[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 7.17, 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 7.17 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-7.17-20200916.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-7.17-20200916.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.17-20200916.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-sap-7.17-20200916.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.17-20200916.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.17-20200916.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-7.17-20200916.el8.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-software-7.17-20200916.el8.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-7.17-20200916.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-backend-7.17-20200916.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-baremetal-7.17-20200916.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.17-20200916.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-sap-7.17-20200916.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-7.17-20200916.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-hardware-preview-7.17-20200916.el7.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-openstack-7.17-20200916.el7.noarch.rpm

redhat-certification-backend-7.17-20200916.el6.noarch.rpm
redhat-certification-cloud-7.17-20200916.el6.noarch.rpm


The Red Hat Certification management interface on Red Hat Partner
Connect, which is available at https://rhcert.connect.redhat.com, has
been updated to use these packages.

This release includes enhancements and bug fixes as follows:

1. The Hardware Health subtest is now updated to include a new
Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) test. The subtest will now check if
SMT is available, enabled, and if so, active in the system.
2. A bug has been fixed in the cpuscaling test where the test would
exit with a failure if any core was offline. The test is now updated
to run only on the online cores and will show details of both online
and offline core upon completion.  Please note, the certification test
plan may indicate that all cores must be online to receive credit in
which case a passing cpuscaling test with offline cores would not
qualify for certification credit.
3. A new test called WiFi6 supersedes the Wireless AX test. The WiFi6
test has the same features and functionality as the Wireless AX test
and will be planned wherever the Wireless AX test would be planned.
The Wireless AX test remains available in the test suite, however it
will no longer be planned by default.

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