The 2017.7 release is available from the lava-repositories for jessie-backports and has been uploaded to Debian unstable. Support for stretch-backports is pending. (The production-repo/jessie-backports can be used in the meantime.)

https://validation.linaro.org/static/docs/v2/installing_on_debian.html#lava-...

jessie-backports "sloppy" ==================

This release has been uploaded to Debian unstable. The period after a Debian stable release is turbulent in unstable and the LAVA packages may not migrate into buster (testing) smoothly which will delay uploads to the official backports archive (for jessie backports and stretch backports).

To update jessie-backports, the upload will need to be the version from buster, rebuilt for jessie and sent to jessie-backports-sloppy. Once that is done, I'll post again to the this list about how that becomes available to admins running Jessie systems.

Jessie continues to be the preferred release for LAVA until such time as we've done more testing on Stretch. We don't anticipate any problems with lava-server or lava-dispatcher on Stretch as this has been tested frequently. However, third party packages and scripts still need testing with real instances using Stretch.

V1 support in buster ===============

Some unit tests in the V1 support have had to be disabled due to bug fixes in django 1.11 LTS in buster and sid affecting the atomic transaction handling. The remote worker design in V1 has always had issues with atomicity and these unit tests have failed intermittently for a while. This is one of the many reasons to drive all instances to V2. These tests are now failing consistently with 1.11, so have been disabled if django 1.11 or newer is detected.

V1 is no longer run on any of our development instances (running buster or sid), only in production instances (running jessie) which are in preparation for the migration. We can only assume that the failure of the unit tests would make V1 unreliable on buster or sid. However, with the pending removal of V1, there will not be any fixes for any problems discovered when using V1 with django 1.11 or newer.

LDAP support in buster and sid =======================

python-django-auth-ldap has changed dependencies, from python-ldap to python-pyldap. When upgrading python-django-auth-ldap, python-ldap will be removed and python-pyldap installed.

Instances *must* restart the lava-server-gunicorn service after this change or users will experience HTTP 500 errors.

lava-server manage check --deploy =========================

This release adds some checks to the django system checks. When admins update health checks or device-type templates, it is worth running the deployment check which does a quick sanity check on the instance. This can help to spot invalid health check submissions amongst other issues. Note that on development instances, some issues will always be reported - e.g. when Debug is set to True for django using /etc/lava-server/settings.conf

Also, for developers, some of the improved security features in django may get in the way of signing in to http://localhost by enforcing requirements for https:// which is unusual on localhost.

Check the django documentation - to enable localhost, you may need to disable at least these security defaults by adding to /etc/lava-server/settings.conf: "CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE": false, "SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE": false,

As a result of these changes, installing 2017.7 can generate a prompt to update /etc/lava-server/settings.conf. In general, keep your existing configuration but look at the differences and migrate the changes across. Remember to restart lava-server, lava-master and lava-server-gunicorn services whenever /etc/lava-server/settings.conf is modified.

Skipping 2017.8 ============

There won't be a full 2017.8 production release of lava-server or lava-dispatcher as a number of the team are away at the annual Debian conference, DebConf17 in Montreal.

https://debconf17.debconf.org/

If you are going to be there, let us know.

lava-server changes ==============

a9390fc9a Remove debug hacking session from doc examples 13edd8f12 Skip certain V1 unit tests on django 1.11 and later 0577447fc Update query script for python3 and to output CSV 0b3b0beb7 device-type: addresses fix for armada-3720-espressobin ed1e402e5 device-type: addresses fix for armada-3720-db c382a5aa0 device-type: fix at91sam9m10g45ek 54a3b7a46 Apply change for distinct test case links to all results 1824a18fb Adding uefi-menu tftp method 71aac817e LAVA-363 - set the scheme in api/help from settings 2c840debc base-uboot.jinja2: don't load DTB if append_dtb is set 1b13a0e3e Fix extra keyword in api/help view 2882529bc Provide an example script for using queries 7f4cfe569 logs: continue to poll the log when canceling 25eaab176 XMLRPC: add offline_info argument to list endpoint 38f7570e3 XMLRPC: fix inconsistency between code and doc 8c134839d LAVA-972 test case should use ID in URL. 99725606c Remove references to OpenID and Crowd 95b959602 XMLRPC: add a function to download job definition ebf80c266 XMLRPC: fix crash when device.worker_host is None b1ec14c89 LAVA-861 separate base-fastboot.jinja2 template c4fd79d57 Remove unused file 7c066195a Remove deprecated django configuration 520ac8778 XMLRPC: remove unused function 3b8ab7d61 XMLRPC: do not raise an error when canceling twice cce1bdea6 XMLRPC: allow to force health check for a device 218408db6 Handle the new log level called "input" b49d9fb96 Adding uefi parameters for vexpress 4a52ba861 Allow overriding django system check values from settings as documented d2067a5f3 LAVA-987 fix log parsing bbc39489c results_app: API: add the 'run_query' function 8746edb6b results_app: API: add the 'make_custom_query' function 4fd429ac2 Add note on apache2 for V2-only workers 641e61dcb Explain the handling of measurements and Decimal bf8f53bf5 Count going offline as busy in overview table 06febd188 Expand on essential roles, results and sync 815d41b52 Tighten advice on prompt strings in docs 351f6fe41 Add documentation for login_commands in auto_login 5a7d4be95 Avoid warning for health checks of retired devices. 5713f5295 Document transfer_overlay deployment differences 8f04c6097 Fix typo in multinode api documentation. fe2093994 device-types: add meson-gxl-s905x-khadas-vim 853ee80e3 Move action fields templates to table files. 12de946eb Allow bare except and override pep8 dd4faacaf Enforce schema rules for metadata 352049204 Add missing check for null key|value in metadata b77731b31 device-types: rcar-gen3-common: handle bigger kernels d2acb94a5 LAVA-983 - Helper for DeviceStateTransition b4208116c LAVA-980 - Fix django deployment warnings 778fd4a8b Fix link to glossary term af85e5225 LAVA 931 - documentation. 212e98a3a LAVA-976 Use the Django system check framework e9c7ad477 Adding commands for booting whatever the precanned defaults are f78c58811 Added device type for Cavium ThunderX

lava-dispatcher changes =================

d8dabe63 Switch the print to a test in unit test d1e22b67 Revert "Replace invalid characters in test_case_id." b3b4f5ac Update the example to a working test job with prompts. 504ec2bc LAVA-777 last log line should be lava.job result ad55acb9 Ensure overlay unpacking is clearly logged 2e7c9598 Add pipeline_ref update for test skipped by lavabot ed936cd3 Simplify the power control actions 78dcc1b0 Fix dispatcher configuration 89880ce1 LAVA-96 Check for errors if a tftp file exceeds 4G 6fd2702e LAVA-989 add extra logging for actions df86ed30 LAVA-990 add logging for VLANd + MultiNode support bbfb1817 Stop the unit test outputting noise c7839a98 Add a new log level for the DUT inputs 2502b8af Destroy LXC containers properly. 957734cf Add a unit test for Vland actions 68468abe Handle a bad url cleanly. 713d4e6e LAVA-645 - summarise slave logging 96a5effe Do not raise exceptions in validate f45106fb Catch errors in testdef from handler cleanly f34f41e2 LAVA-984 - LXC protocol timeout to report job result e31722b5 Allow ci-run with updated pep8 175d8e84 LAVA-931 - MultiNode lava-sync should report results fd944543 EOF in a test shell is an InfrastructureError 429691d9 Support power control for CMSIS devices 049c0227 lava-slave: add the right configuration for the host 1e92bf38 lxc: improve error message b2f25cf0 Add support for booting from UEFI shell 67a1e1c6 ramdisk: only pass to bootx if has u-boot header f4a4abd9 LAVA-967: check namespaces usage