ReFrame 4.9.0

Release Notes

New features

• Updates and improvements to the poll control mechanism (#3575)
• Deprecate RegressionMixin in favor of RegressionTestPlugin (#3581)
• Replace perflog_compat with perflog_multiline in logging configuration (#3578)
• Log also results from sanity-only tests through the perflog handlers (#3516)
• Support usecs (%f format) in datefmt for logging (#3570)
• Support OR-ing node states in flexible node allocation (#3569)
• Allow the -P option to redefine existing parameters (#3554)
• Facilitate local imports from configuration files (#3548)
• Add new --table-format-delim option (#3547)
• Add new --param-values-delim option (#3538)
• Add support for marking tests as expected failures (#3481)
• Enable launchers to forward environment variables (#3464)

Enhancements

• Print the performance reference tuple while running only if defined (#3517)
• Document the builtin configuration (#3558)
• Result database performance improvements (#3546)
• Add some notes and tips in the documentation of pipeline hooks (#3540)
• Add link to FOSDEM'25 presentation (#3539)
• Skip tests if their dependencies fail (#3500)
• Update Slack invite link and add a note about expiration (#3499)

Bug fixes

• Treat negative exit codes in PBS scheduler (#3571)
• Fix progress numbering for XFAIL/XPASS tests (#3529)
• Fix failure report crash in case of expected failures (#3527)

Test library

• Fix ROCm build (#3574)

Other

• Update codecov badge (#3506)
• Enable scheduler testing Github workflows on push (#3505)
• Re-enable codecov in the project (#3220)
• Restore deleted Dockerfiles (#3502)