[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 7.7, 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 7.7 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-7.7-20200220.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-7.7-20200220.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.7-20200220.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.7-20200220.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.7-20200220.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-7.7-20200220.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-software-7.7-20200220.el8.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-7.7-20200220.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-backend-7.7-20200220.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-7.7-20200220.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.7-20200220.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.7-20200220.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.7-20200220.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-7.7-20200220.el7.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-7.7-20200220.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.7-20200220.el6.noarch.rpm

This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:

1. A bug has been fixed in the RHEL 8 Application certification test
suite that would cause the Supportable/Hypervisor-Partitioning subtest
to fail on the valid combination of x86_64 architecture on bare metal.
Certifications conducted in this environment will now pass this
subtest.

2. The option to create new certifications for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 for the Power 9, System z (Structure A), and ARM 64
architectures has been removed.  Partners wanting to certify products
on these architectures should use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

3. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 deprecates the data processing
service "Sahara".  Accordingly, the ability to create new Sahara
certifications has been removed.


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 Ecosystem Partner Management.

Regards,
The Red Hat Certification Team