[Hwcert-announce-list] [Red Hat Partner Announcement] Hardware Test Suite (v7-1.3-46) update now available.

[Rob Landry]

Greetings Red Hat Worldwide Partners,

Red Hat is pleased to announce an update to the Red Hat v7 hardware test 
suite v7-1.3-46 for hardware certification purposes with Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

This updated Red Hat v7 hardware test suite package (v7-1.3-46) is an 
official release and supersedes previous versions of v7. Although Red 
Hat strongly recommends that this latest version of the v7 hardware test 
suite package be used for Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification 
submissions, vendors are permitted to use the previous v7 hardware test 
suite (v7-1.3-43) for official certifications *already in progress* for 
a period of 90 days from this announcement.

The updated Red Hat v7 hardware test suite (v7-1.3-46) package now is 
available on the Red Hat Customer Portal (http://access.redhat.com) and 
at the following location:

ftp://partners.redhat.com/a166eabc5cf5df158922f9b06e5e7b21/hwcert/


Highlights of the latest version of the v7 hardware test suite 
(v7-1.3-46) include:

* A regression included in v7 1.3-43 prevents v7 version information 
from being properly captured in the results rpms.  By using the updated 
v7 hardware test suite (v7-1.3-46), this information is now properly 
captured.  In addition, to enable official certifications already in 
progress with the previous version of the v7 hardware test suite 
(v7-1.3-43), the hardware catalog (https://hardware.redhat.com) has been 
updated to use a secondary location within v7-1.3-43 results rpms for v7 
version information.

* The ExpressCard test will now properly plan and execute on RHEL6(.x).


Filing Bugzillas:

The v7-1.3-46 hardware test suite package has been verified against 
RHEL6 and RHEL5 on the x86, x86_64, ppc64, and s390x architectures. If 
you encounter any problems, please file bugs against the 'Red Hat 
Hardware Certification Program' product in Red Hat Bugzilla 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com).

Changelog between v7-1.3-43 and v7-1.3-46:

704404 - v7 1.3.43 result missing v7 version information
702491 - V7 1.2.x and 1.3.x fail to add expresscard tests to plan

Known Issues list for v7-1.3-46:

524983 - v7 Network server blocked from working by SELinux
701939 - ia64 fv_storage guest fail
702168 - v7-1.3-35 Hardware Test Suite: v7 server requires fence-agents rpm
702695 - v7-1.3-35 v7 server requires python-lxml
705326 - fv_network is tagged as interactive, v7 --mode auto will result 
in fv failures

Red Hat values your ongoing participation and testing in the Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux development, testing, and certifications efforts. Thank 
you for your continued partnership. If you have any questions or 
comments, please do not hesitate to contact your Partner Manager or
Technical Account Manager.

Regards,

The Red Hat Hardware Certification Team