The 2019.03 tag has been pushed to master on git.lavasoftware.org. Packages have been built in GitLab CI and are available at apt.lavasoftware.org/release. Docker images for amd64 and arm64 have been built in GitLab CI and are available from hub.lavasoftware.org and https://hub.docker.com/u/lavasoftware .

Changes to LAVA UI configuration ================================

https://master.lavasoftware.org/static/docs/v2/advanced-installation.html#co...

Initial settings for a LAVA instance change over time as the requirements change and dependencies improve internal security implementations. Most instances will need some adjustment to the apache configuration for the main LAVA UI in /etc/apache2/sites-available/lava-server.conf and the LAVA packages do not attempt to update this file automatically once admins have made changes. Admins should therefore subscribe to the lava-announce mailing list and make changes using separate configuration management.

apache2 =======

Browser caching can be improved by enabling mod_header in Apache to allow LAVA to send appropriate cache control headers as well as mod proxy and mod proxy_http:

$ sudo a2enmod header $ sudo a2enmod expires $ sudo service apache2 restart

LAVA server settings changes ============================

Django requires the allowed hosts to be explicitly set in the LAVA settings, as a list of hostnames or IP addresses which LAVA is allowed/expected to use. If this is wrongly configured, the UI will raise a HTTP 500 error and you will get information in the output of:

lava-server manage check --deploy

or in

/var/log/lava-server/django.log

For example, /etc/lava-server/settings.conf for https://lava.codehelp.co.uk/contains:

"ALLOWED_HOSTS": ["lava.codehelp.co.uk"],

See also https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#allowed-hosts

It is also important to enable ProxyPreserveHost in /etc/apache2/sites-available/lava-server.conf

ProxyPreserveHost On

In some situations, you may also need to set USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST to False in /etc/lava-server/settings.conf

See also https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#std:setting-USE_X_FORWA...

https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/lava/merge_requests/400

python3-junit.xml =================

python3-junit.xml >= 1.8 is required for REST API calls when running A suitable package has now been backported to provide this functionality for Stretch.

https://packages.debian.org/stretch-backports/python3-junit.xml

Note: there is a very similarly named package which will **not** work (python3-junitxml). Look for the dot in the package name of the correct package: python3-junit.xml

When installing, remember to allow stretch-backports:

$ sudo apt -t stretch-backports install python3-junit.xml

https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/lava/merge_requests/357

Bump version of django-tables2 ==============================

With 2019.01 and later, django-tables2 version 1.14 does not pick up the customisation of the tables, so orderable icons and search forms and pagination are missing.

It was not practical to backport django-tables2 to stretch-backports due to complexities in the build dependencies of the package. So this update has been made available via apt.lavasoftware.org

Stretch users will find a new version of python3-django-tables2 will be installed alongside 2019.03.

https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/lava/merge_requests/390

Prevent action.timeout exceeding job.timeout ============================================

This change affects the test jobs you submit to LAVA. The test job will warn if any one action timeout exceeds the overall job timeout. LAVA is adopting a stricter submission schema and this is the first common issue.

If you have a repository containing a number of test jobs, you can check all of the jobs in one go by passing the path to a script in the lava-common package.

$ sudo apt install lava-common $ /usr/share/lava-common/lava-schema.py jobs ./*.yaml

You may want to edit the timeouts when resubmitting older test jobs.

When running /usr/share/lava-common/lava-schema.py, there may be a range of other errors reported too. In future releases, LAVA will no longer silently ignore unknown or obsolete YAML blocks. If there is an error in the submission, the expanded schema will report it.

It is worthwhile running /usr/share/lava-common/lava-schema.py against the output of all your test job submission templates. If you use templating and CI, then you could add the check to the CI of each change to the templating. Just ensure that the lava-common package is upgraded to the same version as the instance to which the test jobs would be submitted.

In a future release, this expanded schema check will be included into lavacli, lava-server manage and as an XMLRPC call which can be used before the submission. For now, only the action.timeout exceeding job.timeout warning is being enabled in 2019.03.

https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/lava/merge_requests/413

Changes in this release =======================

60b9c653f checks: fix crash if the cmdline is not in the expected format 86cfe1ac2 Update reprepro-release.sh 6129fe7c0 tweak reprepro-release for new directory b0cf8d779 rzn1: allow to boot using a fit image available over tftp 3e4faf6e1 Add qcs404-evb-1k-specific health check and fix a typo 9fd571b3e Fix crash in "check --deploy" 07a89fab3 device-type: Add Qualcomm's qcs404-1k and qcs404-4k dcf3f2c6c debian: lava meta pkg: allow to use chrony instead of ntp 2d8e09126 (codehelp/master) schema: improve schema validator 8fa55d888 xmlrpc: allow to validate job definition schema 5aa407f04 Add default volumes for lava-slave-docker types 8f2a8cbe6 schema: move validate function to lava_common.schema 0b38b5805 Update copyright years across the LAVA source tree 5c17463e1 Package lava-schema.py in lava-common a846ad088 Provide symlink for favicon 785906e1b Make timeout check non-fatal 6373b6869 lava-schema: allow to read from stdin 25812ecc7 schema: allow for any objects for test def params 861ec2fb3 Revert change to USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST f26f61ee7 Avoid spurious boot command list warning 4915231e4 Skip analysis jobs on tags d53814cc0 Add docs on advanced Apache and container usage b42520584 Mention lava-lxc-mocker in docs 93828f63d device-types: add Intel upsquare 170dc7547 device-types: add pine64+ f1bbb9bb8 lava-server-gunicorn: allow to set the bind address 354077cb4 Schema: handle recovery deploy and boot methods ae39f9004 Schema: add deploy to "download" method 7b9119bd7 CI check more sample jobs 168c4db20 Bump version of django-tables2 backport 1b0749092 Fix more sample jobs and ad schroot boot e30c2f03d Fix typo ea2987a08 Fix error in maintenance breadcrumb 291aa4ddb Make kernel messages wait sensitive to force_prompt f3adeb798 Add cls.LT and cls.EXACT to models.DateTimeField 84ad3683a Check health-check YAML and schema 9299d5263 REST API: test /junit 1d5ea3cf7 Require python3-junitxml >= 1.8 for REST API calls dc5a6fe48 templates: handle multinode vs singlenode 5f01a79c6 CI: run pylint to find common errors 00db03351 Fix some crashes found by pylint3 5a92736ad CI: test templates against the schema 3b5c9d5ef Add extra U-Boot bootloader error 2929ba8f3 Raise the codeclimate complexity threshold d84756688 apache2: send the right cache-control headers when available 3cc42420f rzn1: do not set uboot_needs_interrupt explicitely 656666cb7 maintenance: fix crash after new state machine 00cea9df4 Device/Worker: remove deprecated method 576146730 Fix missing imports 32960bdd5 Handle duplicate listings in requires 19fdfd969 Move get_domain() to dbutils 01d354d1b img2simg and simg2img now available in a new package bb62625f3 Fixup changes in the bandit overrides ae25f1fe1 Update copyright for recent changes 4c33f7a54 Wait for the prompt when using shell on DUT 5662f734a code_quality: install radeo in the setup step 19bda4ac5 Support using radon to output code-climate data 489bc8416 schema: check namespace syntax 6406e1368 Improve inline test schema 0ae489101 Schema: check that jobs with secrets are not public 36d7f4ebb Check that timeouts are shorter than job timeout fd225060e Improve schema validator 3a2fc459b Prevent action.timeout exceeding job.timeout e6bfc3f43 Allow check --deploy inside Docker 69053fb82 Ignore DeprecatedWarnings on buster in CI 01fa79469 ci-run: use pytest-3 by default 075bf1f28 Fix crash when pre-test install failed 0c1372f9d Fix crash with older python3-tap versions 02097dd41 Fixup 4ebbc234 - put new test in correct location feff6c914 CI do not run analyze for tags 9d4a91251 Fix documentation 2354f3899 doc: mention the minimal boot method 354f33ac2 imx8m device type restructuration. 4e1090982 base.jinja2: Allow interrupt-newline to be disabled in u-boot 958068fc6 Fix more sample job syntax 27fdc5107 device-types: add hsdk dd4663b0a multinode: use character_delay 4ebbc234b power: use run_cmd instead of run_command run_cmd: accept command as a string 9d9650939 Add missing pytest dependency for autopkgtest d5bf2c248 Fix typo in f6bb9de2 b3eefdedb Fix missing change which breaks Debian CI testing

Steve, for the LAVA team