Version 8.1.7 of the Son of Grid Engine distribution is available from
<http://arc.liv.ac.uk/downloads/SGE/releases/8.1.7/>, with various bug
fixes and enhancements.  A notable fix is for the longstanding problem
of occasional major space leaks in qmaster with schedd_job_info=true.

Please report bugs, patches and suggestions for enhancement
<https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE#mail>.

Release notes:

* Building

  * Remove the shipped old jemalloc in favour of an external one
    (aimk -jemalloc)
  * Always use system libraries -- never load SSL stuff dynamically
  * aimk no longer uses specific paths for openssl etc.  Use
    INPUT_*_FLAGS if necessary
  * SUpport building rpm on OpenSuSE and RHEL7

* Bug fixes

  * Man, other doc, and message fixes/changes [#1504]
  * Fix minor memory leaks and check result of all malloc calls
  * Don't pause for a second with client JSVs [#1475]
  * Allow longer "failed" strings in admin mail
  * Fix spurious thread error reports from qping [#588]
  * Avoid possible crash reading malformed configuration files
  * Fix GUI installer startup [#1488]
  * Always define SGE_STARTER_USE_LOGIN_SHELL with starter method
  * Modify cpuset-based process killing [#1483, #1490]
  * Make various files optional when setting permissions at installation
  * Fix cpu-bound shepherd with qlogin
  * Fix queue list for adding queue in qmon [#1495]
  * Clean up some file permissions and shebangs in non-executables [#1493]
  * Really ignore -e, -o args of qrsh/qsh/qlogin, as documented
  * Fix use of SGE_QMASTER_PIDFILE and double writing of pid file
  * Fix occasional qmaster major space leak with schedd_job_info [#360, #682]
  * Wait until daemon goes down when stopping sge_execd

* Enhancements

  * Support Cygwin x86_64, and GNU/Linux on arm64 and ppc64el (untested)
  * qconf -aattr et al now support modifying types user, userset, calendar,
    and project
  * Translate exit code to signal name in qacct output
  * qacct -m prints only master tasks
  * Add ar_sub_time to qacct output
  * Allow rctemplate configuration from /etc/sysconfig as well as
    /etc/default
  * Update MPI PE templates and install a tight integration "mpi" PE
  * Make suid files, dtrace, qmon, start_gui_installer optional in
    setfileperm.sh (used at installation)
  * Speed up JSV in bash by not calling cut

* Potentially incompatible changes

  * Default ENABLE_ADDGRP_KILL to on
  * Clean symbol exports from libdrmaa.so (GNU ld only); now only exports
    drmaa_* and Java_com_sun_grid_*
  * Non-public functions in Bourne shell JSV implementation are
    prefixed with "_"
  * qping -info prints (very different) malloc statistics when the daemon
    uses jemalloc.  See print_malloc_info in sge_conf(5).

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