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pytest-xdist 3.8.0 (2025-06-30)

Features

• [#1083](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1083) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1083>_: Add --no-loadscope-reorder and --loadscope-reorder option to control whether to automatically reorder tests in loadscope for tests where relative ordering matters. This only applies when using loadscope.

  For example, [test_file_1, test_file_2, ..., test_file_n] are given as input test files, if --no-loadscope-reorder is used, for either worker, the test_file_a will be executed before test_file_b only if a < b.

  The default behavior is to reorder the tests to maximize the number of tests that can be executed in parallel.

pytest-xdist 3.7.0 (2025-05-26)

Features

• [#1142](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1142) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1142>_: Added support for Python 3.13.

• [#1144](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1144) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1144>_: The internal steal command is now atomic - it unschedules either all requested tests or none.

  This is a prerequisite for group/scope support in the worksteal scheduler, so test groups won't be broken up incorrectly.

• [#1170](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1170) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1170>_: Add the --px arg to create proxy gateways.

  Proxy gateways are passed to additional gateways using the via keyword. They can serve as a way to run multiple workers on remote machines.

• [#1200](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1200) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1200>_: Now multiple xdist_group markers are considered when assigning tests to groups (order does not matter).

  Previously, only the last marker would assign a test to a group, but now if a test has multiple xdist_group marks applied (for example via parametrization or via fixtures), they are merged to make a new group.

Removals

• [#1162](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1162) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1162>_: Dropped support for EOL Python 3.8.

Trivial Changes

• [#1092](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1092) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1092>_: Update an error message to better indicate where users should go for more information.

• [#1190](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1190) <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist/issues/1190>_: Switched to using a SPDX license identifier introduced in PEP 639.

• 1e3e4dc Release 3.8.0
• 600aad5 Ensure all xdist group names are strings (#1216)
• 9d7ba5b Add --no-loadscope-reorder and --loadscope-reorder options (#1217)
• 532f07f Merge pull request #1210 from pytest-dev/pre-commit-ci-update-config
• 0883ad0 Fix Path usage in test_rsync_roots_no_roots
• 58a51bc [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate
• 59a2ad0 Merge pull request #1220 from pytest-dev/dependabot/github_actions/github-act...
• d42b9c7 build(deps): bump hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package
• ebfcb99 Merge pull request #1206 from pytest-dev/release-3.7.0
• 23b7fd6 [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#1207)
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