Testing Farm release 2022-11.1

Testing Farm is happy to announce it’s first named release 2022-11.1 🎉.

It was decided Testing Farm will be using a date version because it consists of multiple services and tools bundled together.

Highlights

tmt updated from 1.16 to 1.19 (see also release notes for 1.17 and 1.18)
Core worker framework (gluetool and gluetool-modules) now running on Python 3.9 (TFT-519)
Documented Jenkins integration with Testing Farm (thanks to Lukas Kotek / KVM QE)
New contributable results viewer oculus (thanks to Martin Pitt / Cockpit)
There is a new HTML page for available Red Hat Ranch composes (RH access only)
Hardware can be now specified via Testing Farm API or tmt plans for Red Hat ranch (TFT-1328)

Bugfixes

rpminspect execution is now 2-3x faster for large components like kernel, thunderbird, libreoffice and gcc (TFT-1725)
fixed issues with stuck tests due to malfunctioning timeouts (tmt#1521 TFT-1475 TFT-1534)
fixed issue with randomly disconnecting ssh for long-running tests (TFT-1740)
tmt plans referencing html report plugin will not fail (TFT-1659)
tmt tests with '#' in name are now correctly handled (TFT-1542)
copr support was switched to v3 api (TFT-1627)
tests using standard-test-source STI role will now work (TFT-1734)
remove disabled epel repository failing some tests (TFT-1538)
ssh to test host now does not forward LC_* and LANG env vars (TFT-1607)
prevent random ssh connection termination (TFT-1740)

Packages

List of important packages bundled in the worker image.

❯ podman run --entrypoint rpm quay.io/testing-farm/worker:2022-11.1 -q tmt standard-test-roles ansible podman beakerlib | sort | uniq
ansible-2.9.27-1.el8.noarch
beakerlib-1.29.3-1.el8.noarch
podman-4.2.0-1.module_el8.7.0+1216+b022c01d.x86_64
standard-test-roles-4.10-1.el8.noarch
tmt-1.19.0-1.el8.noarch

Statistics

error rate ~ 3.22% in the last 30 days (RH access only)
~ 55k testing requests in the last 30 days (RH access only)