Significant Updates

• Update ACPICA to version 20151124

New Features

• live-image/fwts-frontend-text: add a selection for recommended
• data: klog.json: add in some more kernel error messages for 4.3
• ACPI: Add ASPT test
• lib: framework: allow mixed tests and test category options
• fwts: framework: Add --log-level option
• lib: fwts_uefi: add SD device path define
• Boot path sync with UEFI spec. 2.5
  • uefibootpath: add test for the SD device path
  • uefidump: add dumping for the SD device path
  • lib: fwts_uefi: add efi bluetooth device path define
  • uefibootpath: add test for the bluetooth device path
  • uefidump: add dumping for the bluetooth device path
  • lib: fwts_uefi: add wireless device path define
  • uefibootpath: add test for the wireless device path
  • uefidump: add dumping for the wireless device path
  • lib: fwts_uefi: add ramdisk device path define
  • uefibootpath: add test for the ramdisk device path
  • uefidump: add dumping for the ramdisk device path

Fixed Bugs

• acpi: fpdt: add a terminate for buggy BIOS that reports zero length
• lib: klog: remove use of pcre, use regex instead
• utilities: kernelscan: remove use of pcre, use regex instead
• uefidump: add more bounds checking and remove need for heap
• utilities: fix memory leak, line not being free'd
• acpi: bert: remove redundant variable 'length'
• lib: iasl: rework IASL interface to ACPICA
• acpi: acpidump: use IASL rather than fwts custom table dump code
• s3 + klog: make log scanning more robust for S3 (LP: #1522292)
• lib: acpica: make region handler more robust (LP: #1524217)
• debian: copyright, fix lintian warnings
• Debian: update Standards-Version to 3.9.6
• acpi: acpidump: check for fwts_iasl_init failure
• lib: fwts_acpi_tables: fix segfault when tables fail to load (LP: #1452201)
• acpi: dbg2: remove dead store to ptr1
• hotkey: fix key reading loop, it needs to loop more than once
• lib: fwts_framework: remove dead store to len in for loop
• lib: fwts_acpi_table: remove redundant store to rsdt
• acpi: gpedump: remove redundant store to gpe_xrupt_info
• lib: fwts_acpi_tables: remove dead store to facs
• acpica: fwts_acpica: remove redundant store to length
• lib: fwts_acpi_tables: remove redundant store to xsdt
• lib: fwts_acpi_tables: check table to avoid dereferencing NULL ptr
• lib: fwts_acpi_table: Fix FADT update in creation of fake FACS table.
• uefibootpath: fix the wrong type for relative offset range path

Detail Changelog

To check /usr/share/doc/fwts/changelog.Debian.gz or fwts_15.12.00-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.gz from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwts