Next Release of Checkbox (Week #22 Release Candidate) available in Testing PPA

[Sylvain Pineau]

Hello all!

The next release of Checkbox is available in the testing PPA:
https://code.launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/+archive/testing

- checkbox-ng 1.9.0rc1
- checkbox-support 0.47.0rc1
- plainbox-provider-checkbox 0.54.0rc3
- plainbox-provider-certification-client 0.42.0rc1
- plainbox-provider-certification-server 0.50.0rc1
- plainbox-provider-tpm2 1.14.0rc1
- checkbox-provider-phoronix 0.7.0rc1

Please help testing this version.

Bug fixes
https://bit.ly/2TRrHOf

Changelog

checkbox-ng:
+ Bump to v1.9.0rc1
+ remote_assistant: Reset the normal_user from metadata when resuming 
sessions
+ session:remote_assistant: add update_app_blob
+ properly handle report stage exceptions on master
+ make sure that sigint is un-ignored
+ fix crashing when slave runs a second session
+ session:assistant make manifest path user agnostic
+ remote_assistant: Remote API bump 10 -> 11
+ urwid_ui: don't use dict get(), rpyc keeps netrefs on it
+ remote_assistant: json serialize the get_jobs_repr() output
+ master: Suppress costly call to logger.debug (listing test plans over 
rpyc)
+ increment version to v1.9.0.dev0

plainbox-provider-checkbox:
+ Bump to v0.54.0rc3
+ Bump to v0.54.0rc2
+ Bump to v0.54.0rc1
+ suspend-graphics: add rotation after suspend test case and add it into 
graphic test plan. lp: #1811948
+ networking: limit predictable name test by release
+ New fingerprint reader tests (20.04/fprintd)
+ networking: test for predictable interface names
+ units/cpu: add nested testplan for Server LP: #1879390
+ bin/network: changed failure output to be a little more explicit. lp: 
#1878614
+ fix a crash in freq gov. test if the scaling_available_frequencies 
file is NA
+ Revised calls to external programs in check-prerelease script
+ Fix check-prerelease script to deal with removal of Supported line 
from apt-cache output
+ bin/removable_storage_test: add uid check so script is only run as 
root. lp: #1876966
+ bin/frequency_governors_test, bin/removable_storage_test: address 
SyntaxWarning errors. lp: #1876965
+ * Sink device name changed to Hdmi in DMIC. (LP: #1875526)
+ Work around problem of mediacard/sd-preinserted-server being called 
inappropriately
+ Using abstraction base class Callable under collections.abc. (LP: 
#1875310)
+ Add the missing mac_passthrough.py for job dock/mac-address-passthrough
+ ethernet: fix SO_BINDTODEVICE permissions errors
+ increment version to v0.54.0.dev0

plainbox-provider-tpm2:
+ Bump to v1.14.0rc1
+ tpm2.0_4.1.1: Add a PCR0 mismatch test
+ increment version to v1.14.0.dev0

plainbox-provider-certification-client:
+ Bump to v0.42.0rc1
+ Add fingerprint-full to client-cert-20-04
+ increment version to v0.42.0.dev0

plainbox-provider-certification-server:
+ Bump to v0.50.0rc1
+ units: modify all testplans to use nested CPU testplan. LP: 1879390
+ /launcher: removed certify-advanced launcher lp: #1875975
+ tools/c-c-precheck: CPUFreq_Check dumps stderr to dev/null, remove 
unnecessary search for frequency_governors_test. lp: #1874850
+ Fix certify-vm-20.04 to enforce testplan and test selection. lp: #1874889
+ increment version to v0.50.0.dev0

checkbox-provider-phoronix:
+ Bump to v0.7.0rc1
+ strip out .phoronix-test-suite when extracting
+ add verbosity to the prepare-nest job
+ remove references to PTS_PRELOAD_PATH
+ make dependencies apply only to amd64
+ move to better caching mechanics
+ increment version to v0.7.0.dev0

checkbox-support:
+ Bump to v0.47.0rc1
+ Add test_DMIC_port_with_blank_space, test_DMIC_sinks, 
test_DMIC_pactl_list_cards_x13 testcases
+ Add test_desktop_bionic_x13 in test_audio_settings.py
+ * Let port-name support the blank space. (LP: #1875526) * The name of 
port-label changed, so the way to detect HDMI/DP should be changed. (LP: 
#1875526)
+ increment version to v0.47.0.dev0

Cheers,

Sylvain Pineau