[Hwcert-announce-list] Red Hat Certification 8.59, Test Suite Updates, and Updated Certification Workflow Site Available

[Red Hat Partner Certification Operations Team]

Greetings Red Hat Partners,

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Red Hat
Certification 8.59 and associated test suite package updates (listed
below). This Red Hat Certification package update *is* an official release
and should be used for new Red Hat certification submissions for the RHEL 8
and 9 family of products. Successful results from the previous
certification test suite will be accepted for a period of 90 days from
March 15.

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/

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:
New features

Program

Details

Red Hat products affected

Hardware Certification

The usb_storage test is refactored

   -

   A generic usb_storage test allows any USB storage to be tested
   -

   USB2_Storage, USB3_5Gbps_Storage, USB3_10Gbps_Storage,
   USB3_20Gbps_Storage, USB4_20Gbps_Storage, USB4_40Gbps_Storage now cover
   specific USB storage classes on the basis of the supported USB version and
   interface speed.

Red Hat

Enterprise

Linux

Hardware Certification

Support for 400 Gb/s InfiniBand adapters is added

   -

   A new Infiniband_NDR test covers InfiniBand NDR adapters.
   -

   A new 400GigRoCE test covers InfiniBand RDMA over Converged Ethernet
   (RoCE) adapters.

Red Hat

Enterprise

Linux

Improvements

Program

Details

Red Hat products affected

Software

Certification

The Hypervisor check now warns on non-certified hypervisors

   -

   The supportable test will no longer fail when the software certification
   testing is run on a non-certified hypervisor.

Note: Red Hat does not test the certification test suite on these
hypervisors, where unexpected issues may be encountered.

Red Hat

Enterprise

Linux

Bug fixes

Program

Details

Red Hat products affected

Hardware

Certification

Audio test no longer traceback on unexpected udevadm output

   -

   In some cases, the internal audio test would not be planned due to an
   uncommon udevadm output bug. This issue is now fixed.

Red Hat

Enterprise

Linux


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 us
through the Red Hat Partner Acceleration Desk
<https://connect.redhat.com/support/technology-partner/>.

Regards,

The Red Hat Certification Team
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