Phoronix Test Suite 1.8 Changes
Phoronix Test Suite 1.8.0 "Selbu"
April 6, 2009
- pts-core: Only emit a warning when the inputted test result
file is associated with a different test/suite
- pts-core: Add AA/AF reporting to sub-titles on graphics for Graphics tests where
levels are forced by driver
- pts-core: More robust detection of clock frequencies with ATI OverDrive
- pts-core: Fix a few PHP warnings
- pts-core: Fix regression in excess removal of spaces from strings in pts_trim_spaces()
- pts-core: Revise the installation interface for GTK2 GUI
- pts: Add favorites test suite
- pts: Allow c-ray test profile to have millisecond precision for test results
- pts: Update nexuiz test profile to Nexuiz 2.5.0
- pts_Graph: Add support for multiple sub-titles on graphs
- bilde_renderer: Support for using system default TTF fonts
- documentation: Update for Phoronix Test Suite 1.8
Phoronix Test Suite 1.8.0 Beta 2
March 26, 2009
- pts-core: Introduce pts_sensor infrastructure
- pts-core: Define PTS_LIBRARY_PATH, rename pts-core/functions/ to pts-core/library/
- pts-core: Small code clean-ups and optimizations
- pts-core: Fix launching of Phoronix Global from run_test option
- pts-core: Fix list-suites so that it will not show suites containing no supported
tests
- pts-core: Use file-locking based system for determining whether another phoronix-test-suite
instance is active
- pts-core: Use file-locking based system for test instances and drop pts_process_register(),
pts_process_remove(), pts_process_active()
- pts-core: Move XSL for user-config.xml into ~/.phoronix-test-suite/xsl/
- pts-core: Support SearchMediaForCache on Mac OS X with /Volumes/ mount
- pts-core: Use the $PATH variable when looking for the downloading application
to use in pts_download()
- pts-core: Add support on Mac OS X for reading enabled monitors with hw_gpu_enabled_monitors()
- pts-core: Add ReferenceSystems tag to XML profile specifications for tests and
suites
- pts-core: Generate graphs if they are missing when running show-result on a
saved file
- pts-core: Add support for being able to merge together test result files, but
to only merge selected result sets / identifiers
- pts-core: Add reference-comparison option for comparing test results to available
reference test systems on supported tests / suites
- pts-core: Add support to the GTK2 GUI for performing reference comparisons on
test results and recently run tests
- pts-core: Add Archive Results item to menu on GTK2 GUI for backing up test results
to a compressed file
- pts-core: Bring InstallationAgreement tag for EULA / license agreement handling
at install time to Selbu branch
- pts-core: Make notebook page switching reliable on GTK2 GUI
- pts: Support build-mysql test profile on platforms besides Linux
- pts: Upgrade build-apache test profile to Apache 2.2.11
- pts: Upgrade build-imagemagick test profile to ImageMagick 6.5.0
- pts: Upgrade compress-7zip test profile to p7zip 4.65
- pts: Upgrade openssl test profile to OpenSSL 0.9.8k
- pts: Upgrade sqlite test profile to SQLite 3.6.11
- pts: Add povray test profile for POV-Ray benchmark
- pts: Add c-ray test profile for C-Ray ray-tracing benchmark
- pts: Add bwfirt test profile for another ray-tracing test
- pts: Add External Dependencies support to Intel Moblin by mirroring the Fedora
dependencies
- bilde_renderer: With GD renderer don't crash when TTF support isn't available,
fall back to the soft font renderer
- system_monitor: Rewrite system_monitor module to use pts_sensor infrastructure
Phoronix Test Suite 1.8.0 Beta 1
March 17, 2009
- pts-core: Add sample phoronix-test-suite.desktop file to pts-core/static/
- pts-core: Move short-description.txt to pts-core/static/
- pts-core: Add module_setup_validate() to pts_module_interface
- pts-core: Add menu mnemonics to GTK2 GUI
- pts-core: Few improvements to result-file-to-pdf writer
- pts-core: Add "drag and drop" benchmarking support of test result
graphs on GTK2 GUI
- pts-core: Move Java version detection into pts-core
- pts-core: Move 2D acceleration type (UXA/XAA/EXA) detection into pts-core
- pts-core: Clean up some of the pts-includes-run code
- pts-core: Check for PHP binary in /usr/pkg/bin/
- pts-core: Add enhanced BSD support to pts_download()
- pts-core: Allow null input for test identifier (defaults to date/time stamp)
- pts-core: Split out some pts-includes-run code into pts-includes-run_setup and
pts-includes-run_options
- pts-core: Add auto-disk-mount-points as an automatic identifier for providing
mounted disk point locations to test profiles
- pts-core: Begin work on system tray support for GTK2 GUI
- pts-core: Un-globalize some functions that were included by default always but
are only used in select cases
- pts-core: Introduce IgnoreRuns tag to test profile specification, to replace
IgnoreFirstRun option
- pts-core: Drop support for read_ati_extension() since ATI OverDrive has been
on Linux long enough now -- using read_ati_overdrive()
- pts-core: When launching browser, if konqueror is installed, use x-www-browser
- pts-core: Support inputting Global IDs for more test options
- pts-core: Drop P_CACHE_PTS_VERSION from pts-download-cache.xml specification
- pts: Add RETAIL to License type for test profiles
- pts: OpenAL fix for smokin-guns test profile when using newer Debian / Ubuntu
- pts: Update ffmpeg test profile to FFmpeg version 0.5
- pts: Allow alternate disks to be tested with sqlite test profile through auto-disk-mount-points
option
- pts: Few trivial test profile tweaks
- pts: Drop tandem-xml and pts-graph test profiles
- pts: Drop no longer used php-gd and git from External Dependencies
- pts: Add External Dependencies support for PCLinuxOS
- pts: Add External Dependencies support for NetBSD
- pts: Add External Dependencies support for Debian through Ubuntu scripts
- pts: Fix for smokin-guns test with OpenAL and other work so that it runs cleanly
on Ubuntu
- install-sh: Install Phoronix Test Suite icon
Phoronix Test Suite 1.8.0 Alpha 3
March 8, 2009
- pts-core: Introduce pts_gtk_window object
- pts-core: Move more of pts-core logic out of gui_gtk and into the generic GUI
function set
- pts-core: When estimated the test's run-time but the test hasn't been installed
or run yet, use the EstimatedLength tag from test profile
- pts-core: Override the LANG and LC_* environmental variables when running tests
to not apply any language / locale settings to results
- pts-core: Rework PTS user agreement handling
- pts-core: Add support for prompting the PTS user agreement when running the
GTK GUI
- pts-core: Move more test option prompting calculations to pts_test_option object
- pts-core: Implement test options within the GTK GUI
- pts-core: Add file-system detection support for SquashFS, AuFS, and UnionFS
when running from a Live CD/DVD mode
- pts-core: Add in new option override support for the user-config.xml settings
- pts-core: Implement basic preferences window with batch mode options and more
in GTK GUI
- pts-core: Allow pts_option_interface objects to provide a required_function_sets()
function to load needed function sets
- pts-core: Add graph configuration options to preferences area
- pts-core: Set LC_NUMERIC locale within pts-core to "C"
- pts-core: Add is_module_setup() function to pts_module object
- pts-core: Quit testing prematurely if ~/.phoronix-test-suite/halt-testing is
touched during the testing process
- pts-core: Add basic support for detecting the attached/enabled monitor name(s)
in system information string
- pts-core: Move make download cache how-to into a static file
- pts-core: Remove RenderBorder tag from graph-config.xml scheme when there is
already Border tag doing same thing
- pts-core: Start on Phoronix Global support for the GTK2 GUI
- pts: Add autoconf to PTS External Dependencies support
- pts: Add libtool to PTS External Dependencies support
- pts: Update vdrift test profile to VDrift 2009-02-15 and make the test profile
work to verified state
- pts: Add EnvironmentSize tag to many more test profiles
- pts: Update prey test profile to use Prey Linux Installer 02192009
- bilde_renderer: Optimize what is outputted by the SVG renderer
- bilde_renderer: Add style definitions support to the SVG renderer that complies
with the W3 CSS SVG styling specification
Phoronix Test Suite 1.8.0 Alpha 2
February 25, 2009
- pts-core: For alpha and beta builds using build-package-deb.php,
separate version number with "~"
- pts-core: Improve Linux distribution detection for distributions that supply
an empty *-release file (Such as Arch Linux)
- pts-core: Improve Linux distribution detection where there are multiple *-version
or *-release files
- pts-core: Add support for KDE 3.5.x desktop detection that remains compatible
with the KDE 4.x detection
- pts-core: Add pts_suite_name_to_identifier(), pts_suite_identifier_to_name(),
pts_supported_suites_array()
- pts-core: Add various new functions to different pts_test_* objects
- pts-core: Add initial Phoronix Test Suite GTK GUI (launch: phoronix-test-suite
gui-gtk)
- pts-core: Provide variable caching for more test functions
- pts-core: Provide more cache support throughout pts-core, with GUI it's evident
what functions can use caching
- pts-core: Add pts_set_assignment_next() operator for setting assignments in
the next option in the execution queue
- pts-core: Merge pts_test_result_info_details and pts_test_results_details into
pts_test_result_details
- pts-core: Add MEDIA_DIR
- pts-core: Allow multiple periods to be used in command string when running a
module command
- pts-core: Change format of several tags within graph-config.xml
- pts-core: From view menu allow to toggle showing tests of a particular license
(free / non-free)
- pts: Various install.sh test script changes from Kano
- pts: Fix in nexuiz test installation script from Kano
- pts: Add PTS External Dependencies support for Arch Linux
- pts: Add PTS External Dependencies support for MEPIS by aliasing the Ubuntu
external dependencies
- pts: Nexuiz test profile FPS calculation change
- pts: Update filesystem test suite
- pts_Graph: Allow path to a font file to be specified in FontType tag
- bilde_renderer: Add a GIF renderer back-end that uses the GD library (bilde_gif_renderer)
- bilde_renderer: Fix failure with bilde_renderer fallback renderer
Phoronix Test Suite 1.8.0 Alpha 1
February 16, 2009
- pts-core: Allow modules to be installed and loaded locally from ~/.phoronix-test-suite/modules/
- pts-core: Add support for "user run commands" stored within PTS modules
- pts-core: Rewrite test result merging code to use new pts_result_file_merge_manager
and pts_result_file_merge_test objects
- pts-core: Allow an unlimited number of test result files to be merged at once
using pts_merge_test_results() (compared to previous limit of 2)
- pts-core: Allow more than two test result files to be merged at once using the
merge-results option
- pts-core: Setup PTS_PATH define for phoronix-test-suite directory
- pts-core: Don't reinstall a test only when the reported CPU frequency changes,
but the CPU model remains the same
- pts-core: With result-file-to-pdf save the PDF to the home directory
- pts-core: Rename function files that aren't loaded by default to use pts-includes-
prefix
- pts-core: Expand capabilities for pts_module_option
- pts-core: Save system logs when running in batch mode
- pts-core: Save system logs to system-logs/ instead of system-details/
- pts-core: Add fall-back support in OpenSolaris detection for CPU manufacturer
when rest of processor detection fails
- pts-core: Don't prefix "-" to memory string before memory speed when
memory type isn't detected
- pts-core: Drop OS_PREFIX support from beginning of test profile names, since
it's not being used and there's better ways to handle it
- pts-core: Improve estimated run-time reporting when running multiple instances
of the same test
- pts-core: When there is a local test profile installed, compare it to the in-PTS
version and use whatever one is newer
- pts-core: When there is a local test suite installed, compare it to the in-PTS
version and use whatever one is newer
- pts-core: Drop TYPE_LOCAL_BASE_TEST and TEST_RESOURCE_LOCAL_CTP_BASE_DIR
- pts-core: Remove SCTP (Self-Contained Test Profile) support until it's redesigned
- pts-core: Fix warnings related to array merging of non-arrays
- pts-core: Add $SYSTEM_MONITOR_START and $SYSTEM_MONITOR_STOP for system monitoring
capabilities for test profiles
- pts-core: Add support for reading the CPU usage on OpenSolaris
- pts-core: Fix for recursively handling of nested suites for batch and default
modes
- pts-core: Provide smarter caching during make-download-cache process
- pts-core: Don't show suites in list-suites that contain no supported tests
- pts-core: Improve multi-CPU detection support on OpenSolaris
- pts-core: Add Sun Studio compiler detection support
- pts-core: Add LLVM compiler detection support
- pts-core: Fix for generating download cache when destination is not writable
- pts-core: Use pts_Chart overview chart when using result-file-to-pdf
- pts-core: Don't copy XSL result viewer file on each time a graph is rendered
- pts-core: When running a PTS module command of .help with no function being
implemented, list all available commands
- pts: Update compress-pbzip2 test profile to pbzip2 1.0.5
- pts: Update memory-bandwidth test profile to version 0.15
- pts: Nexuiz test profile doesn't need build-utilities
- pts: Add mesa test suite for graphics tests that should be compatible with the
Mesa 3D drivers
- pts: Fix external dependencies typo in qgears2 test profile
- pts: Fix external dependencies typo in render-bench test profile
- pts: Add graphics-magick to nevada test profile
- pts: Start on OpenSolaris support for specviewperf9 and specviewperf10 test
profiles
- pts: Add XSL stylesheet for PTS External Dependency XML files
- pts: Add XSL stylesheet for test suite XML specification
- pts: Add XSL stylesheet covering most of the XML test profile specification
- pts: Add XSL stylesheet for the user-config.xml file
- pts: Add Name tag to PTS External Dependency XML specification
- pts_Graph: Render an arrow to indicate graph proportion for higher or lower
results being better
- pts_Graph: Add option to graph-config.xml for specifying the renderer to use
by default
- pts_Graph: Add pts_Chart object for rendering charts
- bilde_renderer: Require and implement renderer_supported() function for renderers
- bilde_renderer: Require and implement html_embed_code() function to provide
HTML markup for embedding the renderer's file