RELEASE NOTES FOR SLURM VERSION 17.11
28 July 2017

IMPORTANT NOTES:
THE MAXJOBID IS NOW 67,108,863. ANY PRE-EXISTING JOBS WILL CONTINUE TO RUN BUT
NEW JOB IDS WILL BE WITHIN THE NEW MAXJOBID RANGE. Adjust your configured
MaxJobID value as needed to eliminate any confusion.

If using the slurmdbd (Slurm DataBase Daemon) you must update this first.

NOTE: If using a backup DBD you must start the primary first to do any
database conversion, the backup will not start until this has happened.

The 17.11 slurmdbd will work with Slurm daemons of version 16.05 and above.
You will not need to update all clusters at the same time, but it is very
important to update slurmdbd first and having it running before updating
any other clusters making use of it.  No real harm will come from updating
your systems before the slurmdbd, but they will not talk to each other
until you do.  Also at least the first time running the slurmdbd you need to
make sure your my.cnf file has innodb_buffer_pool_size equal to at least 64M.
You can accomplish this by adding the line

innodb_buffer_pool_size=64M

under the [mysqld] reference in the my.cnf file and restarting the mysqld. The
buffer pool size must be smaller than the size of the MySQL tmpdir. This is
needed when converting large tables over to the new database schema.

Slurm can be upgraded from version 16.05 or 17.02 to version 17.02 without loss
of jobs or other state information. Upgrading directly from an earlier version
of Slurm will result in loss of state information.

If using SPANK plugins that use the Slurm APIs, they should be recompiled when
upgrading Slurm to a new major release.

NOTE: The slurmctld is now set to fatal if there are any problems with
      any state files.  To avoid this use the new '-i' flag.

NOTE: systemd services files are installed automatically, but not enabled.
      You will need to manually enable them on the appropriate systems:
      - Controller: systemctl enable slurmctld
      - Database: systemctl enable slurmdbd
      - Compute Nodes: systemctl enable slurmd

NOTE: If you are not using Munge, but are using the "service" scripts to
      start Slurm daemons, then you will need to remove this check from the
      etc/slurm*service scripts.

NOTE: If you are upgrading with any jobs from 14.03 or earlier
      (i.e. quick upgrade from 14.03 -> 15.08 -> 17.02) you will need
      to wait until after those jobs are gone before you upgrade to 17.02
      or 17.11.

NOTE: If you interact with any memory values in a job_submit plugin, you will
      need to test against NO_VAL64 instead of NO_VAL, and change your printf
      format as well.

NOTE: The SLURM_ID_HASH used for Cray systems has changed to fully use the
      entire 64 bits of the hash.  Previously the stepid was multiplied by
      10,000,000,000 to make it easy to read both the jobid as well as the
      stepid in the hash separated by at least a couple of zeros, but this
      lead to overflow on the hash with steps like the batch and extern step
      where they used all 32 bits to represent the step.  While the new method
      ruins the easy readability it fixes the more important overflow issue.
      This most likely will go unnoticed by most, just a note of the change.

NOTE: Starting in 17.11 the slurm commands and daemons dynamically link to
      libslurm.so instead of statically linking.  This dramatically reduces
      the footprint of Slurm.  If for some reason this creates issues with
      your build you can configure slurm with --without-shared-libslurm.

HIGHLIGHTS
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 -- Added new advanced reservation flag of "flex", which permits jobs requesting
    the reservation to begin prior to the reservation's start time and use
    resources inside or outside of the reservation. A typical use case is to
    prevent jobs not explicitly requesting the reservation from using those
    reserved resources rather than forcing jobs requesting the reservation to
    use those resources in the time frame reserved.
 -- The sprio command has been modified to report a job's priority information
    for every partition the job has been submitted to.
 -- Add the configure option --with-shared-libslurm which will link to
    libslurm.so instead of libslurm.o thus reducing the footprint of all the
    binaries.
 -- In switch plugin, added plugin_id symbol to plugins and wrapped
    switch_jobinfo_t with dynamic_plugin_data_t in interface calls in
    order to pass switch information between clusters with different switch
    types.
 -- Changed default ProctrackType to cgroup.

RPMBUILD CHANGES
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CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGES (see man appropriate man page for details)
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 -- Add FederationParameters=fed_display slurm.conf option to configure status
    commands to display a federated view by default if the cluster is a member
    of a federation.
 -- Add PrivateData=events configuration option.
 -- Change name of acct_gather_infiniband to acct_gather_interconnect.
 -- Add NoDecay flag to QOS.
 -- Add SchedulerParameters option of bf_max_job_user_part to specifiy the
    maximum number of jobs per user for any single partition. This differs from
    bf_max_job_user in that a separate counter is applied to each partition
    rather than having a single counter per user applied to all partitions.
 -- Changed default ProctrackType to cgroup.
 -- Add bf_max_time to SchedulerParameters.
 -- Add bf_max_job_assoc to SchedulerParameters.
 -- Add new SchedulerParameters option bf_window_linear to control the rate at
    which the backfill test window expands. This can be used on a system with
    a modest number of running jobs (hundreds of jobs) to help prevent expected
    start times of pending jobs to get pushed forward in time. On systems with
    large numbers of running jobs, performance of the backfill scheduler will
    suffer and fewer jobs will be evaluated.
 -- Add slurm.conf configuration parameters SlurmctldSyslogDebug and
    SlurmdSyslogDebug to control which messages from the slurmctld and slurmd
    daemons get written to syslog.
 -- Add slurmdbd.conf configuration parameter DebugLevelSyslog to control which
    messages from the slurmdbd daemon get written to syslog.
 -- Add slurmdbd.conf configuration parameter MaxQueryTimeRange to prevent
    overly broad accounting database lookups from overwhelming SlurmDBD.

COMMAND CHANGES (see man pages for details)
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 -- The '-q' option to srun has changed from being the short form of
    '--quit-on-interrupt' to '--qos'.
 -- Modify all daemons to re-open log files on receipt of SIGUSR2 signal. This
    is much than using SIGHUP to re-read the configuration file and rebuild
    various tables.
 -- Add scancel "--hurry" option to avoid staging out any burst buffer data.
 -- Add new advanced reservation flags of "weekday" (repeat on each weekday;
    Monday through Friday) and "weekend" (repeat on each weekend day; Saturday
    and Sunday).
 -- Node "OS" field expanded from "sysname" to "sysname release version" (e.g.
    change from "Linux" to
    "Linux 4.8.0-28-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Sat Feb 8 09:15:00 UTC 2017").
 -- scontrol modified to report core IDs for reservation containing individual
    cores.
 -- Add ability to define features on clusters for directing federated jobs to
    different clusters.
 -- Modify slurm_load_jobs() function to load job information from all clusters
    in a federation.
 -- Add squeue --local and --sibling options to modify filtering of jobs on
    federated clusters.
 -- Add sprio -p/--partition option to filter jobs by partition name.
 -- Add sprio --local and --sibling options for use in federation of clusters.
 -- Add sprio "%c" format to print cluster name in federation mode.
 -- Extend the output of the seff utility to also include the job's wall-clock
    time.

OTHER CHANGES
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 -- KNL features: Always keep active and available features in the same order:
    first site-specific features, next MCDRAM modes, last NUMA modes.

API CHANGES
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Changed members of the following structs
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Added members to the following struct definitions
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In slurmbdb_cluster_fed_t: Added feature_list to hold cluster features.
In job_desc_msg_t: Added cluster_features for passing cluster features to
	controller.
		   Renamed fed_siblings to fed_siblings_active.
		   Added fed_siblings_viable.
In job_info_t: Added cluster_features for passing back a job's cluster features
	from the controller.
               Renamed fed_siblings[_str] fed_siblings_active[_str]
	       Added fed_siblings_viable[_str].
In struct job_details: Added cluster_features to hold requestsed cluster
	features.
In job_fed_details_t: Rename siblings to siblings_active.
		      Added siblings_viable.
In job_info_request_msg: Added job_ids to be able to request job info for
		       specific jobs.
In job_step_kill_msg_t: Added sibling string to remove active sibling job.
In slurm_ctl_conf_t: Added group_force and group_time. (Were both in group_info
		     previously.)

Added the following struct definitions
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In job_alloc_info_msg_t: add req_cluster to indicate where the request is coming
	from.
Added reroute_msg_t to route a message to a different cluster.

Removed members from the following struct definitions
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In slurm_ctl_conf_t: Removed group_info.

Changed the following enums and #defines
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Added the following API's
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Added slurm_kill_job_msg: to send prepared job_step_kill_msg_t.

Changed the following API's
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Removed the following API's
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Removed unused slurm_allocation_lookup() and rename slurm_allocation_lookup_lite() to
	slurm_allocation_lookup().
