PassMark BurnInTest for Linux x86 - What's New?

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Version 5.0 build 1016 - 11 December 2024

Advanced Network Test, Added delay to allow for receive thread to close properly before send thread
Advanced Network Test, Added check to throw error faster if cable was disconnected.
Advanced Network Test, Changed to exit test faster on bind timeout/while it was trying to bind
USB Test, Fixed not stopping on set cycle if running with CMD line version

Version 5.0 build 1015 - 8 October 2024

Advanced Network Config, Fixed crashes when interacting with dropdowns if no network cards are detected
Advanced Network Test, Added additional errors to be more consistent with BIT Windows
Advanced Network Test, Added initial support for getting max speed on wireless network cards
Advanced Network Test, Updated throttling to target the load % better
Advanced Network Test, Updated to throw error if connection is lost
Advanced Network Test, Fixed current NIC load % not being displayed for some NICs
Advanced Network Test, Fixed incorrect current NIC speed for all devices being tested other than the first
Advanced Network Test, Fixed 'connection reset by peer' errors when connecting to multiple NICs
Endpoint, Fixed possible crash when detecting interfaces (ifa_addr can be NULL)
Network Test, fixed Network tests displaying in reports when Advanced Network Test is enabled (or vice versa)

Version 5.0 build 1014 - 6 September 2024

Memory, Fixed crash when running on 32bit ARM
USB, Fix possible crash when running benchmark test
GUI, Updated Results Tab to show test time remaining when running
Temperature, Use alternate location (/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/type and /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp) to obtain CPU & GPU temperatures

Version 5.0 build 1013 - 26 June 2024

Advanced Network Test, fixed test not retrying to bind server socket
Fixed some drives not being detected for machines with more than 10 nvme drives
Fixed USB End Marker incorrectly being displayed as a test being run when using cmd line version

Version 5.0 build 1012 - 30 May 2024

Help, Added chromium-browser to the list of browsers to try to open if there is no default browser set in the environment variable BROWSER
Management Console, Fixed possible issue connecting to console if machine has many components
Temperature, Fixed possible pipe not being closed properly if temperature info was not found

Version 5.0 build 1011 - 19 April 2024

2D Graphics, Fixed issue where video memory test failed to start due to incorrect parameters
Management console, Fixed crash when connecting a machine with many components (especially drives)
Management console, Increased number of system information lines sent to a max of 64
Temperature, Added possible support for drive temps connected to a HBA

Version 5.0 build 1010 - 3 April 2024

Temperature, Fixed issue where temperatures for newer AMD CPUs were not being displayed
USB, Fixed High Speed option taking too run when using USB3 plug
Fixed issue where USB & network tests did not stop when using cycle count to stop test run
Fixed issue setting report information fields for command line version

Version 5.0 build 1009 - 26 March 2024

Disk, Fixed issue where disk test location was using Firefox dictionary mount location on Ubuntu 22.04
Temperature, Fixed issue where disk temperatures were not being processed properly
Fixed possible crash when launching BITLinux on machine with a Non-VGA unclassified device

Version 5.0 build 1008 - 9 November 2023

Fixed issue when cycles to stop testing did not work when Temperature test was running
Fixed issue where cycle count did not display on interim result reports
Fixed disconnected drives still appearing in preferences disk tab

Version 5.0 build 1007 - 24 October 2023

Advanced Network Test, Added error if no NICs are select for testing
Disk, Generating an error if 'Input/Output error' occurs when running CD/DVD/BD test
Disk, Fixed issue where no error was displayed when disk is removed during the CD test
Scripting, Fixed issue where EXIT command was not closing BIT after testing

Version 5.0 build 1006 - 3 July 2023

Sound test, prevent a possible infinite loop
Fix bug where 'exceeded max CPU limit' is always considered an error even when set as 'information/none'
Preferences, fixed crash after running endpoint check test and closing before finish
Preferences, fixed issue in Network tab where Standard/Advanced network test selection was not updating
Advanced network test, fixed bug where settings were not saved/updated properly
Advanced network test, fixed issue where test could not connect to Endpoints
Advanced network test, fixed issue where test was still communicating to Endpoints after overall testing has stopped
Advanced network test, fixed bug where test was enabled after closing preferences window
Updated help file to include adv network test details
Updated older help pages to reflect current version of BIT Linux

Version 5.0 build 1005 - 17 April 2023

Plugins, fixed compiling of example plugin due to obsolete status values
Logging, Added plugin name to log files (using OUT_szWindowTitle)
Logging, added temperature output to log files (when temperature test is selected to run)
Fixed an issue where GPU memory test would not start if path had spaces
Added logging in situations where memtest executable does not exist
Added some missing help pages (temperature, battery, 2D graphics, acknowledgments)

Version 5.0 build 1004 - 31 March 2023

Fixed crash when trying to gather CPU information
Changed trace filename to match log file while using LogPrefix
Fixed issue where low memory error was logged even went set to information/none
Fixed 'no operations reported in timeout period'error caused by checking status after test completion
Increased max cpu-math threads to 1024 from 16

Version 5.0 build 1003 - 3 January 2023

Fixed temperature error being logged in command line version even when temperature test was turned off
Fixed an issue where commenting out the the section in the command line config wasn't turning off the temperature test
Fixed a crash that could occur when not using the AutoSelectSensors option in the command line config and a manually entered sensor was not found
Fixed a potential issue where the 3D test could stop redrawing

Version 5.0 build 1002 - 2 December 2022

Management console, added more system information sent at connection time (RAM details, HDD details, Battery)
Fixed an issue where no video card information was displayed on systems with more than one card
Fixed system summary showing RAM details as MB instead of GB in some cases
Command line version, added version number to header
Command line version, improved error message when registration failed when using a key.dat file

Version 5.0 build 1001 - 11 November 2022

Fixed a crash at startup when collecting system information if "pvs" tool was missing

Version 5.0 build 1000 - 7 November 2022

*New* Advanced network test and endpoint utility
*New* Updated RAM test based on Windows version that uses a separate executable (up to 4 instances) for testing. This greatly increases testing speed, will allow better management of the amount of RAM under test and hopefully avoiding triggering the OOM killer on some Linux distributions where it is overly aggressive
*New* Battery Test, added battery information collection and test
*New* Battery graph tab, added battery charge/discharge graph (requires QtCharts to be installed)
*New* Temperature Test, check selected temperature sensors don't exceed set thresholds
*New* Temperature graph tab, added temperature sensors graph (requires QtCharts, lm-sensors (CPU temps), hddtemp or smartctl (HDD temps) to be installed)
*New* Added watchdog thread that checks each test operations count is increaing and will log a "No operations" error if the operations count stops increasing
*New* 2D GPU RAM Test, added OpenCL test for GPU RAM, similar to the BurnInTest windows version
3D test, changed to be based on QOpenGLWidget/QOpenGLFunctions that allows the 3D test to be used on both OpenGL and OpenGl-ES systems and removes the dependency on the QT5OpenGL library
2D Lines and bitmaps test, made the individual sub tets of the 2D test run a bit longer each cycle
Sound test, updated to use stereo audio instead of mono
Sound test, changed the underlying methods used for accessing the sound hardware to better support some Linux distributions
USB Test, added "Automatically select all" option, detected USB devices, USB3 speed choice & cycle options to configuration options
USB Test, added USB3 benchmark to start of USB3 test
USB Test, updated test window information displayed, simplified display of loopback, read and write benchmark values, added firmware info
Disk Test - added block size selection to preferences
Disk Test - Better btrfs support, new way to get used/free space for btrfs disks to try and prevent issues with disks reporting as full
Serial Test, changed RTS/DSR testing option to be two separate options
Serial Test, removed an extra sleep in the middle of a testing cycle that was slowing down higher baud speeds disproportionately
System info, fixed an issue where RAM was reported as MB instead of GB on some systems
Management console, added session and result IDs to log and status message on successful connection. Also checks for errors on status/result message updates
Plugins, fixed plugin reporting the wrong error string for a no operations error ("General instruction operation verification failed" was being reported)
Scripting, added SETDISK and SETDISKDESTRUCTIVE
Scripting, added SETSERIALPORTS command for setting serial port test via scripting
PC test kit build, when running in debug mode will now place log at /mnt/pctestkitusb/debug.log instead of working directory

Version 4.1 build 1002 - 9 November 2021

Serial test, changed buffer size for test to 64 bytes due to some serial changes made in Linux Kernel 5.12 and newer that was causing reads to fail for >64 bytes
Fixed a bug that was preventing scripts with multiple RUN actions from continuing after the first RUN
Fixed a bug that could prevent removal of some serial port names from the list in the test preferences

Version 4.1 build 1001 - 17 March 2020

Added btrfs support for the disk test
Enabled the ExcludeDisks setting in the command line config to exclude partitions/disks from being tested when using the TestAllDisks option

Version 4.1 build 1000 - 6 June 2019

Removed dependency on QtWebkit and QtWebKitWidgets from the GUI version which should make it easier to install on newer Linux versions where the library was no longer available

Version 4.0 build 1005 - 10 April 2019

Added logging of PCIe card temperature and voltage readings each cycle to the trace log (level 1)
Made some changes to how disks are displayed in the test preferences window to try and prevent strange behaviour when there was a large number of unmounted devices present on a system, only mounted / raw drives will be displayed.
Made some changes so that more partition information is collected for nvme drives and displayed in the system information
Fixed an issue where the default config file may start an empty disk test rather than selecting the root mount path
Fixed an issue where when running multiple serial port tests one or more ports could be left open after the test was stopped which could prevent retesting until BurnInTest was closed
Fixed a bug with the result window not displaying when manually stopped even if the "Always display result window" preference was selected
Fixed a bug where the result window would not display after the end of a script

Version 4.0 build 1004 - 2 August 2018

Fixed an issue with the management console configuration not accepting the new PHP filename
Updated error message when BurnInTest fails to start due to non-ASCII characters in path
Fixed a bug with post test external application action not always being launched correctly from then command line version
Fixed a bug preventing the management console connection from connecting properly
Added MachineID field to cmdline_config.txt to allow setting of of management console machine ID in text config file
Added -MGT command line parameter to allow setting of management console machine ID

Version 4.0 build 1003 - 11 April 2018

Added support for longer serial port names (eg TTYXRUSB0)
Fixed a bug where the PCIe test was not displaying a "No operations" error if there were no operations during testing. This could occur if the wrong kernel driver was installed (using the V1 driver with a card with V2 firmware)

Version 4.0 build 1002 - 3 October 2017

Fixed a crash that could occur on some systems at startup when collecting memory system information
Fixed a crash that could occur in the libusb library at startup on some systems (seen on Fedora 26)
Fixed a bug that could prevent serial port names being removed from the GUI test preferences

Version 4.0 build 1001 - 24 August 2017

Added machine serial number to log file (when available)
Added video card name, disk info, optical drive info to the customer certificate
Changed PCIe test min/max reporting to be more accurate
Fixed a bug preventing the duty cycle and time being set to 0 (run forever) from the command line
Fixed a bug where if the %SYSTEMSERIAL% (or other flag) was used in the log file name preferences then it wasn't being replaced correctly when choosing to save the log file directly from the file menu
Fixed a bug where if the %SYSTEMSERIAL% (or other flag) was used in the log file name preferences and the customer certificate option was selected then it wasn't being replaced properly in the filename when the file was created
using the "Save Results report" menu item

Version 4.0 build 1000 - 18 May 2017

Tested and updated for new Linux distributions, with the minimum requirement now being kernel V3.1 64bit.
Support for 32bit has been dropped, but older V3 32bit releases are still available
Updated user interface to use QT5 (5.6.1)
Added support for the BurnInTest Management Console.
Which allow for test results to be uploaded to a centralised SQL database on company premises.
Added periodic logging setting to logging options in BurnInTest preferences
Added post-test options to BurnInTest preferences.
Can now choose the auto/manual stop actions and external applications to run for pass and failure cases.
Increased amount of system information collected and displayed (in particular for RAM, network cards and hard drives).
Changed system information network output so all network cards are displayed (not just active ones with IP address)
Filtering out virtual bridge entries from available network devices (virbr)

Version 3.4 build 1002 - 8 November 2016

CD test will now display a "Filesystem not mounted" error if specified CD device is not available
Made some changes to USB3 test to avoid USB connection errors at test start
Some changes were made to USB3 test start up and connection phase to slow down the process and give the Linux USB library time to process the requests before heavily loading with the send/received requests
The first 40 packets sent during the USB3 test will have a 10 millisecond sleep per packet to stop the Linux USB library being put under too much load while connecting plugs

Version 3.4 build 1001 - 4 October 2016

Made some changes to the serial test so that hardware flow control is disabled before checking the RTS/CTS and DSR/DTR lines respond as expected to being set high/low. This was required due to some Moxa PCIe serial cards not being able to allow manual setting of RTS/DSR lines when hardware flow control is enabled.
A message will now be logged when trying to run a script file with no RUN commands defined
Added the Pass/Fail result window to the GUI version after a script is run (if the EXIT command is not used)

Version 3.4 build 1000 - 2 September 2016

PCIe test changed to be compatible with the PCIe card firmware and driver version 2. PCIe cards with older firmware need to use an older version of BurnInTest and driver or have their firmware updated.
Increased the timeout when waiting for serial port status changes (eg CTS/RTS checks) to match the windows version of BurnInTest (30 millseconds)
Fixed a possible bug where flow control error (RTS/CTS etc) errors could be logged after the test has been stopped

Version 3.3 build 1003 - 22 June 2016

Added support for latest USB3 plug firmware (v2.0) which improves throughput
Added MESSAGE script command support to GUI version of BurnInTest Linux
Edited the BITCertificateTemplate.html file so that is using Linux carriage returns only (instead of a mix of Linux and DOS style)
Fixed some possible deadlock situations in the sound test
Changed some disk test error logging output to be more clear, file size, number of blocks and block size will now be printed at the start of normal log.
Added NVMe disk support
When opening a command line config file the config values are now set to defult value before processing the text based configuration file to prevent some situations where some config values could be left blank (such as the sound test device name)

Version 3.3 build 1002 - 7 January 2016

Added ZFS support to disk test
Added PCIE duty cycle keyword to command line config text file
Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to run the PCIE test in the command line version when there was an invalid duty cycle value
Fixed a bug where the command line version wasn't reading in decimal values for AutoStopTime correctly

Version 3.3 build 1001 - 16 November 2015

Added some extra system information to log files and customer certificates
Added a workaround when gathering system information to prevent reporting an incorrect number of DIMMs
Added -b command line option to set disk test blocksize as KB (eg -b 16 is 16384 byte block size)
Fixed a small memory leak in the disk test

Version 3.3 build 1000 - 4 August 2015

Added PCIe test card support (requires a separate driver to be compiled and installed)
Fixed a bug where the timestamped log file option in the command line configuration was not being enabled properly

Version 3.2 build 1004 - 11 June 2015

Fixed a crash when there are more than 120 disk test entries in the command line config file
Fixed a bug with the logging output of disk test operations

Version 3.2 build 1003 - 28 May 2015

Enabled setting serial ports test speed up to 921600 in command line config file
Fixed display of command line disk test statistics

Version 3.2 build 1002 - 27 April 2015

Changed default block size in disk test from disk preferred (gathered from system information) to 16KB default to increase speed of testing
Changed behaviour of the disk test to only change patterns after the disk has been filled (rather than after each test file) to match the BurnInTest windows behaviour
Added the command line option -J to allow the disk test pattern to be changed after each test file when used with the Cyclic pattern to match the BurnInTest windows behaviour
Improved the speed the disk test will run at while lowering CPU resources required
Disk test information screen in command line version will now display what pattern is currently in use when the cyclic pattern option is used
Increased the width of the test preferences if there is available screen room so all tabs are displayed
Added test preferences option to set sound device name, this should be left as the default value but may need to be changed in rare cases
Disk test default duty cycle now set to 100%
Fixed a bug where the multiple files (time stamped) option wouldn't be displayed as enabled next time the test preferences was opened
Fixed a display error where the cycle count for the selected disk was not being updated in the disk test window
Fixed a bug where the parameter for EXECUTE script command was not always being passed correctly
Fixed a bug preventing -K command line flag from being correctly enabled
Fixed a crash that could occur when running the disk test and not having permission to create the test file (eg running as a non-root user without sudo)
Fixed a display error of SMBIOS information on some systems where a warning message about the SMBIOS version was displayed instead of the system information

Version 3.2 build 1001 - 24 October 2014

Made some changes so BurnInTest waits longer for the memory test to finish cleaning up during the stop/closing tests process
Made a change to the start test button so it can no longer trigger multiple start test messages
Fixed a bug when outputting the location of a memory verify error in the trace log, the buffer starting location was being printed and not the location where the error occurred
Fixed a bug where an extra CPU test thread was being started
Fixed a bug in the serial port test where a longer than expected sleep during the test phase could reduce the overall throughput of the test
Fixed a bug in the serial port results display where very low baud rates would not display a throughput speed of less than 100 bytes/sec
Fixed a crash on exit, BurnInTest would attempt to close a libusb handle without checking it was successfully opened, in some cases this could cause a crash during the exit process.

Version 3.2 build 1000 - 26 September 2014

Added plugin support
Updated the optical test to work with passmark blu-rays
Fixed a bug that could occur when using USB2 plugs on USB3 expansion cards, starting a new test after stopping the previous one could see the plugs left in an unusable state and the new test would not be able to open the USB2 plug for testing.
Fixed a file handle resource leak in the USB2 test (when using the benchmark option) that could eventually see the plugs unable to be opened when switching between loopback and benchmark mode and log an error.
Fixed a bug with the serial port test where DSR wasn't always checked for the expected state
Changed the way disk tests set unbuffered reads/writes when opening a file

Version 3.1 build 1002 - 28 October 2013

Made some changes to the USB test so on some systems that don't have �/proc/bus/usb� information the test will now start correctly
Made some changes to the USB3 test start process, on some systems the USB3 plugs are slow to re-enumerate after BurnInTest configures them and could cause a connection error while the test was starting, this was more apparent when running on a live system (eg USB boot)
Fixed a bug in the GUI versions where scripts were not being launched correctly from the menu item after BurnInTest was running (scripts launched from the command line were unaffected)
Fixed a bug where a very large number of available network ports could cause a crash
Added a new error message and fixed a crash when libusb fails to start, BurnInTest will now run but the USB tests will be disabled if libusb is unable to be accessed
Added a -B command line flag so the command line version can be run in the background (eg using &), this means all user input is turned off so if no start/finish time is set BurnInTest will run indefinitely

Version 3.1 build 1001 - 5 August 2013

Added benchmark mode to USB2 test as part of each cycle as well as a new options to enable/disable the benchmark component of the test
Can now edit the "ttyS" edit field in the serial port setting in the GUI versions to add differently named serial ports eg ttyUSB
Added sound loopback test
Made some changes to how parallel ports are detected and selected for testing will now scan the /proc/sys/dev/parport directory for available parallel ports
Fixed a bug that was preventing BurnIntest from getting the IPs of available NICs caused by changes in the way ifconfig displays NIC information (Fedora 18)
Fixed an issue where running the memory test in the 32bit build of BurnInTest when run in conjuction with other tests could fail with an "Error allocating RAM" error.

Version 3.1 build 1000 - 6 February 2013

Added USB3 loopback plug support
Updated the USB library BurnInTest uses from libusb0.1 to libusb1
Changed behaviour so if the number of cpus/cores cannot be determined a warning will be logged and 1 CPU test thread will started by default
Fixed a crash on startup in the GUI version if "Error by category" under the "View" menu was enabled
Fixed a bug in the network settings where the address for 4 & 5 were linked to the wrong checkbox
Fixed a bug where raw hard disks were not being correctly counted and would not be displayed for selection in the test preferences or start the test as expected

Version 3.0 build 1007 - 7 November 2012

Fixed a bug where the command line version could crash when a USB drive was mounted at start up
Fixed a bug where using a long logging file path in the command line configuration file could cause the BurnInTest command line version to stop working
Fixed a bug preventing the CD and serial tests from starting correctly
Added some extra information to trace level 1 logging when closing a serial port fails

Version 3.0 build 1006 - 17 September 2012

Added keywords so a memory test pattern can be specified in the command line configuration
Increased the amount of disk tests that can be run to 120
Added ability to test network drives (CIFS, NFS, SMBFS)
Changed command line version to check for mount point or device when specifying a disk test in the command line config file
Added %DATE% and %SYSTEMSERIAL% flags for use in creating log names and paths
Added "Test all raw disks" to disk test preferences and a new keyword for the disk test section of the command line configuration
Added test pattern and file size settings for use with "Test all" options
Changed behaviour of BurnInTest when the configuration file can't be saved, instead of warning and exiting only the warning is displayed and BurnInTest will continue to run
Fixed a bug where the filesize for the hard disk test could not be set below 1% in the command line version
Fixed a bug where the number of CPUs in the system information could be incorrect
Fixed a bug where the 32bit version of BurnInTest could try and allocate more RAM than 32buit process can access if there was more than 4GB of RAM on the system
Fixed a bug in the command line version where if a hard disk was not mounted the error was displayed in the user interface but not logged correctly
Fixed a crash when the disk test and text format logging is enabled and there are no raw disks detected on the system
Fixed a bug where the incorrect disk name could be printed in the log file when using text format logging
Fixed a bug where the memory pattern could be reset to cyclic each time BurnInTest was started

Version 3.0 build 1005 - 10 May 2012

Fixed a bug in memory information display where motherboards with multiple banks of memory where being incorrectly parsed
Fixed a bug where error messages were not always displayed correctly in the command line version
Clarified USB test error to indicate root permissions are needed to run the test
Changed how USB test threads are allocated a USB plug to test to avoid timing issues when the tests start
Changed how the available USB plugs are detected to fix a bug where some Linux systems no longer support usbdevfs (eg Fedora 16)

Version 3.0 build 1004 - 15 March 2012

Fixed a bug in the command line text configuration, the CPU test sections were not being disabled when commented out
Fixed a bug in command line config where more than 40 disk entries could cause a crash
Fixed a bug in the disk test where when running multiple disk tests BurnInTest could occasionally fail to retrieve the available free space and report that the drive was not mounted.
Fixed a bug in the RAW disk test, random seeking pattern (32 bit only), where a seek error could be reported incorrectly
Fixed a bug in the 32bit versions where memory information was being reported incorrectly on systems with more than 4GB of RAM

Version 3.0 build 1003 - 5 October 2011

Changed how available disks are detected and displayed in the test preferences in order to display large numbers of available disks
Changed how disk test preferences are stored
Fixed a bug in the command line version where the correct number of CPU tests were not started in some cases
Fixed a bug with the network test where in some situations a checksum error could be logged even though no error occured.

Version 3.0 build 1002 - 9 September 2011

Fixed a bug with the scripting where when launching a script from the command line sometimes the script would launch the tests twice at the same time
Changed the behaviour of the serial port test to prevent situations where the test could freeze rather than throw an error (only when using custom test plugs)
Fixed a bug in the parallel test where if the port address was not set to a default value the sent/received count would not be displayed correctly
Some changes to the serial port test were made to match the windows behaviour, if an error is encountered the test will now continue after closing and re-opening the serial connection
Some timeout changes were made in the serial test to prevent the test pausing rather then timing out in some cases
Fixed a bug where the test configuration window could crash if there were more than 40 hard disks / partitions detected on the system
Fixed a bug where multiple "Device" keywords could be added to the same "<Test>" module of the disk test section of the command line configuration. This would cause the disk test to start with incorrect parameters.
Changed how the disk test files were deleted to improve the speed of deletions when cleaning up old test files

Version 3.0 build 1001 - 10 June 2011

When no system info is able to be retrieved a N/A is now displayed
Removed incorrect warning message being shown before welcome dialog when evaluation time has expired
Changed behaviour so disk test files will be created in the root directory '/' if startup disk is selected for testing
Fixed a bug in the command line version when using a non default serial port
Fixed a bug in the command line version where raw disk tests could report 0 operations while the test was running
Fixed a bug where the CPU test was not always creating the right amount of test threads
Fixed a bug where an error message would sometimes not be displayed correctly if an invalid key was used
Fixed a bug where some previously saved configuration options would not be loaded correctly next time configuration options were opened
Removed some stderr output shown when running the gui version from a terminal

Version 3.0 build 1000 - 17 August 2010

New licence keys will be required for version 3 of BurnInTest Linux, please see this page for information to check if you qualify for a free upgrade and more information about upgrading
Updated CPU tests to be more inline with current Windows version, including general instructions, FPU, SSE, SSE2 and primes tests
Updated user interface to use QT4 (4.6.2)
Updated main window to included system information (where available), test results and event log to allow easier access to these items
Main window can now be resized
Changed event log to color code information and error lines based on severity
Added edit error classification function
Changed some menu item names and location to be more consistent with the current Windows version
Changed the optical CD/DVD/BD test so files should be minimally cached by the operating system during testing (previous versions resulted in much higher than expected read/verify speeds)
Increased max limit for Memory test in 64bit version to 256GB and increased the maximum amount locked for testing to 97% of free RAM
Changed behaviour of -M (show machine ID and notes entry) command line parameter when used with -R (auto-start tests) so the tests will not execute until the machine ID and notes dialog is closed
Added ext4 support for disk test
Added test certificate option to logging and HTML template file to the download package
Added “Test all hard disk” option to test configuration options in GUI version and new TestAllDisks option in command line config
Fixed a bug where the serial port test was not starting correctly in some distributions of linux
Fixed a bug in the USB test where a batch of recent USB2 test plugs were not correctly recognised by BurnInTest
Fixed a bug in the CD "Data read and verify" test where the test could freeze during the checksum creation if it encountered a 0 length file
Fixed a bug where when exiting from a script BurnInTest was not returning the correct error/success code
Changed how BiT detects the IP address for a network card to take into account aliased entries, eg when using an IPv6 and an IPv4 address with an aliased entry for the same network card, originally BiT would not pick up the IPv4 address from the alias

Version 2.0 (build 1006) - 10 July 2009

Added NTFS to the list of recognised partition types for the disk test, please note that some Linux distribution might not support NTFS or writing to NTFS so the test will not be able to run unless the Linux distribution support read/write for NTFS (for example those that use ntfs-3g)
Added -K command line option to keep disk test data files on disk when an error occurs (rather than delete them), best used with the "Stop on error" option
Added extra information to trace level 1 logging when a disk verification error is detected
Removed disks from the disk test selection when using aufs/unionfs, so BurnInTest won't select these virtual partitions for the disk test by default in live environments
Fixed a bug where the CD/DVD test could generate a checksum error after the test had finished when running the Data Checksum & Verify test and the test finished halfway through check summing a file
Fixed a bug where the memory test could be run in the wrong mode and not generate any operations during the test, due to a corrupt config setting
Corrected some output for trace level 2 of the disk test where some information was not being written out correctly

Version 2.0 (build 1005) - 3 June 2009

Fixed a bug where running the CPU test on a machine with more than 16 CPUs could result in corruption of the results
Fixed a bug where a corrupt config file could cause odd test behaviour, for example an increasing cycle count but no increase in results or errors. BurnInTest was converting older versions of config files but not flagging them as new, causing them to be converted again next run and therfore corrupting it.

Version 2.0 (build 1004) - 24 April 2009

Removed the 2GB file limit for the disk test on 64bit versions
Fixed a bug where multiples warnings about having a floppy disk in the drive could be displayed when testing a floppy drive and multiple disk partitions
Fixed a bug where opening the test preferences window and starting the tests could add the USB test to the log file even if it wasn't selected to run in the duty cycle / test selection options.
Removed CD drives from being listed in the disk test preferences
Increased number of disk tests that can be run from 20 to 40
Lowered minimum duty cycle for network test, when set to 1 will send ~1 packet / second
Added -M command line option to display Machine ID and Notes dialog when BurnInTest is started (GUI version only)
Added scrolling in command line version, use up arrow and down arrow to scroll through the displayed test results in some display areas

Version 2.0 (build 1003) - 27 February 2009

Fixed a bug where some keys did not register correctly in the 64bit build

Version 2.0 (build 1002) - 11 February 2009

Added vmhgfs to the list of partitions types BurnInTest will recognise and display in the Disk tab
Fixed a bug where the Pre-Test option to hide/display the warning dialog had the opposite values
Fixed a bug where CD's mounted at certain points might not be recognised as a CD drive and not appear in the CD-RW/DVD tab
Fixed a bug in the memory test where the cycles count was incresed after the test was flagged to finish, making the final cycle count 1 higher than expected
Fixed a bug in the memory test where the One's pattern could sometimes be skipped when cycling through all test patterns
Fixed a bug in the command line version where the serial test could display the wrong operations count on the summary screen if there was a disk test running at the same time
Fixed a bug with the logging where RAW disk tests could log 0 operations in the command line version
Fixed a bug with matching network cards to their IP if each network card isn't connected or doesn't have a current IP
Fixed a bug where BurnInTest could exit if the disk test tried to create a test file bigger than 2GB.

Version 2.0 (build 1001) - 10 December 2008

Fixed a bug in the random seeking disk test where the same block could be read/written several times in a row instead of another random block
Fixed a bug in the random seeking disk test where a read verify error could occur, more likely to happen in small partitions (<50mb)
Fixed a bug with the scripting where multiple instances of the same test could be launched
Fixed a bug with the scripting where a segfault could occur when using logging
Fixed a bug with key entry where extra spaces before/after user name were not being ignored and causing some users name / key pairs to fail validation
Fixed a bug where BurnInTest would not launch on SUSE11
Removed some warning and message dialogs from the GUI version when running a script

Version 2.0 (build 1000) - 19 November 2008

Converted help file to browser based html format
Added support for reiserfs and XFS in disk test (previously these were being ignored) and ext4
Added -F font size command line parameter
Added -D duration (minutes) command line parameter
Added -X duration (cycles) command line parameter
Added -S script command line paramter
Added -p command line parameter to cmd line version, allows update interval to be set
Added command line parameters to command line version to match
Added USB2 loopback test for use with Passmark USB plugs
Added scripting
- In command line version use command line flag
- GUI version new menu item under Test menu
Removed the default behaviour of BurnInTest to create a debug log and print debug information which reduces load times, on some systems this was the cause of a long pause when starting BurnInTest. Debug mode can be entered by using the -d command line parameter.

Memory Test

Improved memory test execution speed significantly
Added option for memory test to select test pattern

Disk Test:

Added ability to test hard disks that are un-partitioned (Raw hard disk test)
Changed disk test window design, added total drive capacity
Changed references of MBytes to MB
Added ability to display GB instead of MB when a drive is greater than 1 GB
Tweaked hard disk duty cycle effect so effect is more linear, decreasing by a small amount from 100 will no longer result in a drastic cut to the speed of the test

Network Test:

Increases number of test IP slots to 6
Added option "Test All NICs" to bind each network card to an entered IP
Tweaked network duty cycle effect so effect is more linear, decreasing by a small amount
from 100 will no longer result in a drastic cut to the speed of the test
Changed MB sent/received to packets to give a clearer picture of how many packets are being
sent/received
Changed flow rate MB/S to packets/s
Network test name will now include which eth device is being tested

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where tests could not automatically stop after a certain set amount of cycles when running the CPU test on multi core cpus
Fixed a bug with network test errors not displaying correctly
Fixed a bug with the 2D graphics test where the total operations count was incorrect and
being inflated each cycle resulting in a higher operations count than there actually were
Fixed a bug with command line version of disk test when testing multiple devices if the underlying device block size differed the available and total space counts could be calculated wrong and could lead to the disk test causing a "Device Full" error rather than detecting when the device was running out of space and cleaning up files

Version 1.0 (build 1007) - 04 Oct 2006

1. Hang reported when running 2D Graphics test, resulting in 2D Graphics thread and
main thread hanging. All windows will not being updated (grayed out) and remaining
threads continue to run and needs to be killed. This version should fix this issue.

2. Fixed bug where number of CPU is not reported right.

3. Limit maximum file size of Disk test to 2GB.

4. Fixed a bug in Memory test whereby if your attempted test buffer size is less than 128MB,
memory test does not run.

5. If RTS/CTS is disabled, hardware flow control will not be turned on in Serial Port testing.

Version 1.0 (build 1006) - 05 Jul 2006

1. Removed paintEvent function from 2DGraphicsTest. Function is not in used but is being called
everytime the widget needs to paint itself.

2. Removed a while loop in bitmainapp.cpp, whereby it is calling Sleep and processEvent for 1 sec
once memory test thread is created.

3. We now compute parameter for OpenGL redraw outside of the paintGL function. Previously,
if user were to drag a window over the Open GL widget (window), you will see a "speed-up"
effect whereby the spheres will be moving faster. This is now no longer the case.

4. Commented InitSignalHandling() from InitEnv_Main().

5. We show() newly created child test window before we create the thread for the test
(Before, we show() after the thread creation).

6. Re-implemented main thread's paintEvent(). Previously, it is checking to see which thread is
suppose to run and then updating each test window. This is a bug because suppose only 1 thread
has been created so far (and 5 threads are suppose to run), and system wants to update the
main window, it will attempt to update a 5 child windows even though only the 1st window has
been created. Individual child window is now being updated outside the paintEvent function.

Version 1.0 (build 1005) - 04 May 2006

1. Corrected bug whereby the 2D Graphics Test is updating its windows (window->update())
from the main GUI thread!

2. Added optional argument for -R option.
-R: optional argument
Auto-start after delay_msecs. Minimum (and default) is 3000, i.e. 3 secs.
If you specify anything less than 3000 msecs, it will default to 3000 msecs.

Example:
./burnintest -R 10000
Auto-start after 10 secs
./burnintest -R
Auto-start after 3 secs (default)

Version 1.0 (build 1004) - 09 March 2006

1. Changed behaviour of how burnintest reports devices. Before, it attempts to
parse the mount point and the mount name to try and extract the last token after "/".
Example, if it is mounted as "/dev/fd0" at "/media/floppy", burnintest reports it
as Media floppy [fd0]. It now reports the full path, i.e. Media (/media/floppy) [/dev/fd0].
There is no gurantee that the monunt point or mount name has a "/" in its path.

2. Added "-R" (or "--autostart") and "-C" (or "--config") command line option.
-R: (no argument)
Auto start without needing to press "Start Test".
-C: (argument needed)
Determines which config file to use.

Example:
burnintest -R -C testall.cfg
burnintest --autostart --config=testall.cfg

3. Removed "-d" (or "--debugmode") option. "debug.log" is always created in executable's
directory for debugging purposes. If there is no write permission in executable's
directory, an error prompt will be displayed (instead of segfault).

Version 1.0 (build 1003) - 09 February 2006

1. Changed default settings for Serial Test. Default speed is now 9600baud
and default timeout is 3500 ms.
2. Changed default settings for Network Test. Default error mode is now by ratio.
3. Standardized data type used for RAM.
4. Added glFlush in OpenGL test to force execution of OpenGL commands in finite time.
5. Fixed Pre-Test warning that prompts for Serial Loopback Plugs to be attached to
test unit even though it is a "Detect Only" test.
6. Added texture to 3D Graphics' Spheres.
7. Adjusted material properties and lighting to enhance shadows on spheres for
3D Graphics Test.
8. Changed step size for displacement and rotation so spheres move faster in OpenGL Test.
9. Light source is now rotated to enhance effects.
10. Fixed bug in Preferences: CD-RW/DVD whereby even if a CD/DVD drive is not tested,
it will appear in the main window (not suppose to).
11. Put in extra trace logging for memory test.
12. Put in extra debug logging for memory reporting and system resource limits during startup.
13. Memory test now probes available physical RAM as well as available high RAM.

Version 1.0 (build 1002) - 22 December 2005

1. Released BurnInTest for Linux Version 1.0 (build 1002).
2. Removes excessive debug messages.

Version 1.0 Beta 2 (build 1001) - 24 November 2005

1. Included collect application to help collect debug log for start-up errors.
2. Fixed bug in Disk Test where files are not deleted properly after test finished.
3. #include <X11/Xthreads.h> instead of <pthread.h>.
4. Added "Thank you" dialog once user enter correct username/key.
5. Fixed negative cycle number for serial detect test.
6. Fixed floppies failing because of limited number of files at root directory of floppy.
7. Added build date/time in -v option.
8. Added Linux Distribution name in system header log...whatever appear in your login screen will be here.
9. Fixed bug whereby accumulate log and machine id files were saved in current working directory, which may or may not be the
application's directory.
10. Fixed bug where in SUSE 10.0, "Clear all results" only clear if "No" was clicked.
11. Synchronized icons with Performance Test as much as possible.

Version 1.0 Beta 1 (build 1000) - 10 November 2005

1. First version released to the world.