Version 7.17.1 — 2026-11-03
- Fix: a one-line class or function body immediately followed by another statement (such as
class Foo: ...on its own line) was incorrectly reported as a missing branch when using the sys.monitoring core. This is now fixed, closing issue 2167 and issue 2337. - Fix: the HTML report only rewrites a file’s page when the file or its data has changed, but each page also links to the previous and next files. When the set of reported files changed, unchanged pages kept their old links. For example, with
skip_covered, a file that became 100% covered had its page deleted, but the pages next to it still linked to it. Now a page is also rewritten when its neighbors change. - Fix:
--fail-undernow uses at least the decimal precision of the threshold for both the comparison and failure message. Withprecision=0, a total of 0.4 now passes--fail-under=0.3and fails--fail-under=0.5with the message “total of 0.4 is less than fail-under=0.5”. Previously, the comparison rounded the total to zero and the message could claim “1 is less than 0”. Closes issue 2295. - Fix: the HTML report escaped file names twice, so a name with
&,<, or quotes in it was shown with entities like&. Now they are properly escaped only once. - Fix:
--source=/measured no files. A file system root can’t be a source directory, so now it is an error. Closes issue 2291. - In an abundance of caution, prevent forged SQLite journal files from deleting files they shouldn’t.
➡️ PyPI page: coverage 7.17.1.
➡️ To install: python3 -m pip install coverage==7.17.1