1.9.1

This is a maintenance release in the 1.9 release series.

Bugfixes

• Improve the Verilator Makefile to pass on --trace at runtime as well. (#4088)
• Pass EXTRA_ARGS in the Verilator Makefile to both the compilation and the simulation step.

Changes

• Support setuptools 72.2.0

Thanks to our users who helped us with high-quality bug reports and debugging.

1.9.0

Release notes: https://docs.cocotb.org/en/v1.9.0/release_notes.html
Release announcement: https://www.cocotb.org/2024/07/14/v.1.9.0
PyPI release: https://pypi.org/project/cocotb/1.9.0

1.8.1

This is a maintenance release in the 1.8 release series.

Changes

• Python 3.12 is now supported.

Bugfixes

• Fix incorrect cleanup of pending Tasks (queued by cocotb.start_soon() but not started yet) when a test ends. (#3354)

Thanks to our users who helped us with high-quality bug reports and debugging.

1.8.0

Release notes: https://docs.cocotb.org/en/v1.8.0/release_notes.html
Release announcement: https://www.cocotb.org/2023/06/15/v1.8.0.html
PyPI release: https://pypi.org/project/cocotb/1.8.0

1.7.2

This is a maintenance release in the 1.7 release series.

Changes

• Python 3.11 is now supported.
• find_libpython, a library to find (as the name indicates) libpython, is now a dependency of cocotb. Its latest version resolves an issue for users on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and Python 3.8, where the correct Python library would not be detected. (#3097)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a segmentation fault in Aldec Riviera-PRO that prevented mixed-language simulation from running. (#3078).

Thanks to our users who helped us with high-quality bug reports and debugging.

1.7.1

This is a maintenance release in the 1.7 release series.

Bugfixes

• Fixed the packaging of the source distribution (sdist) to include all necessary files. (#3072)
• Documented the fact that libstdc++-static needs to be available on some Linux distributions to install cocotb from source. (#3082)

1.7.0

Release notes: https://docs.cocotb.org/en/v1.7.0/release_notes.html
Release announcement: https://www.cocotb.org/2022/09/06/v1.7.0.html
PyPI release: https://pypi.org/project/cocotb/1.7.0

1.6.2

This is a maintenance release in the 1.6 release series.

Bugfixes:

• Fix regression in TestFactory when using generator-based test coroutines. (#2839)

Changes:

• Change how PYTHONHOME is populated to work with broken mingw environments. (#2739)

1.6.1

This is a maintenance release in the 1.6 release series.

Bugfixes:

• Fix regression in TestFactory wrt unique test names. (#2781)

1.6.0

Release notes: https://docs.cocotb.org/en/v1.6.0/release_notes.html#cocotb-1-6-0-2021-10-20
Release announcement: https://www.fossi-foundation.org/2021/10/20/cocotb-1-6-0
PyPI release: https://pypi.org/project/cocotb/1.6.0