Release notes for version 102.0

Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <[email protected]>

docs/source/guides/user/chapters/introduction.rst

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   terminals, basically pipes the colored output to ``less`` to simplify
   browsing of the produced output. You an enable it with ``--enable-paginator``.
 
+.. _sysinfo-collection:
+
 Sysinfo collection
 ------------------
 
-.. note:: This feature is not fully supported on nrunner runner yet.
-
 Avocado comes with a ``sysinfo`` plugin, which automatically gathers some
 system information per each job or even between tests. This is very useful
 when later we want to know what caused the test's failure. This system

docs/source/releases/102_0.rst

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+======================
+102.0 - 102 Dalmatians
+======================
+
+The Avocado team is proud to present another release: Avocado 102.0,
+AKA "102 Dalmatians", is now available!
+
+Release documentation: `Avocado 102.0
+<http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/102.0/>`_
+
+.. note:: Before getting into the 102.0 release itself, users should
+          be advised that release 103.0 (the next Avocado release)
+          will be a LTS release.  The next development cycle will focus
+          on bug fixes and usability enhacements, and not on new features.
+          This is a good opportunity for teams using and deploying Avocado
+          to consider an upgrade from 92.X LTS (or other non-LTS version).
+          For more information on what a LTS release means, please
+          read :ref:`rfc-long-term-stability`.
+
+Users/Test Writers
+==================
+
+* There were major changes to the Avocado logging behavior, most of them
+  to address feedback from users since the previous logging changes:
+
+  * The root logger handler was restored. This enables all loggers out
+    of ``avocado.*`` namespace by default.  If a test, either directly
+    or indirectly through 3rd party libraries, logs into any namespace
+    (say ``logging.getLogger('my-library')``) it will show up in the
+    Avocado's test logs.
+  * The ``job.log`` file continues to contain logs for the
+    ``avocado.job`` namespace, but a new file called ``full.log``
+    contains all generated logs for a job, including logs from all
+    tests.
+
+* The Avocado Resolver now allows tests that are implemented in files
+  (by far the most common scenario) and that may also access test data
+  files (see :ref:`accessing-test-data-files`) to pass that
+  information along to spawners.  The effect of that is that when
+  running such tests on "remote" spawner environments (such as
+  "podman") the test file and the data files can be made available in
+  the remote environment.  This is currently enabled in
+  ``avocado-instrumented``, ``python-unittest``, ``exec-test`` and
+  ``tap`` tests.
+
+* User of macOS will have a better experience when using Avocado.  The
+  full set of Avocado's selftests are now run under macOS on CI.
+  Please be advised that macOS is not currently supported at the same
+  level of Linux-based operating systems due to the lack of
+  contributors/maintainers with access to the needed hardware.  If you
+  are a user/developer and are willing to contribute to this, please
+  let the Avocado team know.
+
+* :ref:`sysinfo-collection` is now fully supported in nrunner,
+  including per-test collection of system information.
+
+* A new plugin interface called :class:`PostTest
+  <avocado.core.plugin_interfaces.PostTest>` allow actions to be
+  executed right after the execution of a test, in the same spawner
+  environment as the test itself.  This complements the :class:`PreTest
+  <avocado.core.plugin_interfaces.PreTest>` introduced on version 101.0.
+
+* Environment variables such as ``AVOCADO_TEST_BASEDIR``,
+  ``AVOCADO_TEST_LOGDIR`` and ``AVOCADO_TEST_LOGFILE`` are now
+  made available to ``exec-test``.
+
+Utility Modules
+===============
+
+* New functions were added to :mod:`avocado.utils.nvme`, such as
+  :func:`avocado.utils.nvme.create_namespaces`,
+  :func:`avocado.utils.nvme.get_ns_status` and
+  :func:`avocado.utils.nvme.get_nslist_with_pci`.
+
+* A new :func:`avocado.utils.multipath.get_mpath_paths_status` that
+  returns the status of all paths of a mpath device was introduced.
+
+* :mod:`avocado.utils.distro` received updates to support more recent
+  versions of the UnionTech OS.
+
+Bug Fixes
+=========
+
+* Avocado now presents the correct message when it's interrupted with
+  a "CTRL+C" (AKA ``SIGNINT``, AKA ``KeyboardInterrupt``).
+
+* The ``fetchasset`` plugin would fail when parsing some Python test
+  files (in search of assets) and would produce a hard to follow error
+  message (``AttributeError: 'Subscript' object has no attribute 'id'``).
+
+* When tests were implemented in base classes (without tags), but then
+  the derived classes added tags, the resulting tests in the derived
+  class would not have the derived class tags applied to them.
+
+Internal Changes
+================
+
+* The ``avocado.app.debug`` and controlling environment variable
+  ``AVOCADO_LOG_DEBUG`` have been removed to simplify the logging
+  code.
+
+* The documentation for the optional plugins were previously hosted in
+  the main Avocado "directory", but are now integral part of each
+  individual plugin.  This makes the documentation available as each
+  individual package metadata too (which will now show on PyPI).
+
+* The plugin information given as the output to ``avocado plugins``
+  command is now much more dynamic (instead of hard coded).  That
+  also fixes a plugin section that used to be missing.
+
+Additional information
+======================
+
+For more information, please check out the complete
+`Avocado changelog
+<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/101.0...102.0>`_.
+
+For more information on the actual issues addressed, please check out
+the `milestone information
+<https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/milestone/28?closed=1>`_.
+
+For more information on the release codename, please refer to `IMDb
+<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211181>`_.

docs/source/releases/index.rst

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 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
+   102_0
    101_0
    100_1
    100_0