[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 6.6, 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 Red Hat
Certification 6.6 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. Packages built for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 8 are now available on the Customer Portal and
can be used for early pre-testing on pre-release builds of RHEL 8. A
separate mail will be sent to partners when official certification
requests for RHEL 8 can be opened.

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-6.6-20190221.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-6.6-20190221.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-6.6-20190221.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-6.6-20190221.el8.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-6.6-20190221.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-6.6-20190221.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-6.6-20190221.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-6.6-20190221.el6.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-6.6-20190221.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-6.6-20190221.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-6.6-20190209.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-6.6-20190209.el6.noarch.rpm

This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:

1. Updates to the Cloud tests when run on pre-releases of RHEL 8 to
align with upcoming RHEL 8 certification requirements.

Changes to the Supportable test include:
 * A Software Modules subtest is added as a new subtest
 * The Filesystem Layout subtest requires a separate /boot partition
 * Unsupported Hardware subtest fails for logical core sizes of less than 1 GB
 * The Software Repositories subtest requires both BaseOS and
AppStream to be enabled
 * A Software Containers subtest is added as new subtest
 * 'Architecture' subtest renamed to 'Hypervisor/Partitioning' and now
includes support for additional architectures

Changes to the Configuration test include:
 * The Network Configuration subtest now uses nftables instead of iptables

Changes to the Security test include:
 * The SELinux subtest now strictly enforces SELinux must be running
in 'enabled' mode across in all RHEL versions (previously permissive
mode was allowed).

2. Updates to the Hardware tests to address issues when the tests are
run on pre-releases of RHEL 8. Changes include:

 * A stack trace is addressed in the fv_realtime test which caused the
test to neither pass nor fail
 * A TypeError: is addressed in the audio test which caused the test
to neither pass nor fail when testing HDMI audio
 * Fixed a bug in planning the RDMA tests where in some instances the
IPV6 value was not used correctly when determining the net device
associated with the RDMA device.
 * Fixed the video test to correctly fail if the commands xvinfo,
xdriinfo or glxinfo are not installed or fail
 * Added a delay before restarting iWarp interfaces in the iWarp tests
to allow for devices which require a longer shutdown and startup time
 * A stack trace is fixed in the Wireless tests where parsing
fractional packetloss resulted in the test neither passing or failing
 * Updated the Profiler test to use the perf command instead of the
oprofile command. This change is also applies to testing on RHEL 7.

3. Fix for a traceback in Hardware Certification Workflow when using
the webUI on the related products tab when accessing certifications
with multiple vendor values.


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