Testing Farm release 2026-03.1

Testing Farm release 2026-03.1 was deployed on 2026-03-05 🎉.

🚀 Upgrades

tmt was updated to 1.68 from 1.67.

💔 Breaking Changes

Updated retention policy for Red Hat ranch as announced in release 2026-02.1. (TFT-4305)

🎯 Highlights

RHEL-6 is supported on all architectures. (TFT-4255)

🚀 Improvements

Added AWS pools for x86_64, aarch64 bare metal in Red Hat ranch. See documentation for details how to use them. (TFT-4161)

Onboarded new composes (RHEL-9.9, RHEL-10.3). (TFT-4250, TFT-4251)

Increased max reservation time up to 99 hours. testing-farm/tests!80

🐞 Bugfixes

Fixed high-cardinality metrics from unmatched paths. (testing-farm/nucleus!283)

Installation with --redhat-brew-build supported on rhel-6. (TFT-4243)

Support requests with multiple architectures in Konflux integration. (TFT-4315)

Refreshing latest rhel-bootc images tags. (TFT-4282)

📦️ Packages

List of important packages bundled in the worker image.

❯ podman run --entrypoint rpm quay.io/testing-farm/worker-public:2026-03.1 -q fmf tmt podman beakerlib | sort | uniq
beakerlib-1.33.1-1.fc42.noarch
fmf-1.7.0-1.fc42.noarch
podman-5.7.1-1.fc42.x86_64
tmt-1.68.0-1.fc42.noarch

🔎 Stats

The average error rate for Testing Farm was approximately 2.33%.