Tox

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Deprecations (removal in next major release)
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- Add allowlist_externals alias to whitelist_externals (whitelist_externals is now deprecated). - by :user:`dajose`
`1491 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1491>`_

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Bugfixes
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- Fix tests when the ``HOSTNAME`` environment variable is set, but empty string - by :user:`hroncok`
`1616 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1616>`_

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Features
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- The long arguments ``--verbose`` and ``--quiet`` (rather than only their short forms, ``-v`` and ``-q``) are now accepted.
`1612 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1612>`_
- The ``ResultLog`` now prefers ``HOSTNAME`` environment variable value (if set) over the full qualified domain name of localhost.
This makes it possible to disable an undesired DNS lookup,
which happened on all ``tox`` invocations, including trivial ones - by :user:`hroncok`
`1615 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1615>`_


Documentation
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- Update packaging information for Flit.
`1613 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1613>`_

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Bugfixes
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- Fixed the support for using ``{temp_dir}`` in ``tox.ini`` - by :user:`webknjaz`
`1609 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1609>`_

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Features
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- Allow skipping the package and installation step when passing the ``--skip-pkg-install``. This should be used in pair with the ``--notest``, so you can separate environment setup and test run:

.. code-block:: console

tox -e py --notest
tox -e py --skip-pkg-install

by :user:`gaborbernat`.
`1605 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1605>`_


Miscellaneous
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- Improve config parsing performance by precompiling commonly used regular expressions - by :user:`brettlangdon`
`1603 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1603>`_

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Bugfixes
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- Add an option to allow a process to suicide before sending the SIGTERM. - by :user:`jhesketh`
`1497 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1497>`_
- PyPy 7.3.1 on Windows uses the ``Script`` folder instead of ``bin``. - by :user:`gaborbernat`
`1597 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1597>`_


Miscellaneous
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- Allow to run the tests with pip 19.3.1 once again while preserving the ability to use pip 20.1 - by :user:`hroncok`
`1594 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1594>`_