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Upgrading coverage 6 to 7

Breaking6.5.0 → 7.17.0Breaking4Security4Platform9Deprecated2New38Changed55Fixed153Other21

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4 breaking changes and 9 platform requirement changes and 4 security fixes.

In plain terms
  • The fullcoverage feature is gone, since CPython stopped using it in 2021 and it stopped working in Python 3.13.
  • The old note option is gone; remove it from your configuration.
  • Patterns used to select files now behave differently: a single star stays within one folder, and a double star can span any number of folders.
  • If you explicitly ask for the sysmon engine but your settings are incompatible, coverage now stops with an error rather than just warning.
Must act Top 5 of 19 that need code or config changes

Python requirement changed in 7.17.0: >=3.7 → >=3.11.

What you must change

Breaking4
Removes the "fullcoverage" feature used by CPython to measure coverage of early-imported standard library modules.
fullcoverage
7.3.2GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Removes the deprecated [run] note setting completely.
[run] note
7.0.0b1GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Changes file pattern matching: * no longer matches directory separators, and ** matches any number of nested directories including none.
***
6.6.0b1GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Explicitly requesting the sysmon core when other settings conflict now raises an error instead of a warning.
sysmon
7.11.1GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Security4
Fixes HTML report escaping of double quotes in source file names used in href attributes of index and prev/next links.
7.15.4GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Fixes LCOV report to replace control characters in fields, preventing forged records from file names containing newlines.
7.15.4GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Fixes HTML report injection where a context label containing </script> could close the inline script element early when show_contexts is enabled.
show_contexts
7.15.1GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Hides environment variable values in coverage debug sys output with asterisks, since they could have included sensitive data.
coverage debug sys
7.2.6GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Platform9
Drops support for Python 3.10.
7.17.0CHANGES.rstSummarizedView source
Drops support for Python 3.9 and declares support for Python 3.15 alpha.
7.11.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Drops support for Python 3.8 and PyPy 3.8.
7.6.2GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Adds support for Python 3.13.0b3.
7.6.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Starts testing on Python 3.13 free-threading (nogil) builds, without claiming full support yet.
7.5.4GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Adds support for Python 3.13.0b1.
7.5.2GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Adds support for Python 3.13.0a6.
7.5.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Adds support for Python 3.13.0a3.
7.4.1GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Drops support for Python 3.7.
7.3.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source

Deprecations to plan for

Deprecated2
Eventlet support is no longer tested because eventlet's deprecation warnings break the test suite; support code remains.
eventlet
7.14.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Deprecates the coverage3 and coverage-3.10 command entry points, which still work but print a deprecation message.
coveragecoverage3coverage-3.10
7.13.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source