We are pleased to announce the availability of Slurm version 2.6.1
(with various bug fixes) and 13.12.0-pre1 (with first installment of
development for the next major release). Details of the changes in
each release are noted below. Downloads are available from
http://www.schedmd.com/#repos.
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* Changes in Slurm 2.6.1
========================
-- slurmdbd - Allow job derived ec and comments to be modified by non-root
users.
-- Fix issue with job name being truncated to 24 chars when sending a mail
message.
-- Fix minor issues with spec file, missing files and including files
erroneously on a bluegene system.
-- sacct - fix --name and --partition options when using
accounting_storage/filetxt.
-- squeue - Remove extra whitespace of default printout.
-- BGQ - added head ppcfloor as an include dir when building.
-- BGQ - Better debug messages in runjob_mux plugin.
-- PMI2 Updated the Makefile.am to build a versioned library.
-- CRAY - Fix srun --mem_bind=local option with launch/aprun.
-- PMI2 Corrected buffer size computation in the pmi2_api.c module.
-- GRES accounting data wrong in database: gres_alloc, gres_req, and
gres_used
fields were empty if the job was not started immediately.
-- Fix sbatch and srun task count logic when --ntasks-per-node specified,
but no explicit task count.
-- Corrected the hdf5 profile user guide and the acct_gather.conf
documentation.
-- IPMI - Fix Math bug getting new wattage.
-- Corrected the AcctGatherProfileType documentation in slurm.conf
-- Corrected the sh5util program to print the header in the csv file
only once, set the debug messages at debug() level, make the argument
check case insensitive and avoid printing duplicate \n.
-- If cannot collect energy values send message to the controller
to drain the node and log error slurmd log file.
-- Handle complete removal of CPURunMins time at the end of the job instead
of at multifactor poll.
-- sview - Add missing debug_flag options.
-- PGSQL - Notes about Postgres functionality being removed in the next
version of Slurm.
-- MYSQL - fix issue when rolling up usage and events happened when a cluster
was down (slurmctld not running) during that time period.
-- sched/wiki2 - Insure that Moab gets current CPU load information.
-- Prevent infinite loop in parsing configuration if including file
containing
one blank line.
-- Fix pack and unpack between 2.6 and 2.5.
-- Fix job state recovery logic in which a job's accounting frequency was
not set. This would result in a value of 65534 seconds being used (the
equivalent of NO_VAL in uint16_t), which could result in the job being
requeued or aborted.
-- Validate a job's accounting frequency at submission time rather than
waiting for it's initiation to possibly fail.
-- Fix CPURunMins if a job is requeued from a failed launch.
-- Fix in accounting_storage/filetxt to correct start times which sometimes
could end up before the job started.
-- Fix issue with potentially referencing past an array in parse_time()
-- CRAY - fix issue with accelerators on a cray when parsing BASIL 1.3 XML.
-- Fix issue with a 2.5 slurmstepd locking up when talking to a 2.6 slurmd.
* Changes in Slurm 13.12.0pre1
==============================
-- sview - improve scalability
-- Add task pointer to the task_post_term() function in task plugins. The
terminating task's PID is available in task->pid.
-- Move select/cray to select/alps
-- Defer sending SIGKILL signal to processes while core dump in progress.
-- Added JobContainerPlugin configuration parameter and plugin
infrastructure.
-- Added partition configuration parameters AllowAccounts, AllowQOS,
DenyAccounts and DenyQOS.
-- The rpmbuild option for a cray system with ALPS has changed from
%_with_cray to %_with_cray_alps.
-- The log file timestamp format can now be selected at runtime via the
LogTimeFormat configuration option. See the slurm.conf and slurmdbd.conf
man pages for details.
-- Added switch/generic plugin to a job's convey network topology.
-- BLUEGENE - If block is in 'D' state or has more cnodes in error than
MaxBlockInError set the job wait reason appropriately.
-- API use: Generate an error return rather than fatal error and exit if the
configuraiton file is absent or invalid. This will permit Slurm APIs to be
more reliably used by other programs.
-- Add support for load-based scheduling, allocate jobs to nodes with the
largest number of available CPUs. Added SchedulingParameters paramter of
"CR_LLN" and partition parameter of "LLN=yes|no".
-- Added job_info() and step_info() functions to the gres plugins to extract
plugin specific fields from the job's or step's GRES data structure.
-- Added sbatch --signal option of "B:" to signal the batch shell rather than
only the spawned job steps.
-- Added sinfo and squeue format option of "%all" to print all
fields available
for the data type with a vertical bar separating each field.
-- Add mechanism for job_submit plugin to generate error message for srun,
salloc or sbatch to log. New argument added to job_submit function in
the plugin.
-- Add StdIn, StdOut, and StdErr paths to job information dumped with
"scontrol show job".
-- Permit Slurm administrator to submit a batch job as any user.
-- Set a job's RLIMIT_AS limit based upon it's memory limit and VsizeFactor
configuration value.
-- Remove Postgres plugins
-- Make jobacct_gather/cgroup work correctly and also make all jobacct_gather
plugins more maintainable.
-- Proctrack/pgid - Add support for proctrack_p_plugin_get_pids() function.
-- Sched/backfill - Change default max_job_bf parameter from 50 to 100.
