patched_is_final
+
+    # legacypath.py monkey-patches pytest.Testdir in. Import the file so
+    # that autodoc can discover references to it.
+    import _pytest.legacypath  # noqa: F401

doc/en/contact.rst

@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ Contact channels
 
 - `pytest issue tracker`_ to report bugs or suggest features (for version
   2.0 and above).
-
+- `pytest discussions`_ at github for general questions.
+- `pytest discord server <https://discord.com/invite/pytest-dev>`_
+  for pytest development visibility and general assistance.
 - `pytest on stackoverflow.com <http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=pytest>`_
-  to post questions with the tag ``pytest``.  New Questions will usually
+  to post precise questions with the tag ``pytest``.  New Questions will usually
   be seen by pytest users or developers and answered quickly.
 
 - `Testing In Python`_: a mailing list for Python testing tools and discussion.
@@ -33,6 +35,8 @@ Contact channels
 .. _`pytest issue tracker`: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues
 .. _`old issue tracker`: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/py-trunk/issues/
 
+.. _`pytest discussions`: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/discussions
+
 .. _`merlinux.eu`: https://merlinux.eu/
 
 .. _`get an account`:

doc/en/contents.rst

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ How-to guides
    how-to/fixtures
    how-to/mark
    how-to/parametrize
-   how-to/tmpdir
+   how-to/tmp_path
    how-to/monkeypatch
    how-to/doctest
    how-to/cache
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ Further topics
 
    backwards-compatibility
    deprecations
-   py27-py34-deprecation
 
    contributing
    development_guide
@@ -98,7 +97,6 @@ Further topics
    history
    historical-notes
    talks
-   projects
 
 
 .. only:: html