Next Release of Checkbox (2016-12-12 Release Candidate) available in Testing PPA

[Pierre Equoy]

Hello all,

Yesterday we discovered an issue with Checkbox-ng that prevented Checkbox
Converged from being open. For more information, see lp:1647264
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox-ng/+bug/1647264>.

This has been fixed and a new version of Checkbox-ng (0.30.0rc2) has been
pushed in the Testing PPA.

Regards,

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Pierre Equoy <pierre.equoy at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> The next release of Checkbox is available in the testing PPA:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/+archive/testing
> <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Echeckbox-dev/+archive/testing>
>
> Please help testing this version. If everything is OK, we plan to push
> this version to stable around December 12th.
>
>
> *New feature*
> Along with other changes described below, an important change for the QA
> team is the modification of graphics tests to check amdgpu-driven cards in
> a more suitable way.
>
> With the new version of the Checkbox provider, if the tested device is
> using a discrete GPU using amdgpu drivers, some of the graphics tests will
> be skipped because they don't need to be run again. Namely, compiz-related
> tests (desktop display, screen rotation, etc.) are usually run by the
> integrated GPU. Since amdgpu drivers allow offloading GPU (i.e. activating
> the discrete GPU only for one given program), it is not necessary to run
> those compiz jobs on the discrete GPU as well.
>
> This is different from, say, nvidia drivers that require to manually
> switch to the discrete GPU then restart the session (in this case, compiz
> jobs need to be run on the discrete GPU as well).
>
> For more information, please check lp:1636060
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/plainbox-provider-checkbox/+bug/1636060> or
> ask me directly :)
>
>
>
> *Changelog*
>
> *Checkbox Converged 1.6*
> #1452594 The project should be renamed to checkbox-converged
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1452594>
>
> *Next Generation Checkbox (CLI) 0.30*
> #1634224 Forcing no test selection should not also require a defined unit
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634224>
> #1634231 hide output launcher option doesn't hide output
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634231>
> #1639207 Rerun screens should not be activated when there's no tty
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639207>
> #1642003 local .conf should override launcher defaults
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1642003>
> #1635630 checkbox-cli run uses args as pattern with auto globbing
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1635630>
> #1625884 Job description should not be shown when the job is skipped
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1625884>
>
> *Provider for Plainbox - Canonical Certification Server 0.30*
> #1631099 Time to remove the old storage test
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1631099>
>
> *Provider for Plainbox - Checkbox 0.33*
> #1636060 compiz jobs only need to be run once when using amdgpu drivers
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1636060>
>
> *Provider for Plainbox - Resource 0.30*
> #1581474 80211 resource binary will crash on 16.04
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581474>
>
> *Provider for Plainbox - TPM2 1.1*
> New release taking into account latest changes from upstream sources.
>
> *FWTS 16.11*
> Complete changelog
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/16.11.00>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Pierre Equoy
> QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical
> www.canonical.com | www.ubuntu.com
>



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Pierre Equoy
QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical
www.canonical.com | www.ubuntu.com