Sourced from pytest-cov's changelog.
4.0.0 (2022-09-28)
Note that this release drops support for multiprocessing.
--cov-fail-under
no longer causespytest --collect-only
to fail Contributed by Zac Hatfield-Dodds in[#511](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/511) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/511>
_.Dropped support for multiprocessing (mostly because
issue 82408 <https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/82408>
_). This feature was mostly working but very broken in certain scenarios and made the test suite very flaky and slow.There is builtin multiprocessing support in coverage and you can migrate to that. All you need is this in your
.coveragerc
::[run] concurrency = multiprocessing parallel = true sigterm = true
Fixed deprecation in
setup.py
by trying to import setuptools before distutils. Contributed by Ben Greiner in[#545](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/545) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/545>
_.Removed undesirable new lines that were displayed while reporting was disabled. Contributed by Delgan in
[#540](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/540) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/540>
_.Documentation fixes. Contributed by Andre Brisco in
[#543](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/543) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/543>
_ and Colin O'Dell in[#525](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/525) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/525>
_.Added support for LCOV output format via
--cov-report=lcov
. Only works with coverage 6.3+. Contributed by Christian Fetzer in[#536](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/536) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/536>
_.Modernized pytest hook implementation. Contributed by Bruno Oliveira in
[#549](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/549) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/549>
_ and Ronny Pfannschmidt in[#550](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/550) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/550>
_.
28db055
Bump version: 3.0.0 → 4.0.057e9354
Really update the changelog.56b810b
Update chagelog.f7fced5
Add support for LCOV output1211d31
Fix flake8 errorb077753
Use modern approach to specify hook options00713b3
removed incorrect docs on data_file
.b3dda36
Improve workflow with a collecting status check. (#548)218419f
Prevent undesirable new lines to be displayed when report is
disabled60b73ec
migrate build command from distutils to setuptools