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

[Pierre Equoy]

Hey all,

new day, new release candidate!

This time it's to fix an urgent issue in our parser in order to provide
more information for snaps.

*checkbox-support v0.29.0rc2* has been released to fix lp:1647670
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox-support/+bug/1647670>.

It is available in the Testing PPA.

The other packages are unchanged.

Regards,

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Pierre Equoy <pierre.equoy at canonical.com>
wrote:

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



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