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PHORONIX TEST SUITE CHANGE-LOG
Phoronix Test Suite 10.8.5
[GIT]
pts-core: PHP 8.2/8.3 warning fixes
pts-core: Various bug fixes
phodevi: Hardware/software detection updates
Phoronix Test Suite 10.8.4
3 July 2022
pts-core: Allow sub-folders within PTS_EXTRA_SYSTEM_LOGS_DIR when uploading to Phoromatic server
pts-core: Fix TOTAL_LOOP_TIME handling
pts-core: openSUSE external dependency handling fixes
phodevi: Support for reporting video BIOS version
phodevi: Budgie desktop version detection
phodevi: Avoid deprecated wmic usage on Windows
phoromatic: Input sanitization updates in the result viewer
Phoronix Test Suite 10.8.3
23 April 2022
pts-core: Workaround Ubuntu 22.04 apt-get crashing the entire process on dependency installation
pts-core: Improved TTF font file detection
pts-core: Minor random fixes
phodevi: Apple M1 detection on Linux
Phoronix Test Suite 10.8.2
13 February 2022
pts-core: Arch Linux external dependency updates
pts-core: Workaround/fix PHP 5.4 usage with RHEL7-based distributions
pts-core: Convert compiler / multicore / single-threaded test suites into virtual test suites since their properties can be auto-determined based on OB metadata to avoid manually maintaining them
pts-core: Add virtual test suites for "riscv" and "aarch64" to make it easy to show test profiles that can run successfully on RISC-V and 64-bit Arm hardware
phodevi: Improved detection for components found on the Steam Deck and other hardware
phodevi: Add Arm Cortex-X1C detection
phodevi: CPU temperature reporting for additional SoCs such as the Raspberry Pi 400
phoromatic: Additional input sanitization and validation improvements
Phoronix Test Suite 10.8.1
23 January 2022
pts-core: Log external dependencies attempted to be installed to phoronix-test-suite-dependencies.log
pts-core: Allow PTS_DISPLAY_MODE to override other display mode preferences (e.g. short mode requested inline)
pts-core: Optional Download Cache Server interface support for HTTPS
pts-core: Support for archiving test profile change-logs locally rather than having to always query OpenBenchmarking.org server
pts-core: Allow caching of some OpenBenchmarking.org overview metrics locally for reducing repetitive OpenBenchmarking.org load/queries
pts-core: Allow displaying more overview metrics from OpenBenchmarking.org in the web view and info sub-command now that it's cached
pts-core: Make rendering of Perf Per Core/Thread/Clock/RAM opt-in from the result viewer
phoromatic: Allow binary log file uploads by default when Phoromatic Server is 10.8+
phoromatic: Input sanitization updates for Phoromatic Server and other security improvements
phoromatic: Move "Create A Test Profile" page behind an opt-in rootadmin Phoromatic Server option
phoromatic: Log update script output
phodevi: GPU vRAM usage reporting for modern AMDGPU DRM versions
phodevi: Use "-NoProfile" with powershell for possible performance benefits
phodevi: Avoid including kernel version in Mesa/OpenGL string
phodevi: Arm Neoverse-V1 / Cortex-X2 identification
Phoronix Test Suite 10.8.0
25 December 2021
pts-core: Remaining PHP 8.1 warnings/fixes addressed
pts-core: Various macOS 12 warning fixes
pts-core: Allow using OUTPUT_DIR / OUTPUT_FILE environment variables to control result-file-to* sub-commands
pts-core: Improved JSON output generation, add option to the result viewer
pts-core: Add result-file-to-html sub-command and simple inline HTML result output option from result viewer
pts-core: Allow sorting results by test date/time
pts-core: Add TEST_EXECUTION_SORT environment variable to allow sorting test run order in more ways
pts-core: Consolidate/centralize handling of environment variable options to pts_env
pts-core: Add remove-incomplete-results-from-result-file helper command to remove results with incomplete or missing data
pts-core: Add REMOVE_TESTS_ON_COMPLETION environment variable as another way to have tests auto-uninstall/remove after running
pts-core: Improved test installation / test run-time error reporting and detection
pts-core: Allow recording/archiving install and runtime errors within installation metadata
pts-core: Add list-failed-installs sub-command for showing tests that failed to install
pts-core: Add list-test-errors sub-command for showing test run-time errors
pts-core: Add variables sub-command for showing environment variable descriptions and what is set
pts-core: Dynamic detection of Windows download folder location
pts-core: Improved Zip handling on Windows
phodevi: Add detection for Arm Cortex-A710 and Neoverse-N2 cores
phodevi: Add detection for AMD Zen 4 cores
phodevi: Add detection for Intel Raptor Lake
phodevi: Allow better detecting model number on Windows/Linux for Dell and Apple laptops
phodevi: CPU temperature monitoring on Windows
phodevi: Show "energy_performance_preference" CPU frequency scaling value where relevant
phodevi: Linux CPUFreq EPP reporting support
phodevi: Report Windows 10+ security features
phodevi: Add PHODEVI_SANITIZE environment variable for those wanting to strip out certain hardware/software strings from system information
cleanup: Add module that can auto uninstall tests not run in a given amount of time
phoromatic: Allow relevant PTS environment variables to be exposed for setting by Phoromatic Server for benchmarks/schedules as "advanced options" area
phoromatic: Use the unified result viewer code for presenting result graphs and other result page data
phoromatic: Make use of shared/common result viewer code to allow adding/editing annotations, editing result file title/description, and deleting individual results from within the result viewer
phoromatic: Efficiency improvement for when viewing result with just one result file
phoromatic: Allow Phoromatic client to connect to Phoromatic HTTPS servers
phoromatic: Allow optionally uploading test install/run logs to the Phoromatic Server
phoromatic: Alow "Run A Benchmark" area to execute conventional PTS/system test suites
phoromatic: Allow test schedules page to add suites to a schedule rather than only adding just test profiles
phoromatic: Add option to settings page to always un-install/remove tests after execution for all Phoromatic testing
phoromatic: Allow environment variables to also be set on a global basis from the Phoromatic Server Settings page
phoromatic: Allow test installation metadata to be submitted to Phoromatic Server so from systems area can show currently installed tests and any errors
phoromatic: Opt-in (settings page) support for streaming in-progress benchmark results to the Phoromatic Server between test runs so results can be viewed from the server as they are completed
phoromatic: Unifying more result viewer and Phoromatic common display code
Phoronix Test Suite 10.6.1
10 October 2021
pts-core: Allow reporting test run errors inline / as part of the result file XML with null/empty results
pts-core: Remove the old, long deprecated static/JavaScript PTS result viewer that hasn't been used except for rare fallbacks since PTS pre-9.0
pts-core: PHP 8.1 deprecation warning/error fixes
pts-core: Support launching PHP web server with PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS to allow multiple workers/threads
pts-core: Windows batch file handling test execution fix
pts-core: Allow running merge-results when pointing to specific XML files outside of standard paths
pts-core: Various minor fixes
phoromatic: Fix possible case of local test profile download issues from Phoromatic Server
phoromatic: Warn when lacking database write access for Phoromatic Server
phoromatic: Support (opt-in) handling of non-text file log files
phoromatic: Allow uploading of system logs after initial upload of result XML to deal with HTTP size limitations and other factors with large logs
phoromatic: Use the unified/common log viewer for viewing logs from the Phoromatic web interface
phoromatic: Tweaking of the Phoromatic CSS style to bring it more uniform with OpenBenchmarking.org / PTS Local Result Viewer / first update in ~6 years...
phodevi: Improve detection of new Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler
phodevi: ACPI Platform Profile reporting support on Linux
phodevi: Support reporting NVIDIA BAR1 total memory / Radeon vRAM visible memory (Resizable BAR / ReBAR status)
Phoronix Test Suite 10.4.0
16 May 2021
pts-core: Ubuntu 21.04 dependency updates for changed/removed package names
pts-core: Add "auto-resolution-wide" option
pts-core: Add $CPU_THREADS_PER_CORE helper
pts-core: Allow perf-per-dollar-per-hour in the result viewer, extending perf-per-dollar HTML helper
pts-core: Add PTS_EXTRA_SYSTEM_LOGS_DIR environment variable to allow pointing to directory of extra system log files
pts-core: Add RepositoryURL option for test profiles
phodevi: Intel Linux graphics string format improvement
phoromatic: Treat set context scripts as a file rather than executing it as a buffer
phoromatic: Allow passing Phodevi system properties to Phoromatic Server
phodevi: Add some new properties, port some pts_network info to phodevi interfaces
system_monitor: Adjust perf-per precision
Phoronix Test Suite 10.4.0 Milestone 1
17 March 2021
pts-core: Optimize out sorting percentile values array excess times
pts-core: Optimization to avoid re-parsing test profile definition multiple times
pts-core: Optimization to avoid re-parsing installed test metadata multiple times
pts-core: Allow longer HTTP timeouts on OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads if needed
pts-core: Allow sorting runs within a result file from within the result viewer web interface
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2
17 February 2021
pts-core: Add helper text when hitting a download with no working mirrors
pts-core: Various external dependency updates
pts-core: Add enable-repo sub-command for more easily enabling new OpenBenchmarking.org repos
pts-core: Result viewer fix for the limit drop down menu potentially not being activated in some cases
pts-core: Allow renaming runs within the result viewer
phoromatic: Ensure pcntl_signal is present before starting Phoromatic Server
phoromatic: PHP 8 compatibility fixes
phodevi: Fix display driver name potentially being reported inaccurate for some obscure graphics cards / driver configurations
phodevi: Export current GPU graphics card PCI device ID (GPU_DEVICE_ID) for some games/tests relying on it for configuration
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.1
1 February 2021
pts-core: Add "InstallRequiresInternet" option for test profiles that is more narrow (install time only) than the existing "RequiresInternet"
pts-core: Add check-tests sub-command
pts-core: Fix possible crash on PDF output
pts-core: Various small fixes and tweaks
pts-core: Fix PHP8 + cURL download error
pts_Graph: A number of minor SVG standards compliance updates
phodevi: Log Transparent Huge Pages setting as part of system details
phodevi: Don't bother parsing the X.org log if it grows too big
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.0
5 January 2021
pts-core: PHP8 detection improvements
pts-core: For estimated run time, avoid over-calculating time if test has no options but multiple outputs
pts-core: Updated (Open)Mandriva external dependencies
pts_Graph: Minor enhancements
phodevi: Add support for reporting ACPI Platform Profile and INT340x Workload Hint
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.0 Milestone 3
21 December 2020
pts-core: Add debug-unhandled-dependencies option
pts-core: Default to 2.5% std dev threshold default on new installs
pts-core: BSD external dependency updates
pts-core: Various refinements to the text user interface
pts-core: When a test profile hits a failed download / broken mirror, report that URL to OpenBenchmarking.org
phodevi: Don't restore the Phodevi cache if the /etc/machine-id changed (or /etc/hostname as fallback)
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.0 Milestone 2
6 December 2020
pts-core: Transition to new JSON-based data format for managing test install metadata while maintaining backwards compatibility with prior XML format
pts-core: Begin tracking test run-times per-hash (all configured test options) for more detailed time tracking and in turn time estimates on subsequent runs
pts-core: Increase compression factor when uploading benchmark results
pts-core: Last minute fixes for PHP 8.0 compatibility
phodevi: Report if CPUFreq Boost enabled/disabled
turbostat: Add TurboStat module to easily generate turbostat dumps on a per-test basis to log files
phoromatic: Much faster web viewer performance especially with large databases
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.0 Milestone 1
21 November 2020
pts-core: Log lock_stat, config.gz, dmidecode to system logs
pts-core: Only show Apple options when running on macOS
pts-core: Add extra safeguard around FORCE_TIMES_TO_RUN for disabling dynamic run count
ob_auto_compare: Intelligently choose more relevant reference results
phodevi: macOS CPU temperature monitoring support
phodevi: Support for reading WattsUp Pro power meter data directly without utility using WATTS_UP_METER=<USB TTY>
phodevi: Report Google Compute Engine machine type as part of motherboard string
phodevi: Add dumpe2fs to system logs when running on EXT4 and root
phodevi: Add block size reporting
phodevi: CPU power reporting for Ampere Altra
phodevi: Various Ampere Altra hardware detection/reporting improvements
phodevi: Support reading CPU package power consumption on macOS using powermetrics
Phoronix Test Suite 10.0.1
21 October 2020
pts-core: Fix for older versions of PHP such as in RHEL7
pts-core: Add Thermald version reporting to system table when active
phodevi: Detection improvements for new CPUs
phodevi: Avoid "11th Gen Intel" CPU string
phodevi: Update for NVMe drive reporting with KIOXIA, Toshiba sometimes not reporting their brand first
Phoronix Test Suite 10.0.0
13 October 2020
pts-core: Ensure any post-run script is triggered still under halt-testing/skip-test conditions
pts-core: Allow batch processing of performance per dollar metrics
phodevi: Add Intel AMX presence detection
phodevi: Add detection for Intel Alder Lake, Jasper Lake, Sapphire Rapids, and others
phoromatic: Ensure Windows tests get displayed even if running the Phoromatic Server on Linux
flush_caches: Add module to flush system caches between runs
test_timeout: Add module to quit a test run if it exceeds a predefined time limit or 'auto' determination
Phoronix Test Suite 10.0.0 Milestone 3
1 October 2020
pts-core: Don't show Vulkan options if Vulkan support is known to be unavailable/broken
pts-core: Add OptionSelect tag support within test suite definitions
pts-core: Allow * wildcard match in FileCheck handling within external dependency XML
pts-core: Add "OS" TestType
pts-core: Various external dependency updates
pts-core: Continued tweaking to the analytics engine
phodevi: Add Neoverse N2, Cortex-X1 detection and other Arm CPU updates
pts_Graph: Various improvements
Phoronix Test Suite 10.0.0 Milestone 2
12 September 2020
pts-core: Honor NO_COLOR environment variable for disabling terminal coloring
pts-core: Allow launching just the result viewer from systemd (phoronix-result-server.service)
pts-core: Result viewer UI tweaks
pts-core: Minor fixes
pts-core: Add RequiresRootInstall test profile option
pts-core: Result file text output tweaks
pts-core: More robust test result parsing in certain time formats
Phoronix Test Suite 10.0.0 Milestone 1
19 August 2020
pts-core: Add keep-results-in-result-file sub-command
pts-core: Split the dynamic result viewer into its own embed class for result file handling to allow for easy re-use by OpenBenchmarking, Phoromatic, etc
pts-core: Various changes for supporting the new OpenBenchmarking.org infrastructure
pts_Graph: Add histogram type
phodevi: CPU core name / family detection to friendly strings (OpenBenchmarking.org driven)
phodevi: Report core name via system-info command
phodevi: Various storage HDD/SSD detection reporting improvements
phodevi: Ampere Altra detection
phodevi: macOS/Apple hardware detection improvements
Phoronix Test Suite 9.8.0
9 July 2020
pts-core: Handling of cases where all options are unsupported (such as CUDA and OpenCL tests with no valid backends found) to avoid prompts
pts-core: Be more liberal in allowing CUDA/OpenCL GPU compute tests to run fine without display server active
pts-core: Fix for not filling test suites of contained tests in some select cases (sub-suites listing in results viewer)
pts-core: Allow creating new virtual test suites that are not prefixed by a OB repository
phodevi: NVIDIA GPU detection within WSL2
docker: Rewritten phoronix/pts Docker implementation based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Phoronix Test Suite 9.8.0 Milestone 2
24 June 2020
pts-core: Add client side plumbing for estimated test install time from OpenBenchmarking.org
pts-core: Add estimate-install-time sub-command, show estimated install time when installing a test
pts-core: Improve web browser selection logic for result viewer
pts-core: Add search field to the result viewer areas for limiting based on title/argument matching
pts-core: Various minor fixes
pts-core: Don't show OpenCL test options if no OpenCL drivers/adapters appear present
phodevi: Fix for incorrect monitor count when parsing X.Org log
phodevi: Warning fixes for latest WSL
Phoronix Test Suite 9.8.0 Milestone 1
3 June 2020
pts-core: When an install fails, try a newer minor version update to that test profile if available (fixes broken download mirrors, etc)
pts-core: When a newer minor version of a test profile is installed and a requested (older) one is not, use the newer compatible version
pts-core: Rewrite virtual test suite implementation
pts-core: Add handler for ensuring reported system time is accurate, otherwise calculate current date/time using offsets
pts-core: When scanning test suites on disk, ensure the latest test suite version is used
pts-core: Add test-to-suite-map sub-command
pts-core: Fix for loading the result viewer JavaScript / CSS when running on a Windows host
pts-core: For tests requiring root but not run initially as root and using monitoring data, drop the first run to ensure sudo promot doesn't skew time
pts-core: Fix PHP8 error in the 'info' sub-command
pts-core: Other PHP deprecation code tweaks
phodevi: Add amd_energy Linux driver support
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1
25 May 2020
pts-core: Show unit/scale in CSV export
pts-core: When limiting results to show in result viewer, keep child objects that match the desired type for the parent
pts-core: Add rebuild-test-suite option for regenerating suite XML all cleaned up
pts-core: Allow exporting result files to XML test suites via the result viewer
linux_perf: Reporting many more events
pts-core: External dependency updates
pts_Graph: graph code tweaks
phodevi: Avoid macOS reporting X-Core string before Intel CPU string
phodevi: Sway compositor version detection
phodevi: Detection of newer Arm CPU cores
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.0
21 April 2020
pts-core: Allow building virtual suites off external dependencies
pts-core: Various result viewer improvements
pts-core: Allow saving results under stress-run
pts-core: Responsive/mobile result viewer improvements
pts-core: Show local tests within the build-suite sub-command
pts-core: Show local suites within the list-installed-suites sub-command
pts_Graph: Restore capability for drawing mini graphs for all results in a result file overview
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.0 Milestone 3
12 April 2020
pts-core: Allow automated per-thread/core/clock/RAM graphs within the result viewer
pts-core: Result viewer add "Limit displaying results to tests within:"
pts-core: From the result viewer allow "Show Geometric Means Per-Suite/Category"
pts-core: Add workload-topology sub-command
pts-core: Allow adding deprecated tests to build-suite
pts-core: CSV export improvements
pts-core: Add "Do Not Show Results With Incomplete Data" to the result viewer
pts-core: Allow test suite "Status" tag
pts-core: Don't report OB updates on deprecated tests or suites
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.0 Milestone 2
5 April 2020
pts-core: Documentation updates
pts-core: External dependency updates
pts-core: Allow listing test profiles within the result viewer
pts-core: Allow listing test suites and test suite data within the result viewer
pts-core: Allow showing test profile information within the result viewer
pts-core: Various other updates to the result viewer
pts-core: Add vaapi as possible external dependency
update_checker: Add message of the day support
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.0 Milestone 1
24 March 2020
pts-core: Add new analyze-run-times sub-command
pts-core: Allow hiding results from within the result viewer
pts-core: Allow generating performance-per-dollar metrics from within the result file
pts-core: Allow showing system logs from the result viewer
pts-core: Allow showing test description within the result viewer
pts-core: Fixes for running the result viewer from a website sub directory in correctly loading assets
pts-core: Add result viewer option "hide noisy results"
pts-core: Add result viewer option "hide results with little change/spread"
pts-core: Add result viewer option "only show results where X faster than Y"
pts-core: Add XML export to result viewer export menu
pts-core: Support deleting runs from the result viewer
pts-core: Improve the print view from the result viewer
phodevi: BSD tweaks/fixes
Phoronix Test Suite 9.4.1
4 March 2020
Various minor bug fixes and OpenBenchmarking.org cache update
Phoronix Test Suite 9.4.0-Vestby
25 February 2020
pts-core: Add option in the result viewer to allow compacting multi-option test results into single graphs
pts-core: Add option in the result viewer to allow compacting multi-version test results into single graphs
pts-core: Add Parent tag to result file schema for specifying relation to other result objects
pts-core: Report test profile support errors when intended
pts-core: Fix showing NVIDIA test options on non-Linux NVIDIA platforms
pts-core: Don't show delete/annotation options for dynamically generated result objects where those options are not relevant
pts-core: Allow showing performance-per-suite option within result viewer
pts_Graph: When going to PDF with GD library, just use the OB rather than temporary file
pts_Graph: Restore support for error bars on vertical bar graph rendering
pts_Graph: Support for simpler view / rendering without header/footer
Phoronix Test Suite 9.4.0 Milestone 3
18 February 2020
pts-core: Add PDF bookmarks to result graphs on PDF result file generation
pts-core: Add automated executive summary of result files via executive-summary sub-command and PDF result export
pts-core: Add remove-result-from-result-file sub-command (slightly different from remove-results-from-result-file)
pts-core: Set SaveTestLogs = TRUE by default
pts-core: Set SaveInstallationLogs = TRUE by default
pts-core: Refactor test-logs (SaveTestLogs) handling
pts-core: Refactor test installation logs handling
pts-core: More verbose reporting of system/external dependency solving status
pts-core: Get the modern result viewer working on Windows
pts-core: Support for showing test logs from the result viewer
pts-core: Support for showing install logs from the result viewer
pts-core: PDF output improvements
pts-core: Fix for some suites not showing up on list-suites sub-command
pts-core: Report "Test Suites Containing This Test" in the info sub-command on tests
pts-core: On PDF export allow showing geometric means of tests based on their test suite connections
pts-core: Add intersect sub-command for showing tests common between multiple results/suites
Phoronix Test Suite 9.4.0 Milestone 2
5 February 2020
pts-core: Add config options allowing to modify or delete result files from the result viewer
pts-core: Allow deleting results from the result viewer
pts-core: Allow editing result file information from result viewer
pts-core: Allow deleting results (graphs) from result file in result viewer
pts-core: Add ability to annotate (comment) on result graphs within the result viewer
pts-core: Support converting graphs to PNG/PDF with Inkscape or svg-convert when PHP GD is not installed/enabled
pts-core: Add Persistent Memory disk targets for disk test
Phoronix Test Suite 9.4.0 Milestone 1
13 January 2020
pts-core: Allow test profile test options to expose more helper information strings
pts-core: External dependency updates
pts-core: When a test fails to install due to linker error, try to run that missing library through the external dependency handler to hint at the name
pts-core: When a test fails to install due missing header file, try to run that missing library through the external dependency handler to hint at the name
pts_Graph: Pass/fail graph formatting improvements
phodevi: Convert large RAM capacity basic strings into GB rather than large MB
phodevi: Add support for Linux 5.6+ drivetemp kernel module for ATA drive temperatures
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2.1
11 December 2019
pts-core: Fix for Debian packaging generator
pts-core: FIx for install script that could lead to Phoromatic Server instance not fully launching
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2.0-Hurdal
3 December 2019
pts-core: Fix for sensor-driven result outputs (e.g. power)
pts-core: Clean up precision handling on graphs
pts-core: Add run-subset sub-command
pts-core: Add Clear Linux external dependencies handling for when not relying upon the Clear bundles that include all known dependencies
phodevi: More robust ACPI power_meter handling
phodevi: Support reading the NVMe drive temperature via HWMON on Linux 5.5+
phoromatic: Use the new shared result viewer settings handling in common with the dynamic result viewer
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2.0 Milestone 2
13 November 2019
pts-core: Drop auto-compare sub-command since currently buggy / too server resource intensive
pts-core: Add FORCE_MIN_DURATION_PER_TEST
pts-core: Don't sort geometric mean results when the only difference between result identifiers is numeric in nature
pts-core: Allow preserving the precision of the original workload under test if not overriden by test profile
pts-core: Record and report CPU microcode version in benchmark result file
system_monitor: Allow multiple PERFORMANCE_PER_SENSOR= to be delimited by comma
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2.0 Milestone 1
17 October 2019
pts-core: New possible external dependencies for gflags, clang, uuid, tclsh
pts-core: External dependencies updates for Windows
pts-core: Crash fix for macOS in regression from PTS 9.0.1 launcher change
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0.1-Asker
1 October 2019
pts-core: Fatal error fix for old PHP5 versions (RHEL 7) with pts_openbenchmarking_upload crash
pts-core: Set AllowResultUploadsToOpenBenchmarking = FALSE in enterprise-setup
ob_auto_compare: Show "since [date]" as part of the inline box plot
ob_auto_compare: Various tweaks/styling improvements to the inline box-plot display
phodevi: New cpu.peak-freq sensor for reporting just the highest CPU core frequency at that moment
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0.0-Asker
16 September 2019
pts-core: Add stress-batch-run sub-command for behavior like stress-run but no prompts for test options
pts-core: Allow plotting all individual run results as a line graph
pts-core: Allow showing pie charts of wins/losses of tests
pts-core: Add support for showing "new + updated tests" via the invalid command helper
pts-core: Allow accessing the new result viewer via localhost too rather than just 127.0.0.1
pts_Graph: Restore pie chart support from PTS 6.0 state when dropped
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0.0 Milestone 3
3 September 2019
pts-core: Add AllowResultUploadsToOpenBenchmarking user config option
pts-core: Split OpenBenchmarking.org upload code into pts_openbenchmarking_upload file and allow it to be removed if wanting to strip out upload support
pts-core: Add "ob-cache" local cache of tests/suites to help offline use-cases
pts-core: Add hdf5 to the external dependency list
pts-core: Add libxml2 to the external dependency list
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0.0 Milestone 2
22 August 2019
pts-core: New result viewer improvements
pts-core: Various fixes and code cleanups
phodevi: Add support for cpu.power sensor reading from Linux zenpower driver
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0.0 Milestone 1
25 July 2019
pts-core: Add 'expat' as possible external dependency
pts-core: Various PDF report improvements
pts-core: User-config syntax change LoadModules -> AutoLoadModules
pts-core: Also dynamically increase run count if any results outside 3-sigma limit
pts-core: Add compare-results-two-way sub-command
pts-core: Improve MultiMatch in test result parser
pts-core: Add IGNORE_RUNS environment variable
pts-core: Add result-file-confidence sub-command
pts_Graph: Add side-by-side 2-way comparison graph
pts_Graph: Fix for displaying line graphs with very small values
phodevi: Support reading sys.power via IPMI PS1_Input_Power/PS2_Input_Power
phodevi: More robust Arm CPU model detection improvements
phodevi: Much faster CPU usage reading on large core count systems
Phoronix Test Suite 8.8.1-Hvaler
30 May 2019
pts-core: Various minor tweaks/fixes
phodevi: Fix Linux CPU thread detection in some scenarios where inner-cores may be offlined
phodevi: More robust CPU vulnerability reporting
phodevi: Add initial reporting for Windows vulnerabilities via mdstool-cli
Phoronix Test Suite 8.8.0-Hvaler
13 May 2019
pts-core: Report on the POWER SMT setting in notes
pts-core: Add new/updated suite reporting
pts-core: In build-suite allow not binding test profile versions
pts-core: For list-suites, only show suites that have been updated within the past four years
pts_Graph: Report N on horizontal bar graphs
phodevi: Intel Node Manager power_meter support for sys.power sensor
Phoronix Test Suite 8.8.0 Milestone 3
9 May 2019
pts-core: Add experimental dynamic-result-viewer
pts-core: Allow marking of test profile download files as optional
pts-core: Add "everything" virtual suite
pts-core: Set MESA_VK_WSI_PRESENT_MODE=immediate by default to work around possible 60 FPS RADV bug
pts-core: Rename remove-from-result-file to remove-run-from-result-file
pts-core: Add remove-results-from-result-file sub-command
phodevi: Detect AVX-512 VNNI
phodevi: Fix OpenJDK Java version detection
phodevi: Expand memory temperature sensor to work for some ARM SBCs
phodevi: Multi-monitor detection improvements
phodevi: Add support for gpu.memory-usage sensor with new AMDGPU mem_busy_percent sysfs interface
system_monitor: Add PERFORMANCE_PER_SENSOR= support for performance-per-(arbitrary sensor) rather than just supporting perf-per-Watt
ob_auto_compare: Show other results in result file on box plot
Phoronix Test Suite 8.8.0 Milestone 2
27 March 2019
pts-core: On new installs set 3.00% as deviation for increasing dynamic run count rather than 3.50%
pts-core: Add FORCE_MIN_TIMES_TO_RUN_CUTOFF= environment variable to toggle cutoff for FORCE_MIN_TIMES_TO_RUN behavior
pts-core: Add FORCE_TIMES_TO_RUN_MULTIPLE
pts-core: Add strict-benchmark option for enabling various options to ensure stricter behavior about the number of times to run each benchmark
pts-core: Add cpu-physical-threads / cpu-threads / auto-executable auto test run options
phodevi: CPU-therm reporting via sysfs for CPU core temp
phodevi: GPU-therm reporting via sysfs for GPU core temp
Phoronix Test Suite 8.8.0 Milestone 1
16 March 2019
pts-core: Allow FORCE_TIMES_TO_RUN to override debug-run/debug-benchmark single run behavior
pts-core: Various fallbacks/workarounds for those wanting to (unofficially) use PTS on Windows 8.1
pts-core: Other small tweaks and optimizations
pts-core: Fixes an odd scenario where on Windows after 2 runs, further runs of that test profile for current run could fail in select (random) instances
pts-core: Write out system notes for each system when generating PDF result output
pts-core: CSV output improvements
pts-core: Add result-file-raw-to-csv for dumping the raw/individual benchmark result run data
pts_Graph: Condensing improvements for large graphs
pts_Graph: Various formatting improvements
phodevi: Intel GPU reporting improvements
phodevi: BIOS version reporting support extended to Windows
phodevi: ipmitool DMCI power sensor reporting for at least some POWER servers
Phoronix Test Suite 8.6.1-Spydeberg
21 February 2019
pts-core: Dynamically honoring the CLI terminal width (no longer cache the value on Linux/BSD/macOS)
pts-core: BSD external dependency updates
ob_auto_compare: Minor formatting updates
Phoronix Test Suite 8.6.0-Spydeberg
5 February 2019
pts-core: Other small tweaks and fixes
pts-core: Fix for "/installed" virtual suite not including the proprietary/commercial tests that are installed
ob_auto_compare: Allow showing more results in the embedded percentile graphs
Phoronix Test Suite 8.6.0 Milestone 3
27 January 2019
pts-core: Better handling on Windows when there are space(s) in the paths
pts-core: Add __event_post_run_stats module hook
pts-core: Inline display of result distributions from OpenBenchmarking.org on applicable results
pts-core: Don't try to run tests from result file(s) or suite(s) that were not installed
pts-core: More accurate time reporting when result files are passed to `phoronix-test-suite estimate-run-time`
phodevi: Better reporting of NVMe drive strings on BSDs
Phoronix Test Suite 8.6.0 Milestone 2
19 January 2019
pts-core: Update Mac OS X to macOS references
pts-core: Add result-file-stats sub-command to show more test result statistics
pts-core: Show geometric mean and harmonic mean data at end of benchmarking process when relevant as part of post-run stats
pts-core: Improved formatting of file download text user interface for downloading of dependencies on Microsoft Windows
pts-core: Fix Loop 'Test i of n' Reporting
pts-core: A few warning fixes for PHP 7.3+
pts-core: External dependency handling support for OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 (transitioned from urpmi to DNF)
phodevi: Report Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to the system layer string
Phoronix Test Suite 8.6.0 Milestone 1
7 January 2019
pts-core: No longer clear test profile identifiers on secondary saved results
pts-core: Add compare-results-to-baseline sub-command for comparing one result file (baseline) against a set of results for text look at relative perf
pts-core: Minor fixes
pts-core: Show wins and losses summary after testing on large result files
pts-core: On two-way result files, after test completion show comparison of current result against previous result (baseline)
pts-core: Add ShowPostRunStatistics user configuration XML option to toggle whether various test statistics are printed at the end of testing
pts-core: Add recently-added-tests sub-command to show newly added test profiles / alternative to openbenchmarking-changes/recently-updated-tests
pts-core: Allow outputting line graphs to terminal interface as basic box plot graphs
phodevi: Improve Linux multiple network device reporting
phodevi: LXQt desktop version reporting
phodevi: Update for Microsoft Windows Server 2019
system_monitor: Allow outputting system monitor graphs to terminal interface inline
Phoronix Test Suite 8.4.1-Skiptvet
9 December 2018
pts-core: Workaround for RHEL 7.6 PHP having buggy CURL that is causing seg faults
pts-core: Ensure "." doesn't get set in PATH when launching phoronix-test-suite
pts-core: Allow PRESET_OPTIONS env var to be used when in batch mode
pts-core: FreeBSD updates
pts-core: Add PRESET_OPTIONS_VALUES environment variable that is similar to PRESET_OPTIONS but for explicit values
phodevi: Improved Radeon AMDGPU frequency detection/reporting
phodevi: Add support for reading GPU usage sensor with AMDGPU gpu_busy_percent sysfs interface
phodevi: Updated gpu_voltage sensor for AMDGPU driver
phodevi: Updated gpu_power sensor for AMDGPU driver
phodevi: Updated gpu_fanspeed sensor for AMDGPU driver
phodevi: Updated gpu_freq sensor for AMDGPU driver
phodevi: Improved physical CPU core detection on DragonFlyBSD 5.4
phodevi: Improved Spectre detection on DragonFlyBSD 5.4
phodevi: Allow using NUM_CPU_CORES to override the number of exposed CPU threads/cores to tests (alternative to PTS_NPROC / NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS)
phodevi: Improved multi-disk reporting for non-Linux operating systems
phodevi: Minor GPU string reporting improvement
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
Phoronix Test Suite 8.2.0-Rakkestad
11 September 2018
pts-core: Add RequiresDisplay test profile property to indicate if the test profile explicitly requires a monitor / display server to work
pts-core: Add RequiresNetwork test profile property to indicate if the test profile needs a working network connection
pts-core: Add RequiresInternet test profile property to indicate if the test profile needs a working Internet connection
pts-core: Don't install tests where the current run-time checks will fail
phodevi: Improve CPU thread count detection when running under LXC
phodevi: More robust DMI decode ignore value handling
phodevi: Add extra fallback detection for LXC in system-layer
Phoronix Test Suite 8.2.0 Milestone 4
7 September 2018
pts-core: Fix behavior of "Would you like to stop and install these tests now"
pts-core: Add reinstall / re-install aliases to force-install
ob_auto_compare: Default first to trying to do an automated local result comparison
phodevi: Amlogic SoC detection based on meson_cpufreq driver
phodevi: Rockchip SoC fallback detection
phodevi: Embedded ARM Cortex / ARM part model detection
phodevi: Expanded sensor coverage using Intel RAPL
Phoronix Test Suite 8.2.0 Milestone 3
22 August 2018
pts-core: Minor updates to logic for determining how many times to dynamically increase run count on high variance results
pts-core: Show deprecated tests too when running list-all-tests
pts-core: Add DropNoisyResults option if wishing to not save results that have too high of deviation between runs
pts-core: Add PTS_DOWNLOAD_CACHE_OVERRIDE environment variable option on make-download-cache
pts-core: Add PTS_USER_PATH_OVERRIDE environment variable to override PTS_USER_PATH on initialization
pts-core: Add PTS_DOWNLOAD_CACHING_PLATFORM_LIMIT environment variable for make-download-cache
pts-core: Add list-cached-tests option
Phoronix Test Suite 8.2.0 Milestone 2
15 August 2018
pts-core: Add DivideResultDivisor to result parser
pts-core: Add libevent as possible external dependency
pts-core: Alert the user when the test install directory is on a file-system mounted with 'noexec'
pts-core: Optional support with PHP 7.3+ to also obtain network info using net_get_interfaces()
pts-core: Fix possible alignment issue with value/spacer on outputting text-based result graphs
pts-core: When Internet is not available and running list-tests, only show tests that are available via caches unless `list-all-tests` is run
pts-core: Rework `list-recommended-tests` to make use of download count information exposed via OB index repository data rather than needing to make fresh web query
pts-core: Show "popular tests" in the invalid command helper
pts-core: Allow stress-run to be triggered from interactive mode
pts-core: Allow comparing dynamic in-line result comparisons against local results when no Internet results matching or Internet not available
phodevi: Reporting of L1TF / Level 1 Terminal Fault vulnerability
pts_Graph: Tweaks to text sizing on vertical bar graphs
Phoronix Test Suite 8.2.0 Milestone 1
21 July 2018
pts-core: Add readline-based autocompletion support for text-based menu selection lists
pts-core: Add readline-based autocompletion support for the result file save name for trying to match existing result file identifiers
pts-core: Add autocompletion support for result file identifier based on installed software/hardware
pts-core: Various Alpine Linux external dependency updates
pts-core: Various improvements to the Shell sub-command functionality, including auto-completion support
phoromatic: From rootadmin allow the rootadmin to override/reset a user account password
phodevi: Windows battery reporting discharge rate support
phodevi: Improved multi CPU socket reporting on Windows
phodevi: Various hardware/software detection improvements when running within Docker/containers
pgo: New module to provide for automated compiler PGO (Profile Guided Optimizations) testing on GCC/Clang
Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.1-Aremark
26 June 2018
pts-core: Add "wine" external dependency support
pts-core: Fix skip-test behavior
pts-core: Web browser handling improvements on Windows, other Windows updates
phoromatic: Various minor fixes and enhancements
phodevi: Add USE_WINE environment variable check, point it towards the wine binary you wish to test
Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.0-Aremark
5 June 2018
pts-core: Various macOS support tweaks/improvements
pts-core: Add external dependency support for Brew macOS package manager
pts-core: Avoid duplicate test identifiers on graphs
phodevi: Improved X.Org Server version detection
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 8.0.0 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 8.0.0 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 8.0.0 Milestone 2
24 March 2018
pts-core: Add DeleteOutputBefore and DeleteOutputAfter options to the result parser
pts-core: Fix for run-random-tests sub-command
pts-core: Native XML result parsing support via FileFormat = XML in the result parser for test profiles
pts-core: Add openbenchmarking-uploads sub-command for reporting recent result uploads from the local IP
phodevi: reboot/shutdown support on Windows
Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.0 Milestone 1
8 March 2018
pts-core: Rewritten Windows support
pts-core: Add ~/install-message support where if a test profile installer writes there, that message will in turn be shown to the user on test install
pts-core: Support for using Cygwin's bash interpreter on Windows systems for better test profile parsing support
pts-core: When running on Windows, add new "windows/" OpenBenchmarking.org test repository
pts-core: Introduce basic phoronix-test-suite shell for easier PTS experience
pts-core: Allow XInclude support for test suites
perf_per_dollar: Allow calculating cloud costs / perf-per via COST_PERF_PER_HOUR= environment variable
phodevi: Cavium ThunderX detection
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
Phoronix Test Suite 7.6.0-Alvdal
7 December 2017
pts-core: Just minor changes
Phoronix Test Suite 7.6.0 Milestone 4
3 December 2017
pts-core: Gentoo external dependency handling updates
pts-core: Better external dependency handling when running on EC2 instances
phodevi: Add new gpu.memory-usage sensor initially supported on NVIDIA
Phoronix Test Suite 7.6.0 Milestone 3
21 November 2017
pts-core: Provide some basic graph size/count reporting on refresh-graphs sub-command
pts-core: make script shebang more portable
pts-core: Various styling updates
pts-core: More demanding debug-self-test
pts-core: Update Fedora's Python packages
pts_Graph: Turn line graphs to horizontal box plots if too much data to graph in space
phodevi: physical CPU core detection count on macOS
phodevi: GPU power consumption sensor support via nvidia-smi
phodevi: NVMe drive temperature reporting on Linux
phodevi: Better memory model detection on Linux
Phoronix Test Suite 7.6.0 Milestone 2
2 November 2017
pts-core: Add LEDE external dependency handling support
pts-core: Drop ports-based external dependency handling for FreeBSD and instead encourage pkg
pts-core: Network MAC address detection on OpenBSD
phoronix-test-suite: Check for php-cli as binary option
phodevi: Motherboard detection support on BSD using smbios.planar.product
phodevi: hw.cpu_topology_core_ids support for physical core count on BSD
phodevi: Allow BSD GPU detection via pciconf data
phodevi: BSD chipset detection
phodevi: VT EFIFB resolution detection
Phoronix Test Suite 7.6.0 Milestone 1
10 October 2017
pts-core: Add external dependency handling for MidnightBSD / mport
pts-core: Improved handling of IP/MAC detection to try to figure out the default interface
pts-core: Wake-On-LAN handling detection improvements
phoromatic: Try using systemctl poweroff first when trying to turn off a system
phodevi: Add memory.temp sensor
phodevi: Fixed k10temp CPU temperature reporting
phodevi: Add IPMI ambient temperature support
phodevi: Some CPU/GPU temperature reporting improvements
phodevi: Ignore reporting 'MS-DOS FAT32' EFI file-system on macOS
phodevi: Add Bcache reporting support
phodevi: Add APFS Apple File-System detection on macOS
phodevi: Tweaks for macOS High Sierra
phodevi: Restructure CPU core/thread reporting in system tables
perf_per_dollar: Add "phoronix-test-suite perf_per_dollar.add <result file>" to allow perf-per-dollar graphs to be added after the fact
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4.0-Tynset
19 September 2017
pts-core: Improve command documentation categories/organization
pts-core: Fix install time reporting from the info sub-command when passing a test profile
pts-core: Add network-info sub-command
pts-core: Java external dependency updates
pts-core: Add maven external dependency
phodevi: NVMe disk reporting on BSDs
pts_Graph: Allow line graphs to have adjustable floor/bottom to better present data on graph
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4.0 Milestone 4
11 September 2017
pts-core: Report on updated OpenBenchmarking.org index update when new/updated tests are introduced
pts-core: Add TEST_EXEC_PREPEND support
pts-core: Ensure XAUTHORITY gets passed if relevant to test execution
pts-core: Fixed dynamic dependency handling on Ubuntu 17.10 / apt-file with newer versions
pts-core: Fix warning about passing variables by ref to PTS modules
pts-core: Add nasm external dependency entries
pts-core: Ensure duplicate dependencies to install don't become present
phodevi: Add basic Budgie desktop reporting
phodevi: IPMI fan speed reporting
phodevi: EPYC detection
toggle_screensaver: improved GNOME screensaver handling
toggle_screensaver: work better under Wayland / non-X environments where display server might not be detected
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4.0 Milestone 3
28 August 2017
pts-core: Reworked test exit status handling
ob_auto_compare: New module for seamless OpenBenchmarking.org result references
graphics_event_checker: Drop graphics_event_checker module as really provides no real benefit these days
phodevi: Improve CPU physical core count detection for multi-socket systems
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4.0 Milestone 2
15 August 2017
pts-core: Resolve possibility of first graph missing when exporting results as PDF
phodevi: WSLFS (Windows Subsystem for Linux) file-system detection
phodevi: Add monitor detection based on parsing EDID supplied by `xrandr --prop` (works well for newer NVIDIA setups)
phodevi: Initial "system type" support
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4.0 Milestone 1
31 July 2017
pts-core: Don't show PTS version when there is no sub-title, just leave it empty
pts-core: Add phoronix-test-suite unload-module sub-command
pts-core: Add phoronix-test-suite auto-load-module sub-command
pts-core: Drop juju scripts as appears unmaintained, happy to re-add if maintained
pts-core: Allow showing existing results from a result file in-progress on test runs
pts_Graph: Color tweaking
phodevi: Clear up extra potential fluff in the GPU model string
perf_tips: New module to indicate various performance tips to users
Phoronix Test Suite 7.2.1-Trysil
30 June 2017
pts-core: Don't pass arguments in quotes to pre/interim/post test scripts
pts-core: Minor optimization to is_test_profile() and more easily allow explicit paths to be used, overriding what's in OB cache
pts-core: Minor optimization to is_suite() and more easily allow explicit paths to be used, overriding what's in OB cache
pts-core: Fix warning in pts_test_result_parser
phodevi: AVX-512 reporting
Phoronix Test Suite 7.2.0-Trysil
8 June 2017