Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.1

Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.1 serves as a minor point release to Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.0-Aremark that was released on 5 June. Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.1 features improvements for Wine benchmarking, various minor enhancements to the new Microsoft Windows support that premiered in v8.0.0, various minor enhancements to Phoromatic, and a few bug fixes.

Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.0

This is the stable release of Phoronix Test Suite 8.0 with rewritten Windows support, much improved BSD support, Phoromatic improvements, and other enhancements.

The brief release overview:

Phoronix Test Suite 8.0

Release Date: 5 June 2018 | Codename: Aremark

• Rewritten and overhauled Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016 support, now considered officially supported
• Much improved BSD operating system support
• Minor macOS support improvements, including optional support for the Brew package manager
• Initial support for Termux for possible Android support in the future
• New sub-commands phoronix-test-suite create-test-profile and phoronix-test-suite inspect-test-profile and phoronix-test-suite openbenchmarking-uploads and phoronix-test-suite shell
• Much improved result search functionality from the Phoromatic Server
• The ability to create new test profiles from the Phoromatic Server web interface
• Better handling when Internet connection support is absent
• SiFive RISC-V CPU detection, Cavium ThunderX, Spectre V4 reporting and other hardware/software reporting improvements in Phodevi
• An integrated backup module for easily backing up and restoring of all PTS/Phoromatic data on a system

Phoronix Test Suite 8.0 Milestone 5

The fifth and final planned development/test "milestone" release of Phoronix Test Suite 8.0-Aremark ahead of its official release in early June 2018.

Among the changes:

Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.0 Milestone 5
30 May 2018

pts-core: Termux external dependency support
pts-core: Other minor tweaks and changes
phoromatic: Better handling when the Phoromatic Server is run without an Internet connection or Internet disabled
phoromatic: A wide variety of other Phoromatic Server optimizations and improvements
phodevi: Add spec_store_bypass / Spectre Variant 4 reporting

Phoronix Test Suite 8.0 Milestone 4

This is the fourth development release of the upcoming Phoronix Test Suite 8.0-Aremark release due out by June 2018. A brief look at the many changes made over the past month since 8.0.0m3 are listed below.

Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.0 Milestone 4

16 May 2018

phoromatic: Add a "email all users" option to the rootadmin page
phoromatic: Improve search functionality on results page, allow boolean expressions, date ranges, many other search features
phoromatic: Various search improvements to phoronix-test-suite search
phoromatic: Allow new test profiles to be created from Phoromatic web UI
pts-core: New create-test-profile sub-command for guided process to test profile creation
pts-core: Basic changes, should be all that's needed for EU GDPR safeguards
phodevi: RISC-V SiFive CPU detection

Phoronix Test Suite 8.0 Milestone 3

This is the third development release of the upcoming Phoronix Test Suite 8.0-Aremark release due out by the end of Q2'2018.

Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.0 Milestone 3

16 April 2018

pts-core: Improvements for BSD / FreeBSD support
pts-core: Add "V8" external dependency for V8 JavaScript engine
pts-core: Add initial AdvertiseServiceOpenBenchmarkRelay support
pts-core: Add new inspect-test-profile sub-command
pts-core: Add ColoredConsole option in user configuration file of AUTO / TRUE / FALSE to control colored text behavior
pts-core: Report each test's run-time to test-rin-times in result file XML
pts-core: More XSD / OpenBenchmarking.org schema handling work for future functionality
phoromatic: Ensure environment variables set via Phoromatic web interface get passed to tests
phodevi: BSD improvements
backup: A module providing initial backup/restore functionality for PTS/Phoromatic

Phoronix Test Suite 7.8.0

Phoronix Test Suite 7.8

Release Date: 14 February 2018 | Codename: Folldal

• Allow tests not part of OpenBenchmarking.org to be automatically cloned from a connected Phoromatic Server when needed
• Improved reporting around deprecated/experimental/broken test profiles
• New sub-commands phoronix-test-suite search and phoronix-test-suite dump-phodevi-properties
• Reworked Phodevi property handler and other Phodevi improvements
• Restored support for vertical bar graphs in pts_Graph
• Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerability reporting

Full Change-Log

Phoronix Test Suite 7.8.0-Folldal
14 February 2018

pts-core: Various minor fixes
pts_Graph: Fix vertical bar graphs on many bars to be rendered

Phoronix Test Suite 7.8.0 Milestone 3
5 February 2018

pts-core: Fix crash in stress-run when PHP PCNTL is missing
pts-core: When installing a test that is marked deprecated/experimental/broken, ensure to convey that to the user
pts-core: When installing a test that is of license retail/restricted, ensure to convey that to the user
pts-core: Don't show tests in list-available-tests / list-tests that are not verified
pts-core: Improvements to info sub-command for test profiles in highlighting tests that may have problems and also show pre/post messages
pts_Graph: Fix when manually forcing line graphs sometimes still yielding bar graphs
phodevi: spectre_v1 and spectre_v2 protection reporting
phodevi: LXQt desktop detection
phodevi: Don't cache the compiler in case external dependencies install a new compiler, etc

Phoronix Test Suite 7.8.0 Milestone 2
14 January 2018

pts-core: Allow local/other tests not part of OpenBenchmarking.org to be downloaded from a Phoromatic Server
pts-core: Fixes for make-download-cache sometimes not caching tests/suites
pts-core: Drop the pts_test_notes_manager since pts_test_run_manager already had better capabilities built-in
pts-core: Add dump-phodevi-properties helper to assist in debugging and porting to new platforms
pts-core: Interactive mode improvements
pts-core: The phoronix-test-suite gui has been unmaintained and can be considered deprecated
pts-core: Add phoronix-test-suite search for conducting basic searches from the CLI
pts-core: When running phoronix-test-suite info <test profile>, show the OpenBenchmarking.org change-log for that test profile too
pts-core: When running phoronix-test-suite info <test profile>, show local test results containing this test
phodevi: Append BIOS version to end of motherboard string
phodevi: Strip invalid chars from BIOS version parsing
phodevi: Reworked property handling
phodevi: KDE Plasma 5 detection improvements
pts_Graph: Add allow_box_plots graph configuration tunable
pts_Graph: Restore support for allowing vertical bar graphs, can be enabled by editing graph-config.json with bar_graphs_horizontal = false

Phoronix Test Suite 7.8.0 Milestone 1
8 January 2018

pts-core: Add meson to external dependencies
pts-core: Other external dependency updates
pts-core: Various minor improvements when running on Docker/containerized
pts-core: Phoroscript interpreter improvements for Windows
pts-core: Allow PTS_WEBSOCKET_PORT environment variable to be used to override WebSocket port when launching Phoromatic Server
phodevi: Add some missing handling around /dev/vd* disks
phodevi: Add BIOS version reporting property