Fwd: Firmware Test Suite 16.05.01 is released

[Alex Hung]

FWTS 16.05.01 is released.

It is available from:

Tar: http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V16.05.01.tar.gz

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

Release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/16.05.01

= New Features =

  * acpi: add MSCT table sanity check
  * acpi: add EINJ table sanity check
  * ACPICA: Update to version 20160318 (LP: #1559312)
  * Introduce olog scan, to check OPAL msglog.
  * Introduce IPMI BMC Info
  * devicetree: add infrastructure for device-tree tests
  * devicetree/dt_sysinfo: Add device tree system information tests
  * devicetree/dt_base: Add base device-tree validity checks
  * debian/control: change depends on libjson0-dev to libjson-c-dev
  * auto-packager: mkpackage.sh: add yakkety and remove vivid
  * debian/control: add back libjson0-dev for precise

= Fixed Bugs =

  * cpufreq: skip frequency performance test if cpufreq_settable is false
  * cpufreq: skip frequency claimed maximum test with intel_pstate
  * Add .gitignore
  * Add cppcheck static analysis checking script
  * uefi: uefirtauthvar: capitalize macro getvar_buf_size
  * cpufreq: make stat failure message a little more human friendly
  * acpi: einj, msct: only build in these tests on ACPI enabled systems
  * hpet: warn if HPET Device address not found in DSDT/SSDT
  * kernelscan: speed up parser using hash lookup, add more print funcs
  * kernelscan: remove need to pre-process with a CPP phase
  * kernelscan.sh: remove -E and -P phases to parsing
  * uefidump: dump the optional data for load option on boot device
  * uefidump: dump the optional data for load option on driver device
  * uefidump: add checking the resonable path list length for load option
  * pipeio: Add fwts_pipe_open_rw
  * pipeio: Add fwts_pipe_readwrite
  * pipeio: Add fwts_pipe_close2 to cleanup from fwts_open_pipe_rw.
  * acpi: spcr: add missing debug port types (LP: #1578433)
  * debian/control: add libfdt-dev and device-tree-compiler
  * configure.ac: update email address, use fwts-devel instead
  * fwts: manual: update date, add new contributor, add dtc to SEE ALSO
  * fwts: manual: ommitted Paul Menzel from the contributions list
  * lib: fwts_args: handle cases to set optarg_handler for long options.
  * acpi: dbg2: fix incorrect address size check with GAS struct
  * data: klog.json: Fix typo in docking label text
  * acpi: gtdt: fix buffer overrun comparison
  * acpi: gtdt: fix buffer overrun comparison (for SBSA)
  * acpi: bert: fix format specifiers for boot error region
  * lib: fwts_olog: minor fwts coding style reformatting
  * lib: fwts_olog: fix fclose on already closed files.
  * lib: fwts_olog: fix memory leak on buffer on error exit path
  * lib: fwts_olog: ensure buffer is '\0' terminated per read, minor cleanups
  * lib: fwts_olog: avoid TOCTOU race on stat and fopen
  * Revert "acpi: tpm2: add check for zero control area address (LP: #1506442)"
  * apic: apicedge: fix parsing of /proc/interrupts (LP: #1575783)
  * lib: fwts_pipeio: set *list to NULL on fwts_pipe_read error
  * cpu: msr: do not check SYSENTER_* MSRs (LP: #1582005)
  * fwts: lib: clean up static analysis warnings
  * uefidump: clean up the unnecessary period
  * pipeio: fix fwts_pipe_read return value when child produces no output
  * pipeio: Fix error handling in fwts_pipe_exec
  * pipeio: Rename fwts_pipe_open to fwts_pipe_open_ro, add fd as
output argument
  * pci/aspm: Fix grammar in ASPM advice (LP: #1581988)
  * bios: mtrr: fix cache type corner case at start of mtrr range
  * bios: mtrr: fix cache type corner case at end of mtrr range
  * bios: mtrr: redefine the end point of memory ranges

= Detail Changelog =

To check /usr/share/doc/fwts/changelog.Debian.gz or
fwts_16.05.01-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz from
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts


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Cheers,
Alex Hung