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Juho Saarinen edited this page Dec 17, 2019 · 28 revisions

Release Notes

The distributions are available from the Maven central repository. See http://robotframework.github.com/MavenPlugin/ for plugin documentation.

Robot Framework version to 3.1.2.

Small documentation updates to the site.

Robot Framework version to 3.1.1.

Dropped Java 7 support, and added support to Java 11.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.4.9 updates some of the dependencies, including the Robot Framework version to 3.1.

Also adds support for defining log level in rebot-goal.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.4.8 provides support for rebot-goal, that allows separating the test run and report generation, and also combine reports from multiple runs to one.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.4.6 updates some of the dependencies, including the Robot Framework version to 3.0.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.4.5 updates some of the dependencies, including the Robot Framework version to 2.9.1. The external runner now also uses the same Robot version that has been configured for the plugin.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.4.5:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 36 Medium Support for RobotFramework 2.9
Issue 37 Medium External runner should use the robot configured to pom

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.4.4 updated the Robot Framework version to 2.8.7.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.4.3 updated the Robot Framework version to 2.8.6.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.4.2 updates some of the dependencies, most importantly it updates the Robot Framework version to 2.8.5.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.4.2:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 26 Medium Need new release after updating to robot framework 2.8.5

This version updates Robot Framework to version 2.8.4 and adds to documentation instructions on how to override the Robot Framework version from the plugin.

Maven Plugin release 1.3 actually used the old version of Robot Framework. This version updates it correctly to 2.8.3.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.3 updates Robot Framework dependency version to 2.8.3 and add support for runFailed option, which came in Robot Framework 2.8. Thanks to Dezider Mesko for contributing the new option!

All fixes and enhancements in 1.3:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 22 Medium Retry failed

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.2 updates Robot Framework dependency version to 2.8.1. This allows verify goal to ignore non critical failures and also memory usage of the plugin can now be diminished by disabling the log file.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.2:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 10 Medium output.xml still read when passing -l NONE and -r NONE
Issue 12 Medium Non critical failures cause verification to fail

Altogether 2 issues.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.1 includes new testdoc goal for generating high level documentation based on test cases. When robot is executed in an external process, it is also now possible to set jvm options. Many thanks to Gaurav Arora and Dezider Mesko for contributing these new features.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.1:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 2 Medium Support for Testdoc
Issue 19 Medium JVM arguments parameter added
Issue 20 Medium CLASSPATH variable is prepended to existing classpath.

Altogether 3 issues.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.0.8 adds the possibility to modify classpath of the external process. Now it is also possible to pass variables from the command line.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.0.8:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 14 Medium Pass variables through command line
Issue 15 Medium Edit classpath on external runner

Altogether 2 issues.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.0.7 adds the possibility to execute robot in external process. This also allows setting environment variables for the test run.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.0.7:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 4 Medium Possibility to set environment variables for the execution

Altogether 1 issue.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.0.6 clarifies the docs for libdoc mojo and updates to robot version 2.7.6.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.0.6:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 13 Medium Document how libdoc handles .java targets

Altogether 1 issue.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.0.5 adds support for configuring argument file from the command prompt and fixes classpath problem that prevented run and libdoc from working in the same run.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.0.5:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 11 Medium Fix support for argumentFile
Issue 9 Medium the run goal causes an AnnotationLibrary to have no keywords during the libdoc goal

Altogether 2 issues.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.0.4 adds support for version configuration to libdoc mojo.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.0.4:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 8 Medium Libdoc should support --version in configuration

Altogether 1 issue.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.0.3 fixes verify goal to skip if the test execution phase is skipped.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.0.3:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 7 Medium Skipping test execution should also skip test verification

Altogether 1 issue.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.0.2 Fixes Backwards compatibility with old tests and broken configurations

All fixes and enhancements in 1.0.2:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 6 Medium Backwards compatibility with old tests/includes configurations broken

Altogether 1 issue.

Robot Framework Maven Plugin 1.0.1 fixes support for Maven 2.

All fixes and enhancements in 1.0.1:

ID Priority Summary
Issue 5 Medium Plugin is broken on Maven 2

Altogether 1 issue.

First version.