Netperf-wrapper

This is a minor bugfix release, fixing an important regression in the GUI preventing files from being loaded when running under Python 2.

This is release 0.12.2 of Flent: The FLExible Network Tester.

Flent can be installed via pip by issuing pip install flent, or on Arch Linux through the AUR. Pre-built packages are available for Debian and Ubuntu at https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:tohojo:flent&package=flent.

This release includes a major refactoring of the plotting code, which should make it easier to extend in the future. Please report any regressions as bugs.

This is release 0.11.1 of Flent: The FLExible Network Tester.

Flent can be installed via pip by issuing `pip install flent`, or on Arch Linux through the AUR. Pre-built packages are available for Debian and Ubuntu at https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:tohojo:flent&package=flent.

This release converts the install logic to use Python's setuptools, but is otherwise identical to v0.11.0.

This is release 0.11.0 of Flent: The FLExible Network Tester.

Flent can be installed via pip by issuing `pip install flent`, or on Arch Linux through the AUR. Pre-built packages are available for Debian and Ubuntu at https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:tohojo:flent&package=flent.

This release fixes a couple of issues discovered after the release of v0.10.0:
- The file format extension has changed to `.flent` as plain-text JSON files, with optional compression as `.flent.gz` and `.flent.bz2`. The default output is `.flent.gz`.
- Data files are no longer written to the current working directory by default. Instead, they are written to the system TMPDIR. A new switch, `-D` controls the location of the data files. Run with `-D .` to retain the old behaviour. This can also be set from the rcfile to have a default directory to store all data files.
- Name clash issues in the Debian packaging preventing the `flent` binary from working has been fixed.
- The `notsent_lowat`, `limit_output_bytes` and `timestamps` sysctl settings are now captured as part of the extended metadata.

This is release 0.10.0 of Flent: The FLExible Network Tester (formerly netperf-wrapper). It is the first release under the new name.

Flent can be installed via pip by issues `pip install flent`, or on Arch Linux through the Aur. Pre-built packages are available for Debian and Ubuntu at https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:tohojo:flent&package=flent.

- Package installation should now work through `pip` on most platforms. In addition, two binaries are now installed: `flent` and `flent-gui`. The latter will launch the GUI directly (corresponding to passing --gui to the normal `flent` binary).
- The file format has changed. It now uses the `.flnt` extension and is bzip'ed instead of gzip'ed. In addition, raw data as parsed from the underlying test tools is now always included, but it has been moved outside the `metadata` key and resides under its own top-level key (`raw_values`) in the json object. Finally, the file format is now explicitly versioned, and a compatibility layer has been added so Flent will still load the old `.json.gz` files.
- Test runners can now depend on each other, so one test tool can be made to run when another finishes. In addition, a 'watchdog' feature has been introduced to the runners, so one runner exiting can trigger forceful kill of (an)other runner(s). This can be used along with the new 'timer' runner to enforce a maximum duration of tests, but can also be used with an external script to exit on arbitrary events; for instance when a bandwidth quota is used up.
- Flent should now better handle unicode output from test tools under different locales. Fixes bugs on OSX in particular, where output from the `ping` binary can be non-ASCII.
- Flent no longer crashes on broken pipe for text-based output formatters. Allows doing things like `flent -o csv | head` without errors.
- A couple of new tests has been added: `rrul_50_down`, `rrul_100_up` and `dslreports_8dn`.
- A `--swap-up-down` parameter has been added to swap the meaning of "up" and "down" when running tests.
- Various bug fixes.