# py.test 2.0.3: bug fixes and speed ups

Welcome to pytest-2.0.3, a maintenance and bug fix release of pytest, a mature testing tool for Python, supporting CPython 2.4-3.2, Jython and latest PyPy interpreters. See the extensive docs with tested examples here:

> http://pytest.org/

If you want to install or upgrade pytest, just type one of:

    pip install -U pytest # or
    easy_install -U pytest

There also is a bugfix release 1.6 of pytest-xdist, the plugin that enables seemless distributed and “looponfail” testing for Python.

best, holger krekel

## Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3

- fix issue38: nicer tracebacks on calls to hooks, particularly early configure/sessionstart ones
- fix missing skip reason/meta information in junitxml files, reported via http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2011-March/003928.html
- fix issue34: avoid collection failure with “test” prefixed classes deriving from object.
- don’t require zlib (and other libs) for genscript plugin without –genscript actually being used.
- speed up skips (by not doing a full traceback represenation internally)
- fix issue37: avoid invalid characters in junitxml’s output