RELEASE NOTES FOR SLURM VERSION 1.2
30 August 2006

See the file NEWS for more details.

* Several new commands have been added to perform the individual srun functions.
  The srun command will continue to exist, but these commands may offer 
  greater clarity and ease of use. 
  salloc  - Perform a resource allocation (functions like "srun --allocate")
  sattach - Attach to an existing job (functions like "srun --attach")
  sbatch  - Submit a batch job (functions like "srun --batch")
  slaunch - Launch tasks (requires an allocaiton to already exist for the job)  
  See the indivual man pages for more information. 

* Permit batch jobs to be requeued ("scontrol requeue <jobid>" or
  "srun --batch --no-requeue ..." to prevent).

* Added "account" field to job and step accounting information and sacct output.

* Added new configuration parameter MessageTimeout (replaces #define in the 
  code).

* Added support for OS X operaing system.

* There is a new version of the Wiki scheduler plugin to interface with
  the Maui Scheduler and Moab. It can be accessed with the slurm.conf
  parameter "SchedulerType=sched/wiki2" (it will replace "sched/wiki"
  in SLURM version 1.2, but will co-exist in version 1.1.10+). Key
  differences include:
  - Node and job data returned is correct (several errors in old plugin)
  - Node data includes partition information (CCLASS field)
  - Improved error handling
  - Support added for configuration file ("wiki.conf" in same directory
    as "slurm.conf" file, see "man wiki.conf" for details)
  - Support added for job suspend/resume
  - Authentication of communications now supported
  - Improved performance
  - Memory leaks fixed

