Squish 8.1.0 Known Issues

Known Issues - Squish 8.1.0 Release¶

Release Date: Dec 4th, 2024

Recommended Update: n/a

All Squish Editions¶

After closing or killing a process that listens on a TCP port (this could be an attachable AUT or squishserver), launching the process again (within 60 seconds) may lead to the process not being able to listen on the same socket again. (squishserver will report Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:4322: Address already in use or similar.)

Solution:

Use a Squish 8.1 snapshot. Please contact our technical support regarding this. (Fixed on 2025-01-09; SQUISH-18458)

Workarounds

Use Squish 8.0.0.

Squish for Web¶

Attaching to Chrome using the 'Qt QA Squish Integration' fails after the initial setup¶

We observed that Google Chrome will not automatically start the 'Qt QA Squish Integration' after having installed it into the users normal Chrome profile and launching Chrome. This creates a problem as the attaching to the running instance of Chrome will not work if the background tasks of the extensions are not running. Based on our testing this issue only occurs when the corresponding profile folder was never used with Squish previously and Squish never started the browser in that profile.

Solution: Update the 'Qt QA Squish Integration' extension to version **3.0.6.

Attaching to Chrome using the 'Qt QA Squish Integration' fails intermittently¶

In addition to the initial setup issue we also observed on some systems that the extension is being stopped by Google Chrome and subsequent attempts to attach to the browser would thus fail. This can cause intermittent failures to attach to the browser, usually all subsequent attemps fail then.

Solution: Make sure to follow the newly added instructions for registering the native messaging helper application when setting up Chrome for attaching.

Squish for Web on Linux arm64 packages not available¶

During testing the release we found that browser vendors are not yet providing their browsers for this platform directly. The distributions may provide packages for these browsers, but on our reference distribution Ubuntu 24.04 these are using the flatpack format which is not possible to automate via Squish at the moment.

Given the practical absence of browsers on this platform that would allow automation via Squish we decided against publishing the Squish for Web for Linux/arm64 packages at this point in time as we could not thoroughly test them.

We are monitoring the situation with browser availability and will provide the packages when the common usage scenarios can be supported.

Squish for Tk¶

Attaching to attachable Tk AUT a second time causes it to crash.¶

Known to occur on Linux, Tk 8.6.

Please contact our technical support to inquire about getting a snapshot package.

Solution: Squish 8.1 Snapshot packages built after 2024-01-13 (9.0 release will include the fix)

Workaround: None yet

Squish for Qt¶

Squish for Qt (non-embedded/non cross-compilation) source builds for Qt 6 fail¶

The following error message will occur:

Building /home/myuser/squish/8.1/6.8.0/src/wrappers/qt/squishidl_qlist.h
error: unknown target triple 'unknown', please use -triple or -arch
squishidl: error: Error code: 1. Could not parse translation unit: '/home/myuser/Qt/binary/6.8.0/6.8.0/gcc_64/include/QtCore/qlist.h'

Solution:

Use a Squish 8.1 snapshot. Please contact our technical support regarding this. (Fixed on 2024-12-06; SQUISH-18359)

Workaround: None

Squish IDE¶

Crash on first start or when displaying the welcome page on Ubuntu Linux arm64¶

On some Ubuntu Linux arm64 systems (24.04 or newer) the Squish IDE may crash on first start or when opening the welcome page (from the menu Help → Welcome).

This is because of a bug in webkit2gtk, a component used by the Eclipse framework (that the Squish IDE builds upon) to display HTML content on Linux. The bug has been resolved upstream in the meantime, webkit2gtk 2.44.2-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 or newer has the fix (to find out which version of webkit2gtk is installed, run e.g. apt list webkit2gtk* in the command-line).

Workaround: If your Ubuntu system is affected by this bug and cannot be upgraded, setting the following environment variable should prevent the crash and the Squish IDE should open normally again:

export WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1