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Robotframework v7.4rc1

Robotframework: v7.4rc1 Release

Release date:
December 2, 2025
Previous version:
v7.4b2 (released November 8, 2025)
Magnitude:
6,894 Diff Delta
Contributors:
5 total committers
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Commits:
60 impacting commits

60 Commits in this Release

Ordered by the degree to which they evolved the repo in this version.

Add typing to BuiltIn, cleanup and minor enhancements
Authored November 17, 2025
Enhance bytes support with BuiltIn and Collections
Authored November 21, 2025
Add annotations to XML (#5542)
Authored November 27, 2025
Make normalization recursive in BuiltIn
Authored November 20, 2025
libdoc: regen template
Authored November 12, 2025
Refactor
Authored November 18, 2025
Collections: Change mutating keywords to also return values
Authored November 21, 2025
Finalize bytes support in String library
Authored December 1, 2025
Enhance XML typing
Authored November 27, 2025
Remove documentation about Boolean arguments
Authored November 27, 2025
String: Deprecate interpreting empty string as default value
Authored December 1, 2025
First stab at ensuring bytes compatibility in String
Authored December 1, 2025
Fix using `Callable[[], Any]` in type hints
Authored November 26, 2025
Fine-tune type docs
Authored November 15, 2025
Remove unnecessary conversion code
Authored December 1, 2025
Enhance bytes conversion to support `int` and `list[int]`
Authored November 21, 2025
Some more typing
Authored November 15, 2025
BuiltIn: Deprecate non-standard ways to get length
Authored December 2, 2025
Run keyword teardown properly after timeout
Authored November 29, 2025
Convert empty string to `None`
Authored November 13, 2025
Deprecate 'NO VALUES' with some BuiltIn and Collections keywords
Authored November 18, 2025
Secret should fail on str and bool types (#5547)
Authored November 26, 2025
Refactor
Authored November 13, 2025
Enhance `logger` typing
Authored November 17, 2025
libdoc: remove type links from std return types
Authored November 28, 2025
Convert bytes to `str` sanely in argument conversion
Authored November 30, 2025
libdoc: html escape type names
Authored November 27, 2025
Enhance ETSource typing
Authored November 27, 2025
Deprecate using empty string as start index
Authored November 18, 2025
Support bytes with `Should (Not) Match`
Authored December 1, 2025
Mention that also bytes support `ignore_case` in RF 7.4
Authored November 21, 2025
Updated version to 7.4rc1
Authored December 2, 2025
Container -> Collection
Authored November 13, 2025
Minor fixes
Authored November 15, 2025
Clarify docs about deprecation
Authored November 15, 2025
Updated version to 7.4rc1, for real
Authored December 2, 2025
Deprecate using empty string as an index
Authored December 1, 2025
Bump actions/setup-python from 6.0.0 to 6.1.0 (#5560)
Authored November 26, 2025
libdoc: regen template
Authored November 28, 2025
Back to dev version
Authored November 8, 2025

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Release Notes Published

Robot Framework 7.4 is a feature release with support for secret variables, typed standard library keywords, enhancements to working with bytes and various other features and fixes.

Robot Framework 7.4 release candidate 1 was released on Tuesday December 2, 2025. For more information, see the full release notes.

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