Greetings all, We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 1.5.1. This release features number of important breakthroughs in LDTP as well as in the field of Test Automation. This release note covers a brief introduction on LDTP followed by the list of new features and major bug fixes which makes this new version of LDTP the best of the breed. Useful references have been included at the end of this article for those who wish to hack / use LDTP. About LDTP: Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework (C / Python) and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the Accessibility libraries to poke through the application's user interface. The framework also has tools to record test-cases based on user events in the interface of the application which is under testing. We strive to help in building a quality desktop. Whats new in this release: Bug fixes: * Fixes b.g.o # 574787, 574789, 574791, 574793 Bug 574791 – ldtputils.captureimage() ignores coordinate arguments Bug 574793 – Use wnck to get window id instead of LTFX (digwin) Bug 574787 – LDTP package is not installing correctly Bug 574789 – getwindowlist (and others?) don't handle utf8 well Special thanks to Ara Pulido <ara at ubuntu.com>, Eitan Isaacson < eitan@ascender.com> and Michael Terry <michael.terry@canonical.com> Download source tarball - http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.5.x/ldtp-1.5.1.tar.gz Binary (openSUSE / Ubuntu / Fedora / Debian / RHEL / CentOS / Mandriva) - http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan/ (Just scheduled in openSUSE build service, might take time to complete depending upon server load) References: For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net Thanks Nagappan -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org http://nagappanal.blogspot.com