The 2017.9 release is now available from the lava-repositories.
To support Stretch, the package available from the lava-repositories
now has a version suffix matching the suite for which the binaries
were built. So instances using jessie-backports will see
2017.9-1+jessie and instances using stretch-backports will see
2017.9-1+stretch when using the lava repositories.
https://validation.linaro.org/static/docs/v2/installing_on_debian.html#lava…
lava-server | 2017.9-1+jessie | jessie-backports
lava-dispatcher | 2017.9-1+jessie | jessie-backports
lava-server | 2017.9-1+stretch | stretch-backports
lava-dispatcher | 2017.9-1+stretch | stretch-backports
Additional packages from jessie-backports
=========================================
$ sudo apt -t jessie-backports install python-pexpect
python-setproctitle python-ptyprocess
Make sure these packages are updated from jessie-backports before
installing 2017.9. Versions in stretch are already sufficient.
jessie-backports "sloppy"
=========================
This release has been uploaded to Debian unstable. After a period of
time, an upload will be made into jessie-backports-sloppy which is the
place for backports from buster to the previous stable release. An
upload to stretch-backports will be made at the same time.
To install the new release from jessie-backports-sloppy, a suitable
apt source will need to be added - LAVA still needs some packages from
jessie-backports. e.g. to use the bytemark Debian mirror, add this
line:
deb http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian jessie-backports-sloppy main
Jessie continues to be the preferred release for LAVA but we are
planning to move to Stretch in October. We don't anticipate any
problems with lava-server or lava-dispatcher on Stretch as this has
been tested frequently.
Django changes for localhost
============================
Django upstream have changed some of the security defaults and this
has an effect when using http://localhost - 2017.9 contains
documentation on which settings are required to get localhost working
again.
https://staging.validation.linaro.org/static/docs/v2/pipeline-debug.html#ch…
Reminder about the migration status page
========================================
During the time 2017.9 is installed, all instances need to get to a
similar state of device migration as staging has currently:
https://staging.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/migration
* All active devices migrated to V2 support.
* All active V2 devices exclusive to V2.
* All active devices have migrated to V2 healthchecks
* All active devices have healthchecks enabled.
The important phrase here is 'active'. Health checks can be disabled
for a complete device-type in the django admin interface for that
type, that does not affect completion of the migration status. Retired
devices are not counted at all.
During the changes to remove V1, various of the checks which are done
for the migration status page may also be required to be able to start
or complete the next stage of the removal of V1 - including checks
which could block the installation of a future release if not
completed in time. More details on this will be announced as and when
the checks are created, based on the testing done during development.
The roadmap to remove V1 begins now
===================================
https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/lava-announce/2017-September/000037.html
**2017.9 is the LAST release which will allow V1 test jobs to be
submitted and executed.**
As of 2017.10, V1 test job submissions will be DISABLED and the
process continues to the removal of access to V1 data in 2017.11 and
the removal of V1 test data in 2017.12.
This means that if an instance is running V1 test jobs after the
2017.10 release, the only support available will be how to migrate to
V2.
lava-dispatcher
===============
255e1dc2 Allow to use lava-run from the command line
5e3e4df8 parser: fix exception with unknown action
b167715b Fix exception message
75ef463a Add transfer_overlay support to fastboot
4fcdbb0c LAVA-1020 - Allow branch to be specified for git
d067a6e4 Remove FIXME about unused feature test-case-deps.
93947b9d Fix job tmp_dir NoneType error.
cf0095ca Extend NBD unit tests for template update
ca72b0cc Honour reboot to bootloader irrespective of power state existence.
b210b297 LAVA-1009 - Improve cleanup of temp files and containers
70fb8c09 Add debug log at the right place for lxc-destroy command execution.
51938bf5 Stop executing shell commands twice.
60c39bae Create device-info-file consumed by udev rules in job's tmp_dir.
46a9789d LAVA-1012 - Handle udev paths outside /dev/bus/usb
c6e06463 LAVA-998 - Default to shallow clones in overlay
b9cc1da8 LAVA-1001 - raise TestError on invalid signal call
4a8241e1 Use check_output instead of Popen from subprocess module.
7024de4c Move to permanent URLs for better unit test support
4f32f4e2 Fix reference to smoke test
927bb33a LAVA-1011 - Check for ENOSPACE after adding overlay to sparse image
47608877 Add udev rule file contents to debug message.
15d8adea Add more debug messages for udev rules addition on the fly.
1b2c9252 Ensure auto-login-action can execute protocols
44755d5a CTT-441 - lava-lxc-device-* don't work properly
d55526c4 Add option to enable IPv6 connections
07839bdf Raise a JobError when lava_test_results_dir is undefined
3f9c87f5 Remove uneeded test
003990f7 Add setproctitle as a python installation requirement to setup.py
d04dcf58 Fix prospector warnings
c2601cbe Extend pipeline_reference readme
115d84ad Create a clean script to replace lava-dispatch for v2 jobs
80bfa16e device: remove 'hostname' and 'target'
b663e427 Do not crash when cleanup raises and exception
fcbff4a6 Hikey 960 support for OE and AOSP
bab3c6f1 Replace kernel.txt with a normal boot and add kernel-panic.txt
c61c67bc Fix value of self.results['success'] in pipeline boot action
6939c5ea Add pre-power command support to LXC protocol
98ede789 LAVA-996 - preserve empty parameters in the overlay
9d33ced5 Use encoding to pexpect.spawn for python3 support
ce2dbd83 Stop parsing kernel messages when the end of a panic has been found
b4ae5b4d lava-slave: Pretty print the configuration
cf22ed83 Extend secondary media to mustang
3e746b47 Add network block device boot support
lava-server
===========
6d1ff5c5 Improve the docs on lava-test-reference and metadata
2f11898f LAVA-997 - Invalidate primary connections setup when power is
configured.
ccfb3961 b2260: allow to set bootloader_prompt in device config
4a1b8f5f Prevent mistaken fixup of device reservation
5093f40c LAVA-1022 - V2 support for IFC6410
1f18eada LAVA-1021 - Document specifying branch for git
36513ec3 Change default source code URL after systems change
da49e558 Remove doc for unimplemented feature test-case-deps.
61dfd204 Document settings to enable authentication in http://localhost
5cbf5b11 Allow vcs checks to skip monitor test actions
b85baa75 NBD kernel bootarg fixups
c089adb7 Add failure comment message via async update on the job detail page.
5ca25620 Improve V1 doc build for Debian reproducibility
dccd1588 LAVA-998 - Default to shallow clones in overlay
250f27dd Fix warning of linaro.img not found.
938b3da1 Fix typos and warnings in deploy to nbd doc.
90c9ed74 LAVA-1013 improve performance of result export
0af80d19 LAVA-1008 Group visibility check
080dd10d LAVA-1007 Prevent NoneType crash in job duration
b2d90962 Fix typos in manage users which talk about devices
07e5fa19 Fix reference to smoke test
59340f70 Expand advice on good commit messages.
cfae2faa Skip some dashboard tests if django is too new
68b24fcc Revert "Move action fields templates to table files."
c9f65507 Add log file argument to dispatcher-master command.
dabaf74c LAVA-1002 - fix group label editing in query details page.
7398abd4 CTT-441 - lava-lxc-device-* don't work properly
f1cb7faf Decrease the number of SQL queries to list the groups
984f3b02 doc: fix example of zmq_client usage
f864696d Documentation build error tweaks
9aeff523 XMLRPC authentication: fix wrong logic
93572067 Basic integration advice for U-Boot devices
5b2d39d7 Support PyOCD for KW41Z and remove CMSIS boot method
3f8c8a93 Fix a typo in persistent container configuration doc.
d334642c Rename xmlrpc module to api
9f947433 Add ssh deployment support for secondary connections.
ce9f0da6 Document how to combine LXC and MultiNode
e2be8567 Allow documentation to be built with python3
cc6e9696 Add notes on writing new unit tests
c40ac0da Document option for device_type qemu to choose host audio handling
97eac4b6 Update lava-self documentation for change in output
7e0f6eca Fix PipelineDevice usage after last dispatcher commit
37d4eba4 Fix a typo - repeated usb_vendor_id parameter in device_info example.
d4a80fc1 Improve the validation message when a role is not found in every
1a5aec5f Add a seealso for fresh installs of lava-tool
4707ff98 Check that the Debian package has been installed
72d30834 Mention cookie specific options for reverse proxy
716424a3 api: fix scheduler.jobs.submit's docstring
6dc1a966 Add sudo for the apache config copy command in V2 worker setup doc.
ae39d57b Add docs on calling protocols from actions
a49cc9c6 Expand the device integration guidance.
1fd5e964 Add Integration Stories for supported devices
620dcbf1 Move smoke-tests into functional test repository
ad2f57df device-type: update at91-sama5d4_xplained addresses
b6734844 device-type: update at91-sama5d2_xplained addresses
c4ead793 device-type: update sama53d addresses
1204f81c Skip links to secondary connections device-types
8b9068a3 Add Metadata output to verbose notifications.
2da8c076 LAVA-357 - Allow override of the nfsvers in base_nfs_root_args
5926b9a8 Catch TemplateError in notifications
98b3da07 Initial improvements for the Queries and Charts docs
092f56a5 device-type: update armada-xp-linksys-mamba addresses
0fdf33a8 device-type: update armada-388-gp addresses
5af8f640 device-type: update armada-370-db addresses
9f4c975f XMLRPC: self.user return an AnonymousUser instead of None
d7b34e2d Add an helper command to switch to a dev setup
9bedff1e Add option to enable listening on IPv6
8ff7c4f1 Extend secondary media docs
f132af4e Add support for secondary media for mustang
1fecd500 Integration of Hikey 960
b27f60c4 LAVA xnbd protocol support and documentation for nbd boot
--
Neil Williams
=============
neil.williams(a)linaro.org
http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
The LAVA software team are happy to announce the roadmap for the removal of
LAVA V1 support, test data and source code.
The next LAVA production release will be 2017.9 which will be the last
release with functioning V1 support. There are no changes to V1 in 2017.9,
so it will continue working as it does currently for this release.
https://projects.linaro.org/browse/LAVA-994 tracks the work for 2017.9
Any instance where V1 test jobs need to continue running must NOT upgrade
beyond 2017.9. There will be no future updates of V1 for any reason and no
support for anything related to V1 other than to migrate V1 test jobs and
devices to V2.
Blocking V1 test job submissions with 2017.10
=============================================
The 2017.10 release will *disable* the submission of all V1 test jobs
either from the UI or using XML-RPC or lava-tool. If any devices still have
V1 health checks, those health checks will no longer run. Any queued V1
test jobs will run. Only V2 test jobs will be allowed to be submitted.
https://projects.linaro.org/browse/LAVA-1026 tracks the work for 2017.10
If you want to keep a read-only archive of your V1 test data, then 2017.10
is the last chance to create this archive. Any instance where the V1 data
should remain visible must NOT upgrade beyond 2017.10.
Removing access to V1 URLs in 2017.11
=====================================
All URLs related to V1 will be removed or disabled in the 2017.11 release -
the Dashboard drop-down menu will disappear and any bookmarks to dashboard
URLs would give a 404. The Dashboard XML-RPC API will become no-ops
returning no data. This means that bundles and bundle streams will not be
able to be downloaded or viewed. Filters, Image Reports and Image Reports
2.0 will all become unavailable.
V1 documentation will be deleted in this release - the V2 docs will be
promoted as the LAVA documentation, removing references to V1.
The V1 source code for lava-dispatcher will be deleted at this point. There
will be some changes to the directory structure of the remaining code, so
if you are maintaining out of tree patches, you will need to fix some merge
conflicts.
Elements of the web UI which distinguish between V1 and V2 support will
also be disabled and removed. This will include removing access to viewing
or downloading the log files of V1 test jobs.
https://projects.linaro.org/browse/LAVA-1028 tracks the work for 2017.11
DELETION of V1 test data in 2017.12
===================================
This has been highlighted many times in LAVA announcements, Connect
sessions, in the documentation and in all support enquiries. It is finally
happening with 2017.12
Any instance which installs 2017.12 will directly cause the deliberate and
permanent deletion of ALL V1 TEST DATA for that instance. Bundles,
BundleStreams, Filters, Image Reports, Image Reports 2.0 - everything in
the database which relates to V1 will be deleted.
Alongside the removal of the test data, the V1 source code will also be
deleted from the lava-server codebase.
*This is a one-way process*. If there is no usable backup for the instance,
there will be NO way to restore any V1 data after this point. After
restoring from backup, if 2017.12 or any later release is installed, the V1
data will again be deleted.
https://projects.linaro.org/browse/LAVA-1029 tracks the work for 2017.12
--
Neil Williams
=============
neil.williams(a)linaro.org
http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
