Changelog

6.8.0

• [NEW] Add support for AlmaLinux and RockyLinux

6.7.0

• [NEW] Handle ansible_connection type community.docker.docker
• [NEW] add ssh_extra_args option

6.6.0

• [NEW] Allow to test for user password expiration
• [NEW] Handle ANSIBLE_SSH_COMMON_ARGS and ANSIBLE_SSH_EXTRA_ARGS environment variables for ansible connections
• [FIX] Fix encoding issue in salt connections
• [FIX] Fix AttributeError when “command” is not available and fallback to “which”

6.5.0

• Fallback to which when “command -v” fails
• Use realpath by default to resolve symlinks instead of “readlink -f”
• ansible: Support environment variables
• Force package module to resolve to RpmPackage on Fedora
• Fix new versions of supervisor may exit with status != 0
• Eventually decode ansible output when it’s not ascii
• Either use python3 or python to get remote encoding

6.4.0

• Implement Interface names and default (#615)
• Implement Service.systemd_properties (#612)

6.3.0

• Fix #451 for use with pytest -p no:terminal
• Add client_version() and server_version() and version() to docker module.

6.2.0

• Fix #590: Systeminfo doesn’t resolve Windows correctly (#592)
• First implementation of network namespaces in addr module (#596)
• pip check support in PipPackage module (#605)
• pip refactoring: implementation of installed and version (#606)
• Allow to specify supervisorctl and supervisord.conf paths (#536)

6.1.0

• Fix wrong package module on CentOS having dpkg tools installed #570 (#575)
• Deduplicate hosts returned by get_backends() (#572)
• Use /run/systemd/system/ to detect systemd (fixes #546)
• Use ssh_args from ansible.cfg
• Require python >= 3.6
• Fix ValueError with python 3.8+ when using –nagios option.

6.0.0

• Breaking change: testinfra has moved to the https://github.com/pytest-dev/ organization. Project on PyPi is renamed as pytest-testinfra. A dummy testinfra will make the transition, but you should rename to pytest-testinfra in your requirements files.

5.3.1

• Fix newly introduced is_masked property on systemd service https://github.com/philpep/testinfra/pull/569

5.3.0

• Add is_masked property on systemd service

5.2.2

• iptables: use -w option to wait for iptables lock when running in parallel with pytest-xdist.

5.2.1

• Fix documentation build

5.2.0

• Allow kubeconfig context to be supplied in kubernetes backend
• Drop file.__ne__ implementation and require python >= 3.5

5.1.0

• Use remote_user and remote_port in ansible.cfg
• Add arch (architecture) attribute to system_info module

5.0.0

• Breaking change: host.file().listdir() is now a method

4.1.0

• Pass extra arguments to ansible CLI via host.ansible()
• New method host.file.listdir() to list items in a directory.

4.0.0

• Drop python2 support

3.4.0

• Add podman backend and module
• WARNING: this will be the latest testinfra version supporting python2, please upgrade to python3.

3.3.0

• Add extras for backend dependencies (#454)
• Various enhancements of kitchen integration documentation
• ansible backend now support “password” field from ansible inventory
• New backend “openshift”

3.2.1

• Fix Process module when working with long strings (username, …) #505

3.2.0

• New module “environment” for getting remote environment variables
• New module “block_device” exposing block device information
• Add a global flag –force-ansible to the command line
• Raise an error in case of missing ansible inventory file
• Fix an escape issue with ansible ssh args set inventory or configuration file

3.1.0

• ssh connections uses persistent connections by default. You can disable this by passing controlpersist=0 to the connections options.
• ansible ssh connections now use ssh backend instead of paramiko. ansible_ssh_common_args and ansible_ssh_extra_args are now taking in account.
• Add a new ansible connection options “force_ansible”, when set to True, testinfra will always call ansible for all commands he need to run.
• Handle all ansible connections types by setting force_ansible=True for connections which doesn’t have a testinfra equivalent connection (for example “network_cli”).

3.0.6

• Issue full command logging using DEBUG log level to avoid logging sensible data when log level is INFO.
• Fix possible crash when parsing ansible inventories #470
• Support using alternative kubeconfig file in kubectl connections #460
• Support parsing ProxyCommand from ssh_config for paramiko connections

3.0.5

• Set default timeout to 10s on ssh/paramiko connections
• Add support for ansible inventory parameter ansible_private_key_file

3.0.4

• Add support for ansible lxc and lxd connections

3.0.3

• Fix paramiko parsing RequestTTY from ssh configs
• Re-add “groups” key from ansible.get_variables() to be backward compatible with testinfra 2.X

3.0.2

• Fix ansible with no inventory resolving to “localhost”
• Fix support for ansible 2.8 with no inventory
• Fix ansible/paramiko which wasn’t reading hosts config from ~/.ssh/config
• Allow to pass –ssh-config and –ssh-identity-file to ansible connection

3.0.1

• Fix parsing of ipv6 addresses for paramiko, ssh and ansible backends.
• Fix –connection=ansible invocation when no hosts are provided

3.0.0

• New ansible backend fixing support for ansible 2.8 and license issue. See https://github.com/philpep/testinfra/issues/431 for details. This make ansible using testinfra native backends and only works for local, ssh or docker connections. I you have others connection types or issues, please open a bug on https://github.com/philpep/testinfra/issues/new
• Windows support is improved. “package” module is handled with Chocolatey and there’s support for the “user” module.

2.1.0

• docker: new get_containers() classmethod
• socket: fix parsing of ipv6 addresses with new versions of ss
• service: systemd fallback to sysv when “systemctl is-active” is not working

2.0.0

• Add addr module, used to test network connectivity
• Drop deprecated “testinfra” command, you should use “py.test” instead
• Drop deprecated top level fixtures, access them through the fixture “host” instead.
• Drop support for ansible <= 2.4

1.19.0

• Add docker module
• Fix pytest 4 compatibility

1.18.0

• Allow to urlencode character in host specification “user:pass@host” (#387)
• Fix double logging from both pytest and testinfra
• Drop support for python 2.6
• Allow to configure timeouts for winrm backend

1.17.0

• Add support for ansible “become” user in ansible module
• Add failed/succeeded property on run() output

1.16.0

• packaging: Use setuptools_scm instead of pbr
• iptables: add ip6tables support
• sysctl: find sysctl outside of PATH (/sbin)

1.15.0

• Fix finding ss and netstat command in “sbin” paths for Centos (359)
• Add a workaround for https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/3542
• Handle “starting” status for Service module on Alpine linux
• Fix no_ssl and no_verify_ssl options for WinRM backend

1.14.1

• Fix multi-host test ordering (#347), regression introduced in 1.13.1
• Fix Socket on OpenBSD hosts (#338)

1.14.0

• Add a new lxc backend
• Socket: fix is_listening for unix sockets
• Add namespace and container support for kubernetes backend
• Add a cache of parsed ansible inventories for ansible backend
• Service: fix service detection on Centos 6 hosts
• File: implement file comparison with string paths

1.13.1

• package: fix is_installed and version behavior for uninstalled packages (#321 and #326)
• ansible: Use predictibles test ordering when using pytest-xdist to fix random test collections errors (#316)

1.13.0

• socket: fix detection of udp listening sockets (#311)
• ssh backend: Add support for GSSAPI

1.12.0

• ansible: fix compatibility with ansible 2.5
• pip: fix compatibility with pip 10 (#299)

1.11.1

• Socket: fix error with old versions of ss without the –no-header option (#293)

1.11.0

• Fix bad error reporting when using ansible module without ansible backend (#288)
• Socket: add a new implementation using ss instead of netstat (#124)
• Add service, process, and systeminfo support for Alpine (#283)

1.10.1

• Fix get_variables() for ansible>=2.0,<2.4 (#274)
• Paramiko: Use the RequireTTY setting if specified in a provided SSHConfig (#247)

1.10.0

• New iptables module

1.9.1

• Fix running testinfra within a suite using doctest (#268)
• Service: add is_valid method for systemd
• Fix file.linked_to() for Mac OS

1.9.0

• Interface: allow to find ‘ip’ command ousite of PATH
• Fix –nagios option with python 3

1.8.0

• Deprecate testinfra command (will be dropped in 2.0), use py.test instead #135
• Handle –nagios option when using py.test command

1.7.1

• Support for ansible 2.4 (#249)

1.7.0

• Salt: allow specify config directory (#230)
• Add a WinRM backend
• Socket: ipv6 sockets can handle ipv4 clients (#234)
• Service: Enhance upstart detection (#243)

1.6.5

• Service: add is_enabled() support for OpenBSD
• Add ssh identity file option for paramiko and ssh backends
• Expand tilde (~) to user home directory for ssh-config, ssh-identity-file and ansible-inventory options

1.6.4

• Service: Allow to find ‘service’ command outside of $PATH #211
• doc fixes

1.6.3

• Fix unwanted deprecation warning when running tests with pytest 3.1 #204

1.6.2

• Fix wheel package for 1.6.1

1.6.1

• Support ansible 2.3 with python 3 (#197)

1.6.0

• New ‘host’ fixture as a replacement for all other fixtures. See https://testinfra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules.html#host (Other fixtures are deprecated and will be removed in 2.0 release).

1.5.5

• backends: Fix ansible backend with ansible >= 2.3 (#195)

1.5.4

• backends: fallback to UTF-8 encoding when system encoding is ASCII.
• Service: fix is_running() on systems using Upstart

1.5.3

• Sudo: restore backend command in case of exceptions

1.5.2

• Honnor become_user when using the ansible backend

1.5.1

• Add dependency on importlib on python 2.6

1.5.0

• New kubectl backend
• Command: check_output strip carriage return and newlines (#164)
• Package: rpm improve getting version() and release()
• User: add gecos (comment) field (#155)

1.4.5

• SystemInfo: detect codename from VERSION_CODENAME in /etc/os-release (fallback when lsb_release isn’t installed).
• Package: add release property for rpm based systems.