Version 5.0a2 — 2018-09-03
- Coverage’s data storage has changed. In version 4.x, .coverage files were basically JSON. Now, they are SQLite databases. This means the data file can be created earlier than it used to. A large amount of code was refactored to support this change.
- Because the data file is created differently than previous releases, you may need
parallel=truewhere you didn’t before. - The old data format is still available (for now) by setting the environment variable
COVERAGE_STORAGE=json. Please tell me if you think you need to keep the JSON format. - The database schema is guaranteed to change in the future, to support new features. I’m looking for opinions about making the schema part of the public API to coverage.py or not.
- Because the data file is created differently than previous releases, you may need
- Development moved from Bitbucket to GitHub.
- HTML files no longer have trailing and extra white space.
- The sort order in the HTML report is stored in local storage rather than cookies, closing issue 611. Thanks, Federico Bond.
- pickle2json, for converting v3 data files to v4 data files, has been removed.
➡️ PyPI page: coverage 5.0a2.
➡️ To install: python3 -m pip install coverage==5.0a2