Issues

• One KILLED verdict with a green suite under the activated mutant (3.8.1) (verified reproduction; 4 related cases fixed by 3.8.1)

  boxed/mutmut#632 · Filter by author jhamon opened on Nov 8, 2026

• Intermittent clean-test failure in mutmut 3.8.1 on humanize (test_naturalsize[test_args0-300 Bytes])

  boxed/mutmut#631 · Filter by author jhamon opened on Nov 8, 2026

• cache_invalidation_files with ** doesn't catch files at the top of the directory

  boxed/mutmut#627 · Filter by author snapshotpl opened on Nov 5, 2026

• Editing a test doesn't invalidate cached results

  boxed/mutmut#626 · Filter by author snapshotpl opened on Nov 4, 2026
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• mutmut apply writes a mutant into the wrong function when a method and a function share a name

  boxed/mutmut#624 · Filter by author ivan-balashov opened on Nov 3, 2026

• macOS : test_setproctitle_crashes_after_fork_with_corefoundation_loaded fails in about half of the runs

  boxed/mutmut#622 · Filter by author zyv opened on Oct 30, 2026

• macOS: every mutant reports segfault when tests touch urllib.request.getproxies() (SystemConfiguration is not fork-safe)

  boxed/mutmut#618 · Filter by author roberstreams opened on Oct 30, 2026

• Config.ensure_loaded(), get(), reset() removed?

  boxed/mutmut#608 · Filter by author deviantintegral opened on Oct 20, 2026

• Removing not from a parenthesized multi-line expression drops the parentheses (InvalidGeneratedSyntaxException, 3.8.0)

  boxed/mutmut#602 · Filter by author johnnywell opened on Oct 14, 2026
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• Exception from the test run in a forked worker (wrongly) reports the mutant as killed

  boxed/mutmut#601 · Filter by author zyv opened on Oct 13, 2026
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• Cross-call invalidation: changing a callee does not re-test mutants in its callers (3.8.0)

  boxed/mutmut#597 · Filter by author rocket-angel opened on Oct 12, 2026

• Stats collection crashes on Python 3.11 when a trampolined __del__ runs during GC (ContextVar re-entry)

  boxed/mutmut#596 · Filter by author yeongseon opened on Oct 11, 2026

• run with a name__mutmut_* pattern runs the whole test suite in the clean-test check

  boxed/mutmut#592 · Filter by author Chrisart27 opened on Oct 5, 2026
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• Mutating a typing.Protocol stub adds generated members to the Protocol and breaks type_check_command

  boxed/mutmut#590 · Filter by author GiulioDER opened on Oct 2, 2026
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• Generated trampoline names look like public members to tests that inspect classes (more visible since 3.8.0 mutates dataclasses)

  boxed/mutmut#586 · Filter by author kellyhair opened on Sep 26, 2026

• Process pools started by tests outlive every mutant (children end with os._exit() and share mutmut's process group)

  boxed/mutmut#584 · Filter by author m-groom opened on Sep 24, 2026

• Invalid unary plus generated in match statement

  boxed/mutmut#583 · Filter by author marten-de-vries opened on Sep 16, 2026

• mutmut breaks on tests with fixture directories with broken symlinks

  boxed/mutmut#582 · Filter by author juliancoffee opened on Sep 13, 2026
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• String mutations: the two case flips are equivalent wherever the consumer is case-insensitive, and no option turns them off

  enhancementgood first issue
  boxed/mutmut#577 · Filter by author MaxWolf-01 opened on Sep 9, 2026
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• What do the emoji's mean?

  boxed/mutmut#560 · Filter by author peekxc opened on Sep 2, 2026
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• mutate_only_covered_lines gates against stale line numbers on re-runs, silently dropping mutants

  boxed/mutmut#555 · Filter by author chwiese opened on Aug 23, 2026
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• Per-mutant timeout budget is parallelism-blind — full-core runs convert contention into spurious timeout verdicts

  boxed/mutmut#545 · Filter by author JonasPammerWork opened on Jul 31, 2026

• Exception: Could not find mutant for type error

  boxed/mutmut#541 · Filter by author nedbat opened on Jul 29, 2026
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• MutMut badge

  boxed/mutmut#536 · Filter by author cleder opened on Jul 9, 2026
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• (optionally) run the full test suite on any "surviving" mutants to confirm

  boxed/mutmut#535 · Filter by author ejfine opened on Jul 9, 2026
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