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Minor fixes and enhancements to RF 3.0 release notes.
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For more details and other installation approaches, see the `installation
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instructions <../../INSTALL.rst>`_.
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Separate Windows installers are not created anymore. The standalone jar
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distribution can be and the standalone JAR
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with Jython 2.7 is available at `Maven central
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Separate Windows installers are not created anymore.
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The standalone jar with Jython 2.7 is available at `Maven central
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<http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3Arobotframework>`_.
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Robot Framework 3.0 was released on Thursday December 31, 2015.
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Installation on Python 3 works exactly as it does for Python 2, and
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the recommended installation method is with pip::
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pip3 install --pre robotframework
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python3 -m pip install --pre robotframework
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pip3 install robotframework
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python3 -m pip install robotframework
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Note that while the standard libraries distributed with Robot Framework do work
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with Python 3, most other external libraries currently do not.
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with Python 3, most other external libraries and tools currently do not.
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New listener interface that can modify executed tests and results
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usage examples, see the `Listener interface`__ section from Robot
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__ http://robotframework.org/robotframework/3.0/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#listener-interface
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__ http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#listener-interface
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New `robot` start-up script
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A limitation of the `python -m robot` approach is that it does not work with
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Python 2.6. The old `python -m robot.run` version can be used instead.
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The same enhancement that made `python -m robot` possible also made it possible
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to execute the `robot` installation directory like `python path/to/robot`.
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This works the same way as `python path/to/robot/run.py` that works also
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with the earlier versions.
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1. Using pip online::
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2. Downloading the source distribution from PyPI_ and installing it using
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pip install robotframework-3.0b1.tar.gz
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3. Extracting the aforementioned source distribution, navigating to the created
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directory on the command line, and installing manually::

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