[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 5.6, 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 5.6 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-5.6-20180110.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-backend-5.6-20180110.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-5.6-20180110.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-ironic-preview-5.6-20180110.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-5.6-20180110.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-5.6-20171206.el7.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-5.6-20180110.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-5.6-20180110.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-5.6-20171205.1.el6

This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:
1. The release notes for the Red Hat Certification package are now
contained within the package. A link to the release notes is provided
on the configuration page in the WUI.
2. The configuration page also shows the installed version of rhcert.
3. Restarting a system under test (SUT) from the configuration page
will delete the current test results on the SUT.  A confirmation
prompt has been added to alert the user of this.
4. Fixed a bug where an incorrect Certification ID could be displayed
when a certification was created.
5. Fixed a bug preventing the neutron tag ($rhcert-cli run --tag
neutron) from working with rhcert-ci and rhcert-cli.
6. The Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) certification test reports
now capture and display any SKIPPED test messages from tempest.
7. The results from the manila_* and tempest_config tests are now
displayed with subtests to improve legibility.
8. Fixed a bug where URL input fields for RHOSP certifications were
incorrectly labeled as text fields.
9. Fixed a bug where URL input fields for RHOSP certifications were
incorrectly set as text fields.
10. Fixed an issue preventing the use of leveraging of certification
results from system certifications.. BZ 1525665
11. From the rhcert WUI, a partner can now create a passthrough
certification for a different vendor. BZ 1525223
12. In the hardware certification package, the kdump test now supports
RHEL7.4 for POWER9.
13. In the hardware certification package, an issue is resolved where
fv images stored on the LTS were not being found at run time due to an
update in httpd config.
14. A login failure when rhcert 5.5 LTS is configured to use a proxy
has been fixed. BZ 1525233, BZ 1524444
15. Fixed issue while generating OSP test report. It was reported at
CASE 02004580

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