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PHORONIX TEST SUITE CHANGE-LOG

Phoronix Test Suite

- Add support so distribution vendors / package mantainers can create their own defaults for user configuration options as a template at /pts/etc/user-config-template.xml
- Clean up all of the *_LOCATION defintions to using *_DIR

Phoronix Test Suite 0.4.0
April 24, 2008

- Add system-info argument for quickly and easily showing the system's hardware and software information
- Add diagnostics argument for dumping Phoronix Test Suite information for debugging purposes and showing environmental variables accessible to the test scripts/profiles
- Update build-linux-kernel profile to use Linux 2.6.25 kernel and support both x86 and x86_64 standardized configurations
- Allow users to log-into their PTS Global account using "phoronix-test-suite login"
- Add in basic browser detection code
- Add scimark2 profile
- Add java-scimark2 profile
- Add support for pts-test-description and pts-test-version for benchmark description and benchmark version to be defined outside of the XML schema
- Add "java" suite of Java benchmarks
- Add External Dependencies support for CentOS (Thanks to Pekka Panula)
- Add External Dependencies support for Mandriva (Thanks to Stephane Teletchea)
- Add new OpenGL profile (norsetto-shadow)
- Major rework of how results are saved and each set of results now has its own directory. Most regressions in this area should be taken care of.
- Add show-result <Saved File> argument for opening saved results at a later time in your web browser
- Test results location now defaults to ~/.phoronix-test-suite/test-results/ and saved benchmarks now defaults to ~/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/
- All graphs are now rendered locally. This means php-gd/php5-gd (PHP GD library) is a requirement if you wish to see the results!
- Add support so distribution maintainers can create their own graph theme (color, text size, etc) or others and store the template of graph-config.xml as pts-core/pts-results-viewer/graph-config-template.xml
- Support for installing the Phoronix Test Suite code and other files into one directory (say /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/) and installing phoronix-test-suite to /usr/bin/phoronix-test-suite by just adjusting the PTS_DIR environmental variable inside phoronix-test-suite
- Add suite-info <SUITE NAME> argument for providing more information on suites -- tests in each suite, maintainer, type, etc.
- Add test-info <TEST NAME> argument for providing more information on a test.
- Fix motherboard test suite
- Other bug fixes

Phoronix Test Suite 0.3.1
April 19, 2008

- Add WINE (Direct3D 9) test profile
- Add render-bench (X Render: render_bench) profile
- Cleaning up of all current profiles
- Revert SYS_CPU_JOBS and SYS_CPU_CORES back to NUM_CPU_JOBS and NUM_CPU_CORES, respectively. Fixes compilation crashes!

Phoronix Test Suite 0.3.0
April 18, 2008

- Add SPECViewPerf 9 profile
- Add IOzone profile
- PTS Global Tagging Support
- Add "Total Disk Space" reporting to PTS hardware information
- Report "major" running processes to TestNotes in XML. Currently Firefox and Compiz are reported if they ran while the testing was done.
- Pts-Grapher updates
- Initial "Batch Mode" support through using batch-run or batch-benchmark and BatchMode options are through ~/.phoronix-test-suite/user-config.xml
- Add "initial-config" argument, which overwrites the user-config.xml with a new default template
- Many "External Dependencies" improvements. Needs testing and more distribution profiles!
- Add "install-dependencies pts" for installing some PTS dependencies for itself, aside from php-cli.
- Introduce Fedora support for External Dependencies. Only tested with Fedora 8.92.
- Shutdown screensaver when running phoronix-test-suite. Currently only GNOME screensaver is supported with detection through GConf. If that doesn't work, then xdg-screensaver reset is ran before each test is executed.
- Other fixes and clean ups

Phoronix Test Suite 0.2.1
April 12, 2008

- Add "External Dependencies" support. Right now Ubuntu is only supported!
- Add GLMark profile
- Add GtkPerf profile
- Add FRAC Benchmark profile
- Show "Less is better" or "More is better" on PTS graphs
- Bug fixes

Phoronix Test Suite 0.2.0
April 6, 2008

- Prompt to auto upload results after test completion
- Improved hardware detection. Unrecognized components will now show as "Unknown" instead of generating error
- Merge results now creates the test results folder and copies pts-results-viewer, if the folder wasn't previously created
- Drop the use of bcdiv() (diverted into custom code) so users don't need the php-bcmath module.
- Introduce Bandwidth profile as a new system memory and Level 2 cache benchmark
- Strip "Processor" from the reported CPU output area as it's redundant
- Improve "RAMspeed" profile. Fix so that results can be saved. Add option whether to record Add, Copy, Save, Triad, or Average. Bump to v0.2.
- Introduce "system-memory" test suite. Tests RAM performance using RAMspeed and Bandwidth (currently).
- Clean up text output a bit. Add "arguments description" string to text output when showing final results for each test.
- Improved CPU detection / ensures the frequency is shown. Properly handles the frequency for those overclocking or with power-savings technologies.
- Added video memory detection support. Defaults to 128MB. Video memory capacity (in MB) exported to VIDEO_MEMORY for profiles.
- Compatibility checks when merging results
- Improved video card detection (use GL renderer and use lspci now only for fallback)
- Add Super PI profile (Thanks to Pekka Panula)
- Compress-gzip update (Thanks to Kano)
- Other updated scripts (Thanks to Kano)
- Doom 3 profile now working
- Improved distribution detection
- New results viewer (work in progress)
- Other small fixes

Phoronix Test Suite 0.1.0

- Initial public release! (April 2, 2008)

Phoronix Test Suite 0.0.9

- phoronix-test-suite list-tests now displays the profile's status and the license type of software
- Drop pts-core/pts-results-viewer/text.gif
- Fix 0.0.8 regression as the zero fix caused no results to be saved
- Allow "upload" argument to use relative/absolute path instead of just the save name

Phoronix Test Suite 0.0.8

- Save result even if the value is zero
- Fix merge-results bug when using global ID(s)

Phoronix Test Suite 0.0.7

- Support for benchmark <Global ID> for extracting all arguments from that test.
- Support for benchmark <Local File> for extracting all arguments from that test.
- Change list-benchmarks to list-tests
- A number of end-user input checks and errors if arguments are missing
- Various bug fixes in path to 0.1

Phoronix Test Suite 0.0.6

- Nexuiz 2.4 Profile
- Added ImageMagick Build Profile
- Add Linux Kernel (2.6.25) Build Profile
- Add Universe Profile (universe). The Universe profile is made up of all Phoronix Test Suite benchmark profiles in a maintained state.
- Fix compress-gzip profile so results are actually outputted
- Added Enemy Territory: Quake Wars demo profile... currently seems to hang on start
- Added (optional) PreRunMessage to benchmarking profiles at PTSBenchmark/Information/PreRunMessage. This just displays a string of information (such as a warning or benchmark limitation) and then when the user hits any key the benchmark will continue.
- Hdparm profile script now uses gksu (TODO: support other *su)
- EnvironmentDirectory in user-config.xml now requires an absolute location. Defaults to ~/pts-benchmark-env.
- Fix list-saved-tests so that it will actually list the saved tests.
- Introduce pts_save_result. Checks for SAVE_RESULTS_LOCATION and makes it if it doesn't exist and copies over the XSL, CSS, and JavaScript to SAVE_RESULTS_LOCATION/pts-results/viewer for the results viewer.
- Use profile-check on the global database for checking whether Global ID is valid remotely, instead of attempting fetch directly.
- Fix bug where if you entered an invalid benchmark/suite name, it would ask if you wanted to save the results before realizing it didn't exist.

Phoronix Test Suite 0.0.5

- Code cleaning
- More improvements with Phoronix Test Suite Global Database

Phoronix Test Suite 0.0.4-1

- Fix a remote-comparison regression

Phoronix Test Suite 0.0.4

- Support for registered/authenticated uploads to global database
- Directory for saved results is now exported to user-config.xml
- New Global Database features
- Fix X Server 1.3.0 detection

Phoronix Test Suite 0.0.3

- Initial "Global Database" interaction
- "Do you want to open in your web browser?" CLI dialog
- Fix Intel Pentium M core detection count (Pentium M's don't have 9 cores)
- Merge fixes

Phoronix Test Suite 0.0.2

- Initial remote upload support
- Initial remote comparison support
- Refined directory structure
- Separating out Linux-specific hardware/software calls for parsing
- Support storing/installing benchmarks in different directories
- A few merging bug fixes
- Support for suites calling other suites, handled recursively
- Various bug fixes.

Phoronix Test Suite 0.0.1

- Initial Private Release