Firmwate Test Suite 15.09.00 is released

[ivanhu]

Hi all:

FWTS 15.09.00 is released.
It is available from:
Tar: http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V15.09.00.tar.gz
PPA: 
https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable 

The release notes are available at 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/15.09.00


= Significant Updates =
  * Update ACPICA to version 20150717
  * SMBios 3.0.0 tests supported

= New Features =

   * acpi: method: add _CR3 test
   * acpi: method: add _MTL test
   * acpi: method: add _RST test
   * acpi: method: add _PRR test
   * data: klog.json: sync with latest 4.2 kernel messages (LP: #1493039)
   * lib: smbios: add smbios version 3.0.0 entry find helper
   * dmicheck: add test for smbios 3.0.0 entry point
   * dmicheck: add error test for SMBIOS 3.0.0 table
   * dmicheck: sync the dmi value test with smbios 3.0.0 spec

= Fixed Bugs =

   * acpi: fadt: merge tests for reset register
   * cpu: cpufreq: reduce scope of variables
   * acpi: gpedump: clarify precedence for & and ?
   * lib: fwts_cpu: reduce scope on variables
   * ACPICA: Update to version 20150717 (LP: #1486253)
   * lib: fwts_log: re-work to clean up va_arg scoping
   * uefi: uefirtvariable: clean up cppcheck style warning
   * acpi: rsdp: make OEM ID test less strict
   * fix some spelling mistakes in code and sync fwts-tests accordingly
   * cpu: maxfreq: check for unlikely event that no CPUs in cpu list
   * acpi: crsdump: fix incorrect use of string size in string copies
   * lib: fwts_acpi_tables: add checking for empty table parsing
   * lib: fwts_acpi_table: remove dead initialisation of ptr
   * dmi: dmicheck: fix build error on 32 bit builds
   * Makefile.am: use pkg-config for json-c
   * lib: fwts_smbios: fix the smbios version from uefi always zero (LP: 
#1484023)
   * lib: fwts_scan_efi_systable: fix getting wrong smbios entry (LP: 
#1484046)
   * acpi: dbg2: won't find obj when no namespace device path (lp: #1486893)
   * lib: fwts_smbios: add the struct definition for smbios 3.0.0
   * dmicheck: re-orgainise the smbios entry point check
   * dmicheck: fix the Base Board type range typos
   * auto-packager: mkpackage.sh: remove utopic

= Detail Changelog =

To check /usr/share/doc/fwts/changelog.Debian.gz or 
fwts_15.09.00-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz from 
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts