
Phoronix Test Suite 8.2 "Rakkestad" development has been busy since the massive Phoronix Test Suite 8.0 debut in June. Among the changes staged so far for PTS 8.2 include:
- Tab-based auto-completion for various inputs on the CLI interface when GNU Readline is present. This includes auto-completion for all text-based lists, prompts for result files / identifiers, etc.
- Various Docker / container updates including improved external dependency handling on Alpine Linux, various hardware/software detection improvements for various operating systems running as containers, and other improvements.
- The Phoronix Device Interface "Phodevi" has better multi-CPU socket detection on Microsoft Windows as well as the Phodevi system power sensor able to monitor the battery discharge rate under Windows.
- Various enhancements to the phoronix-test-suite shell functionality.
- On the Phoromatic server front, the root administrator is now able to override/reset user accounts under its control.
- A new module added to PTS 8.2 is the automated PGO compiler benchmarking module.
- Various other fixes and improvements.
Phoronix Test Suite 8.2 Milestone 1 is available for download from GitHub. Contact us at Phoronix-Test-Suite.com for any of your commercial support or custom engineering needs.
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