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#che...

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

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