Fwd: FWTS 18.05.00 is released

[Alex Hung]

FWTS 18.05.00 is released.

It is available from:

Tar: http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V18.05.00.tar.gz

PPA: https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable

Release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/18.05.00

= New Features =

  * fan: add cooling_device# to error messages
  * doc: adding acpitests, uefitests and sbbr options to man page
  * acpi: syntaxcheck: change it from batch to batch-experimental
  * fwts_framework: add an "ifv" option for Independent Firmware Vendor
  * dmicheck: skip checks of DMI default values for IFV
  * acpi: method: add test for _CLS control method
  * lib: create helper functions for device identification objects
  * acpi: devices: add common objects
  * fwts-frontend-text: add a recommended option for IFV (IBV)
  * fwts-frontend-text: add an option for ARM SBBR
  * auto-packager: mkpackage.sh: add cosmic
  * ACPICA: Update to version 20180427
  * ACPICA: Update to version 20180508
  * README: Add libpci-dev dependency ppc64el
  * cpufreq: Add support to read boost frequencies

= Fixed Bugs =

  * fan: cur_state == -1 is valid for intel_powerclamp
  * cpu: msr: do not check SYSENTER_* MSRs
  * cpu: msr: do not check SYSCALL MSRs
  * dmi: dmicheck: fix missing spaces in failures of type 9
  * acpi: method: fix a copy-n-paste error in _SUB test
  * acpi: fan: fix potential null pointer dereference issue
  * efi_runtime: fix gcc warning for efi_runtime_reset_system
  * lib: fwts_pipeio: fix regression from memory leak fix
  * devicetree: dt_base: Make dtc warnings not failures
  * facs: Add a check for empty BIOS memory map info list
  * opal: power_mgt: Fixes related to pstate parsing
  * cpufreq: Do not free a NULL pointer
  * opal: cpu_info: Designate property optional
  * opal: mem_info: Designate property optional
  * opal: prd_info: Add resilience to service check

= Detail Changelog =
To check /usr/share/doc/fwts/changelog.Debian.gz or
fwts_18.05.00-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz from
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts