Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 Delayed To Next Week
Due to the significant work going on around the built-in Phoromatic Server now found within the Phoronix Test Suite source tree and feature-work still landing this week, the new plan is to officially release Phoronix Test Suite 5.4-Lipki next week on the 8th or 9th.
For those not following Phoronix-Test-Suite on GitHub, I've put out the 5.4 Milestone 7 snapshot tonight for reference. There's been a lot of new features added that I'll talk about more next week, etc.
The release can be downloaded at Phoronix-Test-Suite.com. If you're not up to speed on the 5.4 developments, see the Lipki articles. Overall, Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 is shaping up to be a hell of a monster release and stay tuned for more good news next week.
Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 Milestone 7
1 December 2014
- pts-core: Improve MAC address acquisition on systems with multiple NICs
- phoromatic: Add add_new_users_to_account option for adding new users automatically to existing account
- phoromatic: Allow changing the admin level for users by the main administrator from the Users page
- phoromatic: Report systems MAC address from the systems page
- phoromatic: Report network's Wake-On-LAN information to Phoromatic Server
- phoromatic: Add notification option to email to users when systems appear hung for more than an hour
- phoromatic: Add option to power off systems when no more scheduled tests are scheduled for the day
- phoromatic: Add option to network wake on lan (WoL) systems when needed for testing
- phoromatic: Allow logging of Phoromatic set user context execution
- phoromatic: Add support for viewing system logs from the result page link on right hand side
- phoromatic: Support for disabling accounts via rootadmin
- phoromatic: Track elapsed time during the testing process, report to Phoromatic Server
- phoromatic: Allow Phoromatic Servers to be specified via a simple text file at PTS_USER_PATH/phoromatic-servers
- phoromatic: Add "configure Phoromatic client via SSH" to Phoromatic Server
- phoromatic: Allow IP/MAC based system claiming from Phoromatic Server UI
- phoromatic: Allow blocking poweroffs by touching modules-data/phoromatic/block-poweroff
- phoromatic: Prominently show "systems needing attention" from the server UI
- phoromatic: More email reporting of hung systems / systems not running tests when they should
- phoromatic: Add custom Wake-On-LAN packet generator if etherwake isn't found on server
- phoromatic: Show schedules/group on system page
- phoromatic: Hook in estimated time remaining for task
- phoromatic: Report percent complete of task to server
- phoromatic: Add system component table
- phoromatic: Add new reporting features to server
- phoromatic: Add system dashboard
- phoromatic: Add legacy init.d script support
- phoromatic: Rework idle support and add maintenance mode support to client
- phoromatic: Implement maintenance mode on server side
Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 Milestone 6
19 November 2014
- pts-core: Fix result merging when PTS test identifier is null, use title string instead as identifier
- pts-core: Check for PHP Sockets support
- pts-core: Enhanced make-download-cache
- pts-core: Enhance PHP_BIN detection
- pts-core: Use system's zip library if PHP ZIP is not available
- phoromatic: Upstart phoromatic-server job is working (tested on Scientific Linux 6.6)
- phoromatic: Add "Run Test Schedule Now" button to test schedule page to allow for easy one-time/manual testing
- phoromatic: Add some basic statistics to the rootadmin page
- phoromatic: Allow the PhoromaticStorage location to be modified from the webUI when logging in as rootadmin
- phoromatic: Allow the download cache location to be modified from the webUI when logging in as rootadmin
- phoromatic: Allow the network proxy details to be modified from the webUI when logging in as rootadmin
- phoromatic: Allow the HTTP / WebSocket ports to be modified from the webUI when logging in as rootadmin
- phoromatic: Increase memory_limit on download cache downloads
- phoromatic: Expose all possible video modes as test options
- phoromatic: Show recent triggers on a test schedule's page
- phoromatic: Add "Upload results to OpenBenchmarking.org" option to settings page
- phoromatic: Fix for deactivating options on settings page
- phoromatic: Remember last successful Phoromatic Server connection
- phoromatic: Add reboot and shutdown commands to Phoromatic module
Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 Milestone 5
10 November 2014
- pts-core: Improvements when running as a systemd service / daemon
- pts-core: Prefer firefox over Epiphany browser
- phoromatic: Implement email notifications on result uploads
- phoromatic: Implement email notifications on system generated errors/warnings
- phoromatic: Implement email notifications on new systems added
- phoromatic: Allow easily comparing a result file to other results for that given schedule ID
- phoromatic: Improve formatting of lists
- phoromatic: Add times viewed to results
- phoromatic: Add "show only results with variation" to result viewing page
- phoromatic: Add result flagging to the main page
- phoromatic: Allow other/unscheduled test results to be uploaded to the Phoromatic Server using the phoromatic.upload-result sub-command
- phoromatic: Show file/path locations when starting the Phoromatic Server
- phoromatic: Use a randomly chosen available port by default when starting the Phoromatic Server if no ports are defined
- phoromatic: Add basic root administrator support to the Phoronix web interface
- pts_Graph: Shrink size of sub-title text strings when they're too long
Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 Milestone 4
5 November 2014
- pts-core: Add 3840 x 2160 (4K UHD) to more of the mode-setting fall-back modes
- pts-core: Start working on support for using standard Linux file-system hierarchy when running as root as a service
- pts-core: Add PhoromaticStorage option to Phoronix Test Suite user configuration XML file
- phoromatic: Reporting of overall result counts for given test schedules
- phoromatic: Report benchmarking / test run errors to server
- phoromatic: Show system errors/warnings from the Phoromatic web UI
- phoromatic: Don't attempt to re-run test schedules on clients if they previously reported errors/warnings for that schedule / trigger ID combination
- phoromatic: Usernames need to be at least four characters long
- phoromatic: Add a schedule overview to the schedules page
- phoromatic: Add today's scheduled events to the side bar
- phoromatic: Improve result identifier / title reporting for results
- phoromatic: Implement "Power User" account level
- phoromatic: Add normalize results option to the phoromatic result page
- phoromatic: Support for jumping to test results page for XXX past days of test from schedule page
- phodevi: IBM POWER hardware detection improvements
Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 Milestone 3
20 October 2014
- pts-core: Introduce basic system logging capabilities for services
- pts-core: Try downloading files from remote download caches up to two times in event of failure / checksum issues
- phoromatic: Start a basic logger of Phoromatic Server events
- phoromatic: Add new create schedule interface
- phoromatic: Properly hook in system ID / group validation for test schedules
- phoromatic: Support for editing schedules from the web UI
- phoromatic: Support for activating/deactivating "deleting" test schedules from the web UI
- phoromatic: Support for reporting the network MAC address (for later WoL purposes)
- phoromatic: Update the CSS style
- phoromatic: Add support for the main administrator to create multiple users associated with the same account
- phoromatic: Add support for "viewer accounts" where they can view data but not alter/write data
- phoromatic: Fix for adding systems to groups
- phoromatic: Support for mass editing of systems in groups via the systems page
- phoromatic: Support for removing system groups
- phoromatic: Introduce activity stream and logging of user events / display from "activity events" page
- phoromatic: Support for merging result files from the results page by clicking on each of them once
- phoromatic: Support for deleting results from the web UI's results page
Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 Milestone 2
5 October 2014
- pts-core: Add "ResultAfterString" to test result parser XML schema
- pts-core: Other result file parsing improvements/fixes
- pts-core: Rename debug-run mode to debug-benchmark, add extra features
- pts-core: Separate out NoNetworkCommunication user option into NoInternetCommunication/NoNetworkCommunication user config options for those still wanting LAN/intranet support
- pts-core: Add support to PTS clients for automatically finding Phoromatic Servers using Avahi zero-conf network discovery
- pts-core: Improvements to make-download-cache
- pts-core: Improved detection of file downloads that fail and serve HTML 404/not found responses
- pts-core: Convert to a JSON-based representation instead of XML for the pts-download-cache file
- pts-core: Various file hash checking improvements during test installation
- pts-core: Allow Phoronix Test Suite clients to automatically discover Phoromatic download-cache archives
- pts-core: Rewrite most of the RPM package generator
- pts-core: Support /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/download-cache as another download cache by default
- pts-core: Client support for being able to obtain OpenBenchmarking.org index/test/suite data from local Phoromatic Servers
- pts-core: Improved dump-core-storage output
- pts-core: Introduce machine_self_id as UUIDv5 compliant self-generated unique identifier for each PTS client
- pts-core: Allow result file titles up to 126 characters in length
- pts-core: Add start of basic Phoromatic Server systemd service file
- pts-core: Add start of basic Phoromatic Server Upstart conf file
- pts-core: Introduce make-openbenchmarking-cache sub-command for trying to cache all test/suite meta-data from OpenBenchmarking.org
- pts-core: Allow PhoromaticServers user-config.xml to specify static Phoromatic Server IP:port information
- pts-core: Initial Upstart and systemd configurations for the Phoromatic clients
- phoromatic: Begin allowing results to be stored locally, not dependent on OpenBenchmarking.org storage
- phoromatic: Advertise Phoromatic Server using Avahi zero-conf networking service when avahi-publish available and AdvertiseServiceZeroConf user config option is TRUE
- phoromatic: Automatically setup download-cache over Phoromatic HTTP with the system's local download-cache archive
- phoromatic: Allow sharing OpenBenchmarking.org index/test/suite cache data from server with local Phoromatic clients
- phoromatic: Support pts-core's machine_self_id for system identification as an alternative to OpenBenchmarking.org GSID
- phoromatic: Add phoromatic.explore sub-command for showing discovered Phoromatic servers and their server/debugging information
- phoromatic: Add a cache settings page to the web interface
- phodevi: Allow GPU frequency detection for DRM/KMS drivers when no X Server DDX is detected
- phodevi: Allow multiple providers for one VFS entry in case of failure in prior commands/files
- phodevi: Allow reading X Server log from the systemd journalctl
- phodevi: Restructure when /etc/os-release is parsed for obtaining OS name/version information
- system_monitor: Allow user-set time interval period between sensor measurements using MONITOR_INTERVAL environment variable
Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 Milestone 1
5 September 2014
- pts-core: Sanitize pts_result_file user strings
- pts-core: Don't set memory_limit with HHVM
- pts-core: Drop phoromatic_legacy support (old Phoromatic.com version)
- system_monitor: Correct perf-per-Watt calculation for LIB results
- phodevi: Support Nouveau's pstate formatting changes to read core/mem MHz on newer kernels
- phodevi: Support for reading monitor EDID over sysfs, decoding descriptors, and obtaining monitor name (should improve monitor name reporting for Intel Linux systems)
- phodevi: Improved SoC detection
- pts_LineGraph: Alignment fix for keys
This is a monstrous release for open-source benchmarking but there's still a few more features landing this week in Git.
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