Testing Farm release 2026-02.1

Testing Farm release 2026-02.1 was deployed on 2026-02-02 🎉.

🚀 Upgrades

tmt was updated to 1.66 from 1.65.

Testing Farm CLI tool was updated to v0.0.31. Please update your installation.

Artemis was updated to v0.0.84 on both ranches.

💔 Breaking Changes

All Testing Farm API tokens now have an expiration date. All existing tokens until now got expiration date set to 2027-02-02. (TFT-4181) The UI added support to regenerate tokens with a new expiration date. (TFT-4201)

Limited the usage of settings.worker.image field in POST /requests endpoint to admin only. (TFT-3877)

Testing Farm is planning to update the retention policy for Red Hat Ranch artifacts storage in the upcoming 2026-03.1 release. For details and providing feedback see TFT-4305.

🚀 Improvements

Red Hat users can now vote on TFT project Jiras to ask for a feature to be implemented with a priority. See the documentation for details.

Started building latest image mode for RHEL composes regularly. (TFT-3173)

Added Fedora-eln compose for redhat ranch. (TFT-3224)

Added support for customization of the bootc kickstart in beaker. (TFT-4070)

API now shows that some values are hidden. (TFT-3673)

Added support for --tmt-report option. (TFT-4042)

Test cases are now reported into results.xml and results-junit.xml immediately after discovering them. (TFT-4127)

Added support for test cases in pending state in Oculus. (TFT-4277)

Streamlined development environment for UI. (TFT-4197)

Added new composes command to list available composes in Testing Farm. (TFT-3105)

Added support for storing API token in system keyring as an alternative to environment variable. (testing-farm/cli!191)

Added support for loading environment variables from dotenv files. (TFT-4002)

Improved error messages for expired API tokens. (TFT-4179)

Added support to retrieve latest console output for AWS instances. (TFT-4272)

🐞 Bugfixes

Fixed CentOS-8.4 being unavailable in AWS. (TFT-3455)

🫂 Contributors

We would like to thank the following external contributors for contributing to Testing Farm.

Petr Menšík — added support for storing API token in system keyring (cli!191).
Cristian Le — relaxed python dependencies in CLI spec file (cli!192).

📦️ Packages

List of important packages bundled in the worker image.

❯ podman run --entrypoint rpm quay.io/testing-farm/worker-public:2026-02.1 -q fmf tmt podman beakerlib | sort | uniq
beakerlib-1.32-1.fc42.noarch
fmf-1.7.0-1.fc42.noarch
podman-5.7.1-1.fc42.x86_64
tmt-1.66.0-1.fc42.noarch

🔎 Stats

The average error rate for Testing Farm was approximately 2.50%.