[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 6.13, 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 6.13 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-6.13-20190715.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-6.13-20190715.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-6.13-20190715.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-6.13-20190715.el8.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-6.13-20190715.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-backend-6.13-20190715.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-6.13-20190715.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-6.13-20190715.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-6.13-20190715.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-6.13-20190715.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-6.13-20190715.el7.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-6.13-20190715.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-6.13-20190715.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-6.13-20190712.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-6.13-20190712.el6.noarch.rpm


This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:

1. Following are the several new hardware tests that are introduced
and added to the policy guide:
  a. 2_5GigRoCE for 2.5Gb/s RDMA over Converged Ethernet
  b. 5GigRoCE for 5Gb/s RDMA over Converged Ethernet
  c. sw_profiler is created for Cloud Instance-types where hardware
profiling is unavailable.
  d. profiler is renamed to hw_profiler for clarity in RHEL 7 and RHEL 8.
  e. freeze is added to the suspend test in RHEL 8 to cover suspend-to-idle.

2. An issue is fixed where a RHOSP certification user would see
"Error: could not download vendor products" instead of the list
certifications after logging in, blocking that user.


The Red Hat Certification 6.12 release was not announced when the
packages were made available. It included the following enhancements
and bug fixes:

1. A traceback is fixed in the USB test allowing the use of devices
that include non-acsii characters in their name during testing.

2. The kernel checks in the INFO and SUPPORTABLE tests are now fixed
to understand the updated versioning pattern of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 8 kernel errata packages.

3. A bug introduced in redhat-certification-6.11 is fixed where an
incorrect mapping of product, version, and platform was shown on the
create new certification page.

4. A bug has been fixed in cloud/supportable test while performing the
RPM verification. This was blocking the test result generation.

5. The early access 'fingerprintreader' test has been returned to the
redhat-certification-hardware-preview package.


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