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* Changes in Slurm 18.08.4
==========================
 -- burst_buffer/cray - avoid launching a job that would be immediately
    cancelled due to a DataWarp failure.
 -- Fix message sent to user to display preempted instead of time limit when
    a job is preempted.
 -- Fix memory leak when a failure happens processing a nodes gres config.
 -- Improve error message when failures happen processing a nodes gres config.
 -- When building rpms ignore redundant standard rpaths and insecure relative
    rpaths, for RHEL based distros which use "check-rpaths" tool.
 -- Don't skip jobs in scontrol hold.
 -- Avoid locking the job_list when unneeded.
 -- Allow --cpu-bind=verbose to be used with SLURM_HINT environment variable.
 -- Make it so fixing runaway jobs will not alter the same job requeued
    when not runaway.
 -- Avoid checking state when searching for runaway jobs.
 -- Remove redundant check for end time of job when searching for runaway jobs.
 -- Make sure that we properly check for runawayjobs where another job might
    have the same id (for example, if a job was requeued) by also checking the
    submit time.
 -- Add scontrol update job ResetAccrueTime to clear a job's time
    previously accrued for priority.
 -- cons_res: Delay exiting cr_job_test until after cores/cpus are calculated
    and distributed.
 -- Fix bug where binary in cwd would trump binary in PATH with test_exec.
 -- Fix check to test printf("%s\n", NULL); to not require
    -Wno-format-truncation CFLAG.
 -- Fix JobAcctGatherParams=UsePss to report the correct usage.
 -- Fix minor memory leak in pmix plugin.
 -- Fix minor memory leak in slurmctld when reading configuration.

* Changes in Slurm 18.08.3
==========================
 -- Fix regression in 18.08.1 that caused dbd messages to not be queued up
    when the dbd was down.
 -- Fix regression in 18.08.1 that can cause a slurmctld crash when splitting
    job array elements.

* Changes in Slurm 18.08.2
==========================
 -- Correctly initialize variable in env_array_user_default().
 -- Remove race condition when signaling starting step.
 -- Fix issue where 17.11 job's using GRES in didn't initialize new 18.08
    structures after unpack.
 -- Stop removing nodes once the minimum CPU or node count for the job is
    reached in the cons_res plugin.
 -- Process any changes to MinJobAge and SlurmdTimeout in the slurmctld when
    it is reconfigured to determine changes in its background timers.
 -- Use previous SlurmdTimeout in the slurmctld after a reconfigure to
    determine the time a node has been down.
 -- Fix multi-cluster srun between clusters with different SelectType plugins.
 -- Fix removing job licenses on reconfig/restart when configured license
    counts are 0.
 -- If a job requested multiple licenses and one license was removed then on
    a reconfigure/restart all of the licenses -- including the valid ones
    would be removed.
 -- Fix issue where job's license string wasn't updated after a restart when
    licenses were removed or added.
 -- Add allow_zero_lic to SchedulerParameters.
 -- Avoid scheduling tasks in excess of ArrayTaskThrottle when canceling tasks
    of an array.
 -- Fix jobs that request memory per node and task count that can't be
    scheduled right away.
 -- Avoid infinite loop with jobacct_gather/linux when pids wrap around
    /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max.
 -- Fix --parsable2 output for sacct and sstat commands to remove a stray
    trailing delimiter.
 -- When modifying a user's name in sacctmgr enforce PreserveCaseUser.
 -- When adding a coordinator or user that was once deleted enforce
    PreserveCaseUser.
 -- Correctly handle scenarios where a partitions MaxMemPerCPU is less than
    a jobs --mem-per-cpu and also -c is greater than 1.
 -- Set AccrueTime correctly when MaxJobsAccrue is disabled and BeginTime has
    not been established.
 -- Correctly account for job arrays for new {Max/Grp}JobsAccrue limits.

* Changes in Slurm 18.08.1
==========================
 -- Remove commented-out parts of man pages related to cons_tres work in 19.05,
    as these were showing up on the web version due to a syntax error.
 -- Prevent slurmctld performance issues in main background loop if multiple
    backup controllers are unavailable.
 -- Add missing user read association lock in burst_buffer/cray during init().
 -- Fix incorrect spacing for PartitionName lines in 'scontrol write config'.
 -- Fix creation of step hwloc xml file for after cpuset cgroup has been
    created.
 -- Add userspace as a valid default governor.
 -- Add timers to group_cache_lookup so if going slow advise
    LaunchParameters=send_gids.
 -- Fix SLURM_STEP_GRES=none to work correctly.
 -- Fix potential memory leak when a failure happens unpacking a ctld_multi_msg.
 -- Fix potential double free when a faulure happens when unpacking a
    node_registration_status_msg.
 -- Fix sacctmgr show runaways.
 -- Removed non-POSIX append operator from configure script for non-bash
    support.
 -- Fix incorrect spacing for PartitionName lines in 'scontrol write config'.
 -- Fix sacct to not print huge reserve times when the job was never eligible.
 -- burst_buffer/cray - Add missing locks around assoc_mgr when timing out a
    burst buffer.
 -- burst_buffer/cray - Update burst buffers when an association or qos
    is removed from the system.
 -- Remove documentation for deprecated Cray/ALPS systems. Please switch to
    Native Cray mode instead.
 -- Completely copy features when copying the list in the slurmctld.
 -- PMIX - Fix issue with packing processes when using an arbitrary task
    distribution.
 -- Fix hostlists to be able to handle nodenames with '-' in them surrounded
    by integers.
 -- Fix correct job CPU count allocated.
 -- Fix sacctmgr setting GrpJobs limit when setting GrpJobsAccrue limit.
 -- Change the defaults to MemLimitEnforce=no and NoOverMemoryKill
    (See RELEASE_NOTES).
 -- Prevent abort when using Cray node features plugin on non-knl.
 -- Add ability to reboot down nodes with scontrol reboot_nodes.
 -- Protect against sending to the slurmdbd if the connection has gone away.
 -- Fix invalid read when not using backup slurmctlds.
 -- Prevent acct coordinators from changing default acct on add user.
 -- Don't allow scontrol top do modify job priorities when priority == 1.
 -- slurmsmwd - change parsing code to handle systems with the svid or inst
    fields set in xtconsumer output.
 -- Fix infinite loop in slurmctld if GRES is specified without a count.
 -- sacct: Print error when unknown arguments are found.
 -- Fix checking missing return codes when unpacking structures.
 -- Fix slurm.spec-legacy including slurmsmwd
 -- More explicit error message when cgroup oom-kill events detected.
 -- When updating an association and are unable to find parent association
    initialize old fairshare association pointer correctly.
 -- Wrap slurm_cond_signal() calls with mutexes where needed.
 -- Fix correct timeout with resends in slurm_send_only_node_msg.
 -- Fix pam_slurm_adopt to honor action_adopt_failure.
 -- Have the slurmd recreate the hwloc xml file for the full system on restart.
 -- sdiag - correct the units for the gettimeofday() stat to microseconds.
 -- Set SLURM_CLUSTER_NAME environment variable in MailProg to the ClusterName.
 -- smail - use SLURM_CLUSTER_NAME environment variable.
 -- job_submit/lua - expose argc/argv options through lua interface.
 -- slurmdbd - prevent false-positive warning about innodb settings having
    been set too low if they're actually set over 2GB.

* Changes in Slurm 18.08.0
==========================
 -- Fix segfault on job arrays when starting controller without dbd up.
 -- Fix pmi2 to build with gcc 8.0+.
 -- Remove the development snapshot of select/cons_tres plugin.
 -- Fix slurmd -C to not print benign error from xcpuinfo.
 -- Fix potential double locks in the assoc_mgr.
 -- Fix sacct truncate flag behavior Truncated pending jobs will always
    return a start and end time set to the window end time, so elapsed
    time is 0.
 -- Fix extern step hanging forever when canceled right after creation.
 -- sdiag - add slurmctld agent count.
 -- Remove requirement to have cgroup_allowed_devices_file.conf in order to
    constrain devices. By default all devices are allowed and GRES, that are
    associated with a device file, that are not requested are restricted.
 -- Fix proper alignment of clauses when determining if more nodes are needed
    for an allocation.
 -- Fix race condition when canceling a federation job that just started
    running.
 -- Prevent extra resources from being allocated when combining certain flags.
 -- Fix problem in task/affinity plugin that can lead to slurmd fatal()'ing
    when using --hint=nomultithread.
 -- Fix left over socket file when step is ending and using pmi2 with
    %n or %h in the spool dir.
 -- Don't remove hwloc full system xml file when shutting down the slurmd.
 -- Fix segfault that could happen with a het job when it was canceled while
    starting.
 -- Fix scan-build false-positive warning about invalid memory access in the
    _ping_controller() function.
 -- Add control_inx value to trigger_info_msg_t to permit future work in the
    trigger management code to distinguish which of multiple backup controllers
    has changed state.

* Changes in Slurm 18.08.0rc1
==============================
 -- Add TimelimitRaw sacct output field to display timelimit numbers.
 -- Fix job array preemption during backfill scheduling.
 -- Fix scontrol -o show assoc output.
 -- Add support for sacct --whole-hetjob=[yes|no] option.
 -- Make salloc handle node requests the same as sbatch.
 -- Add shutdown_on_reboot SlurmdParameter to control whether the Slurmd will
    shutdown itself down or not when a reboot request is received.
 -- Add cancel_reboot scontrol option to cancel pending reboot of nodes.
 -- Make Users case insensitive in the database based on
    Parameters=PreserveCaseUser in the slurmdbd.conf.
 -- Improve scheduling when dealing with node_features that could have a
    boot delay.
 -- Fix issue if a step launch fails we don't get a bunch of '(null)' strings
    in the step record for usage.
 -- Changed the default AuthType for slurmdbd to auth/munge.
 -- Make it so libpmi.so doesn't link to libslurm.so.$apiversion.
 -- Added 'remote-fs.target' to After directive of slurmd.service file.
 -- Fix filetxt plugin to handle it when you aren't running a jobacct_gather
    plugin.
 -- Remove drain on node when reboot nextstate used.
 -- Speed up pack of job's qos.
 -- Fix race condition when trying to update reservation in the database.
 -- For the PrologFlags slurm.conf option, make NoHold mutually exclusive with
    Contain and/or X11 options.
 -- Revise the handling of SlurmctldSyslogLevel and SlurmdSyslogLevel options
    in slurm.conf and DebugLevelSyslog in slurmdbd.conf.
 -- Gate reading the cgroup.conf file.
 -- Gate reading the acct_gather_* plugins.
 -- Add sacctmgr options to prevent/manage job queue stuffing:
    - GrpJobsAccrue=<max_jobs>
      Maximum number of pending jobs in aggregate able to accrue age priority
      for this association and all associations which are children of this
      association. To clear a previously set value use the modify command with
      a new value of -1.
    - MaxJobsAccrue=<max_jobs>
      Maximum number of pending jobs able to accrue age priority at any given
      time for the given association. This is overridden if set directly on a
      user. Default is the cluster's limit. To clear a previously set value use
      the modify command with a new value of -1.
    - MinPrioThreshold
      Minimum priority required to reserve resources when scheduling.

* Changes in Slurm 18.08.0pre2
==============================
 -- Remove support for "ChosLoc" configuration parameter.
 -- Configuration parameters "ControlMachine", "ControlAddr", "BackupController"
    and "BackupAddr" replaced by an ordered list of "SlurmctldHost" records
    with the optional address appended to the name enclosed in parenthesis.
    For example: "SlurmctldHost=head(12.34.56.78)". An arbitrary number of
    backup servers can be configured.
 -- When a pending job's state includes "UnavailableNodes" do not include the
    nodes in FUTURE state.
 -- Remove --immediate option from sbatch.
 -- Add infrastructure for per-job and per-step TRES parameters: tres-per-job,
    tres-per-node, tres-per-socket, tres-per-task, cpus-per-tres, mem-per-tres,
    tres-bind and tres-freq. These new parameters are not currently used, but
    have been added to the appropriate RPCs.
 -- Add DefCpuPerGpu and DefMemPerGpu to global and per-partition configuration
    parameters. Shown in scontrol/sview as "JobDefaults=...". NOTE: These
    options are for future use and currently have no effect.
 -- Fix for setting always the correct status on job update in mysql
 -- Add ValidateMode configuration parameter to knl_cray.conf for static
    MCDRAM/NUMA configurations.
 -- Fix security issue in accounting_storage/mysql plugin by always escaping
    strings within the slurmdbd. CVE-2018-7033.
 -- Disable local PTY output processing when using 'srun --unbuffered'. This
    prevents the PTY subsystem from inserting extraneous \r characters into
    the output stream.
 -- Change the column name for the %U (User ID) field in squeue to 'UID'.
 -- CRAY - Add CheckGhalQuiesce to the CommunicationParameters.
 -- When a process is core dumping, avoid terminating other processes in that
    task group. This fixes a problem with writing out incomplete OpenMP core
    files.
 -- CPU frequency management enhancements: If scaling_available_frequencies
    file is not available, then derive values from scaling_min_freq and
    scaling_max_freq values. If cpuinfo_cur_freq file is not available then
    try to use scaling_cur_freq.
 -- Add pending jobs count to sdiag output.
 -- Fix update job function. There were some incosistencies on the behavior
    that caused time limits to be modified when swapping QOS, bad permissions
    check for a coordinator and AllowQOS and DenyQOS were not enforced on
    job update.
 -- Add configuration paramerers SlurmctldPrimaryOnProg and
    SlurmctldPrimaryOffProg, which define programs to execute when a slurmctld
    daemon becomes the primary server or goes from primary to backup mode.
 -- Add configuration paramerers SlurmctldAddr for use with virtual IP to manage
    backup slurmctld daemons.
 -- Explicitly shutdown the slurmd process when instructed to reboot.
 -- Add ability to create/update partition with TRESBillingWeights through
    scontrol.
 -- Calcuate TRES billing values at submission so that billing limits can be
    enforced at submission with QOS DenyOnLimit.
 -- Add node_features plugin function "node_features_p_reboot_weight()" to
    return the node weight to be used for a compute node that requires reboot
    for use (e.g. to change the NUMA mode of a KNL node).
 -- Add NodeRebootWeight parameter to knl.conf configuration file.
 -- Fix insecure handling of job requested gid field. CVE-2018-10995.
 -- Fix srun to return highest signal of any task.
 -- Completely remove "gres" field from step record. Use "tres_per_node",
    "tres_per_socket", etc.
 -- Add "Links" parameter to gres.conf configuration file.
 -- Force slurm_mktime() to set tm_isdst to -1 so anyone using the function
    doesn't forget to set it.
 -- burst_buffer.conf - Add SetExecHost flag to enable burst buffer access
    from the login node for interactive jobs.
 -- Append ", with requeued tasks" to job array "end" emails if any tasks in the
    array were requeued. This is a hint to use "sacct --duplicates" to see the
    whole picture of the array job.
 -- Add ResumeFailProgram slurm.conf option to specify a program that is called
    when a node fails to respond by ResumeTimeout.
 -- Add new job pending reason of "ReqNodeNotAvail, reserved for maintenance".
 -- Remove AdminComment += syntax from 'scontrol update job'.
 -- sched/backfill: Reset job time limit if needed for deadline scheduling.
 -- For heterogeneous job component with required nodes, explicitly exclude
    those nodes from all other job components.
 -- Add name of partition used to output of srun --test-only output (valuable
    for jobs submitted to multiple partitions).
 -- If MailProg is not configured and "/bin/mail" (the default) does not exist,
    but "/usr/bin/mail" does exist then use "/usr/bin/mail" as a default value.
 -- sdiag output now reports outgoing slurmctld message queue contents.
 -- Fix issue in performance when reading slurm conf having nodes with features.
 -- Make it so the slurmdbd's pid file gets created before initing
    the database.
 -- Improve escaping special characters on user commands when specifying paths.
 -- Fix directory names with special char '\' that are not handled correctly.
 -- Add salloc/sbatch/srun option of --gres-flags=disable-binding to disable
    filtering of CPUs with respect to generic resource locality. This option is
    currently required to use more CPUs than are bound to a GRES (i.e. if a GPU
    is bound to the CPUs on one socket, but resources on more than one socket
    are required to run the job). This option may permit a job to be allocated
    resources sooner than otherwise possible, but may result in lower job
    performance.
 -- SlurmDBD - Print warning if MySQL/MariaDB internal tuning is not at least
    half of the recommended values.
 -- Move libpmi from src/api to contribs/pmi.
 -- Add ability to specify a node reason when rebooting nodes with "scontrol
    reboot".
 -- Add nextstate option to "scontrol reboot" to dictate state of node after
    reboot.
 -- Consider "resuming" (nextstate=resume) nodes as available in backfill
    future scheduling and don't replace "resuming" nodes in reservations.
 -- Add the use of a xml file to help performance when using hwloc.

* Changes in Slurm 18.08.0pre1
==============================
 -- Add new burst buffer state of "teardown-fail" to indicate the burst buffer
    teardown operation is failing on specific buffers. This changes the numeric
    value of the BB_STATE_COMPLETE type. Any Slurm version 17.02 or 17.11 tool
    used to report burst buffer state information will report a state of "66"
    rather than "complete" for burst buffers which have been deleted, but still
    exist in the slurmctld daemon's tables (a very short-lived situation).
 -- Multiple backup slurmctld daemons can be configured:
    * Specify "BackupController#=<hostname> and "BackupAddr#=<address>" to
      identify up to 9 backup servers.
    * Output format of "scontrol ping" and the daemon status at the end of
      "scontrol status" is modified to report up status of the primary and all
      backup servers.
    * "scontrol takeover [#]" command can now identify the SlurmctldHost
      index number. Default value is "1" (the first backup configured
      SlurmctldHost).
 -- Enable jobs with zero node count for creation and/or deletion of persistent
    burst buffers.
    * The partition default MinNodes configuration parameter is now 0
      (previously 1 node).
    * Zero size jobs disabled for job arrays and heterogeneous jobs, but
      supported for salloc, sbatch and srun commands.
 -- Add "scontrol show dwstat" command to display Cray burst buffer status.
 -- Add "GetSysStatus" option to burst_buffer.conf file. For burst_buffer/cray
    this would indicate the location of the "dwstat" command.
 -- Add node and partition configuration options of "CpuBind" to control default
    task binding. Modify the scontrol to report and modify these parameters.
 -- Add "NumaCpuBind" option to knl.conf file to automatically change a node's
    CpuBind parameter based upon changes to a node's NUMA mode.
 -- Add sbatch "--batch" option to identify features required on batch node.
    For example "sbatch --batch=haswell ...".
 -- Add "BatchFeatures" field to output of "scontrol show job".
 -- Add support for "--bb" option to sbatch command.
 -- Add new SystemComment field to job data structure and database. Currently
    used for Burst Buffer error logs.
 -- Expand reservation "flags" field from 32 to 64 bits.
 -- Add job state flag of "SIGNALING" to avoid race condition with multiple
    SIGSTOP/SIGCONT signals for the same job being active at the same time.
 -- Properly handle srun --will-run option when there are jobs in COMPLETING
    state.
 -- Properly report who is signaling a step.
 -- Don't combine updated reservation records in sreport's reservation report.
 -- node_features plugin - Add suport for XOR & XAND of job constraints (node
    feature specifications).
 -- Add support for parenthesis in a job's constraint specification to group
    like options together. For example
    --constraint="[(knl&snc4&flat)*4&haswell*1]" might be used to specify that
    four nodes with the features "knl", "snc4" and "flat" plus one node with
    the feature "haswell" are required.
 -- Improvements to how srun searches for the executible when using cwd.
 -- Now programs can be checked before execution if test_exec is set when using
    multi-prog option.
 -- Report NodeFeatures plugin configuration with scontrol and sview commands.
 -- Add acct_gather_profile/influxdb plugin.
 -- Add new job state of SO/STAGE_OUT indicating that burst buffer stage-out
    operation is in progress.
 -- Correct SLURM_NTASKS and SLURM_NPROCS environment variable for heterogeneous
    job step. Report values representing full allocation.
 -- Expand advanced reservation feature specification to support parenthesis and
    counts of nodes with specified features. Nodes with the feature currently
    active will be prefered.
 -- Defer job signaling until prolog is completed
 -- Have the primary slurmctld wait until the backup has completely shutdown
    before taking control.
 -- Fix issue where unpacking job state after TRES count changed could lead to
    invalid reads.
 -- Heterogeneous job steps allocations supported with
    * Open MPI (with Slurm's PMI2 and PMIx plugins) and
    * Intel MPI (with Slurm's PMI2 plugin)
 -- Remove redundant function arguments from task plugins:
    * Remove "job_id" field from task_p_slurmd_batch_request() function.
    * Remove "job_id" field from task_p_slurmd_launch_request() function.
    * Remove "job_id" field from task_p_slurmd_reserve_resources() function.
 -- Change function name from node_features_p_changible_feature() to
    node_features_p_changeable_feature in node_features plugin.
 -- Add Slurm configuration file check logic using "slurmctld -t" command.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.13
===========================

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.12
===========================
 -- Fix regression in 17.11.10 that caused dbd messages to not be queued up
    when the dbd was down.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.11
===========================
 -- Correctly initialize variable in env_array_user_default().
 -- Correctly handle scenarios where a partitions MaxMemPerCPU is less than
    a jobs --mem-per-cpu and also -c is greater than 1.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.10
===========================
 -- Move priority_sort_part_tier from slurmctld to libslurm to make it possible
    to run the regression tests 24.* without changing that code since it links
    directly to the priority plugin where that function isn't defined.
 -- Fix issue where job time limits can increase to max walltime when updating
    a job with scontrol.
 -- Fix invalid protocol_version manipulation on big endian platforms causing
    srun and sattach to fail.
 -- Fix for QOS, Reservation and Alias env variables in srun.
 -- mpi/pmi2 - Backport 6a702158b49c4 from 18.08 to avoid dangerous detached
    thread.
 -- When allowing heterogeneous steps make sure we copy all the options to
    avoid copying strings that may be overwritten.
 -- Print correctly when sh5util finds and empty file.
 -- Fix sh5util to not seg fault on exit.
 -- Fix sh5util to check correctly for H5free_memory.
 -- Adjust OOM monitoring function in task/cgroup to prevent problems in
    regression suite from leaked file descriptors.
 -- Fix issue with gres when defined with a type and no count
    (i.e. gres=gpu/tesla) it would get a count of 0.
 -- Allow sstat to talk to slurmd's that are new in protocol version.
 -- Permit database names over 33 characters in accounting_storage/mysql.
 -- Fix negative values when profiling.
 -- Fix srun segfault caused by invalid memory reads on the env.
 -- Fix segfault on job arrays when starting controller without dbd up.
 -- Fix pmi2 to build with gcc 8.0+.
 -- Fix proper alignment of clauses when determining if more nodes are needed
    for an allocation.
 -- Fix race condition when canceling a federation job that just started
    running.
 -- Prevent extra resources from being allocated when combining certain flags.
 -- Fix problem in task/affinity plugin that can lead to slurmd fatal()'ing
    when using --hint=nomultithread.
 -- Fix left over socket file when step is ending and using pmi2 with
    %n or %h in the spool dir.
 -- Fix incorrect spacing for PartitionName lines in 'scontrol write config'.
 -- Fix sacct to not print huge reserve times when the job was never eligible.
 -- burst_buffer/cray - Add missing locks around assoc_mgr when timing out a
    burst buffer.
 -- burst_buffer/cray - Update burst buffers when an association or qos
    is removed from the system.
 -- If failed over to a backup controller, ensure the agent thread is launched
    to handle deferred tasks.
 -- Fix correct job CPU count allocated.
 -- Protect against sending to the slurmdbd if the connection has gone away.
 -- Fix checking missing return codes when unpacking structures.
 -- Fix slurm.spec-legacy including slurmsmwd
 -- More explicit error message when cgroup oom-kill events detected.
 -- When updating an association and are unable to find parent association
    initialize old fairshare association pointer correctly.
 -- Wrap slurm_cond_signal() calls with mutexes where needed.
 -- Fix correct timeout with resends in slurm_send_only_node_msg.
 -- Fix pam_slurm_adopt to honor action_adopt_failure.
 -- job_submit/lua - expose argc/argv options through lua interface.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.9-2
============================
 -- Fix printing of node state "drain + reboot" (and other node state flags).
 -- Fix invalid read (segfault) when sorting multi-partition jobs.
 -- Move several new error() messages to debug() to keep them out of users'
    srun output.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.9
==========================
 -- Fix segfault in slurmctld when a job's node bitmap is NULL during a
    scheduling cycle.  Primarily caused by EnforcePartLimits=ALL.
 -- Remove erroneous unlock in acct_gather_energy/ipmi.
 -- Enable support for hwloc version 2.0.1.
 -- Fix 'srun -q' (--qos) option handling.
 -- Fix socket communication issue that can lead to lost task completition
    messages, which will cause a permanently stuck srun process.
 -- Handle creation of TMPDIR if environment variable is set or changed in
    a task prolog script.
 -- Avoid node layout fragmentation if running with a fixed CPU count but
    without Sockets and CoresPerSocket defined.
 -- burst_buffer/cray - Fix datawarp swap default pool overriding jobdw.
 -- Fix incorrect job priority assignment for multi-partition job with
    different PriorityTier settings on the partitions.
 -- Fix sinfo to print correct node state.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.8
==========================
 -- Fix incomplete RESPONSE_[RESOURCE|JOB_PACK]_ALLOCATION building path.
 -- Do not allocate nodes that were marked down due to the node not responding
    by ResumeTimeout.
 -- task/cray plugin - search for "mems" cgroup information in the file
    "cpuset.mems" then fall back to the file "mems".
 -- Fix ipmi profile debug uninitialized variable.
 -- Improve detection of Lua package on older RHEL distributions.
 -- PMIx: fixed the direct connect inline msg sending.
 -- MYSQL: Fix issue not handling all fields when loading an archive dump.
 -- Allow a job_submit plugin to change the admin_comment field during
    job_submit_plugin_modify().
 -- job_submit/lua - fix access into reservation table.
 -- MySQL - Prevent deadlock caused by archive logic locking reads.
 -- Don't enforce MaxQueryTimeRange when requesting specific jobs.
 -- Modify --test-only logic to properly support jobs submitted to more than
    one partition.
 -- Prevent slurmctld from abort when attempting to set non-existing
    qos as def_qos_id.
 -- Add new job dependency type of "afterburstbuffer". The pending job will be
    delayed until the first job completes execution and it's burst buffer
    stage-out is completed.
 -- Reorder proctrack/task plugin load in the slurmstepd to match that of slurmd
    and avoid race condition calling task before proctrack can introduce.
 -- Prevent reboot of a busy KNL node when requesting inactive features.
 -- Revert to previous behavior when requesting memory per cpu/node introduced
    in 17.11.7.
 -- Fix to reinitialize previously adjusted job members to their original value
    when validating the job memory in multi-partition requests.
 -- Fix _step_signal() from always returning SLURM_SUCCESS.
 -- Combine active and available node feature change logs on one line rather
    than one line per node for performance reasons.
 -- Prevent occasionally leaking freezer cgroups.
 -- Fix potential segfault when closing the mpi/pmi2 plugin.
 -- Fix issues with --exclusive=[user|mcs] to work correctly
    with preemption or when job requests a specific list of hosts.
 -- Make code compile with hdf5 1.10.2+
 -- mpi/pmix: Fixed the collectives canceling.
 -- SlurmDBD: improve error message handling on archive load failure.
 -- Fix incorrect locking when deleting reservations.
 -- Fix incorrect locking when setting up the power save module.
 -- Fix setting format output length for squeue when showing array jobs.
 -- Add xstrstr function.
 -- Fix printing out of --hint options in sbatch, salloc --help.
 -- Prevent possible divide by zero in _validate_time_limit().
 -- Add Delegate=yes to the slurmd.service file to prevent systemd from
    interfering with the jobs' cgroup hierarchies.
 -- Change the backlog argument to the listen() syscall within srun to 4096
    to match elsewhere in the code, and avoid communication problems at scale.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.7
==========================
 -- Fix for possible slurmctld daemon abort with NULL pointer.
 -- Fix different issues when requesting memory per cpu/node.
 -- PMIx - override default paths at configure time if --with-pmix is used.
 -- Have sprio display jobs before eligible time when
    PriorityFlags=ACCRUE_ALWAYS is set.
 -- Make sure locks are always in place when calling _post_qos_list().
 -- Notify srun and ctld when unkillable stepd exits.
 -- Fix slurmstepd deadlock in stepd cleanup caused by race condition in
    the jobacct_gather fini() interfaces introduced in 17.11.6.
 -- Fix slurmstepd deadlock in PMIx startup.
 -- task/cgroup - fix invalid free() if the hwloc library does not return a
    string as expected.
 -- Fix insecure handling of job requested gid field. CVE-2018-10995.
 -- Add --without x11 option to rpmbuild in slurm.spec.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.6
==========================
 -- CRAY - Add slurmsmwd to the contribs/cray dir.
 -- sview - fix crash when closing any search dialog.
 -- Fix initialization of variable in stepd when using native x11.
 -- Fix reading slurm_io_init_msg to handle partial messages.
 -- Fix scontrol create res segfault when wrong user/account parameters given.
 -- Fix documentation for sacct on parameter -X (--allocations)
 -- Change TRES Weights debug messages to debug3.
 -- FreeBSD - assorted fixes to restore build.
 -- Fix for not tracking environment variables from unrelated different jobs.
 -- PMIX - Added the direct connect authentication.
    When upgrading this may cause issues with jobs using pmix starting on mixed
    slurmstepd versions where some are less than 17.11.6.
 -- Prevent the backup slurmctld from losing the active/available node
    features list on takeover.
 -- Add documentation for fix IDLE*+POWER due to capmc stuck in Cray systems.
 -- Fix missing mutex unlock when prolog is failing on a node, leading to a
    hung slurmd.
 -- Fix locking around Cray CCM prolog/epilog.
 -- Add missing fed_mgr read locks.
 -- Fix issue incorrectly setting a job time_start to 0 while requeueing.
 -- smail - remove stray '-s' from mail subject line.
 -- srun - prevent segfault if ClusterName setting is unset but
    SLURM_WORKING_CLUSTER environment variable is defined.
 -- In configurator.html web pages change default configuration from
    task/none to task/affinity plugin and from select/linear plugin to
    select/cons_res plus CR_Core.
 -- Allow jobs to run beyond a FLEX reservation end time.
 -- Fix problem with wrongly set as Reservation job state_reason.
 -- Prevent bit_ffs() from returnig value out of bitmap range.
 -- Improve performance of 'squeue -u' when PrivateData=jobs is enabled.
 -- Make UnavailableNodes value in job reason be correct for each job.
 -- Fix 'squeue -o %s' on Cray systems.
 -- Fix incorrect error thrown when cancelling part of a job array.
 -- Fix error code and scheduling problem for --exclusive=[user|mcs].
 -- Fix build when lz4 is in a non-standard location.
 -- Be able to force power_down of cloud node even if in power_save state.
 -- Allow cloud nodes to be recognized in Slurm when booted out of band.
 -- Fixes race condition in _pack_job_gres() when is called multiple times.
 -- Increase duration of "sleep" command used to keep extern step alive.
 -- Remove unsafe usage of pthread_cancel in slurmstepd that can lead to
    to deadlock in glibc.
 -- Fix total TRES Billing on partitions.
 -- Don't tear down a BB if a node fails and --no-kill or resize of a job
    happens.
 -- Remove unsafe usage of pthread_cancel in pmix plugin that can lead to
    to deadlock in glibc.
 -- Fix fatal in controller when loading completed trigger
 -- Ignore reservation overlap at submission time.
 -- GRES type model and QOS limits documentation added
 -- slurmd - fix ABRT on SIGINT after reconfigure with MemSpecLimit set.
 -- PMIx - move two error messages on retry to debug level, and only display
    the error after the retry count has been exceeded.
 -- Increase number of tries when sending responses to srun.
 -- Fix checkpointing requeued/completing jobs in a bad state which caused a
    segfault on restart.
 -- Fix srun on ppc64 platforms.
 -- Prevent slurmd from starting steps if the Prolog returns an error when using
    PrologFlags=alloc.
 -- priority/multifactor - prevent segfault running sprio if a partition has
    just been deleted and PriorityFlags=CALCULATE_RUNNING is turned on.
 -- job_submit/lua - add ESLURM_INVALID_TIME_LIMIT return code value.
 -- job_submit/lua - print an error if the script calls log.user in
    job_modify() instead of returning it to the next submitted job erroneously.
 -- select/linear - handle job resize correctly.
 -- select/cons_res - improve handling of --cores-per-socket requests.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.5
==========================
 -- Fix cloud nodes getting stuck in DOWN+POWER_UP+NO_RESPOND state after not
    responding by ResumeTimeout.
 -- Add job's array_task_cnt and user_name along with partitions
    [max|def]_mem_per_[cpu|node], max_cpus_per_node, and max_share with the
    SHARED_FORCE definition to the job_submit/lua plugin.
 -- srun - fix for SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES env variable assignment.
 -- sacctmgr - fix runaway jobs identification.
 -- Fix for setting always the correct status on job update in mysql.
 -- Fix issue if running with an association manager cache (slurmdbd was down
    when slurmctld was started) you could loose QOS usage information.
 -- CRAY - Fix spec file to work correctly.
 -- Set scontrol exit code to 1 if attempting to update a node state to DRAIN
    or DOWN without specifying a reason.
 -- Fix race condition when running with an association manager cache
    (slurmdbd was down when slurmctld was started).
 -- Print out missing SLURM_PERSIST_INIT slurmdbd message type.
 -- Fix two build errors related to use of the O_CLOEXEC flag with older glibc.
 -- Add Google Cloud Platform integration scripts into contribs directory.
 -- Fix minor potential memory leak in backfill plugin.
 -- Add missing node flags (maint/power/etc) to node states.
 -- Fix issue where job time limits may end up at 1 minute when using the
    NoReserve flag on their QOS.
 -- Fix security issue in accounting_storage/mysql plugin by always escaping
    strings within the slurmdbd. CVE-2018-7033.
 -- Soften messages about best_fit topology to debug2 to avoid alarm.
 -- Fix issue in sreport reservation utilization report to handle more
    allocated time than 100% (Flex reservations).
 -- When a job is requesting a Flex reservation prefer the reservation's nodes
    over any other nodes.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.4
==========================
 -- Add fatal_abort() function to be able to get core dumps if we hit an
    "impossible" edge case.
 -- Link slurmd against all libraries that slurmstepd links to.
 -- Fix limits enforce order when they're set at partition and other levels.
 -- Add slurm_load_single_node() function to the Perl API.
 -- slurm.spec - change dependency for --with lua to use pkgconfig.
 -- Fix small memory leaks in node_features plugins on reconfigure.
 -- slurmdbd - only permit requests to update resources from operators or
    administrators.
 -- Fix handling of partial writes in io_init_msg_write_to_fd() which can
    lead to job step launch failure under higher cluster loads.
 -- MYSQL - Fix to handle quotes in a given work_dir of a job.
 -- sbcast - fix a race condition that leads to "Unspecified error".
 -- Log that support for the ChosLoc configuration parameter will end in Slurm
    version 18.08.
 -- Fix backfill performance issue where bf_min_prio_reserve was not respected.
 -- Fix MaxQueryTimeRange checks.
 -- Print MaxQueryTimeRange in "sacctmgr show config".
 -- Correctly check return codes when creating a step to check if needing to
    wait to retry or not.
 -- Fix issue where a job could be denied by Reason=MaxMemPerLimit when not
    requesting any tasks.
 -- In perl tools, fix for regexp that caused extra incorrectly shown results.
 -- Add some extra locks in fed_mgr to be extra safe.
 -- Minor memory leak fixes in the fed_mgr on slurmctld shutdown.
 -- Make sreport job reports also report duplicate jobs correctly.
 -- Fix issues restoring certain Partition configuration elements, especially
    when ReconfigFlags=KeepPartInfo is enabled.
 -- Don't add TRES whose value is NO_VAL64 when building string line.
 -- Fix removing array jobs from hash in slurmctld.
 -- Print out missing user messages from jobsubmit plugin when srun/salloc are
    waiting for an allocation.
 -- Handle --clusters=all as case insensitive.
 -- Only check requested clusters in federation when using --test-only
    submission option.
 -- In the federation, make it so you can cancel stranded sibling jobs.
 -- Silence an error from PSS memory stat collection process.
 -- Requeue jobs allocated to nodes requested to DRAIN or FAIL if nodes are
    POWER_SAVE or POWER_UP, preventing jobs to start on NHC-failed nodes.
 -- Make MAINT and OVERLAP resvervation flags order agnostic on overlap test.
 -- Preserve node features when slurmctld daemons reconfigured including active
    and available KNL features.
 -- Prevent creation of multiple io_timeout threads within srun, which can
    lead to fatal() messages when those unexpected and additional mutexes are
    destroyed when srun shuts down.
 -- burst_buffer/cray - Prevent use of "#DW create_persistent" and
    "#DW destroy_persistent" directives available in Cray CLE6.0UP06. This
    will be supported in Slurm version 18.08. Use "#BB" directives until then.
 -- Fix task/cgroup affinity to behave correctly.
 -- FreeBSD - fix build on systems built with WITHOUT_KERBEROS.
 -- Fix to restore pn_min_memory calculated result to correctly enforce
    MaxMemPerCPU setting on a partition when the job uses --mem.
 -- slurmdbd - prevent infinite loop if a QOS is set to preempt itself.
 -- Fix issue with log rotation for slurmstepd processes.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.3-2
==========================
 -- Revert node_features changes in 17.11.3 that lead to various segfaults on
    slurmctld startup.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.3
==========================
 -- Send SIG_UME correctly to a step.
 -- Sort sreport's reservation report by cluster, time_start, resv_name instead
    of cluster, resv_name, time_start.
 -- Avoid setting node in COMPLETING state indefinitely if the job initiating
    the node reboot is cancelled while the reboot in in progress.
 -- Scheduling fix for changing node features without any NodeFeatures plugins.
 -- Improve logic when summarizing job arrays mail notifications.
 -- Add scontrol -F/--future option to display nodes in FUTURE state.
 -- Fix REASONABLE_BUF_SIZE to actually be 3/4 of MAX_BUF_SIZE.
 -- When a job array is preempting make it so tasks in the array don't wait
    to preempt other possible jobs.
 -- Change free_buffer to FREE_NULL_BUFFER to prevent possible double free
    in slurmstepd.
 -- node_feature/knl_cray - Fix memory leaks that occur when slurmctld
    reconfigured.
 -- node_feature/knl_cray - Fix memory leak that can occur during normal
    operation.
 -- Fix srun environment variables for --prolog script.
 -- Fix job array dependency with "aftercorr" option and some task arrays in
    the first job fail. This fix lets all task array elements that can run
    proceed rather than stopping all subsequent task array elements.
 -- Fix potential deadlock in the slurmctld when using list_for_each.
 -- Fix for possible memory corruption in srun when running heterogeneous job
    steps.
 -- Fix job array dependency with "aftercorr" option and some task arrays in
    the first job fail. This fix lets all task array elements that can run
    proceed rather than stopping all subsequent task array elements.
 -- Fix output file containing "%t" (task ID) for heterogeneous job step to
    be based upon global task ID rather than task ID for that component of the
    heterogeneous job step.
 -- MYSQL - Fix potential abort when attempting to make an account a parent of
    itself.
 -- Fix potentially uninitialized variable in slurmctld.
 -- MYSQL - Fix issue for multi-dimensional machines when using sacct to
    find jobs that ran on specific nodes.
 -- Reject --acctg-freq at submit if invalid.
 -- Added info string on sh5util when deleting an empty file.
 -- Correct dragonfly topology support when job allocation specifies desired
    switch count.
 -- Fix minor memory leak on an sbcast error path.
 -- Fix issues when starting the backup slurmdbd.
 -- Revert uid check when requesting a jobid from a pid.
 -- task/cgroup - add support to detect OOM_KILL cgroup events.
 -- Fix whole node allocation cpu counts when --hint=nomultihtread.
 -- Allow execution of task prolog/epilog when uid has access
    rights by a secondary group id.
 -- Validate command existence on the srun *[pro|epi]log options
    if LaunchParameter test_exec is set.
 -- Fix potential memory leak if clean starting and the TRES didn't change
    from when last started.
 -- Fix for association MaxWall enforcement when none is given at submission.
 -- Add a job's allocated licenses to the [Pro|Epi]logSlurmctld.
 -- burst_buffer/cray: Attempts by job to create persistent burst buffer when
    one already exists owned by a different user will be logged and the job
    held.
 -- CRAY - Remove race in the core_spec where we add the slurmstepd to the
    job container where if the step was canceled would also cancel the stepd
    erroneously.
 -- Make sure the slurmstepd blocks signals like SIGTERM correctly.
 -- SPANK - When slurm_spank_init_post_opt() fails return error correctly.
 -- When revoking a sibling job in the federation we want to send a start
    message before purging the job record to get the uid of the revoked job.
 -- Make JobAcctGatherParams options case-insensitive. Previously, UsePss
    was the only correct capitialization; UsePSS or usepss were silently
    ignored.
 -- Prevent pthread_atfork handlers from being added unnecessarily after
    'scontrol reconfigure', which can eventually lead to a crash if too
    many handlers have been registered.
 -- Better debug messages when MaxSubmitJobs is hit.
 -- Docs - update squeue man page to describe all possible job states.
 -- Prevent orphaned step_extern steps when a job is cancelled while the
    prolog is still running.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.2
==========================
 -- jobcomp/elasticsearch - append Content-Type to the HTTP header.
 -- MYSQL - Fix potential abort of slurmdbd when job has no TRES.
 -- Add advanced reservation flag of "REPLACE_DOWN" to replace DOWN or DRAINED
    nodes.
 -- slurm.spec-legacy - add missing libslurmfull.so to slurm.files.
 -- Fix squeue job ID filtering for pending job array records.
 -- Fix potential deadlock in _run_prog() in power save code.
 -- MYSQL - Add dynamic_offset in the database to force range for auto
    increment ids for the tres_table.
 -- MYSQL - Fix fallout from MySQL auto increment bug, see RELEASE_NOTES,
    only affects current 17.11 users tracking licenses or GRES in the database.
 -- Refactor logging logic to avoid possible memory corruption on non-x86
    architectures.
 -- Fix memory leak when getting jobs from the slurmdbd.
 -- Fix incorrect logic behind MemorySwappiness, and only set the value when
    specified in the configuration.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.1-2
============================
 -- MYSQL - Make index for pack_job_id

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.1
==========================
 -- Fix --with-shared-libslurm option to work correctly.
 -- Make it so only daemons log errors on configuration option duplicates.
 -- Fix for ConstrainDevices=yes to work correctly.
 -- Fix to purge old jobs using burst buffer if slurmctld daemon restarted
    after the job's burst buffer work was already completed.
 -- Make logging prefix for slurmstepd to happen as soon as possible.
 -- mpi/pmix: Fix the job registration for the PMIx v2.1.
 -- Fix uid check for signaling a step with anything but SIGKILL.
 -- Return ESLURM_TRANSITION_STATE_NO_UPDATE instead of EAGAIN when trying to
    signal a step that is still running a prolog.
 -- Update Cray slurm_playbook.yaml with latest recommended version.
 -- Only say a prolog is done running after the extern step is launched.
 -- Wait to start a batch step until the prolog and extern step are
    fully ran/launched.  Only matters if running with
    PrologFlags=[contain|alloc].
 -- Truncate a range for SlurmctldPort to FD_SETSIZE elements and throw an
    error, otherwise network traffic may be lost due to poll() not detecting
    traffic.
 -- Fix for srun --pack-group option that can reuse/corrupt memory.
 -- Fix handling ultra long hostlists in a hostfile.
 -- X11: fix xauth regex to handle '-' in hostnames again.
 -- Fix potential node reboot timeout problem for "scontrol reboot" command.
 -- Add ability for squeue to sort jobs by submit time.
 -- CRAY - Switch to standard pid files on Cray systems.
 -- Update jobcomp records on duplicate inserts.
 -- If unrecognized configuration file option found then print an appropriate
    fatal error message rather than relying upon random errno value.
 -- Initialize job_desc_msg_t's instead of just memset'ing them.
 -- Fix divide by zero when job requests no tasks and more memory than
    MaxMemPer{CPU|NODE}.
 -- Avoid changing Slurm internal errno on syslog() failures.
 -- BB - Only launch dependent jobs after the burst buffer is staged-out
    completely instead of right after the parent job finishes.
 -- node_features/knl_generic - If plugin can not fully load then do not spawn
    a background pthread (which will fail with invalid memory reference).
 -- Don't set the next jobid to give out to the highest jobid in the system on
    controller startup. Just use the checkpointed next use jobid.
 -- Docs - add Slurm/PMIx and OpenMPI build notes to the mpi_guide page.
 -- Add lustre_no_flush option to LaunchParameters for Native Cray systems.
 -- Fix rpmbuild issue with rpm 4.13+ / Fedora 25+.
 -- sacct - fix the display for the NNodes field when using the --units option.
 -- Prevent possible double-xfree on a buffer in stepd_completion.
 -- Fix for record job state on successful allocation but failed reply message.
 -- Fill in the user_name field for batch jobs if not sent by the slurmctld.
    (Which is the default behavior if LaunchParameters=send_gids is not
    enabled.). This prevents job launch problems for sites using UsePAM=1.
 -- Handle syncing federated jobs that ran on non-origin clusters and were
    cancelled while the origin cluster was down.
 -- Fix accessing variable outside of lock.
 -- slurm.spec: move libpmi to a separate package to solve a conflict with the
    version provided by PMIx. This will require a separate change to PMIx as
    well.
 -- X11 forwarding: change xauth handling to use hostname/unix:display format,
    rather than localhost:display.
 -- mpi/pmix - Fix warning if not compiling with debug.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.0
==========================
 -- Fix documentation for MaxQueryTimeRange option in slurmdbd.conf.
 -- Avoid srun abort trying to run on heterogeneous job component that has
    ended.
 -- Add SLURM_PACK_JOB_ID,SLURM_PACK_JOB_OFFSET to PrologSlurmctld and
    EpilogSlurmctld environment.
 -- Treat ":" in #SBATCH arguments as fatal error. The "#SBATCH packjob" syntax
    must be used instead.
 -- job_submit/lua plugin: expose pack_job fields to get.
 -- Prevent scheduling deadlock with multiple components of heterogeneous job
    in different partitions (i.e. one heterogeneous job component is higher
    priority in one partition and another component is lower priority in a
    different partition).
 -- Fix for heterogeneous job starvation bug.
 -- Fix some slurmctld memory leaks.
 -- Add SLURM_PACK_JOB_NODELIST to PrologSlurmctld and EpilogSlurmctld
    environment.
 -- If PrologSlurmctld fails for pack job leader then requeue or kill all
    components of the job.
 -- Fix for mulitple --pack-group srun arguments given out of order.
 -- Update slurm.conf(5) man page with updated example logrotate script.
 -- Add SchedulerParameters=whole_pack configuration parameter. If set, then
    hold, release and cancel operations on any component of a heterogeneous job
    will be applied to all components
 -- Handle FQDNs in xauth cookies for x11 display forwarding properly.
 -- For heterogeneous job steps, the srun --open-mode option default value will
    be set to "append".
 -- Pack job scheduling list not being cleared between runs of the backfill
    scheduler resulted in various anomalies.
 -- Fix that backward compat for pmix version < 1.1.5.
 -- Fix use-after-free that can lead to slurmstepd segfaulting when setting
    ulimit values.
 -- Add heterogeneous job start data to sdiag output.
 -- X11 forwarding - handle systems with X11UseLocalhost=no set in sshd_config.
 -- Fix potential missing issue with missin symbols in gres plugins.
 -- Ignore querying clusters in federation that are down from status commands.
 -- Base federated jobs off of origin job and not the local cluster in API.
 -- Remove erroneous double '-' on rpath for libslurmfull.
 -- Remove version from libslurmfull and move it to $LIBDIR/slurm since the ABI
    could change from one version to the other.
 -- Fix unused wall time for reservations.
 -- Convert old reservation records to insert unused wall into the rows.
 -- slurm.spec: further restructing and improvements.
 -- Allow nodes state to be updated between FAIL and DRAIN.
 -- x11 forwarding: handle build with alternate location for libssh2.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.0rc3
==============================
 -- Fix extern step to wait until launched before allowing job to start.
 -- Add missing locks around figuring out TRES when clean starting the
    slurmctld.
 -- Cray modulefile: avoid removing /usr/bin from path on module unload.
 -- Make reoccurring reservations show up in the database.
 -- Adjust related resources (cpus, tasks, gres, mem, etc.) when updating
    NumNodes with scontrol.
 -- Don't initialize MPI plugins for batch or extern steps.`
 -- slurm.spec - do not install a slurm.conf file under /etc/ld.so.conf.d.
 -- X11 forwarding - fix keepalive message generation code.
 -- If heterogeneous job step is unable to acquire MPI reserved ports then
    avoid referencing NULL pointer. Retry assigning ports ONLY for
    non-heterogeneous job steps.
 -- If any acct_gather_*_init fails fatal instead of error and keep going.
 -- launch/slurm plugin - Avoid using global variable for heterogeneous job
    steps, which could corrupt memory.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.0rc2
==============================
 -- Prevent slurmctld abort with NodeFeatures=knl_cray and non-KNL nodes lacking
    any configured features.
 -- The --cpu_bind and --mem_bind options have been renamed to --cpu-bind
    and --mem-bind for consistency with the rest of Slurm's options. Both
    old and new syntaxes are supported for now.
 -- Add slurmdb_connection_commit to the slurmdb api to commit when needed.
 -- Add the federation api's to the slurmdb.h file.
 -- Add job functions to the db_api.
 -- Fix sacct to always use the db_api instead of sometimes calling functions
    directly.
 -- Fix sacctmgr to always use the db_api instead of sometimes calling functions
    directly.
 -- Fix sreport to always use the db_api instead of sometimes calling functions
    directly.
 -- Make global uid to the db_api to minimize calls to getuid().
 -- Add support for HWLOC version 2.0.
 -- Added more validation logic for updates to node features.
 -- Added node_features_p_node_update_valid() function to node_features plugin.
 -- If a job is held due to bad constraints and a node's features change then
    test the job again to see if can run with the new features.
 -- Added node_features_p_changible_feature() function to node_features plugin.
 -- Avoid rebooting a node if a job's requested feature is not under the control
    of the node_features plugin and is not currently active.
 -- node_features/knl_generic plugin: Do not clear a node's non-KNL features
    specified in slurm.conf.
 -- Added SchedulerParameters configuration option "disable_hetero_steps" to
    disable job steps that span multiple components of a heterogeneous job.
    Disabled by default except with mpi/none plugin. This limitation to be
    removed in Slurm version 18.08.

* Changes in Slurm 17.11.0rc1
==============================
 -- Added the following jobcomp/script environment variables: CLUSTER,
    DEPENDENCY, DERIVED_EC, EXITCODE, GROUPNAME, QOS, RESERVATION, USERNAME.
    The format of LIMIT (job time limit) has been modified to D-HH:MM:SS.
 -- Fix QOS usage factor applying to individual TRES run minute usage.
 -- Print numbers using exponential format if required to fit in allocated
    field width. The sacctmgr and sshare commands are impacted.
 -- Make it so a backup DBD doesn't attempt to create database tables and
    relies on the primary to do so.
 -- By default have Slurm dynamically link to libslurm.so instead of static
    linking.  If static linking is desired configure with
    --without-shared-libslurm.
 -- Change --workdir in sbatch to be --chdir as in all other commands (salloc,
    srun).
 -- Add WorkDir to the job record in the database.
 -- Make the UsageFactor of a QOS work when a qos has the nodecay flag.
 -- Add MaxQueryTimeRange option to slurmdbd.conf to limit accounting query
    ranges when fetching job records.
 -- Add LaunchParameters=batch_step_set_cpu_freq to allow the setting of the cpu
    frequency on the batch step.
 -- CRAY - Fix statically linked applications to CRAY's PMI.
 -- Fix - Raise an error back to the user when trying to update currently