New Checkbox release available in our Stable PPA! (2017-03-13)

[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>


Thanks to Candice for testing the Release Candidate!


It includes a new version of the following components:

   - checkbox-ng 0.32
   - plainbox 0.34
   - plainbox-provider-checkbox 0.35
   - plainbox-provider-certification-server 0.33
   - plainbox-provider-tpm2 1.2
   - Firmware Test Suite 17.02


New feature

When using checkbox-cli, the re-run screen now shows jobs categorized by
their outcome. You can now easily navigate jobs that have been skipped,
that have failed or that have crashed. You can see a screenshot of this in
action here:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/309545929/checkbox-cli-rerun-screen.png

Complete Changelog
*Next Generation Checkbox (CLI) 0.32.0*
#1668130 The re-run screen should separate jobs thave have been skipped
from jobs that have failed <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1668130>

*PlainBox (Toolkit) 0.34.0*
#1663166 UnicodeDecodeError when trying to display text summary to stdout
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1663166>
#1639173 UnicodeDecodeError when exporting Plainbox session
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639173>
#1670344 category overrides are not always applied in the right order
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/plainbox/+bug/1670344>

*Provider for Plainbox - Checkbox 0.35.0*
#1662580 Verify KVM Guest Boots Fails with traceback
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1662580>
#1663665 traceback in boot_mode_test script
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1663665>
#1662724 Network script traceback when device exists and is valid but is up
but has no IP <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1662724>
#1662726 Traceback in Network script due to unknown MII Tool failure
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1662726>
#1667488 disk_stress_ng should not test drives mounted as /boot
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1667488>
#1667781 Network test exits with error if target is not in local subnet.
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1667781>
#1655211 X driver/version test fails with Matrox graphics device
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655211>

*Provider for Plainbox - TPM2 1.2.0*
Add a new manifest unit has_tpm2_chip to control test execution

*Provider for Plainbox - Canonical Certification Server 0.33.0*
#1667343 Can't install PPCS from dev on s390 because of numactl dependency
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1667343>

*FWTS 17.02*
Complete changelog
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/17.02.00>



Cheers,


-- 
Pierre Equoy
QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical
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