pytest 8.4 release plans

[nicoddemus]

8.3 was released in July 20th, seems like it would be nice to heave a 8.4 release soon, as we have some nice new improvements slated for the next release.

Looking at the milestone, the only standing issue is dropping Python 3.8 in #12875.

Is there anything else someone would like to get in before we release 8.4?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

The fixture definition change

The stopoteration bugfixes

[nicoddemus]

Ahh thanks @RonnyPfannschmidt.

Could you add them to the 8.4 milestone please?

[dongfangtianyu]

Change the absolute paths in the output to relative paths:

• raise FixtureLookupError
• --junit-xml=junit.xml and pytest.mark.skip

links:

• Remove path info from skip exception #12911
• dongfangtianyu@9f8a4c6#diff-848836ace8f51ac2f0c7b6fd3e04c28b0f2344743721ed718c71441c0147d68fR370

The discussion itself lacks follow-up updates, so it’s in a WIP state.
Could you briefly evaluate whether it should be included in 8.4?

[nicoddemus]

@dongfangtianyu it could be included in 8.4 if it lands until then, sure. I think you can go ahead and work on it, if that's what you are asking. 👍

[dongfangtianyu]

@nicoddemus Got it! It should be finished in about a week if everything goes smoothly. :)

[nicoddemus]

Could you add them to the 8.4 milestone please?

@RonnyPfannschmidt gentle ping. 😁