[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 5.5, Test Suite Updates, and Updated Certification Workflow Site Available

[Engineering Partner Management]

Greetings Red Hat Partners,

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of updated
Red Hat Certification 5.5 and associated test suite package updates
(listed below). This Red Hat Certification package update *is* an
official release and should be used for all new Red Hat certification
submissions. Successful results from the previous certification test
suite will be accepted for a period of 90 days.

The updated Red Hat Certification packages listed below are available
on the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following location:

https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/282/

redhat-certification-5.5-20171201.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-backend-5.5-20171201.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-5.5-20171201.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-ironic-preview-5.5-20171201.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-5.5-20171201.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-5.5-20171201.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-5.5-20171201.1.el7.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-5.5-20171201.1.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-5.5-20171201.1.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-5.5-20171201.4.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-5.5-20171201.4.el6.noarch.rpm


This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:
1. Supplemental hardware certifications may now be created from Red
Hat Certification directly.

2. Creating a Red Hat OpenStack Platform certification for block or
filesystem storage now requires a name to be provided when ‘Other
Protocol’ is selected.

3. In the case of tests running with a non-english locale,
redhat-certification test suite will now temporarily set the locale to
‘en_US.UTF-8’ for the duration of the test run. The locale is restored
to the original value upon completion of the tests.

4. All of the redhat-certification-openstack feature tests now capture
the tempest.log file as an attachment to the certification test.

5. Additional summaries have been added to the openstack feature tests
output log to clarify the test classes and exit statuses (total
run/number failed, passed, and skipped).  This report also highlights
details for any failed test cases.

6. The hardware/CPU scaling test will now default to the C-state
variation of the test. If this test fails or cannot be run, it will
fall back to the previous P-state variation. With this change, if
either test variation passes the test is considered passed.

7. The hardware/RDMA iWARP connection test now prompts from a
selection of IP addresses and interfaces to test against.

8. Misleading warning messages in the RDMA connection tests have been removed.

9. The hardware/kdump test will now restore kdump.conf to the original
state when it exits.

10. The USB3 test will now prompt for the generation (1,2) and then
verify the controller reported connection speed accordingly.


The complete changelog for each package may be found on the download
page by selecting the package name followed by selecting the ChangeLog
tab.

If you encounter any problems, please file bugs against the "Red Hat
Certification Program" product in Red Hat Bugzilla
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com). Note that this may be a change for some
users who are used to using the old "Red Hat Hardware Certification
Program" product.

We value your ongoing participation in Red Hat certification, software
development, and testing efforts. Thank you for your continued
partnership. If you have any questions or comments, please do not
hesitate to contact your partner manager or engineering account
manager.

Regards,
The Red Hat Certification Team