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+
+Release announcements
+===========================================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+
+   sprint2016
+   release-2.9.0
+   release-2.8.7
+   release-2.8.6
+   release-2.8.5
+   release-2.8.4
+   release-2.8.3
+   release-2.8.2
+   release-2.7.2
+   release-2.7.1
+   release-2.7.0
+   release-2.6.3
+   release-2.6.2
+   release-2.6.1
+   release-2.6.0
+   release-2.5.2
+   release-2.5.1
+   release-2.5.0
+   release-2.4.2
+   release-2.4.1
+   release-2.4.0
+   release-2.3.5
+   release-2.3.4
+   release-2.3.3
+   release-2.3.2
+   release-2.3.1
+   release-2.3.0
+   release-2.2.4
+   release-2.2.2
+   release-2.2.1
+   release-2.2.0
+   release-2.1.3
+   release-2.1.2
+   release-2.1.1
+   release-2.1.0
+   release-2.0.3
+   release-2.0.2
+   release-2.0.1
+   release-2.0.0
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.0.0.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.0.0.rst
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+py.test 2.0.0: asserts++, unittest++, reporting++, config++, docs++
+===========================================================================
+
+Welcome to pytest-2.0.0, a major new release of "py.test", the rapid
+easy Python testing tool.  There are many new features and enhancements,
+see below for summary and detailed lists.  A lot of long-deprecated code
+has been removed, resulting in a much smaller and cleaner
+implementation.  See the new docs with examples here:
+
+    http://pytest.org/2.0.0/index.html
+
+A note on packaging: pytest used to part of the "py" distribution up
+until version py-1.3.4 but this has changed now:  pytest-2.0.0 only
+contains py.test related code and is expected to be backward-compatible
+to existing test code. If you want to install pytest, just type one of::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+Many thanks to all issue reporters and people asking questions or
+complaining.  Particular thanks to Floris Bruynooghe and Ronny Pfannschmidt
+for their great coding contributions and many others for feedback and help.
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+
+New Features
+-----------------------
+
+- new invocations through Python interpreter and from Python::
+
+    python -m pytest      # on all pythons >= 2.5
+
+  or from a python program::
+
+    import pytest ; pytest.main(arglist, pluginlist)
+
+  see http://pytest.org/2.0.0/usage.html for details.
+
+- new and better reporting information in assert expressions
+  if comparing lists, sequences or strings.
+
+  see http://pytest.org/2.0.0/assert.html#newreport
+
+- new configuration through ini-files (setup.cfg or tox.ini recognized),
+  for example::
+
+    [pytest]
+    norecursedirs = .hg data*  # don't ever recurse in such dirs
+    addopts = -x --pyargs      # add these command line options by default
+
+  see http://pytest.org/2.0.0/customize.html
+
+- improved standard unittest support.  In general py.test should now
+  better be able to run custom unittest.TestCases like twisted trial
+  or Django based TestCases.  Also you can now run the tests of an
+  installed 'unittest' package with py.test::
+
+    py.test --pyargs unittest
+
+- new "-q" option which decreases verbosity and prints a more
+  nose/unittest-style "dot" output.
+
+- many many more detailed improvements details
+
+Fixes
+-----------------------
+
+- fix issue126 - introduce py.test.set_trace() to trace execution via
+  PDB during the running of tests even if capturing is ongoing.
+- fix issue124 - make reporting more resilient against tests opening
+  files on filedescriptor 1 (stdout).
+- fix issue109 - sibling conftest.py files will not be loaded.
+  (and Directory collectors cannot be customized anymore from a Directory's
+  conftest.py - this needs to happen at least one level up).
+- fix issue88 (finding custom test nodes from command line arg)
+- fix issue93 stdout/stderr is captured while importing conftest.py
+- fix bug: unittest collected functions now also can have "pytestmark"
+  applied at class/module level
+
+Important Notes
+--------------------
+
+* The usual way in pre-2.0 times to use py.test in python code was
+  to import "py" and then e.g. use "py.test.raises" for the helper.
+  This remains valid and is not planned to be deprecated.  However,
+  in most examples and internal code you'll find "import pytest"
+  and "pytest.raises" used as the recommended default way.
+
+* pytest now first performs collection of the complete test suite
+  before running any test. This changes for example the semantics of when
+  pytest_collectstart/pytest_collectreport are called.  Some plugins may
+  need upgrading.
+
+* The pytest package consists of a 400 LOC core.py and about 20 builtin plugins,
+  summing up to roughly 5000 LOCs, including docstrings. To be fair, it also
+  uses generic code from the "pylib", and the new "py" package to help
+  with filesystem and introspection/code manipulation.
+
+(Incompatible) Removals
+-----------------------------
+
+- py.test.config is now only available if you are in a test run.
+
+- the following (mostly already deprecated) functionality was removed:
+
+  - removed support for Module/Class/... collection node definitions
+    in conftest.py files.  They will cause nothing special.
+  - removed support for calling the pre-1.0 collection API of "run()" and "join"
+  - removed reading option values from conftest.py files or env variables.
+    This can now be done much much better and easier through the ini-file
+    mechanism and the "addopts" entry in particular.
+  - removed the "disabled" attribute in test classes.  Use the skipping
+    and pytestmark mechanism to skip or xfail a test class.
+
+- py.test.collect.Directory does not exist anymore and it
+  is not possible to provide an own "Directory" object.
+  If you have used this and don't know what to do, get
+  in contact.  We'll figure something out.
+
+  Note that pytest_collect_directory() is still called but
+  any return value will be ignored.  This allows to keep
+  old code working that performed for example "py.test.skip()"
+  in collect() to prevent recursion into directory trees
+  if a certain dependency or command line option is missing.
+
+
+see :ref:`changelog` for more detailed changes.
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.0.1.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.0.1.rst
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+py.test 2.0.1: bug fixes
+===========================================================================
+
+Welcome to pytest-2.0.1, 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 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
+
+Many thanks to all issue reporters and people asking questions or
+complaining.  Particular thanks to Floris Bruynooghe and Ronny Pfannschmidt
+for their great coding contributions and many others for feedback and help.
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1
+----------------------------------------------
+
+- refine and unify initial capturing so that it works nicely
+  even if the logging module is used on an early-loaded conftest.py
+  file or plugin.
+- fix issue12 - show plugin versions with "--version" and
+  "--traceconfig" and also document how to add extra information
+  to reporting test header
+- fix issue17 (import-* reporting issue on python3) by
+  requiring py>1.4.0 (1.4.1 is going to include it)
+- fix issue10 (numpy arrays truth checking) by refining
+  assertion interpretation in py lib
+- fix issue15: make nose compatibility tests compatible
+  with python3 (now that nose-1.0 supports python3)
+- remove somewhat surprising "same-conftest" detection because
+  it ignores conftest.py when they appear in several subdirs.
+- improve assertions ("not in"), thanks Floris Bruynooghe
+- improve behaviour/warnings when running on top of "python -OO"
+  (assertions and docstrings are turned off, leading to potential
+  false positives)
+- introduce a pytest_cmdline_processargs(args) hook
+  to allow dynamic computation of command line arguments.
+  This fixes a regression because py.test prior to 2.0
+  allowed to set command line options from conftest.py
+  files which so far pytest-2.0 only allowed from ini-files now.
+- fix issue7: assert failures in doctest modules.
+  unexpected failures in doctests will not generally
+  show nicer, i.e. within the doctest failing context.
+- fix issue9: setup/teardown functions for an xfail-marked
+  test will report as xfail if they fail but report as normally
+  passing (not xpassing) if they succeed.  This only is true
+  for "direct" setup/teardown invocations because teardown_class/
+  teardown_module cannot closely relate to a single test.
+- fix issue14: no logging errors at process exit
+- refinements to "collecting" output on non-ttys
+- refine internal plugin registration and --traceconfig output
+- introduce a mechanism to prevent/unregister plugins from the
+  command line, see http://pytest.org/latest/plugins.html#cmdunregister
+- activate resultlog plugin by default
+- fix regression wrt yielded tests which due to the
+  collection-before-running semantics were not
+  setup as with pytest 1.3.4.  Note, however, that
+  the recommended and much cleaner way to do test
+  parametrization remains the "pytest_generate_tests"
+  mechanism, see the docs.
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.0.2.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.0.2.rst
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+py.test 2.0.2: bug fixes, improved xfail/skip expressions, speed ups
+===========================================================================
+
+Welcome to pytest-2.0.2, 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
+
+Many thanks to all issue reporters and people asking questions
+or complaining, particularly Jurko for his insistence,
+Laura, Victor and Brianna for helping with improving
+and Ronny for his general advise.
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2
+----------------------------------------------
+
+- tackle issue32 - speed up test runs of very quick test functions
+  by reducing the relative overhead
+
+- fix issue30 - extended xfail/skipif handling and improved reporting.
+  If you have a syntax error in your skip/xfail
+  expressions you now get nice error reports.
+
+  Also you can now access module globals from xfail/skipif
+  expressions so that this for example works now::
+
+    import pytest
+    import mymodule
+    @pytest.mark.skipif("mymodule.__version__[0] == "1")
+    def test_function():
+        pass
+
+  This will not run the test function if the module's version string
+  does not start with a "1".  Note that specifying a string instead
+  of a boolean expressions allows py.test to report meaningful information
+  when summarizing a test run as to what conditions lead to skipping
+  (or xfail-ing) tests.
+
+- fix issue28 - setup_method and pytest_generate_tests work together
+  The setup_method fixture method now gets called also for
+  test function invocations generated from the pytest_generate_tests
+  hook.
+
+- fix issue27 - collectonly and keyword-selection (-k) now work together
+  Also, if you do "py.test --collectonly -q" you now get a flat list
+  of test ids that you can use to paste to the py.test commandline
+  in order to execute a particular test.
+
+- fix issue25 avoid reported problems with --pdb and python3.2/encodings output
+
+- fix issue23 - tmpdir argument now works on Python3.2 and WindowsXP
+  Starting with Python3.2 os.symlink may be supported. By requiring
+  a newer py lib version the py.path.local() implementation acknowledges
+  this.
+
+- fixed typos in the docs (thanks Victor Garcia, Brianna Laugher) and particular
+  thanks to Laura Creighton who also revieved parts of the documentation.
+
+- fix slighly wrong output of verbose progress reporting for classes
+  (thanks Amaury)
+
+- more precise (avoiding of) deprecation warnings for node.Class|Function accesses
+
+- avoid std unittest assertion helper code in tracebacks (thanks Ronny)
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.0.3.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.0.3.rst
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+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
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.0.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.0.rst
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+py.test 2.1.0: perfected assertions and bug fixes
+===========================================================================
+
+Welcome to the release of pytest-2.1, a mature testing tool for Python,
+supporting CPython 2.4-3.2, Jython and latest PyPy interpreters.  See
+the improved extensive docs (now also as PDF!) with tested examples here:
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+The single biggest news about this release are **perfected assertions**
+courtesy of Benjamin Peterson.  You can now safely use ``assert``
+statements in test modules without having to worry about side effects
+or python optimization ("-OO") options.  This is achieved by rewriting
+assert statements in test modules upon import, using a PEP302 hook.
+See http://pytest.org/assert.html#advanced-assertion-introspection for
+detailed information.  The work has been partly sponsored by my company,
+merlinux GmbH.
+
+For further details on bug fixes and smaller enhancements see below.
+
+If you want to install or upgrade pytest, just type one of::
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+best,
+holger krekel / http://merlinux.eu
+
+Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.1.0
+----------------------------------------------
+
+- fix issue53 call nosestyle setup functions with correct ordering
+- fix issue58 and issue59: new assertion code fixes
+- merge Benjamin's assertionrewrite branch: now assertions
+  for test modules on python 2.6 and above are done by rewriting
+  the AST and saving the pyc file before the test module is imported.
+  see doc/assert.txt for more info.
+- fix issue43: improve doctests with better traceback reporting on
+  unexpected exceptions
+- fix issue47: timing output in junitxml for test cases is now correct
+- fix issue48: typo in MarkInfo repr leading to exception
+- fix issue49: avoid confusing error when initialization partially fails
+- fix issue44: env/username expansion for junitxml file path
+- show releaselevel information in test runs for pypy
+- reworked doc pages for better navigation and PDF generation
+- report KeyboardInterrupt even if interrupted during session startup
+- fix issue 35 - provide PDF doc version and download link from index page
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.1.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.1.rst
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+py.test 2.1.1: assertion fixes and improved junitxml output
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.1.1 is a backward compatible maintenance release of the
+popular py.test testing tool.  See extensive docs with examples here:
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+Most bug fixes address remaining issues with the perfected assertions
+introduced with 2.1.0 - many thanks to the bug reporters and to Benjamin
+Peterson for helping to fix them.  Also, junitxml output now produces
+system-out/err tags which lead to better displays of tracebacks with Jenkins.
+
+Also a quick note to package maintainers and others interested: there now
+is a "pytest" man page which can be generated with "make man" in doc/.
+
+If you want to install or upgrade pytest, just type one of::
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+best,
+holger krekel / http://merlinux.eu
+
+Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1
+----------------------------------------------
+
+- fix issue64 / pytest.set_trace now works within pytest_generate_tests hooks
+- fix issue60 / fix error conditions involving the creation of __pycache__
+- fix issue63 / assertion rewriting on inserts involving strings containing '%'
+- fix assertion rewriting on calls with a ** arg
+- don't cache rewritten modules if bytecode generation is disabled
+- fix assertion rewriting in read-only directories
+- fix issue59: provide system-out/err tags for junitxml output
+- fix issue61: assertion rewriting on boolean operations with 3 or more operands
+- you can now build a man page with "cd doc ; make man"
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.2.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.2.rst
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+py.test 2.1.2: bug fixes and fixes for jython
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.1.2 is a minor backward compatible maintenance release of the
+popular py.test testing tool.  pytest is commonly used for unit,
+functional- and integration testing.  See extensive docs with examples
+here:
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+Most bug fixes address remaining issues with the perfected assertions
+introduced in the 2.1 series - many thanks to the bug reporters and to Benjamin
+Peterson for helping to fix them.  pytest should also work better with
+Jython-2.5.1 (and Jython trunk).
+
+If you want to install or upgrade pytest, just type one of::
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+best,
+holger krekel / http://merlinux.eu
+
+Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2
+----------------------------------------
+
+- fix assertion rewriting on files with windows newlines on some Python versions
+- refine test discovery by package/module name (--pyargs), thanks Florian Mayer
+- fix issue69 / assertion rewriting fixed on some boolean operations
+- fix issue68 / packages now work with assertion rewriting
+- fix issue66: use different assertion rewriting caches when the -O option is passed
+- don't try assertion rewriting on Jython, use reinterp
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.3.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.3.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f4da60b8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.1.3.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+py.test 2.1.3: just some more fixes
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.1.3 is a minor backward compatible maintenance release of the
+popular py.test testing tool.  It is commonly used for unit, functional-
+and integration testing.  See extensive docs with examples here:
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+The release contains another fix to the perfected assertions introduced
+with the 2.1 series as well as the new possibility to customize reporting
+for assertion expressions on a per-directory level.  
+
+If you want to install or upgrade pytest, just type one of::
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to the bug reporters and to Ronny Pfannschmidt, Benjamin Peterson
+and Floris Bruynooghe who implemented the fixes.
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3
+----------------------------------------
+
+- fix issue79: assertion rewriting failed on some comparisons in boolops,
+- correctly handle zero length arguments (a la pytest '')
+- fix issue67 / junitxml now contains correct test durations
+- fix issue75 / skipping test failure on jython
+- fix issue77 / Allow assertrepr_compare hook to apply to a subset of tests
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.0.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..20bfe0a19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+py.test 2.2.0: test marking++, parametrization++ and duration profiling
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.2.0 is a test-suite compatible release of the popular
+py.test testing tool.  Plugins might need upgrades. It comes
+with these improvements:
+
+* easier and more powerful parametrization of tests:
+
+  - new @pytest.mark.parametrize decorator to run tests with different arguments
+  - new metafunc.parametrize() API for parametrizing arguments independently
+  - see examples at http://pytest.org/latest/example/parametrize.html
+  - NOTE that parametrize() related APIs are still a bit experimental
+    and might change in future releases.
+
+* improved handling of test markers and refined marking mechanism:
+
+  - "-m markexpr" option for selecting tests according to their mark
+  - a new "markers" ini-variable for registering test markers for your project
+  - the new "--strict" bails out with an error if using unregistered markers.
+  - see examples at http://pytest.org/latest/example/markers.html
+
+* duration profiling: new "--duration=N" option showing the N slowest test
+  execution or setup/teardown calls. This is most useful if you want to
+  find out where your slowest test code is.
+
+* also 2.2.0 performs more eager calling of teardown/finalizers functions
+  resulting in better and more accurate reporting when they fail
+
+Besides there is the usual set of bug fixes along with a cleanup of
+pytest's own test suite allowing it to run on a wider range of environments.
+
+For general information, see extensive docs with examples here:
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+If you want to install or upgrade pytest you might just type::
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to Ronny Pfannschmidt, David Burns, Jeff Donner, Daniel Nouri, Alfredo Deza and all who gave feedback or sent bug reports.
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+
+notes on incompatibility
+------------------------------
+
+While test suites should work unchanged you might need to upgrade plugins:
+
+* You need a new version of the pytest-xdist plugin (1.7) for distributing
+  test runs.
+
+* Other plugins might need an upgrade if they implement
+  the ``pytest_runtest_logreport`` hook which now is called unconditionally
+  for the setup/teardown fixture phases of a test. You may choose to
+  ignore setup/teardown failures by inserting "if rep.when != 'call': return"
+  or something similar. Note that most code probably "just" works because
+  the hook was already called for failing setup/teardown phases of a test
+  so a plugin should have been ready to grok such reports already.
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.2.0
+----------------------------------------
+
+- fix issue90: introduce eager tearing down of test items so that
+  teardown function are called earlier.
+- add an all-powerful metafunc.parametrize function which allows to
+  parametrize test function arguments in multiple steps and therefore
+  from independent plugins and places.
+- add a @pytest.mark.parametrize helper which allows to easily
+  call a test function with different argument values.
+- Add examples to the "parametrize" example page, including a quick port
+  of Test scenarios and the new parametrize function and decorator.
+- introduce registration for "pytest.mark.*" helpers via ini-files
+  or through plugin hooks.  Also introduce a "--strict" option which
+  will treat unregistered markers as errors
+  allowing to avoid typos and maintain a well described set of markers
+  for your test suite.  See examples at http://pytest.org/latest/mark.html
+  and its links.
+- issue50: introduce "-m marker" option to select tests based on markers
+  (this is a stricter and more predictable version of "-k" in that "-m"
+  only matches complete markers and has more obvious rules for and/or
+  semantics.
+- new feature to help optimizing the speed of your tests:
+  --durations=N option for displaying N slowest test calls
+  and setup/teardown methods.
+- fix issue87: --pastebin now works with python3
+- fix issue89: --pdb with unexpected exceptions in doctest work more sensibly
+- fix and cleanup pytest's own test suite to not leak FDs
+- fix issue83: link to generated funcarg list
+- fix issue74: pyarg module names are now checked against imp.find_module false positives
+- fix compatibility with twisted/trial-11.1.0 use cases
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.1.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f9764634c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+pytest-2.2.1: bug fixes, perfect teardowns
+===========================================================================
+
+
+pytest-2.2.1 is a minor backward-compatible release of the the py.test
+testing tool.   It contains bug fixes and little improvements, including
+documentation fixes.  If you are using the distributed testing
+pluginmake sure to upgrade it to pytest-xdist-1.8.
+
+For general information see here:
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+To install or upgrade pytest:
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+Special thanks for helping on this release to Ronny Pfannschmidt, Jurko
+Gospodnetic and Ralf Schmitt.
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+
+Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1
+----------------------------------------
+
+- fix issue99 (in pytest and py) internallerrors with resultlog now
+  produce better output - fixed by normalizing pytest_internalerror 
+  input arguments.
+- fix issue97 / traceback issues (in pytest and py) improve traceback output
+  in conjunction with jinja2 and cython which hack tracebacks
+- fix issue93 (in pytest and pytest-xdist) avoid "delayed teardowns":
+  the final test in a test node will now run its teardown directly
+  instead of waiting for the end of the session. Thanks Dave Hunt for
+  the good reporting and feedback.  The pytest_runtest_protocol as well
+  as the pytest_runtest_teardown hooks now have "nextitem" available 
+  which will be None indicating the end of the test run.
+- fix collection crash due to unknown-source collected items, thanks
+  to Ralf Schmitt (fixed by depending on a more recent pylib)
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.2.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.2.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..733aedec4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+pytest-2.2.2: bug fixes
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.2.2 (updated to 2.2.3 to fix packaging issues) is a minor
+backward-compatible release of the versatile py.test testing tool.   It
+contains bug fixes and a few refinements particularly to reporting with
+"--collectonly", see below for betails.  
+
+For general information see here:
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+To install or upgrade pytest:
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+Special thanks for helping on this release to Ronny Pfannschmidt
+and Ralf Schmitt and the contributors of issues.
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+
+Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2
+----------------------------------------
+
+- fix issue101: wrong args to unittest.TestCase test function now
+  produce better output
+- fix issue102: report more useful errors and hints for when a 
+  test directory was renamed and some pyc/__pycache__ remain
+- fix issue106: allow parametrize to be applied multiple times
+  e.g. from module, class and at function level.
+- fix issue107: actually perform session scope finalization
+- don't check in parametrize if indirect parameters are funcarg names
+- add chdir method to monkeypatch funcarg
+- fix crash resulting from calling monkeypatch undo a second time
+- fix issue115: make --collectonly robust against early failure
+  (missing files/directories)
+- "-qq --collectonly" now shows only files and the number of tests in them
+- "-q --collectonly" now shows test ids 
+- allow adding of attributes to test reports such that it also works
+  with distributed testing (no upgrade of pytest-xdist needed)
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.4.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.4.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8720bdb28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.2.4.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+pytest-2.2.4: bug fixes, better junitxml/unittest/python3 compat
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.2.4 is a minor backward-compatible release of the versatile
+py.test testing tool.   It contains bug fixes and a few refinements
+to junitxml reporting, better unittest- and python3 compatibility.
+
+For general information see here:
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+To install or upgrade pytest:
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+Special thanks for helping on this release to Ronny Pfannschmidt
+and Benjamin Peterson and the contributors of issues.
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4
+-----------------------------------
+
+- fix error message for rewritten assertions involving the % operator
+- fix issue 126: correctly match all invalid xml characters for junitxml
+  binary escape
+- fix issue with unittest: now @unittest.expectedFailure markers should
+  be processed correctly (you can also use @pytest.mark markers)
+- document integration with the extended distribute/setuptools test commands
+- fix issue 140: propperly get the real functions
+  of bound classmethods for setup/teardown_class
+- fix issue #141: switch from the deceased paste.pocoo.org to bpaste.net
+- fix issue #143: call unconfigure/sessionfinish always when
+  configure/sessionstart where called
+- fix issue #144: better mangle test ids to junitxml classnames
+- upgrade distribute_setup.py to 0.6.27
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.0.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..54fe3961f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+pytest-2.3: improved fixtures / better unittest integration
+=============================================================================
+
+pytest-2.3 comes with many major improvements for fixture/funcarg management 
+and parametrized testing in Python.  It is now easier, more efficient and
+more predicatable to re-run the same tests with different fixture
+instances.  Also, you can directly declare the caching "scope" of
+fixtures so that dependent tests throughout your whole test suite can
+re-use database or other expensive fixture objects with ease.  Lastly,
+it's possible for fixture functions (formerly known as funcarg
+factories) to use other fixtures, allowing for a completely modular and
+re-useable fixture design. 
+
+For detailed info and tutorial-style examples, see:
+
+    http://pytest.org/latest/fixture.html
+
+Moreover, there is now support for using pytest fixtures/funcargs with
+unittest-style suites, see here for examples:
+
+    http://pytest.org/latest/unittest.html
+
+Besides, more unittest-test suites are now expected to "simply work"
+with pytest.
+
+All changes are backward compatible and you should be able to continue
+to run your test suites and 3rd party plugins that worked with
+pytest-2.2.4.
+
+If you are interested in the precise reasoning (including examples) of the 
+pytest-2.3 fixture evolution, please consult
+http://pytest.org/latest/funcarg_compare.html
+
+For general info on installation and getting started:
+
+    http://pytest.org/latest/getting-started.html
+
+Docs and PDF access as usual at:
+
+    http://pytest.org
+
+and more details for those already in the knowing of pytest can be found
+in the CHANGELOG below.
+
+Particular thanks for this release go to Floris Bruynooghe, Alex Okrushko
+Carl Meyer, Ronny Pfannschmidt, Benjamin Peterson and Alex Gaynor for helping 
+to get the new features right and well integrated.  Ronny and Floris
+also helped to fix a number of bugs and yet more people helped by
+providing bug reports.
+
+have fun,
+holger krekel
+
+
+Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.3.0
+-----------------------------------
+
+- fix issue202 - better automatic names for parametrized test functions
+- fix issue139 - introduce @pytest.fixture which allows direct scoping
+  and parametrization of funcarg factories.  Introduce new @pytest.setup
+  marker to allow the writing of setup functions which accept funcargs.
+- fix issue198 - conftest fixtures were not found on windows32 in some
+  circumstances with nested directory structures due to path manipulation issues
+- fix issue193 skip test functions with were parametrized with empty
+  parameter sets
+- fix python3.3 compat, mostly reporting bits that previously depended
+  on dict ordering
+- introduce re-ordering of tests by resource and parametrization setup
+  which takes precedence to the usual file-ordering
+- fix issue185 monkeypatching time.time does not cause pytest to fail
+- fix issue172 duplicate call of pytest.setup-decoratored setup_module
+  functions
+- fix junitxml=path construction so that if tests change the
+  current working directory and the path is a relative path
+  it is constructed correctly from the original current working dir.
+- fix "python setup.py test" example to cause a proper "errno" return
+- fix issue165 - fix broken doc links and mention stackoverflow for FAQ
+- catch unicode-issues when writing failure representations
+  to terminal to prevent the whole session from crashing
+- fix xfail/skip confusion: a skip-mark or an imperative pytest.skip
+  will now take precedence before xfail-markers because we
+  can't determine xfail/xpass status in case of a skip. see also:
+  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11105828/in-py-test-when-i-explicitly-skip-a-test-that-is-marked-as-xfail-how-can-i-get
+
+- always report installed 3rd party plugins in the header of a test run
+
+- fix issue160: a failing setup of an xfail-marked tests should
+  be reported as xfail (not xpass)
+
+- fix issue128: show captured output when capsys/capfd are used
+
+- fix issue179: propperly show the dependency chain of factories
+
+- pluginmanager.register(...) now raises ValueError if the
+  plugin has been already registered or the name is taken
+
+- fix issue159: improve http://pytest.org/latest/faq.html 
+  especially with respect to the "magic" history, also mention
+  pytest-django, trial and unittest integration.
+
+- make request.keywords and node.keywords writable.  All descendant
+  collection nodes will see keyword values.  Keywords are dictionaries
+  containing markers and other info.
+
+- fix issue 178: xml binary escapes are now wrapped in py.xml.raw
+
+- fix issue 176: correctly catch the builtin AssertionError
+  even when we replaced AssertionError with a subclass on the
+  python level
+
+- factory discovery no longer fails with magic global callables
+  that provide no sane __code__ object (mock.call for example)
+
+- fix issue 182: testdir.inprocess_run now considers passed plugins
+
+- fix issue 188: ensure sys.exc_info is clear on python2
+                 before calling into a test
+
+- fix issue 191: add unittest TestCase runTest method support
+- fix issue 156: monkeypatch correctly handles class level descriptors
+
+- reporting refinements:
+
+  - pytest_report_header now receives a "startdir" so that
+    you can use startdir.bestrelpath(yourpath) to show
+    nice relative path
+
+  - allow plugins to implement both pytest_report_header and 
+    pytest_sessionstart (sessionstart is invoked first).
+
+  - don't show deselected reason line if there is none
+
+  - py.test -vv will show all of assert comparisations instead of truncating
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.1.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b787dc203
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+pytest-2.3.1: fix regression with factory functions
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.3.1 is a quick follow-up release:
+
+- fix issue202 - regression with fixture functions/funcarg factories:  
+  using "self" is now safe again and works as in 2.2.4.  Thanks 
+  to Eduard Schettino for the quick bug report.
+
+- disable pexpect pytest self tests on Freebsd - thanks Koob for the 
+  quick reporting
+
+- fix/improve interactive docs with --markers
+
+See 
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+for general information.  To install or upgrade pytest:
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+
+Changes between 2.3.0 and 2.3.1
+-----------------------------------
+
+- fix issue202 - fix regression: using "self" from fixture functions now
+  works as expected (it's the same "self" instance that a test method
+  which uses the fixture sees)
+
+- skip pexpect using tests (test_pdb.py mostly) on freebsd* systems
+  due to pexpect not supporting it properly (hanging)
+
+- link to web pages from --markers output which provides help for
+  pytest.mark.* usage.
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.2.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.2.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..948b374d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+pytest-2.3.2: some fixes and more traceback-printing speed
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.3.2 is a another stabilization release:
+
+- issue 205: fixes a regression with conftest detection
+- issue 208/29: fixes traceback-printing speed in some bad cases
+- fix teardown-ordering for parametrized setups
+- fix unittest and trial compat behaviour with respect  to runTest() methods
+- issue 206 and others: some improvements to packaging
+- fix issue127 and others: improve some docs 
+
+See 
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+for general information.  To install or upgrade pytest:
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+
+Changes between 2.3.1 and 2.3.2
+-----------------------------------
+
+- fix issue208 and fix issue29 use new py version to avoid long pauses 
+  when printing tracebacks in long modules
+
+- fix issue205 - conftests in subdirs customizing
+  pytest_pycollect_makemodule and pytest_pycollect_makeitem
+  now work properly
+
+- fix teardown-ordering for parametrized setups
+
+- fix issue127 - better documentation for pytest_addoption
+  and related objects.
+
+- fix unittest behaviour: TestCase.runtest only called if there are
+  test methods defined
+
+- improve trial support: don't collect its empty
+  unittest.TestCase.runTest() method
+
+- "python setup.py test" now works with pytest itself
+
+- fix/improve internal/packaging related bits:
+
+  - exception message check of test_nose.py now passes on python33 as well
+
+  - issue206 - fix test_assertrewrite.py to work when a global
+    PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 is present
+
+  - add tox.ini to pytest distribution so that ignore-dirs and others config
+    bits are properly distributed for maintainers who run pytest-own tests
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.3.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.3.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1d7c7027b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.3.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+pytest-2.3.3: integration fixes, py24 suport, ``*/**`` shown in traceback
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.3.3 is a another stabilization release of the py.test tool
+which offers uebersimple assertions, scalable fixture mechanisms
+and deep customization for testing with Python.  Particularly,
+this release provides:
+
+- integration fixes and improvements related to flask, numpy, nose, 
+  unittest, mock
+
+- makes pytest work on py24 again (yes, people sometimes still need to use it)
+
+- show ``*,**`` args in pytest tracebacks
+
+Thanks to Manuel Jacob, Thomas Waldmann, Ronny Pfannschmidt, Pavel Repin
+and Andreas Taumoefolau for providing patches and all for the issues.
+
+See 
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+for general information.  To install or upgrade pytest:
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+best,
+holger krekel
+
+Changes between 2.3.2 and 2.3.3
+-----------------------------------
+
+- fix issue214 - parse modules that contain special objects like e. g.
+  flask's request object which blows up on getattr access if no request
+  is active. thanks Thomas Waldmann.
+
+- fix issue213 - allow to parametrize with values like numpy arrays that
+  do not support an __eq__ operator
+
+- fix issue215 - split test_python.org into multiple files
+
+- fix issue148 - @unittest.skip on classes is now recognized and avoids
+  calling setUpClass/tearDownClass, thanks Pavel Repin
+
+- fix issue209 - reintroduce python2.4 support by depending on newer
+  pylib which re-introduced statement-finding for pre-AST interpreters
+
+- nose support: only call setup if its a callable, thanks Andrew
+  Taumoefolau
+
+- fix issue219 - add py2.4-3.3 classifiers to TROVE list
+
+- in tracebacks *,** arg values are now shown next to normal arguments
+  (thanks Manuel Jacob)
+
+- fix issue217 - support mock.patch with pytest's fixtures - note that
+  you need either mock-1.0.1 or the python3.3 builtin unittest.mock.
+
+- fix issue127 - improve documentation for pytest_addoption() and
+  add a ``config.getoption(name)`` helper function for consistency.
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.4.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.4.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d6c597b54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.4.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+pytest-2.3.4: stabilization, more flexible selection via "-k expr"
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.3.4 is a small stabilization release of the py.test tool
+which offers uebersimple assertions, scalable fixture mechanisms
+and deep customization for testing with Python.  This release
+comes with the following fixes and features:
+
+- make "-k" option accept an expressions the same as with "-m" so that one
+  can write: -k "name1 or name2" etc.  This is a slight usage incompatibility
+  if you used special syntax like "TestClass.test_method" which you now
+  need to write as -k "TestClass and test_method" to match a certain
+  method in a certain test class.  
+- allow to dynamically define markers via
+  item.keywords[...]=assignment integrating with "-m" option
+- yielded test functions will now have autouse-fixtures active but 
+  cannot accept fixtures as funcargs - it's anyway recommended to
+  rather use the post-2.0 parametrize features instead of yield, see:
+  http://pytest.org/latest/example/parametrize.html
+- fix autouse-issue where autouse-fixtures would not be discovered
+  if defined in a a/conftest.py file and tests in a/tests/test_some.py
+- fix issue226 - LIFO ordering for fixture teardowns
+- fix issue224 - invocations with >256 char arguments now work
+- fix issue91 - add/discuss package/directory level setups in example
+- fixes related to autouse discovery and calling
+
+Thanks in particular to Thomas Waldmann for spotting and reporting issues.
+
+See 
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+for general information.  To install or upgrade pytest:
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+best,
+holger krekel
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.5.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.5.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c4e91e0e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.5.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+pytest-2.3.5: bug fixes and little improvements
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.3.5 is a maintenance release with many bug fixes and little
+improvements.  See the changelog below for details.  No backward
+compatibility issues are foreseen and all plugins which worked with the
+prior version are expected to work unmodified.   Speaking of which, a
+few interesting new plugins saw the light last month:
+
+- pytest-instafail: show failure information while tests are running
+- pytest-qt: testing of GUI applications written with QT/Pyside
+- pytest-xprocess: managing external processes across test runs
+- pytest-random: randomize test ordering
+
+And several others like pytest-django saw maintenance releases.
+For a more complete list, check out 
+https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=pytest&submit=search.
+
+For general information see:
+
+     http://pytest.org/
+
+To install or upgrade pytest:
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+Particular thanks to Floris, Ronny, Benjamin and the many bug reporters
+and fix providers.
+
+may the fixtures be with you,
+holger krekel
+
+
+Changes between 2.3.4 and 2.3.5
+-----------------------------------
+
+- never consider a fixture function for test function collection
+
+- allow re-running of test items / helps to fix pytest-reruntests plugin
+  and also help to keep less fixture/resource references alive
+
+- put captured stdout/stderr into junitxml output even for passing tests
+  (thanks Adam Goucher)
+
+- Issue 265 - integrate nose setup/teardown with setupstate
+  so it doesnt try to teardown if it did not setup
+
+- issue 271 - dont write junitxml on slave nodes
+
+- Issue 274 - dont try to show full doctest example
+  when doctest does not know the example location
+
+- issue 280 - disable assertion rewriting on buggy CPython 2.6.0
+
+- inject "getfixture()" helper to retrieve fixtures from doctests,
+  thanks Andreas Zeidler
+
+- issue 259 - when assertion rewriting, be consistent with the default
+  source encoding of ASCII on Python 2
+
+- issue 251 - report a skip instead of ignoring classes with init
+
+- issue250 unicode/str mixes in parametrization names and values now works
+
+- issue257, assertion-triggered compilation of source ending in a
+  comment line doesn't blow up in python2.5 (fixed through py>=1.4.13.dev6)
+
+- fix --genscript option to generate standalone scripts that also
+  work with python3.3 (importer ordering)
+
+- issue171 - in assertion rewriting, show the repr of some
+  global variables
+
+- fix option help for "-k"
+
+- move long description of distribution into README.rst
+
+- improve docstring for metafunc.parametrize()
+
+- fix bug where using capsys with pytest.set_trace() in a test
+  function would break when looking at capsys.readouterr()
+
+- allow to specify prefixes starting with "_" when 
+  customizing python_functions test discovery. (thanks Graham Horler)
+
+- improve PYTEST_DEBUG tracing output by puting
+  extra data on a new lines with additional indent
+
+- ensure OutcomeExceptions like skip/fail have initialized exception attributes
+
+- issue 260 - don't use nose special setup on plain unittest cases
+
+- fix issue134 - print the collect errors that prevent running specified test items
+
+- fix issue266 - accept unicode in MarkEvaluator expressions
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.4.0.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.4.0.rst
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+pytest-2.4.0: new fixture features/hooks and bug fixes
+===========================================================================
+
+The just released pytest-2.4.0 brings many improvements and numerous 
+bug fixes while remaining plugin- and test-suite compatible apart
+from a few supposedly very minor incompatibilities.  See below for 
+a full list of details.  A few feature highlights:
+
+- new yield-style fixtures `pytest.yield_fixture
+  <http://pytest.org/latest/yieldfixture.html>`_, allowing to use
+  existing with-style context managers in fixture functions.
+
+- improved pdb support: ``import pdb ; pdb.set_trace()`` now works
+  without requiring prior disabling of stdout/stderr capturing.
+  Also the ``--pdb`` options works now on collection and internal errors
+  and we introduced a new experimental hook for IDEs/plugins to 
+  intercept debugging: ``pytest_exception_interact(node, call, report)``.
+
+- shorter monkeypatch variant to allow specifying an import path as
+  a target, for example: ``monkeypatch.setattr("requests.get", myfunc)``
+
+- better unittest/nose compatibility: all teardown methods are now only
+  called if the corresponding setup method succeeded.
+
+- integrate tab-completion on command line options if you
+  have `argcomplete <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/argcomplete>`_ 
+  configured.
+
+- allow boolean expression directly with skipif/xfail
+  if a "reason" is also specified.
+
+- a new hook ``pytest_load_initial_conftests`` allows plugins like
+  `pytest-django <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-django>`_ to
+  influence the environment before conftest files import ``django``.
+
+- reporting: color the last line red or green depending if
+  failures/errors occurred or everything passed.
+
+The documentation has been updated to accomodate the changes, 
+see `http://pytest.org <http://pytest.org>`_ 
+
+To install or upgrade pytest::
+
+    pip install -U pytest # or
+    easy_install -U pytest
+
+
+**Many thanks to all who helped, including Floris Bruynooghe, 
+Brianna Laugher, Andreas Pelme, Anthon van der Neut, Anatoly Bubenkoff, 
+Vladimir Keleshev, Mathieu Agopian, Ronny Pfannschmidt, Christian
+Theunert and many others.**
+
+may passing tests be with you,
+
+holger krekel
+
+Changes between 2.3.5 and 2.4
+-----------------------------------
+
+known incompatibilities:
+
+- if calling --genscript from python2.7 or above, you only get a
+  standalone script which works on python2.7 or above.  Use Python2.6
+  to also get a python2.5 compatible version.
+
+- all xunit-style teardown methods (nose-style, pytest-style,
+  unittest-style) will not be called if the corresponding setup method failed,
+  see issue322 below.
+
+- the pytest_plugin_unregister hook wasn't ever properly called
+  and there is no known implementation of the hook - so it got removed.
+
+- pytest.fixture-decorated functions cannot be generators (i.e. use
+  yield) anymore.  This change might be reversed in 2.4.1 if it causes
+  unforeseen real-life issues.  However, you can always write and return
+  an inner function/generator and change the fixture consumer to iterate
+  over the returned generator.  This change was done in lieu of the new
+  ``pytest.yield_fixture`` decorator, see below.
+
+new features:
+
+- experimentally introduce a new ``pytest.yield_fixture`` decorator
+  which accepts exactly the same parameters as pytest.fixture but
+  mandates a ``yield`` statement instead of a ``return statement`` from
+  fixture functions.  This allows direct integration with "with-style"
+  context managers in fixture functions and generally avoids registering
+  of finalization callbacks in favour of treating the "after-yield" as
+  teardown code.  Thanks Andreas Pelme, Vladimir Keleshev, Floris
+  Bruynooghe, Ronny Pfannschmidt and many others for discussions.
+
+- allow boolean expression directly with skipif/xfail
+  if a "reason" is also specified.  Rework skipping documentation
+  to recommend "condition as booleans" because it prevents surprises
+  when importing markers between modules.  Specifying conditions
+  as strings will remain fully supported.
+
+- reporting: color the last line red or green depending if
+  failures/errors occurred or everything passed.  thanks Christian
+  Theunert.
+
+- make "import pdb ; pdb.set_trace()" work natively wrt capturing (no
+  "-s" needed anymore), making ``pytest.set_trace()`` a mere shortcut.
+
+- fix issue181: --pdb now also works on collect errors (and 
+  on internal errors) .  This was implemented by a slight internal 
+  refactoring and the introduction of a new hook 
+  ``pytest_exception_interact`` hook (see next item).
+
+- fix issue341: introduce new experimental hook for IDEs/terminals to 
+  intercept debugging: ``pytest_exception_interact(node, call, report)``.
+
+- new monkeypatch.setattr() variant to provide a shorter
+  invocation for patching out classes/functions from modules:
+
+     monkeypatch.setattr("requests.get", myfunc)
+
+  will replace the "get" function of the "requests" module with ``myfunc``.
+
+- fix issue322: tearDownClass is not run if setUpClass failed. Thanks
+  Mathieu Agopian for the initial fix.  Also make all of pytest/nose
+  finalizer mimick the same generic behaviour: if a setupX exists and
+  fails, don't run teardownX.  This internally introduces a new method
+  "node.addfinalizer()" helper which can only be called during the setup
+  phase of a node.
+
+- simplify pytest.mark.parametrize() signature: allow to pass a
+  CSV-separated string to specify argnames.  For example: 
+  ``pytest.mark.parametrize("input,expected",  [(1,2), (2,3)])``
+  works as well as the previous:
+  ``pytest.mark.parametrize(("input", "expected"), ...)``.
+
+- add support for setUpModule/tearDownModule detection, thanks Brian Okken.
+
+- integrate tab-completion on options through use of "argcomplete".
+  Thanks Anthon van der Neut for the PR.
+
+- change option names to be hyphen-separated long options but keep the
+  old spelling backward compatible.  py.test -h will only show the
+  hyphenated version, for example "--collect-only" but "--collectonly"
+  will remain valid as well (for backward-compat reasons).  Many thanks to
+  Anthon van der Neut for the implementation and to Hynek Schlawack for
+  pushing us.
+
+- fix issue 308 - allow to mark/xfail/skip individual parameter sets
+  when parametrizing.  Thanks Brianna Laugher.
+
+- call new experimental pytest_load_initial_conftests hook to allow
+  3rd party plugins to do something before a conftest is loaded.
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+- fix issue358 - capturing options are now parsed more properly 
+  by using a new parser.parse_known_args method.
+
+- pytest now uses argparse instead of optparse (thanks Anthon) which 
+  means that "argparse" is added as a dependency if installing into python2.6
+  environments or below.
+
+- fix issue333: fix a case of bad unittest/pytest hook interaction.
+
+- PR27: correctly handle nose.SkipTest during collection.  Thanks
+  Antonio Cuni, Ronny Pfannschmidt.
+
+- fix issue355: junitxml puts name="pytest" attribute to testsuite tag.
+
+- fix issue336: autouse fixture in plugins should work again.
+
+- fix issue279: improve object comparisons on assertion failure
+  for standard datatypes and recognise collections.abc.  Thanks to
+  Brianna Laugher and Mathieu Agopian.
+
+- fix issue317: assertion rewriter support for the is_package method
+
+- fix issue335: document py.code.ExceptionInfo() object returned
+  from pytest.raises(), thanks Mathieu Agopian.
+
+- remove implicit distribute_setup support from setup.py.
+
+- fix issue305: ignore any problems when writing pyc files.
+
+- SO-17664702: call fixture finalizers even if the fixture function
+  partially failed (finalizers would not always be called before)
+
+- fix issue320 - fix class scope for fixtures when mixed with
+  module-level functions.  Thanks Anatloy Bubenkoff.
+
+- you can specify "-q" or "-qq" to get different levels of "quieter"
+  reporting (thanks Katarzyna Jachim)
+
+- fix issue300 - Fix order of conftest loading when starting py.test
+  in a subdirectory.
+
+- fix issue323 - sorting of many module-scoped arg parametrizations
+
+- make sessionfinish hooks execute with the same cwd-context as at
+  session start (helps fix plugin behaviour which write output files 
+  with relative path such as pytest-cov)
+
+- fix issue316 - properly reference collection hooks in docs
+
+- fix issue 306 - cleanup of -k/-m options to only match markers/test
+  names/keywords respectively.  Thanks Wouter van Ackooy.
+
+- improved doctest counting for doctests in python modules -- 
+  files without any doctest items will not show up anymore
+  and doctest examples are counted as separate test items.
+  thanks Danilo Bellini.
+
+- fix issue245 by depending on the released py-1.4.14
+  which fixes py.io.dupfile to work with files with no
+  mode. Thanks Jason R. Coombs.
+
+- fix junitxml generation when test output contains control characters,
+  addressing issue267, thanks Jaap Broekhuizen 
+
+- fix issue338: honor --tb style for setup/teardown errors as well.  Thanks Maho.
+
+- fix issue307 - use yaml.safe_load in example, thanks Mark Eichin.
+
+- better parametrize error messages, thanks Brianna Laugher
+
+- pytest_terminal_summary(terminalreporter) hooks can now use
+  ".section(title)" and ".line(msg)" methods to print extra 
+  information at the end of a test run.
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.4.1.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.4.1.rst
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+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.4.1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+pytest-2.4.1: fixing three regressions compared to 2.3.5
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.4.1 is a quick follow up release to fix three regressions
+compared to 2.3.5 before they hit more people:
+
+- When using parser.addoption() unicode arguments to the
+  "type" keyword should also be converted to the respective types.
+  thanks Floris Bruynooghe, @dnozay. (fixes issue360 and issue362)
+
+- fix dotted filename completion when using argcomplete 
+  thanks Anthon van der Neuth. (fixes issue361)
+
+- fix regression when a 1-tuple ("arg",) is used for specifying
+  parametrization (the values of the parametrization were passed
+  nested in a tuple).  Thanks Donald Stufft.
+
+- also merge doc typo fixes, thanks Andy Dirnberger
+
+as usual, docs at http://pytest.org and upgrades via::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+have fun,
+holger krekel
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.4.2.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.4.2.rst
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+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.4.2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+pytest-2.4.2: colorama on windows, plugin/tmpdir fixes
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.4.2 is another bug-fixing release:
+
+- on Windows require colorama and a newer py lib so that py.io.TerminalWriter()
+  now uses colorama instead of its own ctypes hacks. (fixes issue365)
+  thanks Paul Moore for bringing it up.
+
+- fix "-k" matching of tests where "repr" and "attr" and other names would
+  cause wrong matches because of an internal implementation quirk
+  (don't ask) which is now properly implemented. fixes issue345.
+
+- avoid tmpdir fixture to create too long filenames especially
+  when parametrization is used (issue354)
+
+- fix pytest-pep8 and pytest-flakes / pytest interactions
+  (collection names in mark plugin was assuming an item always
+  has a function which is not true for those plugins etc.)
+  Thanks Andi Zeidler.
+
+- introduce node.get_marker/node.add_marker API for plugins
+  like pytest-pep8 and pytest-flakes to avoid the messy
+  details of the node.keywords  pseudo-dicts.  Adapted
+  docs.
+
+- remove attempt to "dup" stdout at startup as it's icky.
+  the normal capturing should catch enough possibilities
+  of tests messing up standard FDs. 
+
+- add pluginmanager.do_configure(config) as a link to 
+  config.do_configure() for plugin-compatibility
+
+as usual, docs at http://pytest.org and upgrades via::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+have fun,
+holger krekel
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.5.0.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.5.0.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+pytest-2.5.0: now down to ZERO reported bugs!
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest-2.5.0 is a big fixing release, the result of two community bug
+fixing days plus numerous additional works from many people and
+reporters.  The release should be fully compatible to 2.4.2, existing
+plugins and test suites.  We aim at maintaining this level of ZERO reported 
+bugs because it's no fun if your testing tool has bugs, is it?  Under a
+condition, though: when submitting a bug report please provide
+clear information about the circumstances and a simple example which
+reproduces the problem.
+
+The issue tracker is of course not empty now.  We have many remaining
+"enhacement" issues which we'll hopefully can tackle in 2014 with your
+help.
+
+For those who use older Python versions, please note that pytest is not
+automatically tested on python2.5 due to virtualenv, setuptools and tox
+not supporting it anymore.  Manual verification shows that it mostly
+works fine but it's not going to be part of the automated release 
+process and thus likely to break in the future.
+
+As usual, current docs are at 
+
+    http://pytest.org 
+
+and you can upgrade from pypi via::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Particular thanks for helping with this release go to Anatoly Bubenkoff,
+Floris Bruynooghe, Marc Abramowitz, Ralph Schmitt, Ronny Pfannschmidt,
+Donald Stufft, James Lan, Rob Dennis, Jason R. Coombs, Mathieu Agopian,
+Virgil Dupras, Bruno Oliveira, Alex Gaynor and others.
+
+have fun,
+holger krekel
+
+
+2.5.0
+-----------------------------------
+
+- dropped python2.5 from automated release testing of pytest itself 
+  which means it's probably going to break soon (but still works 
+  with this release we believe).
+
+- simplified and fixed implementation for calling finalizers when
+  parametrized fixtures or function arguments are involved.  finalization 
+  is now performed lazily at setup time instead of in the "teardown phase".
+  While this might sound odd at first, it helps to ensure that we are 
+  correctly handling setup/teardown even in complex code.  User-level code
+  should not be affected unless it's implementing the pytest_runtest_teardown
+  hook and expecting certain fixture instances are torn down within (very
+  unlikely and would have been unreliable anyway).
+
+- PR90: add --color=yes|no|auto option to force terminal coloring 
+  mode ("auto" is default).  Thanks Marc Abramowitz.
+
+- fix issue319 - correctly show unicode in assertion errors.  Many
+  thanks to Floris Bruynooghe for the complete PR.  Also means
+  we depend on py>=1.4.19 now.
+
+- fix issue396 - correctly sort and finalize class-scoped parametrized 
+  tests independently from number of methods on the class.  
+
+- refix issue323 in a better way -- parametrization should now never
+  cause Runtime Recursion errors because the underlying algorithm
+  for re-ordering tests per-scope/per-fixture is not recursive
+  anymore (it was tail-call recursive before which could lead
+  to problems for more than >966 non-function scoped parameters).
+
+- fix issue290 - there is preliminary support now for parametrizing
+  with repeated same values (sometimes useful to to test if calling 
+  a second time works as with the first time).
+
+- close issue240 - document precisely how pytest module importing
+  works, discuss the two common test directory layouts, and how it 
+  interacts with PEP420-namespace packages.
+
+- fix issue246 fix finalizer order to be LIFO on independent fixtures
+  depending on a parametrized higher-than-function scoped fixture. 
+  (was quite some effort so please bear with the complexity of this sentence :)
+  Thanks Ralph Schmitt for the precise failure example.
+ 
+- fix issue244 by implementing special index for parameters to only use
+  indices for paramentrized test ids
+
+- fix issue287 by running all finalizers but saving the exception
+  from the first failing finalizer and re-raising it so teardown will
+  still have failed.  We reraise the first failing exception because
+  it might be the cause for other finalizers to fail.
+
+- fix ordering when mock.patch or other standard decorator-wrappings
+  are used with test methods.  This fixues issue346 and should
+  help with random "xdist" collection failures.  Thanks to
+  Ronny Pfannschmidt and Donald Stufft for helping to isolate it.
+
+- fix issue357 - special case "-k" expressions to allow for
+  filtering with simple strings that are not valid python expressions.
+  Examples: "-k 1.3" matches all tests parametrized with 1.3.
+  "-k None" filters all tests that have "None" in their name
+  and conversely "-k 'not None'". 
+  Previously these examples would raise syntax errors.
+  
+- fix issue384 by removing the trial support code
+  since the unittest compat enhancements allow
+  trial to handle it on its own
+
+- don't hide an ImportError when importing a plugin produces one.
+  fixes issue375.
+
+- fix issue275 - allow usefixtures and autouse fixtures 
+  for running doctest text files.
+
+- fix issue380 by making --resultlog only rely on longrepr instead
+  of the "reprcrash" attribute which only exists sometimes.
+
+- address issue122: allow @pytest.fixture(params=iterator) by exploding
+  into a list early on.
+
+- fix pexpect-3.0 compatibility for pytest's own tests.
+  (fixes issue386)
+
+- allow nested parametrize-value markers, thanks James Lan for the PR.
+
+- fix unicode handling with new monkeypatch.setattr(import_path, value)
+  API.  Thanks Rob Dennis.  Fixes issue371.
+
+- fix unicode handling with junitxml, fixes issue368.
+
+- In assertion rewriting mode on Python 2, fix the detection of coding
+  cookies. See issue #330.
+
+- make "--runxfail" turn imperative pytest.xfail calls into no ops
+  (it already did neutralize pytest.mark.xfail markers)
+
+- refine pytest / pkg_resources interactions: The AssertionRewritingHook
+  PEP302 compliant loader now registers itself with setuptools/pkg_resources 
+  properly so that the pkg_resources.resource_stream method works properly.
+  Fixes issue366.  Thanks for the investigations and full PR to Jason R. Coombs.
+
+- pytestconfig fixture is now session-scoped as it is the same object during the
+  whole test run.  Fixes issue370. 
+
+- avoid one surprising case of marker malfunction/confusion::
+  
+      @pytest.mark.some(lambda arg: ...)
+      def test_function():
+
+  would not work correctly because pytest assumes @pytest.mark.some 
+  gets a function to be decorated already.  We now at least detect if this 
+  arg is an lambda and thus the example will work.  Thanks Alex Gaynor
+  for bringing it up.
+
+- xfail a test on pypy that checks wrong encoding/ascii (pypy does
+  not error out). fixes issue385.
+
+- internally make varnames() deal with classes's __init__,
+  although it's not needed by pytest itself atm.  Also
+  fix caching.  Fixes issue376.
+
+- fix issue221 - handle importing of namespace-package with no 
+  __init__.py properly.
+
+- refactor internal FixtureRequest handling to avoid monkeypatching.
+  One of the positive user-facing effects is that the "request" object 
+  can now be used in closures.
+
+- fixed version comparison in pytest.importskip(modname, minverstring)
+
+- fix issue377 by clarifying in the nose-compat docs that pytest
+  does not duplicate the unittest-API into the "plain" namespace.
+
+- fix verbose reporting for @mock'd test functions
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.5.1.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.5.1.rst
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+pytest-2.5.1: fixes and new home page styling
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1000 tests 
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.  
+
+The 2.5.1 release maintains the "zero-reported-bugs" promise by fixing
+the three bugs reported since the last release a few days ago.  It also
+features a new home page styling implemented by Tobias Bieniek, based on
+the flask theme from Armin Ronacher:
+
+    http://pytest.org
+
+If you have anything more to improve styling and docs, 
+we'd be very happy to merge further pull requests.
+
+On the coding side, the release also contains a little enhancement to
+fixture decorators allowing to directly influence generation of test
+ids, thanks to Floris Bruynooghe.  Other thanks for helping with 
+this release go to Anatoly Bubenkoff and Ronny Pfannschmidt.
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+have fun and a nice remaining "bug-free" time of the year :)
+holger krekel
+
+2.5.1
+-----------------------------------
+
+- merge new documentation styling PR from Tobias Bieniek.
+
+- fix issue403: allow parametrize of multiple same-name functions within
+  a collection node.  Thanks Andreas Kloeckner and Alex Gaynor for reporting
+  and analysis.
+
+- Allow parameterized fixtures to specify the ID of the parameters by
+  adding an ids argument to pytest.fixture() and pytest.yield_fixture().
+  Thanks Floris Bruynooghe. 
+
+- fix issue404 by always using the binary xml escape in the junitxml
+  plugin.  Thanks Ronny Pfannschmidt.
+
+- fix issue407: fix addoption docstring to point to argparse instead of
+  optparse. Thanks Daniel D. Wright.
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.5.2.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.5.2.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+pytest-2.5.2: fixes 
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1000 tests 
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.  
+
+The 2.5.2 release fixes a few bugs with two maybe-bugs remaining and
+actively being worked on (and waiting for the bug reporter's input).
+We also have a new contribution guide thanks to Piotr Banaszkiewicz
+and others.
+
+See docs at:
+
+    http://pytest.org
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to the following people who contributed to this release:
+
+    Anatoly Bubenkov 
+    Ronny Pfannschmidt
+    Floris Bruynooghe
+    Bruno Oliveira 
+    Andreas Pelme 
+    Jurko Gospodnetić
+    Piotr Banaszkiewicz 
+    Simon Liedtke 
+    lakka 
+    Lukasz Balcerzak 
+    Philippe Muller 
+    Daniel Hahler 
+
+have fun,
+holger krekel
+
+2.5.2
+-----------------------------------
+
+- fix issue409 -- better interoperate with cx_freeze by not
+  trying to import from collections.abc which causes problems 
+  for py27/cx_freeze.  Thanks Wolfgang L. for reporting and tracking it down.
+
+- fixed docs and code to use "pytest" instead of "py.test" almost everywhere.
+  Thanks Jurko Gospodnetic for the complete PR.  
+
+- fix issue425: mention at end of "py.test -h" that --markers
+  and --fixtures work according to specified test path (or current dir)
+
+- fix issue413: exceptions with unicode attributes are now printed
+  correctly also on python2 and with pytest-xdist runs. (the fix
+  requires py-1.4.20)
+
+- copy, cleanup and integrate py.io capture
+  from pylib 1.4.20.dev2 (rev 13d9af95547e)
+  
+- address issue416: clarify docs as to conftest.py loading semantics
+
+- fix issue429: comparing byte strings with non-ascii chars in assert
+  expressions now work better.  Thanks Floris Bruynooghe.
+
+- make capfd/capsys.capture private, its unused and shouldnt be exposed
+
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+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.6.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+pytest-2.6.0: shorter tracebacks, new warning system, test runner compat
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1000 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+
+The 2.6.0 release should be drop-in backward compatible to 2.5.2 and
+fixes a number of bugs and brings some new features, mainly:
+
+- shorter tracebacks by default: only the first (test function) entry
+  and the last (failure location) entry are shown, the ones between
+  only in "short" format.  Use ``--tb=long`` to get back the old
+  behaviour of showing "long" entries everywhere.
+
+- a new warning system which reports oddities during collection
+  and execution.  For example, ignoring collecting Test* classes with an
+  ``__init__`` now produces a warning.
+
+- various improvements to nose/mock/unittest integration
+
+Note also that 2.6.0 departs with the "zero reported bugs" policy
+because it has been too hard to keep up with it, unfortunately.
+Instead we are for now rather bound to work on "upvoted" issues in
+the https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issues?status=new&status=open&sort=-votes
+issue tracker.
+
+See docs at:
+
+    http://pytest.org
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to all who contributed, among them:
+
+    Benjamin Peterson
+    Jurko Gospodnetić
+    Floris Bruynooghe
+    Marc Abramowitz
+    Marc Schlaich
+    Trevor Bekolay
+    Bruno Oliveira
+    Alex Groenholm
+
+have fun,
+holger krekel
+
+2.6.0
+-----------------------------------
+
+- fix issue537: Avoid importing old assertion reinterpretation code by default.
+  Thanks Benjamin Peterson.
+
+- fix issue364: shorten and enhance tracebacks representation by default.
+  The new "--tb=auto" option (default) will only display long tracebacks
+  for the first and last entry.  You can get the old behaviour of printing
+  all entries as long entries with "--tb=long".  Also short entries by
+  default are now printed very similarly to "--tb=native" ones.
+
+- fix issue514: teach assertion reinterpretation about private class attributes
+  Thanks Benjamin Peterson.
+
+- change -v output to include full node IDs of tests.  Users can copy
+  a node ID from a test run, including line number, and use it as a
+  positional argument in order to run only a single test.
+
+- fix issue 475: fail early and comprehensible if calling
+  pytest.raises with wrong exception type.
+
+- fix issue516: tell in getting-started about current dependencies.
+
+- cleanup setup.py a bit and specify supported versions. Thanks Jurko
+  Gospodnetic for the PR.
+
+- change XPASS colour to yellow rather then red when tests are run
+  with -v.
+
+- fix issue473: work around mock putting an unbound method into a class
+  dict when double-patching.
+
+- fix issue498: if a fixture finalizer fails, make sure that
+  the fixture is still invalidated.
+
+- fix issue453: the result of the pytest_assertrepr_compare hook now gets
+  it's newlines escaped so that format_exception does not blow up.
+
+- internal new warning system: pytest will now produce warnings when
+  it detects oddities in your test collection or execution.
+  Warnings are ultimately sent to a new pytest_logwarning hook which is
+  currently only implemented by the terminal plugin which displays
+  warnings in the summary line and shows more details when -rw (report on
+  warnings) is specified.
+
+- change skips into warnings for test classes with an __init__ and
+  callables in test modules which look like a test but are not functions.
+
+- fix issue436: improved finding of initial conftest files from command
+  line arguments by using the result of parse_known_args rather than
+  the previous flaky heuristics.  Thanks Marc Abramowitz for tests
+  and initial fixing approaches in this area.
+
+- fix issue #479: properly handle nose/unittest(2) SkipTest exceptions
+  during collection/loading of test modules.  Thanks to Marc Schlaich
+  for the complete PR.
+
+- fix issue490: include pytest_load_initial_conftests in documentation
+  and improve docstring.
+
+- fix issue472: clarify that ``pytest.config.getvalue()`` cannot work
+  if it's triggered ahead of command line parsing.
+
+- merge PR123: improved integration with mock.patch decorator on tests.
+
+- fix issue412: messing with stdout/stderr FD-level streams is now
+  captured without crashes.
+
+- fix issue483: trial/py33 works now properly.  Thanks Daniel Grana for PR.
+
+- improve example for pytest integration with "python setup.py test"
+  which now has a generic "-a" or "--pytest-args" option where you
+  can pass additional options as a quoted string.  Thanks Trevor Bekolay.
+
+- simplified internal capturing mechanism and made it more robust
+  against tests or setups changing FD1/FD2, also better integrated
+  now with pytest.pdb() in single tests.
+
+- improvements to pytest's own test-suite leakage detection, courtesy of PRs
+  from Marc Abramowitz
+
+- fix issue492: avoid leak in test_writeorg.  Thanks Marc Abramowitz.
+
+- fix issue493: don't run tests in doc directory with ``python setup.py test``
+  (use tox -e doctesting for that)
+
+- fix issue486: better reporting and handling of early conftest loading failures
+
+- some cleanup and simplification of internal conftest handling.
+
+- work a bit harder to break reference cycles when catching exceptions.
+  Thanks Jurko Gospodnetic.
+
+- fix issue443: fix skip examples to use proper comparison.  Thanks Alex
+  Groenholm.
+
+- support nose-style ``__test__`` attribute on modules, classes and
+  functions, including unittest-style Classes.  If set to False, the
+  test will not be collected.
+
+- fix issue512: show "<notset>" for arguments which might not be set
+  in monkeypatch plugin.  Improves output in documentation.
+
+- avoid importing "py.test" (an old alias module for "pytest")
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.6.1.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.6.1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6f27c5861
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.6.1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+pytest-2.6.1: fixes and new xfail feature
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+The 2.6.1 release is drop-in compatible to 2.5.2 and actually fixes some
+regressions introduced with 2.6.0.  It also brings a little feature
+to the xfail marker which now recognizes expected exceptions,
+see the CHANGELOG below.
+
+See docs at:
+
+    http://pytest.org
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to all who contributed, among them:
+
+    Floris Bruynooghe
+    Bruno Oliveira
+    Nicolas Delaby
+
+have fun,
+holger krekel
+
+Changes 2.6.1
+=================
+
+- No longer show line numbers in the --verbose output, the output is now
+  purely the nodeid.  The line number is still shown in failure reports.
+  Thanks Floris Bruynooghe.
+
+- fix issue437 where assertion rewriting could cause pytest-xdist slaves
+  to collect different tests. Thanks Bruno Oliveira.
+
+- fix issue555: add "errors" attribute to capture-streams to satisfy
+  some distutils and possibly other code accessing sys.stdout.errors.
+
+- fix issue547 capsys/capfd also work when output capturing ("-s") is disabled.
+
+- address issue170: allow pytest.mark.xfail(...) to specify expected exceptions via
+  an optional "raises=EXC" argument where EXC can be a single exception
+  or a tuple of exception classes.  Thanks David Mohr for the complete
+  PR.
+
+- fix integration of pytest with unittest.mock.patch decorator when
+  it uses the "new" argument.  Thanks Nicolas Delaby for test and PR.
+
+- fix issue with detecting conftest files if the arguments contain
+  "::" node id specifications (copy pasted from "-v" output)
+
+- fix issue544 by only removing "@NUM" at the end of "::" separated parts
+  and if the part has an ".py" extension
+
+- don't use py.std import helper, rather import things directly.
+  Thanks Bruno Oliveira.
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.6.2.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.6.2.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4efc73a4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.6.2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+pytest-2.6.2: few fixes and cx_freeze support
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is drop-in compatible to 2.5.2 and 2.6.X.  It also
+brings support for including pytest with cx_freeze or similar
+freezing tools into your single-file app distribution.  For details
+see the CHANGELOG below.
+
+See docs at:
+
+    http://pytest.org
+
+As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via::
+
+    pip install -U pytest
+
+Thanks to all who contributed, among them:
+
+    Floris Bruynooghe
+    Benjamin Peterson
+    Bruno Oliveira
+
+have fun,
+holger krekel
+
+2.6.2
+-----------
+
+- Added function pytest.freeze_includes(), which makes it easy to embed
+  pytest into executables using tools like cx_freeze.
+  See docs for examples and rationale. Thanks Bruno Oliveira.
+
+- Improve assertion rewriting cache invalidation precision.
+
+- fixed issue561: adapt autouse fixture example for python3.
+
+- fixed issue453: assertion rewriting issue with __repr__ containing
+  "\n{", "\n}" and "\n~".
+
+- fix issue560: correctly display code if an "else:" or "finally:" is
+  followed by statements on the same line.
+
+- Fix example in monkeypatch documentation, thanks t-8ch.
+
+- fix issue572: correct tmpdir doc example for python3.
+
+- Do not mark as universal wheel because Python 2.6 is different from
+  other builds due to the extra argparse dependency.  Fixes issue566.
+  Thanks sontek.
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.6.3.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.6.3.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..13fae31b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.6.3.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+pytest-2.6.3: fixes and little improvements
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is drop-in compatible to 2.5.2 and 2.6.X.
+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, among them:
+
+    Floris Bruynooghe
+    Oleg Sinyavskiy
+    Uwe Schmitt
+    Charles Cloud
+    Wolfgang Schnerring
+
+have fun,
+holger krekel
+
+Changes 2.6.3
+======================
+
+- fix issue575: xunit-xml was reporting collection errors as failures
+  instead of errors, thanks Oleg Sinyavskiy.
+
+- fix issue582: fix setuptools example, thanks Laszlo Papp and Ronny
+  Pfannschmidt.
+
+- Fix infinite recursion bug when pickling capture.EncodedFile, thanks
+  Uwe Schmitt.
+
+- fix issue589: fix bad interaction with numpy and others when showing
+  exceptions.  Check for precise "maximum recursion depth exceed" exception
+  instead of presuming any RuntimeError is that one (implemented in py
+  dep).  Thanks Charles Cloud for analysing the issue.
+
+- fix conftest related fixture visibility issue: when running with a
+  CWD outside a test package pytest would get fixture discovery wrong.
+  Thanks to Wolfgang Schnerring for figuring out a reproducable example.
+
+- Introduce pytest_enter_pdb hook (needed e.g. by pytest_timeout to cancel the
+  timeout when interactively entering pdb).  Thanks Wolfgang Schnerring.
+
+- check xfail/skip also with non-python function test items. Thanks
+  Floris Bruynooghe.
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.7.0.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.7.0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..07ae44ca1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.7.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+pytest-2.7.0: fixes, features, speed improvements
+===========================================================================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.6.X.
+
+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, among them:
+
+    Anatoly Bubenkoff
+    Floris Bruynooghe
+    Brianna Laugher
+    Eric Siegerman
+    Daniel Hahler
+    Charles Cloud
+    Tom Viner
+    Holger Peters
+    Ldiary Translations
+    almarklein
+
+have fun,
+holger krekel
+
+2.7.0 (compared to 2.6.4)
+-----------------------------
+
+- fix issue435: make reload() work when assert rewriting is active.
+  Thanks Daniel Hahler.
+
+- fix issue616: conftest.py files and their contained fixutres are now
+  properly considered for visibility, independently from the exact
+  current working directory and test arguments that are used.
+  Many thanks to Eric Siegerman and his PR235 which contains
+  systematic tests for conftest visibility and now passes.
+  This change also introduces the concept of a ``rootdir`` which
+  is printed as a new pytest header and documented in the pytest
+  customize web page.
+
+- change reporting of "diverted" tests, i.e. tests that are collected
+  in one file but actually come from another (e.g. when tests in a test class
+  come from a base class in a different file).  We now show the nodeid
+  and indicate via a postfix the other file.
+
+- add ability to set command line options by environment variable PYTEST_ADDOPTS.
+
+- added documentation on the new pytest-dev teams on bitbucket and
+  github.  See https://pytest.org/latest/contributing.html .
+  Thanks to Anatoly for pushing and initial work on this.
+
+- fix issue650: new option ``--docttest-ignore-import-errors`` which
+  will turn import errors in doctests into skips.  Thanks Charles Cloud
+  for the complete PR.
+
+- fix issue655: work around different ways that cause python2/3
+  to leak sys.exc_info into fixtures/tests causing failures in 3rd party code
+
+- fix issue615: assertion re-writing did not correctly escape % signs
+  when formatting boolean operations, which tripped over mixing
+  booleans with modulo operators.  Thanks to Tom Viner for the report,
+  triaging and fix.
+
+- implement issue351: add ability to specify parametrize ids as a callable
+  to generate custom test ids.  Thanks Brianna Laugher for the idea and
+  implementation.
+
+- introduce and document new hookwrapper mechanism useful for plugins
+  which want to wrap the execution of certain hooks for their purposes.
+  This supersedes the undocumented ``__multicall__`` protocol which
+  pytest itself and some external plugins use.  Note that pytest-2.8
+  is scheduled to drop supporting the old ``__multicall__``
+  and only support the hookwrapper protocol.
+
+- majorly speed up invocation of plugin hooks
+
+- use hookwrapper mechanism in builtin pytest plugins.
+
+- add a doctest ini option for doctest flags, thanks Holger Peters.
+
+- add note to docs that if you want to mark a parameter and the
+  parameter is a callable, you also need to pass in a reason to disambiguate
+  it from the "decorator" case.  Thanks Tom Viner.
+
+- "python_classes" and "python_functions" options now support glob-patterns
+  for test discovery, as discussed in issue600. Thanks Ldiary Translations.
+
+- allow to override parametrized fixtures with non-parametrized ones and vice versa (bubenkoff).
+
+- fix issue463: raise specific error for 'parameterize' misspelling (pfctdayelise).
+
+- On failure, the ``sys.last_value``, ``sys.last_type`` and
+  ``sys.last_traceback`` are set, so that a user can inspect the error
+  via postmortem debugging (almarklein).
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.7.1.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.7.1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cd37cad0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.7.1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+pytest-2.7.1: bug fixes
+=======================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.7.0.
+
+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:
+
+    Bruno Oliveira
+    Holger Krekel
+    Ionel Maries Cristian
+    Floris Bruynooghe
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.7.1 (compared to 2.7.0)
+-------------------------
+
+- fix issue731: do not get confused by the braces which may be present
+  and unbalanced in an object's repr while collapsing False
+  explanations.  Thanks Carl Meyer for the report and test case.
+
+- fix issue553: properly handling inspect.getsourcelines failures in
+  FixtureLookupError which would lead to to an internal error,
+  obfuscating the original problem. Thanks talljosh for initial
+  diagnose/patch and Bruno Oliveira for final patch.
+
+- fix issue660: properly report scope-mismatch-access errors
+  independently from ordering of fixture arguments.  Also
+  avoid the pytest internal traceback which does not provide
+  information to the user. Thanks Holger Krekel.
+
+- streamlined and documented release process.  Also all versions
+  (in setup.py and documentation generation) are now read
+  from _pytest/__init__.py. Thanks Holger Krekel.
+
+- fixed docs to remove the notion that yield-fixtures are experimental.
+  They are here to stay :)  Thanks Bruno Oliveira.
+
+- Support building wheels by using environment markers for the
+  requirements.  Thanks Ionel Maries Cristian.
+
+- fixed regression to 2.6.4 which surfaced e.g. in lost stdout capture printing
+  when tests raised SystemExit. Thanks Holger Krekel.
+
+- reintroduced _pytest fixture of the pytester plugin which is used
+  at least by pytest-xdist.
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.7.2.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.7.2.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..69130ad62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.7.2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+pytest-2.7.2: bug fixes
+=======================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.7.1.
+
+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:
+
+    Bruno Oliveira
+    Floris Bruynooghe
+    Punyashloka Biswal
+    Aron Curzon
+    Benjamin Peterson
+    Thomas De Schampheleire
+    Edison Gustavo Muenz
+    Holger Krekel
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.7.2 (compared to 2.7.1)
+-----------------------------
+
+- fix issue767: pytest.raises value attribute does not contain the exception
+  instance on Python 2.6. Thanks Eric Siegerman for providing the test
+  case and Bruno Oliveira for PR.
+
+- Automatically create directory for junitxml and results log.
+  Thanks Aron Curzon.
+
+- fix issue713: JUnit XML reports for doctest failures.
+  Thanks Punyashloka Biswal.
+
+- fix issue735: assertion failures on debug versions of Python 3.4+
+  Thanks Benjamin Peterson.
+
+- fix issue114: skipif marker reports to internal skipping plugin;
+  Thanks Floris Bruynooghe for reporting and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- fix issue748: unittest.SkipTest reports to internal pytest unittest plugin.
+  Thanks Thomas De Schampheleire for reporting and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- fix issue718: failed to create representation of sets containing unsortable
+  elements in python 2. Thanks Edison Gustavo Muenz
+
+- fix issue756, fix issue752 (and similar issues): depend on py-1.4.29
+  which has a refined algorithm for traceback generation.
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.2.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.2.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d70286161
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+pytest-2.8.2: bug fixes
+=======================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.8.1.
+
+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:
+
+    Bruno Oliveira
+    Demian Brecht
+    Florian Bruhin
+    Ionel Cristian Mărieș
+    Raphael Pierzina
+    Ronny Pfannschmidt
+    holger krekel
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.8.2 (compared to 2.7.2)
+-----------------------------
+
+- fix #1085: proper handling of encoding errors when passing encoded byte
+  strings to pytest.parametrize in Python 2.
+  Thanks Themanwithoutaplan for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- fix #1087: handling SystemError when passing empty byte strings to
+  pytest.parametrize in Python 3.
+  Thanks Paul Kehrer for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- fix #995: fixed internal error when filtering tracebacks where one entry
+  was generated by an exec() statement.
+  Thanks Daniel Hahler, Ashley C Straw, Philippe Gauthier and Pavel Savchenko
+  for contributing and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.3.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.3.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d080ac724
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.3.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+pytest-2.8.3: bug fixes
+=======================
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.8.2.
+
+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:
+
+        Bruno Oliveira
+        Florian Bruhin
+        Gabe Hollombe
+        Gabriel Reis
+        Hartmut Goebel
+        John Vandenberg
+        Lee Kamentsky
+        Michael Birtwell
+        Raphael Pierzina
+        Ronny Pfannschmidt
+        William Martin Stewart
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.8.3 (compared to 2.8.2)
+-----------------------------
+
+- fix #1169: add __name__ attribute to testcases in TestCaseFunction to
+  support the @unittest.skip decorator on functions and methods.
+  Thanks Lee Kamentsky for the PR.
+
+- fix #1035: collecting tests if test module level obj has __getattr__().
+  Thanks Suor for the report and Bruno Oliveira / Tom Viner for the PR.
+
+- fix #331: don't collect tests if their failure cannot be reported correctly
+  e.g. they are a callable instance of a class.
+
+- fix #1133: fixed internal error when filtering tracebacks where one entry
+  belongs to a file which is no longer available.
+  Thanks Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- enhancement made to highlight in red the name of the failing tests so
+  they stand out in the output.
+  Thanks Gabriel Reis for the PR.
+
+- add more talks to the documentation
+- extend documentation on the --ignore cli option 
+- use pytest-runner for setuptools integration 
+- minor fixes for interaction with OS X El Capitan system integrity protection (thanks Florian)
+
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.4.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.4.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a09629cef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.4.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+pytest-2.8.4
+============
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.8.2.
+
+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:
+
+  Bruno Oliveira
+  Florian Bruhin
+  Jeff Widman
+  Mehdy Khoshnoody
+  Nicholas Chammas
+  Ronny Pfannschmidt
+  Tim Chan
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.8.4 (compared to 2.8.3)
+-----------------------------
+
+- fix #1190: ``deprecated_call()`` now works when the deprecated
+  function has been already called by another test in the same
+  module. Thanks Mikhail Chernykh for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the
+  PR.
+
+- fix #1198: ``--pastebin`` option now works on Python 3. Thanks
+  Mehdy Khoshnoody for the PR.
+
+- fix #1219: ``--pastebin`` now works correctly when captured output contains
+  non-ascii characters. Thanks Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- fix #1204: another error when collecting with a nasty __getattr__().
+  Thanks Florian Bruhin for the PR.
+
+- fix the summary printed when no tests did run.
+  Thanks Florian Bruhin for the PR.
+
+- a number of documentation modernizations wrt good practices.
+  Thanks Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.5.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.5.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7409022a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.5.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+pytest-2.8.5
+============
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 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.
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.6.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.6.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..215fae51e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.6.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+pytest-2.8.6
+============
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.8.5.
+
+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:
+
+    AMiT Kumar
+    Bruno Oliveira
+    Erik M. Bray
+    Florian Bruhin
+    Georgy Dyuldin
+    Jeff Widman
+    Kartik Singhal
+    Loïc Estève
+    Manu Phatak
+    Peter Demin
+    Rick van Hattem
+    Ronny Pfannschmidt
+    Ulrich Petri
+    foxx
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.8.6 (compared to 2.8.5)
+-------------------------
+
+- fix #1259: allow for double nodeids in junitxml,
+  this was a regression failing plugins combinations
+  like pytest-pep8 + pytest-flakes
+
+- Workaround for exception that occurs in pyreadline when using
+  ``--pdb`` with standard I/O capture enabled.
+  Thanks Erik M. Bray for the PR.
+
+- fix #900: Better error message in case the target of a ``monkeypatch`` call
+  raises an ``ImportError``.
+
+- fix #1292: monkeypatch calls (setattr, setenv, etc.) are now O(1).
+  Thanks David R. MacIver for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- fix #1223: captured stdout and stderr are now properly displayed before
+  entering pdb when ``--pdb`` is used instead of being thrown away.
+  Thanks Cal Leeming for the PR.
+
+- fix #1305: pytest warnings emitted during ``pytest_terminal_summary`` are now
+  properly displayed.
+  Thanks Ionel Maries Cristian for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- fix #628: fixed internal UnicodeDecodeError when doctests contain unicode.
+  Thanks Jason R. Coombs for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.
+
+- fix #1334: Add captured stdout to jUnit XML report on setup error.
+  Thanks Georgy Dyuldin for the PR.
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.7.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.7.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d98d73106
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.7.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+pytest-2.8.7
+============
+
+This is a hotfix release to solve a regression
+in the builtin monkeypatch plugin that got introduced in 2.8.6.
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.8.5.
+
+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:
+
+    Ronny Pfannschmidt
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.8.7 (compared to 2.8.6)
+-------------------------
+
+- fix #1338: use predictable object resolution for monkeypatch
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.9.0.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.9.0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..99c1c631f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.9.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+pytest-2.9.0
+============
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+
+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:
+
+    Anatoly Bubenkov                                                                                                                                                                                                         
+    Bruno Oliveira                                                                                                                                                                                                           
+    Buck Golemon                                                                                                                                                                                                             
+    David Vierra                                                                                                                                                                                                             
+    Florian Bruhin                                                                                                                                                                                                           
+    Galaczi Endre                                                                                                                                                                                                            
+    Georgy Dyuldin                                                                                                                                                                                                           
+    Lukas Bednar                                                                                                                                                                                                             
+    Luke Murphy                                                                                                                                                                                                              
+    Marcin Biernat                                                                                                                                                                                                           
+    Matt Williams                                                                                                                                                                                                            
+    Michael Aquilina                                                                                                                                                                                                         
+    Raphael Pierzina                                                                                                                                                                                                         
+    Ronny Pfannschmidt                                                                                                                                                                                                       
+    Ryan Wooden                                                                                                                                                                                                              
+    Tiemo Kieft                                                                                                                                                                                                              
+    TomV                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
+    holger krekel                                                                                                                                                                                                            
+    jab   
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.9.0 (compared to 2.8.7)
+-------------------------
+
+**New Features**
+
+* New ``pytest.mark.skip`` mark, which unconditionally skips marked tests.
+  Thanks `@MichaelAquilina`_ for the complete PR (`#1040`_).
+
+* ``--doctest-glob`` may now be passed multiple times in the command-line.
+  Thanks `@jab`_ and `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+
+* New ``-rp`` and ``-rP`` reporting options give the summary and full output
+  of passing tests, respectively. Thanks to `@codewarrior0`_ for the PR.
+
+* ``pytest.mark.xfail`` now has a ``strict`` option which makes ``XPASS``
+  tests to fail the test suite, defaulting to ``False``. There's also a
+  ``xfail_strict`` ini option that can be used to configure it project-wise.
+  Thanks `@rabbbit`_ for the request and `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR (`#1355`_).
+
+* ``Parser.addini`` now supports options of type ``bool``. Thanks
+  `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+
+* New ``ALLOW_BYTES`` doctest option strips ``b`` prefixes from byte strings
+  in doctest output (similar to ``ALLOW_UNICODE``).
+  Thanks `@jaraco`_ for the request and `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR (`#1287`_).
+
+* give a hint on KeyboardInterrupt to use the --fulltrace option to show the errors,
+  this fixes `#1366`_.
+  Thanks to `@hpk42`_ for the report and `@RonnyPfannschmidt`_ for the PR.
+
+* catch IndexError exceptions when getting exception source location. This fixes
+  pytest internal error for dynamically generated code (fixtures and tests)
+  where source lines are fake by intention
+
+**Changes**
+
+* **Important**: `py.code <http://pylib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/code.html>`_ has been
+  merged into the ``pytest`` repository as ``pytest._code``. This decision 
+  was made because ``py.code`` had very few uses outside ``pytest`` and the 
+  fact that it was in a different repository made it difficult to fix bugs on 
+  its code in a timely manner. The team hopes with this to be able to better
+  refactor out and improve that code.
+  This change shouldn't affect users, but it is useful to let users aware
+  if they encounter any strange behavior.
+  
+  Keep in mind that the code for ``pytest._code`` is **private** and 
+  **experimental**, so you definitely should not import it explicitly!
+
+  Please note that the original ``py.code`` is still available in 
+  `pylib <http://pylib.readthedocs.org>`_.
+
+* ``pytest_enter_pdb`` now optionally receives the pytest config object.
+  Thanks `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+
+* Removed code and documentation for Python 2.5 or lower versions,
+  including removal of the obsolete ``_pytest.assertion.oldinterpret`` module.
+  Thanks `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR (`#1226`_).
+
+* Comparisons now always show up in full when ``CI`` or ``BUILD_NUMBER`` is
+  found in the environment, even when -vv isn't used.
+  Thanks `@The-Compiler`_ for the PR.
+
+* ``--lf`` and ``--ff`` now support long names: ``--last-failed`` and
+  ``--failed-first`` respectively.
+  Thanks `@MichaelAquilina`_ for the PR.
+
+* Added expected exceptions to pytest.raises fail message
+
+* Collection only displays progress ("collecting X items") when in a terminal.
+  This avoids cluttering the output when using ``--color=yes`` to obtain
+  colors in CI integrations systems (`#1397`_).
+
+**Bug Fixes**
+
+* The ``-s`` and ``-c`` options should now work under ``xdist``;
+  ``Config.fromdictargs`` now represents its input much more faithfully.
+  Thanks to `@bukzor`_ for the complete PR (`#680`_).
+
+* Fix (`#1290`_): support Python 3.5's ``@`` operator in assertion rewriting.
+  Thanks `@Shinkenjoe`_ for report with test case and `@tomviner`_ for the PR.
+
+* Fix formatting utf-8 explanation messages (`#1379`_).
+  Thanks `@biern`_ for the PR.
+
+* Fix `traceback style docs`_ to describe all of the available options
+  (auto/long/short/line/native/no), with `auto` being the default since v2.6.
+  Thanks `@hackebrot`_ for the PR.
+
+* Fix (`#1422`_): junit record_xml_property doesn't allow multiple records
+  with same name.
+  
+  
+.. _`traceback style docs`: https://pytest.org/latest/usage.html#modifying-python-traceback-printing
+
+.. _#1422: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1422
+.. _#1379: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1379
+.. _#1366: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1366
+.. _#1040: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1040
+.. _#680: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/680
+.. _#1287: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1287
+.. _#1226: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1226
+.. _#1290: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1290
+.. _#1355: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1355
+.. _#1397: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1397
+.. _@biern: https://github.com/biern
+.. _@MichaelAquilina: https://github.com/MichaelAquilina
+.. _@bukzor: https://github.com/bukzor
+.. _@hpk42: https://github.com/hpk42
+.. _@nicoddemus: https://github.com/nicoddemus
+.. _@jab: https://github.com/jab
+.. _@codewarrior0: https://github.com/codewarrior0
+.. _@jaraco: https://github.com/jaraco
+.. _@The-Compiler: https://github.com/The-Compiler
+.. _@Shinkenjoe: https://github.com/Shinkenjoe
+.. _@tomviner: https://github.com/tomviner
+.. _@RonnyPfannschmidt: https://github.com/RonnyPfannschmidt
+.. _@rabbbit: https://github.com/rabbbit
+.. _@hackebrot: https://github.com/hackebrot
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.9.1.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.9.1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..05a448430
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.9.1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+pytest-2.9.1
+============
+
+pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests
+against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms.
+
+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:
+
+    Bruno Oliveira                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
+    Daniel Hahler                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
+    Dmitry Malinovsky                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
+    Florian Bruhin                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
+    Floris Bruynooghe                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
+    Matt Bachmann                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
+    Ronny Pfannschmidt                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+    TomV                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
+    Vladimir Bolshakov                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
+    Zearin                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
+    palaviv   
+
+
+Happy testing,
+The py.test Development Team
+
+
+2.9.1 (compared to 2.9.0)
+-------------------------
+
+**Bug Fixes**
+
+* Improve error message when a plugin fails to load.
+  Thanks `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+
+* Fix (`#1178 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1178>`_):
+  ``pytest.fail`` with non-ascii characters raises an internal pytest error.
+  Thanks `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+
+* Fix (`#469`_): junit parses report.nodeid incorrectly, when params IDs
+  contain ``::``. Thanks `@tomviner`_ for the PR (`#1431`_).
+
+* Fix (`#578 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/578>`_): SyntaxErrors
+  containing non-ascii lines at the point of failure generated an internal
+  py.test error.
+  Thanks `@asottile`_ for the report and `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.
+
+* Fix (`#1437`_): When passing in a bytestring regex pattern to parameterize
+  attempt to decode it as utf-8 ignoring errors.
+
+* Fix (`#649`_): parametrized test nodes cannot be specified to run on the command line.
+
+
+.. _#1437: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1437
+.. _#469: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/469
+.. _#1431: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1431
+.. _#649: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/649
+
+.. _@asottile: https://github.com/asottile
diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/sprint2016.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/sprint2016.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e59ccdda7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/sprint2016.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+python testing sprint June 20th-26th 2016
+======================================================
+
+.. image:: ../img/freiburg2.jpg
+   :width: 400
+
+The pytest core group is heading towards the biggest sprint
+in its history, to take place in the black forest town Freiburg
+in Germany.  As of February 2016 we have started a `funding
+campaign on Indiegogo to cover expenses
+<http://igg.me/at/pytest-sprint/x/4034848>`_ The page also mentions
+some preliminary topics:
+
+- improving pytest-xdist test scheduling to take into account
+  fixture setups and explicit user hints.
+
+- provide info on fixture dependencies during --collect-only
+
+- tying pytest-xdist to tox so that you can do "py.test -e py34"
+  to run tests in a particular tox-managed virtualenv.  Also
+  look into making pytest-xdist use tox environments on
+  remote ssh-sides so that remote dependency management becomes
+  easier.
+
+- refactoring the fixture system so more people understand it :)
+
+- integrating PyUnit setup methods as autouse fixtures.
+  possibly adding ways to influence ordering of same-scoped
+  fixtures (so you can make a choice of which fixtures come
+  before others)
+
+- fixing bugs and issues from the tracker, really an endless source :)
+
+
+Participants
+--------------
+
+Here are preliminary participants who said they are likely to come,
+given some expenses funding::
+
+    Anatoly Bubenkoff, Netherlands
+    Andreas Pelme, Personalkollen, Sweden
+    Anthony Wang, Splunk, US
+    Brianna Laugher, Australia
+    Bruno Oliveira, Brazil
+    Danielle Jenkins, Splunk, US
+    Dave Hunt, UK
+    Florian Bruhin, Switzerland
+    Floris Bruynooghe, Cobe.io, UK
+    Holger Krekel, merlinux, Germany
+    Oliver Bestwalter, Avira, Germany
+    Omar Kohl, Germany
+    Raphael Pierzina, FanDuel, UK
+    Tom Viner, UK
+
+    <your name here?>
+
+Other contributors and experienced newcomers are invited to join as well
+but please send a mail to the pytest-dev mailing list if you intend to
+do so somewhat soon, also how much funding you need if so.  And if you
+are working for a company and using pytest heavily you are welcome to
+join and we encourage your company to provide some funding for the
+sprint.  They may see it, and rightfully so, as a very cheap and deep
+training which brings you together with the experts in the field :)
+
+
+Sprint organisation, schedule
+-------------------------------
+
+tentative schedule:
+
+- 19/20th arrival in Freiburg
+- 20th social get together, initial hacking
+- 21/22th full sprint days
+- 23rd break day, hiking
+- 24/25th full sprint days
+- 26th departure
+
+We might adjust according to weather to make sure that if
+we do some hiking or excursion we'll have good weather.
+Freiburg is one of the sunniest places in Germany so
+it shouldn't be too much of a constraint.
+
+
+Accomodation
+----------------
+
+We'll see to arrange for renting a flat with multiple
+beds/rooms.  Hotels are usually below 100 per night.
+The earlier we book the better.
+
+Money / funding
+---------------
+
+The Indiegogo campaign asks for 11000 USD which should cover
+the costs for flights and accomodation, renting a sprint place
+and maybe a bit of food as well.
+
+If your organisation wants to support the sprint but prefers
+to give money according to an invoice, get in contact with
+holger at http://merlinux.eu who can invoice your organisation
+properly.
+
+If we have excess money we'll use for further sprint/travel
+funding for pytest/tox contributors.