New Checkbox release available in our Stable PPA! (2016-09-30)

Fri Sep 30 12:49:33 UTC 2016

Awesome stuff!  Good job everyone :)

Thanks
Chris

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Pierre Equoy <pierre.equoy at canonical.com>
wrote:

> 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>
>
>
> It includes the following components:
>
>    - checkbox-ng 0.29
>    - plainbox-provider-checkbox 0.31
>    - plainbox 0.31
>    - plainbox-provider-certification-client 0.28
>    - Firmware Test Suite 16.09
>
>
> New features
>
>    - *Modified graphics jobs to take "amdgpu-pro" drivers into account:*
>    this has been developed based on the beta drivers we've received from AMD
>    and tested on one of the devices we have in the Taipei lab that uses the
>    new amdgpu-pro stack.
>    - *Updated docking tests:* thanks to Jerry, we now have a whole new
>    set of docking tests to be compliant with requirements from Dell.
>    - *Revamped documentation:* Maciek did a great job so that all the
>    useful documentation can be accessed from one location:
>    http://checkbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>    <http://checkbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> Maciek and Sylvain wrote
>    additional documentation for newcomers so it's easier to understand how
>    checkbox works. Any feedback is welcome!
>    - *A new flag is available to hide the output of a job:* You may want
>    a job to be executed silently without writing anything to the standard
>    output. This is now possible using the suppress-output flag. Simply
>    add the keyword suppress-output to the flags field
>    <http://checkbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/units/job.html#job-fields>
>    in your job definition, and the output of the job will be hidden when the
>    job is run, but will still be available in logs at the end of the session.
>
>
> Complete Changelog
>
> *Canonical Certification Client Provider for PlainBox 0.28*
> #1622477 Adapt graphics jobs to take amdgpu-pro drivers into account
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1622477>
>
> *Checkbox Provider for PlainBox 0.31*
> #1612080 bluetooth4/HOGP-keyboard has ImportError
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1612080>
> #1621815 monitor/1_multi-head case cannot be run
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1621815>
> #1624968 Docking tests need to be updated
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1624968>
> #1611494 virtualization script should pull amd64 cloud image, not i386
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611494>
> #1560319 networking/ntp skipped due to missing "ntpdate" package
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/plainbox-provider-checkbox/+bug/1560319>
>
> *Next Generation Checkbox (CLI) 0.29*
> #1375328 Checkbox needs an option to ONLY report overall PASS or FAIL
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1375328>
>
> *PlainBox (Toolkit) 0.31*
> #1598741 Plainbox crashes at start 'requests-oauth missing'
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1598741>
> #1618197 docker snap commands fail to run from a tempdir
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1618197>
> #1473941 don't use policy kit within a snappy environment
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1473941>
> #1618016 startprovider command generates legacy stuff
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1618016>
> #1626031 Add a new job flag to avoid displaying stdout/stderr
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/plainbox/+bug/1626031>
>
> *Firmware Test Suite 16.09*
> = New Features =
>
>   * lib: acpi: add supports for WPBT
>   * acpi: wpbt: add ACPI WPBT test
>   * lib: acpi: add supports for DRTM
>   * acpi: drtm: add ACPI DRTM test
>   * lib: fwts_guid: add a compare function
>   * acpi: nfit: check fields equals 0 for Virtual CD and Disk
>   * opal: mtd: Add OPAL MTD Validation
>   * acpi: ACPI Platform check updates
>   * acpi: fadt: Remove HEADLESS check on reduced hardware
>   * pci: aspm: Add segment support
>   * ACPICA: Update to version 20160831
>
> = Fixed Bugs =
>
>   * acpi: nfit: skip SPA Range Structure Index for four GUIDs
>   * acpi: remove "Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit" from license header
>   * cpu: msr: change SMRR_PHYSBASE from 8MB boundary to 4KB boundary
>   * acpica: remove utprint.c, it is not required
>   * ACPICA: Remove utfileio.c, it is deprecated and not used
>   * opal: ensure fdt_node_path buffer is null terminated
>   * fwts: treewide: voidify return from close(), closedir() and fclose()
>   * lib: fwts_ipmi: fix incorrect memset size
>   * opal: mtd: Add error exit when no MTD's
>   * opal: prd: Improve message when no PRD detected
>   * devicetree: dt_sysinfo: Improve message for non-reference model
>   * efi_runtime: change __usc2_strsize name to distinguish from
> ucs2_strsize
>   * efi_runtime: redefine all uint*_t types by following the header efi.h
>   * efi_runtime: exchange the user and local name define
>   * efi_runtime: refactor the success and error path
>   * efi_runtime: add label to reduce the number of kfree
>   * efi_runtime: expand to a full if-conditional instead of using terneary
> operator
>   * efi_runtime: add VariableNameSize return when getting the
> EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL
>   * efi_runtime: fix memory leak of getvariable funtion
>   * efi_runtime: move the checking status forward
>   * efi_runtime: clean up some return and alignment code
>   * uefirttime: specify enable to true for setwakeuptime wiht null time
> test
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Pierre Equoy
> QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical
> www.canonical.com | www.ubuntu.com
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