Features
- Add
extendsconfiguration parameter which allows to inherit configuration from another file. Read more in the documentation (issue #1453) - Change
mixed-tabs-and-spaces(SPC06) rule behaviour to report all occurrences of mixed tabs and spaces in a file (issue #848) format_files(robocop API entrypoint for formatting files) now acceptsreturn_resultparameter for returning exit code instead of raising SystemExitRenameVariablesnot longer replaces spaces in variable names with the math operators (issue #1428)
Fixes
- Fix
AlignKeywordsSectionandAlignTestCasesSectionnot aligning VAR variables (issue #1493) - Fix optional
no-embedded-keyword-argumentsrule fatal exception when reading a file with invalid syntax - Fix the empty configuration file causing Robocop to fail (issue #1536)
Documentation
- Add
deprecated namessection to all the rules that list previous names and ids of the rule