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8.0.0 (2026-02-11)

More detailed notes regarding 8.0.0 here.

Breaking changes

  • dropped support for Python 3.9
  • dropped support for Robot Framework 4
  • Deprecated deprecated-statement rule
  • Deprecated ReplaceReturns formatter
  • Deprecated AddMissingEnd formatter
  • refactored source files handling with common SourceFile class
  • redesigned configuration layer for typing safety and OOP friendliness

Features

  • Fixable rules (#1617) (128c849)
  • deprecate deprecated-statement rule and split into new rules
  • new rule DEPR07 deprecated-force-tags
  • new rule DEPR08 deprecated-run-keyword-if
  • new rule DEPR09 deprecated-loop-keyword
  • new rule DEPR10 deprecated-return-keyword (with a fix)
  • new rule DEPR11 deprecated-return-setting (with a fix)
  • Robocop is now more verbose
  • Keyword naming rules and formatters quotation handling
  • performance improvements (#1611) (eea1c56)
  • report() can be now used from the rule class (#1644) (8aff795)
  • Robocop is now fully typed (#1661) (42045dc)
  • list rules can now return the result when used from the Python (#1629) (457d135)
  • MCP is now aware of local config (#1673) (55e18b6)
  • Skip documentation by default in NormalizeSeparators (#1672) (5b1ae35)
  • Added or improved support for variable type conversion (#1654) (#1650) (#1651) (#1652) #1653)
  • New rule ANN04 set-keyword-with-type
  • Add case_normalization parameter to enforce case by RenameKeywords (#1667) (49a0b02)

Bug fixes

  • add explicit typing-extensions dependency (#1680) (b406f25)
  • Fix #1174 expression-can-be-simplified raised for == 0 (#1649) (d0f4985)
  • Fix #1422 - ReplaceWithVAR formatter replacing variables with item access (#1648) (a9c3377)
  • Fix caching the issues with fixes (#1623) (256874b)
  • Fix extend-select matching only on rule id, not on rule name (#1669) (403ff7d)
  • Fix format --extend-select not enabling formatters (#1668) (3c76c50)
  • Fix not all issue format parameters supported by extended output (#1624) (727c38d)
  • Fix too-long-variable-name throwing exception on Set X Variable without arguments (#1675) (3a55663)
  • multiple paths passed to robocop check/format command resolving to the same config (#1614) (bdcfd48)
  • Fix rst-style urls in the documentation (#1640) (eb1dcab)
  • Update RenameVariables formatter so it treats numbers as part of word and does not split on it (#1663) (eddfd96)
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