v0.69.4 (agent release only)

This is a pbench-agent only release.

Minor update to deliver a fix for improperly handling tool arguments, and a fix for cases where the perf tool would not run.

The primary reason for this release is to fix the issue described in #1751 (via PR #1812), where if multiple arguments to a tool are given when registering that tool, only the first argument was being used when the tool was invoked. This was introduced in the v0.68 release.

In addition, we also provide a fix for the perf tool which would fail to run if the debugfs file system was not present (issue #1811, fix via PR #1815). This bug was also introduced in v0.68 release. This release changes the behavior so that a warning is issued for the user to know that kernel debug information may not be available in the perf output.

Installation

There are ansible playbooks to install the pbench-agent and the pieces needed (key and config files) to be able to send results to a server.

There are no other installation changes in this release: see the Getting Started Guide for how to install or update.

After installation or update, you should have version 0.69.4-1gaa13bda5d of the pbench-agent RPM installed.

Agent

This is an agent-only release, fixing issues #1751 and #1811 as described above.

Server

This is an agent-only release. There are several changes to server code, however we are not ready to make a release yet.

Web Server

There are no changes and no new web-server RPMs have been produced.

Pbench Dashboard

The development of the dashboard is not tracked in these release notes. The dashboard has been moved into its own git repo.

ChangeLog

This is the list of visible commits since v0.69.3-agent:

aa13bda RPM making for pbench-agent
3071aa6 Initial pbench-agent container image layering
798fca4 Back-port agent ansible work
94c14ae Sort modules in requirements.txt
ea3416f Only emit a warning message on missing debugfs
88e9878 Fix tool argument handling
2f0f114 Ensure tool option order is preserved
4e1e520 Stabilize server test-27
e741de4 Stablize the cpuacct-datalog test
23ab59f Backport black and flake8 version lock