New Checkbox release available in our Stable PPA! (2016-12-13)

[Pierre Equoy]

Hello all!

A new release of Checkbox is available in the stable PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~hardware-certification/+archive/ubuntu/public
<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Echeckbox-dev/+archive/testing>

This release is the first being made available for Zesty (as well as
Trusty, Xenial and Yakkety).

It includes the following components:

   - checkbox-support 0.29
   - checkbox-converged 1.6
   - checkbox-ng 0.30
   - plainbox-provider-checkbox 0.33
   - plainbox-provider-resource-generic 0.30
   - plainbox-provider-certification-server 0.30
   - plainbox-provider-tpm2 1.1
   - Firmware Test Suite 16.11


New features

   - *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 :)
   - *New option in the [ui] section of the launchers:* You can now use the
   value `hide-automated` for the `output` parameter in your launcher, like:

   [ui]
   output = hide-automated

   This will hide the output of all the automated jobs ('shell', 'local',
   'resource', 'attachment' ones), but will still show the output of manual,
   user-verify or user-interact jobs. This is useful to still provide
   meaningful feedback for human testers without drowning them in technical
   output.


Complete 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>#1647264 Checkbox converged does
not start when using "converged" ui type in launcher
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox-ng/+bug/1647264>
#1642003 local .conf should override launcher defaults
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1642003>#1647724 launcher hide flag hides
too much info (especially in user.* plugin jobs)
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox-ng/+bug/1647724>
#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>


*Checkbox Support 0.29*#1647670 Please, add channel, confinement and
revision number to the snap_resource output
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox-support/+bug/1647670>

*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>


Thanks to Jerry for testing the Release Candidate!

Cheers,

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