Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 M3 Is Another Hearty Update
As with the earlier development milestones, Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 "Lipki" is focused on delivering a great experience for those deploying local Phoromatic instances -- whether on the open Internet or behind a corporate firewall. If you missed the earlier announcement, read A Huge Update To Test: The Phoronix Test Suite With Behind-The-Firewall Phoromatic. Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 is a huge update and will be officially available in November.
Coming with tonight's Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 Milestone 3 update as changes over the past two weeks are:
- Refinements to the Phoromatic web-user interface.
- Basic service logging capabilities for Phoromatic client/servers initiated by systemd, etc.
- Support for attempting to download files multiple times from remote download caches in case of connection/service failures.
- A new scheduler creation interface from the Phoromatic web UI along with complete editing support.
- Re-working of the "system groups" Phoromatic feature and should now be fully working and feature complete.
- Support for Phoromatic users to create multiple users associated with the same account data, including support for "viewer accounts" that can view but not manipulate the account data.
- An activity stream for showing Phoromatic user data associated with a particular account.
- Support for merging results from the Phoromatic web UI.
- Support for deleting results from the Phoromatic web UI.
- Other improvements and refinements to the Phoronix Test Suite and Phoromatic code.
The latest code for the Phoronix Test Suite can be downloaded from Phoronix-Test-Suite.com or GitHub. As always, enterprise support, custom engineering engagements, and other commercial services are offered exclusively by Phoronix Media.
Stay tuned for more developments of Phoronix Test Suite 5.4-Lipki as more features are to land ahead of its stable debut in November.
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