Robot Framework 7.0 release candidate 1

Robot Framework 7.0 is a new major release with enhanced listener interface (#3296), native VAR syntax for creating variables (#3761), support for mixing embedded and normal arguments with library keywords (#4710), JSON result format (#4847) and various other enhancements and bug fixes. Robot Framework 7.0 requires Python 3.8 or newer (#4294).

Robot Framework 7.0 rc 1 was released on Thursday December 21, 2023, with all features and fixes planned to be included in the final release. It is targeted for anyone interested to see how they can use the interesting new features and how backwards incompatible changes and deprecations possibly affect their tests, tasks, tools and libraries. The target date for the final release is Monday January 8, 2024.

For more details, see the full release notes.