Phoronix Test Suite 8.6

Release Date: 5 February 2019 | Codename: Spydeberg

CLI/terminal inline box plot graphing support
New OpenBenchmarking.org auto-compare view based upon result percentiles from all public data
New phoronix-test-suite result-file-stats sub-command
New post-run statistics displayed upon test completion
Various Windows and BSD hardware/support updates, among other Phodevi additions

Phoronix Test Suite 8.6.0-Spydeberg
5 February 2019

pts-core: Other small tweaks and fixes
pts-core: Fix for "/installed" virtual suite not including the proprietary/commercial tests that are installed
ob_auto_compare: Allow showing more results in the embedded percentile graphs

Phoronix Test Suite 8.6.0 Milestone 3
27 January 2019

pts-core: Better handling on Windows when there are space(s) in the paths
pts-core: Add __event_post_run_stats module hook
pts-core: Inline display of result distributions from OpenBenchmarking.org on applicable results
pts-core: Don't try to run tests from result file(s) or suite(s) that were not installed
pts-core: More accurate time reporting when result files are passed to phoronix-test-suite estimate-run-time
phodevi: Better reporting of NVMe drive strings on BSDs

Phoronix Test Suite 8.6.0 Milestone 2
19 January 2019

pts-core: Update Mac OS X to macOS references
pts-core: Add result-file-stats sub-command to show more test result statistics
pts-core: Show geometric mean and harmonic mean data at end of benchmarking process when relevant as part of post-run stats
pts-core: Improved formatting of file download text user interface for downloading of dependencies on Microsoft Windows
pts-core: Fix Loop 'Test i of n' Reporting
pts-core: A few warning fixes for PHP 7.3+
pts-core: External dependency handling support for OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 (transitioned from urpmi to DNF)
phodevi: Report Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to the system layer string

Phoronix Test Suite 8.6.0 Milestone 1
7 January 2019

pts-core: No longer clear test profile identifiers on secondary saved results
pts-core: Add compare-results-to-baseline sub-command for comparing one result file (baseline) against a set of results for text look at relative perf
pts-core: Minor fixes
pts-core: Show wins and losses summary after testing on large result files
pts-core: On two-way result files, after test completion show comparison of current result against previous result (baseline)
pts-core: Add ShowPostRunStatistics user configuration XML option to toggle whether various test statistics are printed at the end of testing
pts-core: Add recently-added-tests sub-command to show newly added test profiles / alternative to openbenchmarking-changes/recently-updated-tests
pts-core: Allow outputting line graphs to terminal interface as basic box plot graphs
phodevi: Improve Linux multiple network device reporting
phodevi: LXQt desktop version reporting
phodevi: Update for Microsoft Windows Server 2019
system_monitor: Allow outputting system monitor graphs to terminal interface inline