Revision: 3688
Author: pekka.klarck
Date: Mon May 31 04:38:37 2010
Log: Edited wiki page through web user interface.
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/source/detail?r=3688
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/wiki/ReleaseNotes25.wiki
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--- /wiki/ReleaseNotes25.wiki Mon May 31 04:32:18 2010
+++ /wiki/ReleaseNotes25.wiki Mon May 31 04:38:37 2010
@@ -4,18 +4,19 @@
= Robot Framework 2.5 Preview Releases =
-Robot Framework 2.5 is a new major release with loads of bigger and
smaller enhancements
-and bug fixes. The target is to release it in May 2010.
-
-Before the final release there will be some alpha, beta, and release
candidate releases in order to:
+Robot Framework (RF) 2.5 is a new major release with loads of bigger and
smaller enhancements and bug fixes. Before the final release there will be
some alpha, beta, and release candidate releases in order to:
* make the already implemented features available to users,
* get feedback from the new features, and
* allow users to test the new version on their environments.
-Please submit possible bugs to the
-[http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/list issue tracker] and
send general
-comments to [MailingLists mailing lists].
+[#Robot_Framework_2.5_Alpha_1 RF 2.5 Apha 1] was released on 2010-05-06,
and
+[#Robot_Framework_2.5_Release:Candidate_1 RF 2.5 Release Candidate 1] on
2010-05-31.
+The target is to get the final release out on Monday 2010-06-07.
+
+Please submit possible bugs you encounter with the preview releases to the
+[http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/list issue tracker], and
send general
+comments and questions to the [MailingLists mailing lists].
= Downloads =
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@
Test templates (issue 500) allow specifying the keyword to use in test
cases only once. This makes data-driven testing, where the same
-keyword is executed with the same input and/or ouput values, easier
+keyword is executed with the same input and/or output values, easier
and reduces duplication. An added benefit is that when a test has
multiple steps, all of them will be executed even if one of the steps
fails.
@@ -114,37 +115,6 @@
Will be listed later.
-= Robot Framework 2.5 Release Candidate 1 =
-
-Robot Framework Release Candidate 1 was released 2010-05-31. This release
contains all
-functionality intended to be included in RF 2.5 and the main issues
holding back the final
-release are related to documentation. Additionally, we'll continue
implementing compatible
-RIDE release straight after the RC.
-
-Full list of issues that were closed after alpha1 is listed below.
-
-
-|| Issue 377 || Enhancement || High || Don't convert test suite, test case
and keyword names unnecessarily ||
-|| Issue 452 || Enhancement || High || Possibility to verify test data
without actually executing tests (dry-run) ||
-|| Issue 486 || Enhancement || High || Parsing modules should preserve
comments to keep them available for RIDE and other tools ||
-|| Issue 500 || Enhancement || High || Possibility to specify 'Test
Template' for all tests to ease data-driven testing ||
-|| Issue 564 || Enhancement || High || Disallow using `...@{list}` variables
with settings that require scalar values to ease parsing ||
-|| Issue 518 || Documentation || High || Document that Python/Jython
version must be >= 2.5 (and < 3.0) ||
-|| Issue 444 || Defect || Medium || Quickstart Demo fails in windows if
sut directory has whitespace ||
-|| Issue 550 || Defect || Medium || Non-integer value with `FOR IN RANGE`
can break the whole test execution ||
-|| Issue 232 || Enhancement || Medium || Possibility to configure parsing
so that files having test case table are not ignored even if they don't
have tests ||
-|| Issue 515 || Enhancement || Medium || Importing Java libraries does not
work on standalone Jython ||
-|| Issue 524 || Enhancement || Medium || Parsing modules should preserve
table headers to make them available for RIDE and other tools ||
-|| Issue 553 || Enhancement || Medium || Remove `robotidy.py` tool ||
-|| Issue 563 || Enhancement || Medium || Support for setting suite
metadata using syntax `| Metadata | Name | Value |` ||
-|| Issue 403 || Refactoring || Medium || Parsed user keyword objects
should have all data even if part of the data is invalid ||
-|| Issue 560 || Enhancement || Low || For loop without body or without
values should fail ||
-|| Issue 562 || Enhancement || Low || Suite metadata names should not be
converted unnecessarily ||
-|| Issue 481 || Refactoring || Low || Cleanup `robot.utils` module ||
-
-Altogether 17 issues.
-
-
= Robot Framework 2.5 Alpha 1 =
The first RF 2.5 pre-release was releases on 2010-05-06. Full list of
issues is below.
