Firmware Test Suite 14.01.00 released

Keng-Yu Lin kengyu at canonical.com
Thu Jan 16 06:04:29 UTC 2014


Thanks Alex for taking the role of Release Manager for the release. :-)

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi all:
>   fwts 14.01.00 is release.
>
>   The source tarball is available at
> http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V14.01.00.tar.gz
>
>   For Ubuntu users, the debs are available in the PPA
> https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ppa-fwts-stable
>
>   The release notes:
>
> = New Features =
>
>   * acpi: acpidump: add SPCR table (LP: #1260351)
>   * acpi: acpidump: add DBGP table (LP: #1260353)
>   * acpi: acpidump: add DBG2 table (LP: #1260356)
>   * acpi: acpidump: dump out table descriptions (LP: #1261483)
>   * acpi: acpidump: Add MCHI table (LP: #1261484)
>   * lib: klog: don't clear kernel log on s3 and s4 tests (LP: #1262208)
>   * dmi: dmicheck: add more checks for invalid DMI fields (LP: #1262236)
>   * data: klog: sync kernel error messages with 3.13 kernel (LP: #1266786)
>   * acpi: crsdump, prsdump: add support for _PRS dumping (LP: #1265827)
>   * uefi: uefidump: add the Media Protocol subtype-5 support on media
> device path type for uefidump (LP: #1260147)
>   * uefi: uefidump: add the PIWG Firmware File subtype-6 support on
> media device path type for uefidump (LP: #1260147)
>   * uefi: uefidump: add the PIWG Firmware Volume subtype-7 support on
> media device path type for uefidump (LP: #1260147)
>   * uefi: uefidump: extend the Messaging Device Path type Vendor
> subtype-10 (LP: #1262095)
>   * lib: fwts_uefi header add attribute packed for struct typedef
>
> = Fixed Bugs =
>
>   * dmi: change max value of "Upgrade" field" from 0x2a to 0x2c (LP: #1263634)
>   * cpu: microcode: test should skip if no microcode found (LP: #1259900)
>   * Enable ACPI table dumping for non-x86 systems (LP: #1260470)
>   * Allow RSDP to be provided manually or scan for it in klog (LP: #1260400)
>   * Dump ACPI table addresses with correct address length (LP: #1260482)
>   * ACPICA: update to version 20131218 (LP: #1262348)
>   * fwts: remove launchpad tagging from fwts
>   * acpi: crsdump: fix large resource length calculation (LP: #1255793)
>   * fwts: attempt to make fwts less Ubuntu specific, (LP: #1246653)
>   * fwts: fix common realloc() memory leak anti-pattern (LP: #1267193)
>   * acpi: s3: remove redundant variable
>   * bios: pciirq: fix printf format and tidy some variable scopes
>   * acpi: powerbutton: ensure we don't get scanf buffer overflow
>   * cpu: cpufreq: use correct printf format specifiers
>
> == Deprecated features ==
>
>   * doc: remove tag options --lp-tags and --lp-tags-log
>   * data: klog.json: remove redundant tags from database
>
> = Known Issues =
>   * can only build with automake 1.13 or older.
>   * fail to build on developing trusty environment
>
> = Detail Changelog =
> To check /usr/share/doc/fwts/changelog.Debian.gz or
> fwts_14.01.00-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz from
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts
>
> Cheers,
> Alex Hung
>
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