Hi,
Thanks, now I understand the meaning of "new" and what are "fail references" made for!
I'm not involved in software develeopement nor CS in the large, and to tell you the truth, this was really unclear to me.
This should be explained somewhere online (maybe it is already and I missed it), or made clear from reading the results themselves.

So I support Johan suggestion; what about replacing "new" by "fail", and "fail" by "fail (known)", with a little caption explaining that known failures are those matching a "fail reference"?

(and needless to say, I definitely agree the test suite is vital for inkscape developpement and maintainance and should be better known so that more people contribute test cases)

Cheers.