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Bug Fixes
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- `12355 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/12355>`_: Fix possible catastrophic performance slowdown on a certain parametrization pattern involving many higher-scoped parameters.


- `12367 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/12367>`_: Fix a regression in pytest 8.2.0 where unittest class instances (a fresh one is created for each test) were not released promptly on test teardown but only on session teardown.


- `12381 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/12381>`_: Fix possible "Directory not empty" crashes arising from concurent cache dir (``.pytest_cache``) creation. Regressed in pytest 8.2.0.



Improved Documentation
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- `12290 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/12290>`_: Updated Sphinx theme to use Furo instead of Flask, enabling Dark mode theme.


- `12356 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/12356>`_: Added a subsection to the documentation for debugging flaky tests to mention
lack of thread safety in pytest as a possible source of flakyness.


- `12363 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/12363>`_: The documentation webpages now links to a canonical version to reduce outdated documentation in search engine results.

Please see the official [Voxel51 Release Notes](https://docs.voxel51.com/release-notes.html#fiftyone-0-24-0) for details.