Since the last release 195 patches by 31 authors were merged.

NOTABLE CHANGES

• New tests

  • vmsplice03 (splicing pipe to user memory)
  • prctl08, prctl09 (PR_{SET,GET}_TIMERSLACK)

• New regression tests

  • bpf_prog03

• Increased coverage

  • quotactl tests were rewritten and coverage was increased

• Additional 19 tests were converted to the new test library

• Removed tests

  • TI-RPC authdes related tests (authdes is disabled by default since libtirpc 1.2.5)
  • openposix/pi_test*
  • ext4 features tests
    (the interesting bits are being moved to xfstests
    https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11290345/)

• Our Travis now includes native ppc64le and s390x builds

• Improved musl support, build with musl in Travis CI using Alpine Linux
  (broken tests are documented in Travis build script travis/alpine.sh)

• Regression tests now print possibly missing kernel commits:

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    snd_timer01.c:134: FAIL: kernel seems vulnerable

    HINT: You _MAY_ be missing kernel fixes, see:

    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d11662f4f798
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ba3021b2c79b

    HINT: You _MAY_ be vulnerable to CVE(s), see:

    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000380

    Summary:
    passed   0
    failed   1
    skipped  0
    warnings 0
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------

• The usual amount of fixes and cleanups.

METADATA EXTRACTION & TEST CATALOGUE

There is an ongoing experiment that attempts to extract metadata from the
testcases, we also have a proof of concept web page that renders the json
metadata into a browseable test documentation. There is not much there yet,
but we are hoping, among other things, to build a nice, searchable and
browseable test catalogue based on these efforts.

https://github.com/metan-ucw/ltp/tree/master/docparse
http://metan.ucw.cz/outgoing/metadata.html
http://metan.ucw.cz/outgoing/metadata.html?test=abort01
http://metan.ucw.cz/outgoing/metadata.html?test=pcrypt_aead01

NOTABLE CHANGES IN NETWORK TESTS

brought to you by Petr Vorel

• iptables: add new test for iptables-translate and nft, add IPv6 support
• route: rewrite route change destination, gateway and interface tests into new API

CREDITS

Many thanks to the people contributing to this release:

git shortlog -s -e -n 20190930..
45 Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
22 Jan Stancek jstancek@redhat.com
22 Yang Xu xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
13 Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
13 Petr Vorel petr.vorel@gmail.com
11 Li Wang liwang@redhat.com
10 Joerg Vehlow joerg.vehlow@aox-tech.de
10 Martin Doucha mdoucha@suse.cz
7 Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com
6 Clemens Famulla-Conrad cfamullaconrad@suse.de
5 Xiao Yang ice_yangxiao@163.com
3 Feiyu Zhu zhufy.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
2 Jorik Cronenberg jcronenberg@suse.de
2 Pengfei Xu pengfei.xu@intel.com
2 Ping Fang pifang@redhat.com
2 Richard Palethorpe rpalethorpe@suse.com
1 Cai Zhenglong caizhenglong_cm@deepin.com
1 Dylan Chung dylan@andestech.com
1 Eric Lin tesheng@andestech.com
1 Fabrice Fontaine fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com
1 He Zhe zhe.he@windriver.com
1 Ivan Hu ivan.hu@canonical.com
1 Ma Feng mafeng.ma@huawei.com
1 Mathias Fiedler mathias.fiedler@aox-tech.de
1 Rachel Sibley rasibley@redhat.com
1 Song Jian songjian15@huawei.com
1 Sultan Alsawaf sultan@kerneltoast.com
1 Xiang Li lixian@qti.qualcomm.com
1 Yi Zhao yi.zhao@windriver.com
1 Yongxin Liu yongxin.liu@windriver.com
1 Zou Wei zou_wei@huawei.com

git log 20190930.. | grep -Ei '(reviewed|acked)-by:' | sed 's/.*by: //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
76 Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
46 Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
28 Li Wang liwang@redhat.com
19 Jan Stancek jstancek@redhat.com
9 Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com
5 Clemens Famulla-Conrad cfamullaconrad@suse.de
4 Richard Palethorpe rpalethorpe@suse.com
3 Yang Xu xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
1 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@canonical.com
1 Sumit Garg sumit.garg@linaro.org
1 Steve Dickson steved@redhat.com
1 Petr Vorel petr.vorel@gmail.com
1 Joerg Vehlow joerg.vehlow@aox-tech.de
1 Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com