7.4 and 8.0 release planning

[bluetech]

I have some pending breaking changes to pytest, that can't really go through a deprecation cycle. Things like:

• Changing collection of __init__.py to collect just the module, not the entire package (python: change pytest pkg/__init__.py to only collect the __init__.py Module #11042)
• Changing Package to not be a Module (How should package collection work? #7777 (comment))
• Adding the Directory/Dir nodes (How should package collection work? #7777 (comment))

I'd like to include these changes in the next major release, 8.0.

But before that, I suggest we release 7.4 with what we have already.

I can manage these releases.

Proposal:

• Release 7.4 this weekend
• Change main to be 8.*
• Work on the planned features until they're done (1-2 months hopefully)
• Branch 8.0.x, release 8.0.0-rc1
• Wait ~1 month for testing/feedback
• Release 8.0.0

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

I like this plan

Unfortunately I'm not sure if i can manage to land the introduction of function definition and item definition within the intended time frame

[nicoddemus]

Sounds great @bluetech.

You think it is worthwhile backporting #11125 and release 7.3.3? If you think so I can do it. Just saw your comment. 👍

[akhilramkee]

Hi Team, (@nicoddemus / @RonnyPfannschmidt / @bluetech )

I am writing to inquire about the timeline for the minor releases of pytest 7.4.
Our team uses pytest to test our codebase and we are waiting on the bug-fixes for importlib mainly a4d7254 and c71b5df.

Can you please let us know when these bug-fixes will be released?

[nicoddemus]

Hi @akhilramkee thanks for the ping.

I can take of this release; I want to also improve the deploy procedure to use the manual deploy mechanism we have used in pytest-mock and pytest-xdist, if that's alright with you @RonnyPfannschmidt and @bluetech.

[nicoddemus]

@akhilramkee 7.4.1 has been released to PyPI. 👍

[akhilramkee]

Thanks @nicoddemus!

[bluetech]

OK, now that #11646 is in, we're ready to cut the 8.0.x branch and release 8.0.0rc1. I'll aim to do it by Tuesday (2024-01-02). (The main thing is to edit the release notes).

[bluetech]

pytest 8.0.0rc1 is now available on PyPI for testing.

[bluetech]

pytest 8.0.0rc2 was released a few days ago containing fixes to all known issues/regressions (correct me if I'm wrong).

My current plan is to release pytest 8.0.0 a week from now, Jan 27 (next Saturday).

[nicoddemus]

Awesome, thanks @bluetech for leading this release!

[bluetech]

8.0.0 is out!