See 8.0.0rc1 and 8.0.0rc2 for the full changes since pytest 7.4! Bug Fixes #11842: Properly escape the reason of a skip <pytest.mark.skip ref>{.interpreted-text role="ref"} mark when writing JUnit XML files. #11861: Avoid microsecond exceeds 1_000_000 when using log-date-format with %f specifier, which might cause the test suite to crash.