The only concrete change compared to the beta that was released on December 12 is that the source distribution format has been changed from zip to tar.gz that is nowadays the standard. This shouldn’t affect normal users at all. For more details about everything else that Robot Framework 7.2 brings, see the earlier beta announcement and the release notes.
The final release is targeted for January 14. We hope that you can test the release candidate in your environment before that, so that we get possible regressions fixed before the final release. We especially hope that tool developers would test the release to see if there are API changes that they need to take into account or that we possibly should revert. If you are a library developer, testing how the totally rewritten Libdoc’s HTML output works with your library would be especially valuable.
Talking about Libdoc, this release makes it possible to localize the static UI elements in HTML outputs it produces. At the moment there is only Finnish translation in addition to English, but we can still add more translations before the final release. If you’d like a language you care about to be included, see the instructions how to add them and ask help on the Development channel if needed.
Big thanks to Robot Framework Foundation for their continued support. If your organization is using Robot Framework and benefiting from it, joining the foundation would be a great New Year’s resolution for 2025! Thanks also for all community members who provided code contributions, tested preview releases, submitted bug reports, proposed enhancements, debugged problems, or otherwise helped with Robot Framework 7.2 development.