[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 7.5, 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 7.5 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-7.5-20200107.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-7.5-20200107.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.5-20200107.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.5-20200107.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.5-20200107.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-7.5-20200107.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-software-7.5-20200107.el8.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-7.5-20200107.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-backend-7.5-20200107.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-7.5-20200107.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.5-20200107.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.5-20200107.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.5-20200107.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-7.5-20200107.el7.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-7.5-20200107.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.5-20200107.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.5-20200107.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.5-20191231.el6.noarch.rpm

This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:

1. Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 and 4.3 certifications are now
supported. A separate announcement will be sent for these new
certifications.

2. Red Hat OpenStack Platform certification for RHOSP versions 13 and
14 are retired. Creating new certifications is no longer available
from rhcert for these versions.

3. The Thunderbolt 3 test is now available in the main hardware
certification package. Thunderbolt 3 is supported for RHEL 8 Hardware
Certification as both a test plan feature and a searchable catalog
feature. This test is an interactive test where hot-plugging each of
the Thunderbolt 3 ports on a system will need to be demonstrated,
similar to the behavior of the USB3 test.

4. A bug was fixed in the GPG check in the SUPPORTABLE/Software-Repo
test to now accept "https:" as valid URL prefix.


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