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0.4.4 (June 30 2025)

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  • Drop poetry as the build system and fallback to setuptools

0.4.3 (December 4 2024)

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  • Change addition of SELinux flags to volumes: SELinux flags are only added if flags is None.

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  • Tolerate already deleted lockfiles (gh#233)

  • Add the function read_container_logs() to get access to the logs of the running container

  • Expose the working directory via workingdir

  • Don’t use non-FIPS hashes for generating the lockfile (gh#213)

  • Don’t wait for crashed/stopped containers to become healthy (gh#207)

  • Improve logging and error messages involving HEALTHCHECK

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0.4.2 (10 April 2024)

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  • Add compatibility with podman 5

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0.4.1 (2 April 2024)

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  • fix imports for older pytest releases

0.4.0 (27 March 2024)

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  • No longer depend on buildah being installed when using podman to build container images.

  • Allow to configure whether container images are always pulled before test runs or whether cached images can be used via the environment variable PULL_ALWAYS (see Controlling the image pulling behavior).

  • Add attributes name and ip_address exposing the container’s name & IP

  • Add property extra_entrypoint_args to support appending arguments to the container launch command

  • Add support for Python 3.12

  • Add property bind_ip to support binding to arbitrary IP addresses.

  • Fix host_port being ignored when picking the host port

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0.3.0 (26 September 2023)

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  • Removed the function OciRuntimeABC.get_image_id_from_stdout as docker buildx does not print the image digest to stdout when invoking docker build.

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  • Add baseurl property to get the registry url of the container on which any currently existing container is based on.

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  • use --cidfile and --iidfile flags to get the container and image hashes from files instead of stdout.

0.2.0 - DevConf.cz edition (14 June 2023)

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  • Log the the output of $runtime logs $container using Python’s logging framework for easier debugging

  • Automatically set the image format to docker when using buildah if the base image is using HEALTHCHECK (with buildah version 1.25 and later).

  • Add support for Python 3.11

  • Log the container’s logs even if launching the container fails, e.g. due to a failing HEALTHCHECK.

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0.1.1 (21 March 2023)

This release only fixes the README.rst formatting. There are no functional changes compared to 0.1.0.

0.1.0 (20 March 2023)

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  • ContainerBase.healtcheck_timeout_ms got renamed to healthcheck_timeout and was changed as follows: it is now a timedelta with the default value being None and implies that pytest_container figures the maximum timeout out itself. If a positive timedelta is provided, then that timeout is used instead of the inferred default and if it is negative, then no timeout is applied.

  • entry_point is no longer a property. It is instead a setting how the entry point for a container image is picked. Consequently, the attribute ContainerBase.default_entry_point was removed.

  • OciRuntimeABC.get_container_healthcheck was removed, use inspect instead.

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  • The Entrypoint is now picked automatically from the image, removing the need for setting default_entry_point=True.

  • Cleanup automatically created volumes from VOLUME directives in Dockerfile.

  • Allow to inspect containers via a pythonic interface via inspect

  • Add support for creating podman pods for testing via the Pod class.

  • Add support for automatically exposing ports in containers via the forwarded_ports attribute: Container Images can now define which ports they want to publish automatically and let the container_* fixtures automatically find the next free port for them. This allows the user to launch multiple containers from Container Images exposing the same ports in parallel without marking them as singleton=True.

  • The attribute container was added to ContainerData (the datastructure that is passed to test functions via the *container* fixtures). This attribute contains the ContainerBase that was used to parametrize this test run.

  • Add support to add tags to container images via add_build_tags.

  • Lock container preparation so that only a single process is pulling & building a container image.

  • Add the helper class Version for parsing and comparing versions.

  • Container volumes and bind mounts can now be automatically created via the ContainerVolume and BindMount classes and adding them to the volume_mounts attribute.

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  • Add a tutorial how to start using pytest_container

  • Document most public and private functions, classes and modules

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  • Switch from tox to nox and nox-poetry.

  • Add typeguard to the test runs to check type hints.

  • Use context managers in the fixtures to make the code more readable and robust.

0.0.2 (01 February 2022)

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  • Support healthcheck in Container images

  • Add support for internal logging and make the level user configurable

  • Allow for singleton container images

  • Add support for passing run & build arguments via the pytest CLI to podman/docker

  • Add support for adding environment variables into containers

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  • treat unresolved references as errors

  • enable intersphinx

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  • Provide a better error message in auto_container_parametrize

  • Add support for using pytest.param instead of Container classes