Robot Framework 3.1 released!

[Pekka Klärck]

Hello, world!

The long wait is over and Robot Framework 3.1 is finally released! The
most important new features and fixes include Robotic Process
Automation (RPA) support, automatic argument type conversion, support
for named-only arguments, for loop enhancements, fix for intermittent
corruption of output.xml files when using timeouts, and so on. This
release also starts the deprecation process to remove the support of
using test data in HTML format and makes test data parsing more strict
also otherwise. For more details about these and all the other 87
features and fixes see the release notes:
https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework/blob/master/doc/releasenotes/rf-3.1.rst

I'm especially happy that the release contains code from altogether 13
individual contributors, all listed at the release notes. Robot
Framework 3.1 is also the first major release that has been sponsored
by the Robot Framework Foundation
<http://robotframework.org/foundation/>. Big thanks for all the 20+
member organizations and hopefully there are even more members in the
future to make the development more active. Separate thanks to Siili,
Knowit, Vala, Qentinel and Eficode for sponsoring the development
related to the RPA support!

Cheers,
.peke
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