Phoronix Test Suite 3.6 Milestone 2 Available

The second milestone release of the Phoronix Test Suite 3.6 (Arendal) has just been announced.

There are some improvements to the Phoronix Test Suite core, as well for Phodevi library and graphing components.

Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive benchmarking and testing platform available for Linux and designed to carry out qualitative and quantitative benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner.

The official release date for the final version has been moved back from Spring 2012 to December 2011.

Highlights of Phoronix Test Suite 3.6 Milestone 2:

· pts-core: When the PHP version in use changes, re-run the recommended/required PHP checks;
· pts-core: Improve short SHA1 detection for results tracker;
· pts-core: Report notice when no OpenBenchmarking.org repository index is present and fails to fetch;
· pts-core: Improve Internet connectivity detection check;
· pts-core: When reporting a command error, report the most appropriate command name string;
· pts-core: Begin work on custom error handler for generated errors in code itself;
· pts-core: Add initial support for internal pts-core warning/notice/error handler;
· pts-core: Initialize the network support earlier in the client initialization process;
· pts-core: When running a test and saving results, show recently saved test results;
· phodevi: When QEMU virtualization is detected, try to report QEMU version to system layer;
· phodevi: Support for reporting the XOP, FMA3, and FMA4 instruction sets;
· phodevi: Begin merging is_genuine() support from Openbenchmarking.org into respective Phodevi components;
· phodevi: Improve Catalyst OpenGL driver detection with soon-to-be-released versions;
· phodevi: Improve GNOME version detection when using GNOME3 fall-back mode;
· pts_Graph: Allow normalized numbers to appear in the result file table;
· pts_Graph: When too many lines are being plotted, auto-convert to scalar.

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