Changelog

3.6.0 Allow global tinctures (2026-05-31)¶

3.5.0 Allow using TAVERN_INCLUDE in files (2026-05-17)¶

3.4.0 Add custom authentication via ext functions (2026-05-02)¶

3.3.3 fix default entry points (2026-04-08)¶

3.3.2 allow ‘text’ response checking with raw include tag for files (2026-04-05)¶

3.3.1 pydantic helper function (2026-04-05)¶

3.3.0 generic backends (2026-04-04)¶

v3.3.0 Convert backends to be fully generic (2026-03-28)¶

3.2.0 Added support for default document merge-down, allowing users to define an is_defaults: true section at the top of a Tavern YAML file to automatically merge configuration into subsequent tests within the same file. (2026-02-18)¶

3.1.0 graphql support (2026-01-10)¶

3.0.2 fix pytest 9 warning (2025-11-21)¶

3.0.1 support pytest 9 (2025-11-15)¶

3.0.0 release 3.0.0 (2025-10-11)¶

2.17.0 Allow using kwargs in marks as well (2025-08-24)¶

2.16.0 Allow using pytest marks which are function calls (2025-07-14)¶

2.15.0 Add !anynumber token (2025-04-12)¶

2.14.0 Fix pytest_tavern_beta_before_every_request not allowing a user to override request vars (2025-03-08)¶

2.13.0 Update minimum python version to 3.10 (2025-03-08)¶

2.12.0 Add dynamic skipping of stages based on simpleeval (2025-03-07)¶

2.11.0 Remove requirement for ‘name’ in variable files (2024-05-11)¶

2.10.3 Allow using referenced ‘finally’ stages (2024-04-13)¶

2.10.2 Fix missing schema check for redirect query params (2024-04-13)¶

2.10.1 minor changes to fix tavern_flask plugin (2024-03-27)¶

2.10.0 Lock protobuf version to <5 (2024-03-27)¶

2.9.3 Fix saving in gRPC without checking the response (2024-02-17)¶

2.9.2 Fix saving in gRPC (2024-02-10)¶

2.9.1 internal cleanup (2024-01-27)¶

2.9.0 Fix mqtt implementation checking for message publication correctly (2024-01-23)¶

2.8.0 Initial gRPC support (2024-01-20)¶

2.7.1 Fix jsonschema warnings (2023-12-26)¶

2.7.0 update minimum version of jsonschema (2023-12-26)¶

2.6.0 fix verify_response_with with multiple MQTT responses (2023-11-18)¶

2.5.0 Tinctures: a utility for running things before/after stages, able to be specified at test or stage level. (2023-10-22)¶

2.4.0 Allow using an ext function to create a URL (2023-09-18)¶

2.3.1 Fix error formatting when including files with curly braces (2023-09-18)¶

2.3.0 Add ‘finally’ block (2023-08-05)¶

2.2.1 Update some dependencies (2023-07-30)¶

2.2.0 Allow wildcards in MQTT topics (2023-06-25)¶

2.1.0 Allow multi part file uploads with the same form field name (2023-06-04)¶

2.0.7 Lock pytest to <7.3 to fix issue with marks (2023-04-15)¶

2.0.6 Fix a few small MQTT issues (2023-03-13)¶

2.0.5 Attempt to fix deadlock in subscribe locks (2023-02-16)¶

2.0.4 Fix using ext functions in MQTT publish (2023-02-16)¶

2.0.3 Add type annotations (internal change) (2023-02-10)¶

2.0.2 Fix saving in MQTT (2023-02-08)¶

2.0.1 Bump some dependency versions (2023-01-16)¶

2.0.0 2.0.0 release (2023-01-12)¶

1.25.2 Only patch pyyaml when a test is actually being loaded to avoid side effect from Tavern just being in the python path (2022-12-15)¶

1.25.1 Remove tbump from dependencies so it can actually be uploaded to pypi (2022-12-13)¶

1.25.0 More changes to packaging (2022-12-13)¶

This is technically not a operational change but I’m adding a new tag so it can br reverted in future

1.24.1 Format variables in test error log before dumping as a YAML string (2022-11-22)¶

1.24.0 Fix using ‘py’ library (2022-11-08)¶

This locks pytest to <=7.2 to avoid having to fix imports every time a new version comes out.

1.23.5 Fix missing dependency in newer pytest versions (2022-11-07)¶

1.23.4 Update stevedore version (2022-10-23)¶

1.23.3 Allow specifying ‘unexpected’ messages in MQTT to fail a test (2022-06-26)¶

1.23.2 Fix newer versions of requests complaining about headers not being strings (2022-06-12)¶

1.23.1 Fix docstring of fake pytest object to be a string (2022-06-05)¶

1.23.0 Update pyjwt for CVE-2022-29217 (2022-06-05)¶

1.22.1 Fix allure formatting stage name (2022-05-02)¶

1.22.0 Allow usage of pyyaml 6 (2022-04-23)¶

1.21.0 Allow usage of pytest 7 (2022-04-17)¶

1.20.0 Add pytest_tavern_beta_after_every_test_run (2022-02-25)¶

1.19.0 Allow parametrizing more types of values (2022-01-09)¶

1.18.0 Infer content-type and content-encoding from file_body key (2021-12-12)¶

1.17.2 Fix hardcoded list of strictness choices on command line (2021-12-12)¶

1.17.1 Allow bools in parameterized values (2021-12-12)¶

1.17.0 Allow parametrising HTTP method (2021-10-31)¶

1.16.5 Fix ‘x is not None’ vs ‘not x’ causing strict matching error (2021-10-31)¶

1.16.4 Change a couple of instances of logging where ‘info’ might log sensitive data and add note to docs (2021-10-31)¶

1.16.3 Fix --collect-only flag (2021-10-17)¶

1.16.2 Fix some settings being lost after retrying a stage (2021-10-03)¶

1.16.1 Fix regression in nested strict key checking (2021-09-05)¶

1.16.0 Allow specifying a new strict option which will allow list items in any order (2021-06-20)¶

1.15.0 Update pytest and pykwalify (2021-06-06)¶

1.14.2 Stop pytest warning about a private import (2021-04-05)¶

1.14.1 Fix mqtt tls options validation (2021-03-27)¶

1.14.0 Add extra argument to regex helper to allow matching from a jmespath (2021-02-20)¶

1.13.2 Fix checking for cert_reqs file (2021-02-20)¶

1.13.1 Fix using ext functions in query params (2021-01-30)¶

1.13.0 Add support for generating Allure test reports (2021-01-30)¶

1.12.2 lock pykwalify version to 1.7 because of breaking API change in 1.8 (2020-12-31)¶

1.12.1 Fix pytest deprecation warning (2020-12-11)¶

1.12.0 Allow ext functions in mqtt blocks (2020-12-11)¶

1.11.1 Fix bumped version (2020-11-07)¶

1.7.1 Bump max version of paho-mqtt (2020-11-07)¶

1.9.0 219 response function calls (#614) (2020-11-06)¶

Also log the result from ‘response’ ext functions

1.11.0 523 add request hook (#615) (2020-11-07)¶

1.10.0 Format filenames (#612) (2020-11-07)¶

1.8.0 Move parametrize functions out of main class as they are specific behaviour (2020-10-09)¶

Add filterwarning to schema

1.7.0 Add TAVERN_INCLUDE_PATH to allow including files from other file locations (2020-10-09)¶

1.6.0 Allow specifying just the stage ‘id’ in case of a stage ref without also needing a name (2020-08-26)¶

1.5.1 Fix strictness for a stage ‘leaking’ into the subsequent stages (2020-08-26)¶

1.5.0 Allow using environment variables when formatting test marks (2020-08-26)¶

1.4.1 Fix reading utf8 encoded test files (2020-08-22)¶

1.4.0 Support pytest 6 (2020-08-15)¶

1.3.0 Allow autouse fixtures in Tavern tests (2020-08-08)¶

1.2.4 Be more relaxed in locking dependency versions (2020-08-08)¶

1.2.3 lock pytest to below 6 temporarily (2020-08-01)¶

1.2.2 travis (2020-05-25)¶

1.2.1 travis (2020-05-25)¶

1.2.0 allow passing max_retries as a format variable (2020-05-25)¶

1.1.5 travis (2020-05-23)¶

1.1.4 Bump version: 1.1.3 → 1.1.4 (2020-05-23)¶

1.1.3 travis (2020-05-23)¶

1.1.2 fforce new verison to make travis actually commit (2020-05-23)¶

1.1.1 Travis fix (2020-05-23)¶

1.1.0 Add new global option to enable merging of keys from external functions (2020-05-01)¶

1.0.2 Fix incorrect logic checking request codes (2020-05-01)¶

1.0.1 Enable formatting of file body key in requests (2020-05-01)¶

1.0.0 1.0 Release (2020-04-05)¶

0.34.0 Add new magic tag that includes something as json rather than a string (2019-12-08)¶

0.33.0 Add extra type tokens for matching lsits and dicts (2019-11-25)¶

0.32.0 Add option to control which files to search for rather than having it hardcoded (2019-11-22)¶

0.31.0 - Add isort (2019-11-22)¶

• Fix pytest warnings from None check

• Add warning when trying to coerce a non-stirnginto a string in string formatting

• Fix jmespath not working when the expected response was falsy

• Fix compatability with pytest-rerunfailures

• Add options to specify custom content type and encoding for files

0.30.3 Fix marker serialisation for pytest-xdist (2019-09-07)¶

0.30.2 Fix parsing auth header (2019-09-07)¶

0.30.1 Fix MQTT subscription race condition (2019-09-07)¶

0.30.0 Allow formatting of cookie names and allow overriding cookie values in a request (2019-08-30)¶

0.29.0 Allow saving in MQTT tests and move calling external verification functions into their own block (2019-08-28)¶

0.28.0 Add a couple of initial hooks (2019-08-26)¶

The initial 2 hooks should allow a user to do something before every test and after every stage

0.27.0 0.27.0 release (2019-08-10)¶

• Fix various typos in documentation

• Allow sending form data and files in a single request

• Fix double formatting of some string causing issues

• Add a global and stage specific flag to tell Tavern to not always follow redirects

• Fix not being able to use type tokens to format MQTT port

• Allow sending single values as JSON body as according to RFC 7159

• Change ‘save’ selector to use JMESpath

0.26.5 Lock pytest version to stop internal error (2019-06-01)¶

0.26.4 Allow loading of json files using include directive (2019-06-01)¶

0.26.3 Fix raw token formatting (2019-04-11)¶

0.26.2 Fix loading global config via run function (2019-03-19)¶

0.26.1 Fix matching ‘anything’ type token in MQTT (2019-03-17)¶

0.26.0 Add more advanced cookie behaviour (2019-03-17)¶

0.25.1 Fix fancy traceback when comments in yaml files contain special characters (2019-03-16)¶

0.25.0 Allow specifying custom SSL certificates in HTTP requests (2019-02-21)¶

0.24.0 Fix typetoken validation and correctly unsubscribe from MQTT topics after a stage (2019-02-16)¶

0.23.0 Fix ‘only’ keyword (2019-02-02)¶

0.22.1 Allow referenced stages to be included from global configuration files (2018-12-28)¶

0.22.0 Fix selection of tests when using run() function interface (2018-12-28)¶

This used pytests’s -k flag when we actually wanted to change collection of tests, not collecting all tests then selecting by name

0.21.1 Improve reporting of actual vs expected types in errors (2018-12-09)¶

0.21.0 Add parametrisation of multiple keys without creating combinations (2018-12-09)¶

0.20.0 Allow compatibility with pytest 4 (2018-11-15)¶

0.19.1 Fix typo in JMES utils (2018-10-14)¶

0.19.0 Add retries to stages (2018-10-07)¶

0.18.3 Fix ‘anything’ token in included test stages (2018-09-28)¶

0.18.2 Fix formatting environment variables in command line global config files (2018-09-21)¶

0.18.1 Add content type/encoding to uploaded files (2018-09-05)¶

0.18.0 Add ‘timeout’ parameter for http requests (2018-08-24)¶

0.17.2 Stop wrapping responses/schemas in files for verification (2018-08-07)¶

0.17.1 Dummy tag to attempt to make travis dpeloy, again (2018-08-07)¶

0.17.0 Add support for putting stages in included files which can be referred to by an id - see 57f2a10e58a88325c185258d2c83b07a532aa93a for details (2018-08-04)¶

0.16.5 Fixes to requirements for development and working from local pypi indexes (2018-08-02)¶

0.16.4 dummy bump tag for travis deploy (2018-07-26)¶

0.16.3 dummy bump tag for travis deploy (2018-07-26)¶

0.16.2 dummy bump tag for travis deploy (2018-07-26)¶

0.16.1 fix delay_before/after bug (2018-07-26)¶

0.16.0 Add ‘raw’ token to alow using curly braces in strings (2018-07-24)¶

0.15.2 Travis deployment fix (2018-07-16)¶

0.15.1 Fix boolean conversion with anybool tag (2018-07-11)¶

0.15.0 Add basic pytest fixture support (2018-07-10)¶

0.14.5 Add support for the ‘stream’ requests flag (2018-07-06)¶

0.14.4 Pylint fix (2018-07-04)¶

0.14.3 Fix header value comparisons (2018-07-04)¶

0.14.2 CI fix (2018-06-27)¶

0.14.1 CI fix (2018-06-27)¶

0.14.0 Allow sending of raw data in the ‘data’ key for a HTTP request (2018-06-27)¶

0.13.5 Fix for Python 2 regex function (2018-06-25)¶

0.13.4 Fix to formatting empty bodies in response with new traceback (2018-06-22)¶

0.13.3 Fix new traceback errors when anystr/anybool/etc was used (2018-06-22)¶

0.13.2 Bug fixes to logging and parametrization (2018-06-22)¶

0.13.1 Fix python 2 error (2018-06-21)¶

0.13.0 Add new flag to enable ‘fancy’ formatting on errors (2018-06-21)¶

0.12.4 Fix case matching with headers (2018-06-20)¶

0.12.3 Fix extra expected keys beign ignroed in responses sometimes (2018-06-20)¶

0.12.2 Fix Pylint (2018-06-20)¶

0.12.1 Flesh out the ‘run’ function a bit more so it can mostly be used to pass in all config values without having to have a Pytest config file (2018-06-20)¶

0.12.0 Add parametrize mark and make run() use pytest.main in the background (2018-06-20)¶

See taverntesting/tavern#127

calling run() directly will now cause a pytest isntance to be run in the background. This is to avoid having to maintain code and documentation for two separate entry points

0.11.0 Marking, strict key checking, and multiple status codes (2018-06-18)¶

• Add ability to use custom QoS for subscribing in MQTT

• Add pytest marks to tests

• Add strict key checking controllable by cli/per test

• Add verification for multiple status codes

• Improve ‘doc’ of test for pytest-pspec

• Add internal xfail for testing Tavern

0.10.2 Fix python 2 type token issue (2018-06-13)¶

0.10.1 Slightly improve docstrings for use with pytest-pspec (2018-06-11)¶

0.10.0 Add basic plugin system (2018-05-29)¶

0.9.10 Add new tag to match floating point numbers approximately in responses (2018-05-29)¶

0.9.9 Allow nesting of variables in included files that can be access using dot notation (2018-05-29)¶

0.9.8 Fix tavern overriding content type header when sending a file with extra headers (2018-05-25)¶

0.9.7 Fix error in formatting MQTT variables (2018-05-24)¶

0.9.6 Add bool conversion type token as well (2018-05-16)¶

0.9.5 Fix type conversion tokens and add more robust integration tests for them (2018-05-16)¶

0.9.4 Fixes to type conversion tags, and add a new ‘anybool’ type sentinel to match either True or False (2018-05-15)¶

0.9.3 Improve error reporting from dictionary mismatches and allow regex checks in headers (2018-05-04)¶

0.9.2 Minor improvement to error messages (2018-04-13)¶

0.9.1 Fix logging library warning (2018-04-11)¶

0.9.0 Add file upload capability (2018-04-10)¶

0.8.2 Cleanup of type conversion code and better list item validation (2018-04-05)¶

0.8.1 Fix formatting env vars into included variables (2018-04-03)¶

0.8.0 Fix matching magic variables and add new type sentinels for matching (2018-04-03)¶

0.7.7 Improve validation on the type of block returned (2018-03-23)¶

0.7.6 Move dict utilities around (2018-03-21)¶

0.7.5 Fix pytest-pspec error (2018-03-21)¶

0.7.4 Fix python 2 (2018-03-21)¶

0.7.3 Improve error handling in parser errors (2018-03-21)¶

0.7.2 Fix warning on incorrect status codes (2018-03-20)¶

0.7.1 fix delay_after/before to accept float arguments (2018-03-12)¶

0.7.0 Add new ‘anything’ constructor for matching any value returned which should now also work with nested values. Also add special constructors for int/float types (2018-03-09)¶

0.6.1 Fix implementation of ‘auth’ keyword (2018-03-09)¶

0.6.0 Allow multiple global config options on the command line and in pytest config file (2018-03-07)¶

0.5.4 Add ‘meta’ key to request block (2018-03-05)¶

currently the only key in ‘meta’ is clear_session_cookies which wipes the session cookies before the request is made

0.5.3 Update README (2018-03-05)¶

0.5.2 Add MQTT TLS support and fixes to formatting nested arrays/dicts (2018-03-05)¶

0.5.1 Add regex validation function and verify tests at run time, not discovery time (2018-02-26)¶

0.5.0 Add special ‘tavern’ key for formatting magic variables, and don’t strictly enforce some HTTP verbs not having a body (2018-02-23)¶

0.4.0 MQTT support (2018-02-22)¶

0.3.0 Use a persistent requests Session to allow cookies to be propagated forward through tests (2018-02-15)¶

0.2.5 Fix empty yaml files hard-failing (2018-01-25)¶

0.2.4 Fix log format interpolation for py2 (2018-01-25)¶

0.2.3 quote nested json in query parameters (2018-01-23)¶

0.2.2 Support for ‘verify’ arg to requests (2018-01-23)¶

0.2.1 Add option to install ‘pytest’ extra (2017-12-12)¶

0.2.0 Add python 2 support (2017-12-12)¶

0.1.5 Fix temporary file wrapping on windows (2017-12-06)¶

0.1.4 Fix global configuration if it wasn’t actually passed (2017-12-06)¶

0.1.3 Fix global configuration loading via pytest command line (2017-12-05)¶

0.1.2 Allow sending/validation of JSON lists (2017-11-21)¶