# pytest-2.8.5

pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than 1100 tests against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms. This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.8.4.

See below for the changes and see docs at:

> http://pytest.org

As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via:

    pip install -U pytest

Thanks to all who contributed to this release, among them:

> Alex Gaynor aselus-hub Bruno Oliveira Ronny Pfannschmidt

Happy testing, The py.test Development Team

## 2.8.5 (compared to 2.8.4)

- fix #1243: fixed issue where class attributes injected during collection could break pytest. PR by Alexei Kozlenok, thanks Ronny Pfannschmidt and Bruno Oliveira for the review and help.

- fix #1074: precompute junitxml chunks instead of storing the whole tree in objects Thanks Bruno Oliveira for the report and Ronny Pfannschmidt for the PR

- fix #1238: fix `pytest.deprecated_call()` receiving multiple arguments (Regression introduced in 2.8.4). Thanks Alex Gaynor for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.