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Expand Up @@ -731,6 +731,10 @@ Options controlling ReFrame execution
.. note::
This option will not work with the :ref:`test generation options <test-generators>`.

.. note::
ReFrame serializes test cases to JSON inside their respective stage directory and restores them from there.
As a result, any custom user attributes that are not natively representable in JSON, such as dictionaries with non-string keys, may not be restored correctly.

.. versionadded:: 3.4

.. versionchanged:: 3.6.1
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