path: root/PTS-12-CHANGE-LOG

- pts-core: Variety of code cleaning and other general improvements
- pts-core: Implement PTS modules support
- pts-core: Move sensor monitoring support to a new module called system_monitor
- pts-core: Add list-modules option for listing all available/installed modules
- pts-core: Add module-info option for viewing information on a module
- pts-core: Drop pts-functions_monitor.php now that it's all modulized.
- pts-core: Drop PTS_MONITOR_DIR environmental variable and pts_save_user_file() function from pts-core
- pts-core: Add pts_module object for providing some common functions to use by PTS modules
- pts-core: Add CPU usage monitoring support
- pts-core: Fixes for PTS results merging and recording of arguments
- pts-core: Clear up test file versus unique identifier / test run text
- pts-core: Allow support for loading modules manually by setting each module name in the PTS_MODULES environmental variable and separating multiple modules via comma
- pts-core: Add Extensions tag to results file
- pts-core: Introduce a test installation management system and this replaces the previous pts-install management solution. New setup is XML based and monitors time a test was installed, last time a test was run, number of times a test was run by PTS, and this pts-install.xml system will be used for some future features.
- pts-core: With info option, when a test is specified, let the user know whether it's installed. If it's installed, print the last time the test was executed and the total number of times it was executed.
- pts-core: Change location of results directory tag within the user-config.xml configuration
- pts-core: Change location of the user agreement check-sum tag within the user-config.xml configuration
- pts-core: Add LoadModules tag to user-config.xml with support for loading modules every time upon running PTS
- pts-core: Change BENCHMARK_ENV_DIR to TEST_ENV_DIR definition
- pts-core: pts_test_type() now returns TEST instead of BENCHMARK
- pts-core: Change DOWNLOAD_CACHE environmental variable to PTS_DOWNLOAD_CACHE for manual override of the download cache location
- pts-core: Add robust operating system detection support
- pts-core: Time-zone used is now set to UTC
- pts-core: Add support for OpenSolaris 2008.05 operating system
- pts-core: Add verbose system hardware detail logging support
- pts-core: Improve text layout of test option prompts
- pts-core: Add IS_NVIDIA_GRAPHICS, IS_ATI_GRAPHICS, and IS_MESA_GRAPHICS defines for boolean types of graphics card / driver being used
- pts-core: Switch graphics functions to depend upon IS_*_GRAPHICS booleans
- pts-core: Add list-test-usage option for showing the tests that are installed with the time the test was installed, when the test was last run, and the number of times total the test was run
- pts-core: Update schema for some XML tags within user-config.xml
- pts-core: If PromptForDownloadMirror tag in user-config.xml is set to TRUE, prompt the user when running in a non-batch mode what mirror to download a test file from or optionally the user can input their own download location
- pts-core: Drop (GNOME) screensaver toggling from the core, move to a module
- pts-core: Move environmental variables to check for auto-loading of PTS modules out to modules/module-variables.txt
- pts-core: Change XRandR resolution detection to support xrandr version 1.1 and 1.2
- pts-core: Add basic support for *BSD operating systems. Tested with FreeBSD 7.0.
- pts-core: Add analyze option for looking at PTS batch results
- pts-core: Add test properties type to PTS results file
- pts-core: Improve download caching for information displayed where tests aren't installed
- pts-core: Drop maintainer field from PTS Results Viewer (P_RESULTS_SUITE_MAINTAINER / PhoronixTestSuite/Suite/Maintainer)
- pts-core: Minor updates to local PTS Results Viewer
- pts-core: Allow the test description to be changed/set by the user at run time
- pts-core: Create unified batch mode support and make detection done at init time
- pts-core: Improve HAL motherboard detection
- pts-core: Set $HOME environmental variable while tests are running to the test's PTS directory and during the installation process
- pts-core: Add OS_TYPE to pts_env_variables() for defining OPERATING_SYSTEM
- pts-core: Improve graphics card detection
- pts-core: Clean up HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) parsing
- pts-core: Rename pts-run-benchmark.php to pts-run-test.php
- pts-core: Eliminate one second sleep time when determining whether a CPU throttling technology (EIST/CnQ) is enabled or not

- pts_module: If pcntl isn't present, don't thread and warn the user
- pts_module: Add a simple module called dummy_module for showing developers where the different functions are called
- pts_module: Add support for shell script PTS modules
- pts_module: Add sample shell script module (dummy_script_module.sh)

- email_results: Add a module to email test results automatically to a user upon completion. Specify the email addres in the EMAIL_RESULTS_TO environmental variable.

- system_monitor: Poll sensors every 30 seconds during testing
- system_monitor: Add cpu.usage to MONITOR, fix some bugs as well
- system_monitor: Add gpu.freq to MONITOR

- graphics_override: Add graphics_override module for having FORCE_AA and FORCE_AF options for overriding anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering levels with supported drivers

- toggle_screensaver: Move screensaver toggling code from pts-core into a module named toggle_screensaver. This module is loaded by default but controlled through the HALT_SCREENSAVER environmental variable.
- toggle_screensaver: Add KDE screensaver support

- pts_LineGraph: Don't display the pointers if there are too many points on the graph
- pts_LineGraph: Improve graphing of the line when it comes to both ends and increase width to 2px
- pts_LineGraph: Add rotation identifier support
- pts_LineGraph: Improve line plotting

- pts_BarGraph: Add rotation identifier support

- pts_Graph: Always show key/legend if it's a single-type line graph
- pts_Graph: Use image antialiasing if it's available on the system
- pts_Graph: Add support so a graph module can resize its drawing buffer

- tandem_Xml: Add a caching engine to the XML parsing/reading portion
- tandem_Xml: Add setFileCaching(), setTagCaching(), and setCaching() options
- tandem_Xml: Add isDefined() function for XML tags in tandem_XmlReader

- pts: Add ProjectURL tag to available test profiles
- pts: Add PTS External Dependencies support for OpenSolaris using IPS
- pts: Add linux-32bit-libraries generic package to PTS External Dependencies
- pts: General code cleanups
- pts: Add synaptic support within install-ubuntu-packages.sh for Debian package install support
- pts: xorg-development external dependency in ubuntu-packages.xml switch to xorg-dev instead of xserver-xorg-dev for acquiring all the needed packages
- pts: Add PTS External dependency for libstdc++5 named libstdcpp5
- pts: Add PTS External dependency for OpenAL and OpenAL development files named openal-devel

- documentation: Update CSS style / image interface