Robot Framework 7.3 rc 1 (and 2 and 3) has been released! 🎉

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The release notes cover new features and fixes in more detail, but I’d like to highlight some of them already here.

:rocket: The most important enhancement in Robot Framework 7.3 is variable type conversion. It can be used, for example, like this:

*** Variables ***
${VERSION: float}    7.3

*** Keywords ***
Example
    [Arguments]    ${count: int}    ${critical: bool}=True
    ...

:beetle: There are various high priority bug fixes, including a fix that prevents output files being corrupted if a timeout occurs in a certain situation. These fixes make upgrading a good idea even if you weren’t interested in variable conversion or other new features!

Robot Framework 7.3 final release is planned for next Thursday. I hope many of you can test the release candidate in your environment and report possible problems. All other feedback related to the release is appreciated as well!

Big thanks to Robot Framework Foundation for their continued support, to contributors, and to everyone else who has tested preview releases, submitted bug reports, proposed enhancements, debugged problems, or otherwise helped with Robot Framework 7.3 development.

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The plan was to get the final release out already last week, but there was still a bit more work with variable type conversion and hunting race conditions with timeouts. There hasn’t been a huge amount of changes after the first release candidate, but we nevertheless decided to create the second release candidate instead of directly creating the final release. The final release is now planned for next Thursday, so you have few days to test this release candidate in your environments.

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There was even more changes to variable type conversion, it now works also on the command line, and some more old bugs were fixed. We thus decided to created the third release candidate and really nope it will be the last one.

To give you time to test this release candidate in your environment, and to give us time to finalize documentation, the final release is targeted for Tuesday May 27, 2025.