Merge pull request #7797 from pytest-dev/release-6.1.0

Prepare release 6.1.0
pytest-dev · Sep 26, 2020 · 08a1ab3 · 08a1ab3
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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Release announcements
    :maxdepth: 2
 
 
+   release-6.1.0
    release-6.0.2
    release-6.0.1
    release-6.0.0

diff --git a/doc/en/announce/release-6.1.0.rst b/doc/en/announce/release-6.1.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+pytest-6.1.0
+=======================================
+
+The pytest team is proud to announce the 6.1.0 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:
+
+* Anthony Sottile
+* Bruno Oliveira
+* C. Titus Brown
+* Drew Devereux
+* Faris A Chugthai
+* Florian Bruhin
+* Hugo van Kemenade
+* Hynek Schlawack
+* Joseph Lucas
+* Kamran Ahmad
+* Mattreex
+* Maximilian Cosmo Sitter
+* Ran Benita
+* Rüdiger Busche
+* Sam Estep
+* Sorin Sbarnea
+* Thomas Grainger
+* Vipul Kumar
+* Yutaro Ikeda
+* hp310780
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The pytest Development Team
diff --git a/doc/en/builtin.rst b/doc/en/builtin.rst
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         cache.get(key, default)
         cache.set(key, value)
 
-        Keys must be a ``/`` separated value, where the first part is usually the
+        Keys must be ``/`` separated strings, where the first part is usually the
         name of your plugin or application to avoid clashes with other cache users.
 
         Values can be any object handled by the json stdlib module.
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         ``out`` and ``err`` will be ``byte`` objects.
 
     doctest_namespace [session scope]
-        Fixture that returns a :py:class:`dict` that will be injected into the namespace of doctests.
+        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.Config` object.
@@ -89,8 +90,10 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         automatically XML-encoded.
 
     record_testsuite_property [session scope]
-        Records a new ``<property>`` tag as child of the root ``<testsuite>``. This is suitable to
-        writing global information regarding the entire test suite, and is compatible with ``xunit2`` JUnit family.
+        Record a new ``<property>`` tag as child of the root ``<testsuite>``.
+
+        This is suitable to writing global information regarding the entire test
+        suite, and is compatible with ``xunit2`` JUnit family.
 
         This is a ``session``-scoped fixture which is called with ``(name, value)``. Example:
 
@@ -102,6 +105,12 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
 
         ``name`` must be a string, ``value`` will be converted to a string and properly xml-escaped.
 
+        .. 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.
+
     caplog
         Access and control log capturing.
 
@@ -114,8 +123,10 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
         * caplog.clear()         -> clear captured records and formatted log output string
 
     monkeypatch
-        The returned ``monkeypatch`` fixture provides these
-        helper methods to modify objects, dictionaries or os.environ::
+        A convenient fixture for monkey-patching.
+
+        The fixture provides these methods to modify objects, dictionaries or
+        os.environ::
 
             monkeypatch.setattr(obj, name, value, raising=True)
             monkeypatch.delattr(obj, name, raising=True)
@@ -126,10 +137,9 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
             monkeypatch.syspath_prepend(path)
             monkeypatch.chdir(path)
 
-        All modifications will be undone after the requesting
-        test function or fixture has finished. The ``raising``
-        parameter determines if a KeyError or AttributeError
-        will be raised if the set/deletion operation has no target.
+        All modifications will be undone after the requesting test function or
+        fixture has finished. The ``raising`` parameter determines if a KeyError
+        or AttributeError will be raised if the set/deletion operation has no target.
 
     recwarn
         Return a :class:`WarningsRecorder` instance that records all warnings emitted by test functions.
@@ -140,30 +150,28 @@ For information about fixtures, see :ref:`fixtures`. To see a complete list of a
     tmpdir_factory [session scope]
         Return a :class:`_pytest.tmpdir.TempdirFactory` instance for the test session.
 
-
     tmp_path_factory [session scope]
         Return a :class:`_pytest.tmpdir.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.  The returned object is a `py.path.local`_
-        path object.
+        Return a temporary directory path object which is unique to each test
+        function invocation, created as a sub directory of the 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
-        Return a temporary directory path object
-        which is unique to each test function invocation,
-        created as a sub directory of the base temporary
-        directory.  The returned object is a :class:`pathlib.Path`
-        object.
+        Return a temporary directory path object which is unique to each test
+        function invocation, created as a sub directory of the base temporary
+        directory.
+
+        The returned object is a :class:`pathlib.Path` object.
 
         .. note::
 
-            in python < 3.6 this is a pathlib2.Path
+            In python < 3.6 this is a pathlib2.Path.
 
 
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