[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 6.8, 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 Red Hat
Certification 6.8 and its 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-backend-6.8-20190405.1.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-6.8-20190405.1.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-6.8-20190405.1.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-6.8-20190405.1.el8.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-6.8-20190405.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-backend-6.8-20190405.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-6.8-20190405.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-6.8-20190405.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-6.8-20190405.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-6.8-20190405.1.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-6.8-20190405.1.el7.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-6.8-20190405.1.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-6.8-20190405.1.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-6.8-20190328.1.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-6.8-20190328.1.el6.noarch.rpm


This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:

1. Some Red Hat internal certification services have been refactored
to improve the performance of the redhat-certification web user
interface. Significant performance improvements for the Hardware
Certification Program and slight performance improvements for the
Cloud and OpenStack Certification Programs are expected to be
observable when using all currently supported versions of rhcert.

2. A traceback is addressed in the "Baremetal" test when a single node
is specified in the instackenv.json file.

3. A new "Insights" subtest is now added to the Cloud/Supportable test
when run on pre-releases of RHEL 8. This test verifies the Red Hat
Insights client is installed in cloud images.

4. Added a missing dependency for the "perftest" package to resolve
the issues encountered by partners in the RDMA tests.

5. Bug 1695064 has been fixed in rhcert that was causing unwanted
removal of test attachments from the end result of the xml file.



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).

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