Phoronix Test Suite 8.4.0

Phoronix Test Suite 8.4

Release Date: 26 November 2018 | Codename: Skiptvet

• Improvements to the text-based/CLI graphs
• Improvements to CSV frame-time parsing
• Various Phodevi hardware/software detection refinements, including better IBM POWER9 detection
• Various fixes and other minor refinements, external dependency updates

Milestone changes:

Phoronix Test Suite 8.4.0-Skiptvet
26 November 2018

phodevi: Various minor tweaks

Phoronix Test Suite 8.4.0 Milestone 3
20 November 2018

pts-core: Various external dependency updates
pts-core: Expose NUM_CPU_PHYSICAL_CORES to test profiles as alternative to NUM_CPU_CORES (logical count)
pts-core: Fix possible situation of openbenchmarking-refresh not updating when IndexCacheTTL is set to 0
pts-core: Allow branded colors to work in the terminal/CLI text graphs
pts-core: Continued POWER9 support improvements
pts-core: Add RemoveInstallDirectoryOnReinstall to toggle test re-installation behavior
pts_Graph: Fix for sometimes tick marker text overlapping
phodevi: Improved physical CPU core detection for architectures like POWER
phodevi: Improved CPU cache size detection

Phoronix Test Suite 8.4.0 Milestone 2
5 November 2018

pts-core: Allow passing PTS environment variables as arguments to PTS and then just have PTS set them in the environment
pts-core: Add dry-run test option
pts-core: Various result parser additions to help parsing of CSV frame-time data for more test profiles (games)
phodevi: Vulkan driver reporting fix

Phoronix Test Suite 8.4.0 Milestone 1
8 October 2018

phodevi: Report vRAM size on GPU model string in GB when over 1GB
pts-core: At run-time also report if test is deprecated/broken
pts-core: Add "node-npm" as an external dependency for Node.js + NPM
phodevi: Drop information reporting support for the long ago Catalyst/fglrx driver stack that hasn't been supported/maintained in many years