Bug Fixes
- #11140: Fix non-string constants at the top of file being detected as docstrings on Python>=3.8.
- #11572: Handle an edge case where
sys.stderr{.interpreted-text role="data"} andsys.__stderr__{.interpreted-text role="data"} might already be closed whenfaulthandler{.interpreted-text role="ref"} is tearing down. - #11710: Fixed tracebacks from collection errors not getting pruned.
- #7966: Removed unhelpful error message from assertion rewrite mechanism when exceptions are raised in
__iter__methods. Now they are treated un-iterable instead.
Improved Documentation
- #11091: Updated documentation to refer to hyphenated options: replaced
--junitxmlwith--junit-xmland--collectonlywith--collect-only.